UK Startup: Top 5 Business Ideas

According to the British portal Startups.co.uk, uncertain times are coming for the UK, but despite all the excitement over Brexit, the landscape of small businesses is still thriving here.

From exclusive interviews with startups and market experts to extensive research of all trends in different industries, the portal provides us with interesting ideas.

So, if you are looking for the perfect idea and you have the inspiration to start your own business, below is a brief overview of this year's top five business ideas in our opinion.

1. Vegan business

Public awareness of health, ethics and ecology is rapidly increasing (the country is obsessed with food based on plants), then vegetarianism and its strict form - veganism - is gaining popularity. This is an incredibly fashionable trend in which you can open a successful business, giving a solid profit.

Today vegetarianism and veganism, it is not only a rejection of meat and animal products, but something more - a way of life and thinking, the attitude of man to the world and the feeling of self in it. With each passing year, this understanding only increases.

Here are just a few areas of this business:

• Yoga tours
• Vegetarian Café
• Eco-store
• Hostels for vegetarians
• Vegan bakery (healthy pastries with no animal components)
• Vegan cosmetics
• Vegetarian snacks

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2. Alternative or second life for plastic

Thanks to an alarming episode in the BBC nature documentary Blue Planet II, the UK has finally achieved some success in the war against disposable plastic.

The business idea may be to develop alternatives for plastic, such as the edible Ooho water bottles, where the bottle is a gelatinous water sphere similar to a jellyfish. After drinking it can be discarded or eaten. Or you can recycle the plastic. So, 2019 is the year of rethinking plastic, it can be such directions as:

• Restaurant waste reduction service.
• Manufacture of edible straws from seaweeds
• Live water in ecological banks
• Eco Packages
• Toys and Accessories

3. Mobile applications for health

In 2019, smartphone apps for health care enable people to control their health without the need for a doctor. From treating neck pain to sending reminders of medications.

A few years ago, it seemed incomprehensible to trust a phone to get advice on serious health problems, but now people increasingly trust digital health care and realize its potential as a faster and more cost effective solution.

Also, applications not only save money, but also relieve the burden on the overloaded NHS system.

The market for mobile medical applications is predicted to reach $11.2 billion by 2025.

4.Digital Detox

Let's face it, we all depend on our smartphones, and because of the convergence of online and offline, online algorithms have become stronger and more noticeable in society. Most people can't imagine their lives without social networks and the Internet.

The first step to overcoming addiction is to admit it. Digital detox is a natural desire of people to limit their dependence on digital channels of information and to establish healthy "relationships" with technology.

So now we know that consumers are looking for ways to create healthier relationships with their digital devices, what can you do to meet this need?

There are several applications available that can help people stop using applications.

The Hold app, aimed at students, encourages them not to use phones, giving them the opportunity to get rewarded for it. Students earn points for not using their device and can exchange their free food and drinks.

There is also Digital Detox Holidays, which oversees a list of hotels and destinations that do not have Wi-Fi, a phone or even a TV in their rooms.

This is a year of digital detox, and start-ups will have many opportunities to help people reduce the use of their digital devices in different ways.

5. Inclusive children's products

In a published report by the Centre for Primary Education Literacy, it was found that only 1% of children's books in the UK, where drawings depicted heroes of different nationalities, in particular white and black races (BAME - Black or minority ethnic) in 2017.

With major organisations and the media calling for change, 2019 is the year when the children's market will finally begin to more adequately represent the diversity of the real world, creating real business opportunities. Inclusive children's products range from the clothes children wear to the toys they play with and the books they read, to name just a few.

As mentioned above, this is a good time for potential startup founders to throw away the rule book and rewrite the history of children's clothing, literature and toys.

Many people know the phrase "pink for girls and blue for boys", this phrase is not only outdated, but simply not true anymore - as if we followed this concept, what are the colors for gender-neutral children? Therefore, the key area to pay attention to is children's clothing - where business owners can create lines of clothing for children, independent of gender. From books with different characters to educational toys and gender-neutral clothing - 2019 to start an inclusive children's business.

If you are looking for an idea with great market potential - last year's toy sales alone in the UK amounted to £3.4 billion - and the chance to start a business that helps to make a positive impact on society, start doing so.