After having won the 2015 Growing Business Awards for large company of the year, we asked CEO David Hosking about his future growth plans for private equity-owned Tusker.
By Robert Yardy
The spotlight has once again been cast on the importance of apprenticeships with George Osborne’s autumn statement promising to raise £3bn a year to fund three million employer apprenticeships across the UK.
I’m not sure if the chancellor is a British Bake Off fan, or can whip a mean carrot cake in the kitchen, but when it comes to the economy he used all the ingredients at his disposal to create an Autumn Statement cake that will taste incredibly sweet for so many people.
By Simon Brooke
Here’s a question that every SME owner should ask: am I good at what I do or am I good at business You might be brilliant at web design, cake making or your might manufacture a great widget, for instance, but are your business skills as good
By Simon Brooke
As an experienced entrepreneur who has built three multi-million pound retail businesses in three European countries, Julia Langkraehr has an impressive CV by any standards – and she shares with Real Business how a management system in the US could benefit British SMEs.
By Simon Brooke
Getting the right staff is essential for any SME but all too often, especially when margins are squeezed, owners and managers are tempted to save money on recruitment and training. However, this could cost them dear in the long run, argues Lee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library.
If discovering a new vitamin were anything like discovering a new star, they would probably name one after Peter Aldis, the CEO of Holland & Barrett International – although he would probably shrug it off and wonder what all the fuss was about.
By David Craik
A failure to survive beyond the all-important three year mark can be linked to poor management skills rather than the expected lack of finance.
From an enterprise run out of his own home for more than a year, John Loveday’s Spearhead Compliance Training is generating some serious attention and is evidence of what can be done after a career in the armed forces comes to an end.
A new report from PwC has estimated that Britain could do a great deal more to provide for older employees. If more employers saw the ageing workforce as a resource rather than a problem, the UK economy would reap the benefits.
