Love them or loathe them, lorries are essential to life as we know it in Britain, transporting everything from our food to the bricks and mortar we need to build homes. However with the road haulage industry on the precipice of a catastrophic driver shortage, we wanted to imagine what Britain might look like without any HGVs.
We sat down with Norwegian Air’s UK head of sales Dominic Tucker to discuss what the airline believes are the chief demands of business travellers and why the US is now easier than ever to access.
By David Lamb
For most small business owners, the day-to-day challenge of growing the company, keeping customers happy and paying staff and suppliers leaves them little time to worry about currency markets. But volatile exchange rates aren’t just a problem for City traders.
By Staff writer
Having previously explored the three factors that businesses needed to consider before the international stage became feasible, here are some more tips for those looking towards the overseas market in the new year.
Father Christmas will have visited by this time next week and as we draw closer to the 25 December, our countdown continues to now reveal just how successful one sector is with tasty turnover of £95.4bn.
After pulling together one of the most impressive shortlists in its history, the Growing Business Awards showed once again that the entrepreneurial and business building spirit is alive and well in the UK – with this year’s winners showing what kind of impressive growth can be achieved.
By Kevin Mann
London is often the UK city grabbing all of the headlines, but as George Osborne pushes his Northern Powerhouse scheme, he’ll likely be pleased to hear that an entrepreneur from New Zealand set his sights on Newcastle ahead of the UK capital for his company’s debut on British soil.
By Simon Brooke
While academic study might not be at the top of the agenda for several returning college students, beer most likely will be. They could also think of saving money by brewing it themselves – which was the case for Alex Dixon and Ralph Broadbent.
The UK’s SMEs – with up to 249 employees – expect to see an average revenue growth of 37 per cent in the next five years, according to Santander Corporate & Commercial Business Growth, and small firms are more optimistic.
By David Craik
According to a new study of alcohol, fresh produce, food and drink producers by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking – called “Investing for Growth” – English and Welsh food manufacturers are already cooking up recipes for growth both home and abroad.
