When encouraging small and growing business to listen carefully to the words of Elton John, let's not conjure up ideas of printers, clothes designers and hi-tech startups singing "Nikita" with arms swaying side to side.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett's recent appearance on Nick Ferrari's LBC Radio show was the ultimate toe-curling interview.
It’s tempting to write that growing businesses should ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ when it comes to fully realising the link between ethical and sustainable policies and booming sales. Tempting because sourcing and supplying ethical brews to businesses around the UK has been the bedrock that will see an increase of turnover of 35 per cent this year to £900,000 by Cheltenham-based the Office Coffee Company.
Today is International Women's Day – a celebration of female achievements in sport, business, entertainment, politics and everyday family life. It also highlights the need for greater equality between the sexes, which in a business environment means same pay and comparable opportunities to climb the career ladder and take on senior leadership roles.
Soon we will all be hoovered up into the maelstrom on the general election – the campaigning, the debates (possibly), the knock on the doors by men in tweed jackets with impossibly large rosettes (probable) and the almost daily run of speeches, speeches, speeches.
The president of Mexico is on a state visit to the UK this week to build up trade and export links between the two nations.
Whisper it, but SecretSales has had plenty to boast about in the last twelve months.
London has been hailed as a mecca for business and magnet for investors, but the likes of Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh could be higher achievers if they can make their voices heard.
Julie Kenny, chair and chief executive of Rotherham-based security alarm manufacturer Pyronix, believes the government should look seriously at slashing the cost of university fees by as much as 50 per cent for engineering students – but only if they join the industry immediately after graduation.
According to figures from the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CIMBOR) the value of UK buyouts rose to £16.6bn in 2014 – up from £15.8bn a year earlier.
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