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The Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation (BSBDC) calls them micro-entrepreneurs - the dozens of vendors you see selling goods in stalls along the Island’s roads and at community markets. There are a growing number of them and the BSBDC is t...

Kentucky Fried Chicken (Bermuda) Ltd has given a notice of intent to delist its shares from The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). Eighty one percent of shareholders voted in favour of delisting at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) held on Friday...

Entrepreneur Dawn Zuill is shaking things up on Front Street. Her third retail venture, Daisy’s, is setting new trends in town in more ways than one. When most Hamilton stores, by tradition, are closing up for the night, Daisy’s is just catching a se...

Well it’s Eastern Counties Cup time and I would be remiss if I didn’t wish my team, the champions, Cleveland County Cricket Club, good luck in the 2011 competition. May we keep the cup for at least another year. Today my pet peeve is customer servic...

Retail sales continued to drop, declining 7.9 percent by volume during May, according to the latest figures released by Government. Driving the fall were building material stores and liquor stores, which decreased by 7.9 percent and 7.4 percent respe...

The price of fuel has risen by almost 18 percent in a year, new figures released this afternoon show. According to the Retail Sales Index, consumer demand fell across almost all retail sectors as sales fell by more than four percent in May with the e...

It is not what you know or what you show, but how unique you make the customer purchasing experience. Revolutionary? Hardly. Upgrade service expectations. Do we know what service is and what it brings to our lives? In this environment where every cu...

Bermuda retailers compare favourably to their US counterparts in quality of service and quantity of goods, according to the new chairman of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce's retail division. Paula Clarke, who took over her new role last month, was re...

Rude sales staff, limited choice of goods and high prices are among some of the biggest gripes customers have about shopping in Bermuda, according to a survey released by Government yesterday. The Department of Consumer Affairs commissioned two surve...