These excursions put the treat into corporate retreat March 20, 2014 Forget the cringeworthy connotations of team-building, these outings are team-tastic TeamSport go-kartingFrom £24.99 per driver, team-sport.co.ukBoost your employees’ competitiveness and drive by pitting them against one another on a race track. TeamSport has just opened a new 800m track in Charlton, and they’ve bought up a shiny fleet of 270cc LPG karts that can reach [...]
Entrepreneurs now have their own pressure group – at last November 18, 2013 LISTEN up, entrepreneurs: you are about to get your own trade union. Yes, you read that right – a union, or at least a pressure group, specifically set up to fight for those who create and set up businesses. This new Entrepreneurs’ Alliance is an excellent idea. There are lots of groups that support established [...]
CSR Award Nominations Shortlist September 19, 2013 There’s a new line in business that’s paying real dividends. UK plc is doing good business by doing good. Not some wishy-washy charity glad-handing, but a more enlightened commercial approach. It’s adding to the bottom-line in terms of employee motivation and retention, brand profile and competitive edge. On the other side of the deal, it’s [...]
Justification for tax evasion crackdown has worrying shades of Brown January 22, 2013 KEIR Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, has vowed to “ramp up” the number of prosecutions against tax evasion five-fold in two years. He plans to target middle-class earners, citing as examples “lawyers, tax consultants and plumbers” – an intriguing perspective on the British class system. Or perhaps we are all middle-class now. It is, [...]
Who’s switching jobs November 20, 2012 State Street Simone Vroegop has been appointed head of consultant relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the financial services provider. She was previously vice president and head of business development for the company’s global services business in the Amsterdam office. Charles Russell Shahram Taghavi has been appointed head of immigration at the [...]
Who’s switching jobs November 20, 2012 State Street Simone Vroegop has been appointed head of consultant relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the financial services provider. She was previously vice president and head of business development for the company’s global services business in the Amsterdam office. Charles Russell Shahram Taghavi has been appointed head of immigration at the [...]
Fuel duty makes little sense as a carbon tax March 5, 2012 TOMORROW is National FairFuel Day, when people will lobby MPs to reduce duty on fuel. It’s a tricky issue for economists. Fuel duty demonstrates the standard economic response to a situation where social costs exceed private costs. If the price of a gallon of petrol fails to reflect the total cost of consuming such a [...]
The captain of industry who says the UK needs to be more like Asia November 20, 2011 FROM the CBI’s offices on the second floor of the Centre Point tower, you get a great view of the construction site that will eventually become the Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station. It is fitting that the CBI, which was one of the railway’s biggest supporters, is so close to the action, and a reminder [...]
Bank’s chief hawk says businesses will grow Britain out of recession February 1, 2011 FOR seven months Andrew Sentance stood alone, the only Bank of England rate-setter brave enough to call out for a gradual rise in rates. Yet in January he was finally joined by one of his eight colleagues, Martin Weale, in his appeal for a gradual tightening in the central bank’s rates. “I don’t want to [...]
Bank’s chief hawk says businesses will grow Britain out of recession February 1, 2011 FOR seven months Andrew Sentance stood alone, the only Bank of England rate-setter brave enough to call out for a gradual rise in rates. Yet in January he was finally joined by one of his eight colleagues, Martin Weale, in his appeal for a gradual tightening in the central bank’s rates. “I don’t want to [...]