Thoughts for the New Year
It’s that time of year again when we consider what we have been doing and plan how we can do things differently in the coming year. As we look ahead to 2011, we have some uncertain economic times ahead but …
Beauty and Steel
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Clive Drinkwater, Posted on:
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Energy, Engineering, Export, Investing in the UK, North West
This time last week, I was waking up in a very snowy but extraordinarily beautiful Cumbria as I had taken my wife to Sharrow Bay to celebrate her birthday. Driving up there I was reminded yet again how stunning the …
Can Do!
A party with a centrepiece of pyramids built of thousands of drinks cans sounds as though it should be taking place in some avant garde art gallery (and preferably not in a country prone to frequent earth tremors). In fact …
"Now you see it.."
People sometimes say that British business doesn't have a very high profile in Japan. That could be because, quite literally, many of our exports are invisible. Two encounters this week have brought that home to me. One was a …
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
Not sure who it was who said that those were the scariest words in the English language, but they probably got a round of applause when they did. When it comes to exporting, many companies do choose to rely on …
Why the North West is flying high with aerospace
As I was scraping the car this morning before my drive to work and the dashboard temperature gauge had plummeted to -10˚c my mind wandered quite naturally to sunnier climes and the possibility of heading off for a winter break …
British Fair showcases the Cotswolds
Each year a little bit of the UK comes to a department store in Osaka in western Japan. Incredibly, the Hankyu Department Store has been holding a one-week British Fair for 40 years! This year’s event in October featured the …
Shedding light on £2bn worth of opportunities
The new buzzword in Manila is “daylight”. The expression refers to the new Philippine administration’s emphasis on transparency and accountability in government, particularly when it comes to doing business. President Aquino talked a lot about daylight last week when he …
An important time for Thailand
It is a strange experience living in the heart of Bangkok, yet doing my shopping at Tesco, my banking with Standard Chartered and switching on the TV to watch Everton play, their shirts emblazoned with the logos of their sponsor …
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