With the Christmas party season following hard on the heels of the business awards season, you might have missed some of these stories.

1. An independent coffee business which has managed to compete with the national chains is expanding again. Naked Coffee has just opened its first Naked Deli International.

 

2. Flexible workspaces are one of the big trends in business today. The UK's biggest provider of such spaces has set up in Christchurch.

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3. Amigo Loans, the Bournemouth-based company which lends money at 49.9 per cent APR, has been told to be clearer with the information it provides to the friends and family who guarantee its customers' loans.

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4. It might sound an unlikely location, but a cheese and charcuterie shop is opening in a former funeral parlour.

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5. And could you squeeze a full-time job into four days? Once Dorset company says it has proved the idea is viable for relatively small businesses.

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