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Small Business
Independent traders, sole operators, and family firms making bold calls.
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Small Business stories
Specialist Team Hails Client Engagement A Success Despite Improvised Armour And Gunfire
A group of independent contractors has described a recent client engagement as a complete success, despite confirming it involved a homemade armoured vehicle, several thousand rounds of ammunition and the partial collapse of a building.
Consultant Repeatedly Criticised For Conduct Despite Consistently Strong Results
A self-employed analytical consultant continues to draw complaints over his manner with clients, witnesses and colleagues, even as those who hire him concede the results are difficult to fault.
Former Teacher Praised For Entrepreneurial Move Into Competitive Chemicals Sector
A high school chemistry teacher has been commended for an aggressive late-career pivot into the chemicals trade, citing market share gains, vertical integration and a strong commitment to the needs of his family.
Trader Falls Through Counter After Colleague Raises Bar Flap
Two independent traders report a minor workplace setback during routine bar maintenance, after one leaned on a counter-flap a colleague had raised moments earlier and disappeared from view entirely.
Branch Manager Insists Redundancy Process Was Handled With Sensitivity
The manager of a regional paper merchant has defended his handling of a restructuring and redundancy programme as compassionate and morale-led, a characterisation that staff facing the cuts did not appear to share.
Local Performer Stakes Soul In High-Risk Contract Against Better-Resourced Rival
A self-employed musician has defended entering a one-round performance contest in which the prize was a gold instrument and the personal collateral was, by his own account, his soul.