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Advice

Experience on tap

Mentoring has long been a valuable tool in staff training. Typically, a junior member of staff is assigned a mentor – someone experienced from inside or…

Opinion

Sorting the wheat from the chaff

With recent negative press coverage and investigative television programmes such as Panorama looking at the British residential property investment market - in particular whether buyers and…

Opinion

Thanks for nothing, Darling…

“Surprise, surprise, Alistair Darling has made a u-turn on Capital Gains Tax. And as per usual, there was no consultation with businesses large or small. But…

Opinion

Are the CGT proposals as grim as many SME’s claim?

Are the Government’s Capital Gains Tax proposals as grim as many small and medium sized businesses claim? Property mogul Jim Moore, founder of Inside Track and…

Marketing

Business networking online

A new business networking organisation has just launched specialising in creating local online communities. Word Of Mouse, created by one of the former founders of the…

News

Chinese corporate tax reforms

UK companies residing in China are set to have their tax bills increased following the introduction of corporate tax reforms by the Chinese Government. The new…

News

Your email address might stop business

4 in 10 potential customers in London and South East are put off using firms that don’t use business email addresses Image counts as research shows…

News

Student entrepreneurs praised

A Kingston student who started his own security business has won a place in the national final of a competition for entrepreneurs.

In Business

Hotel Review: Langham Hotel Boston

What's it like? In a city with over 350 years of history, the Langham plays its part, being a conversion of the granite and limestone 1922…

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Legal

Employee Lateness

The rail regulator has announced that almost 400,000 passengers face daily delays in their journeys.  Rail commuters have been hit hard by various problems, including flooding…

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Advice

When enough really is enough

There are a whole number of reason for stopping a business. I've frequently heard Directors say 'if only I'd sold the business five years ago, we…

Finance

Seizing opportunities

It is one of life’s certainties that life is full of uncertainties and business life in particular has a habit of presenting us with all kinds…

Advice

Time for a review

For many businesses, agreeing marketing budgets is an area fraught with difficulty as marketing departments struggle to justify and quantify the return on investment. This is…

Marketing

Sustainability is a matter of business

The environment is changing. The IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th assessment report was released in February warning that climate change poses the single biggest…