The Business - 10/10/2010

With public sector cuts imminent, Graham Stewart examines the ability of businesses to sell to an ever more cautious consumer, as well as direct to other firms. Our business editor Douglas Fraser visits Barnsley to see how he fares as a market stall trader (as part of a programme on BBC One Scotland this week about spending cuts). Joe Harrison, chief executive of the National Market Traders Federation, tells us how workers taking redundancy might start out on their own as traders. And with us in the studio is Bob Cleland, chief executive of engineering firm Howden.