Inspired by UKTI's Exporting is GREAT initiative to inspire and support an additional 100,000 businesses to trade abroad by 2020, here are my top 10 reasons to expand your business horizons. It's vital to look for new customers overseas as …
...Zwickau can come next week. Aachen - home to Aixtron, an innovative firm which manufactures semiconductors, run by a Brit. Formed as a spin-out from Aachen University, now an investor...
As CEO of an India-based global business process outsourcing company, which has created over 2500 jobs in the UK, I understand the value of the UK as an investment location. Language, culture, quality of life, flexible labour markets and a …
When the Sport is GREATBritain campaign was envisaged, I don't think this is what they had in mind. Luminaries such as Andrew Flintoff and Denise Lewis were invited by Number 10 to launch it - the sporting element to a …
A couple of interesting surveys came across my desk recently. The first was undertaken by North West Business Insider, supported by Ernst & Young looking at international trade patterns for North West firms. View the survey here I was struck by …
This summer's Olympic programme sees St James’ Park in Newcastle hosting several key overseas teams in the Olympic Football Programme - Mexico, Republic of Korea, Gabon, Switzerland, Spain, Honduras, Japan, Morocco, Brazil and New Zealand. In addition we will see …
I recently joined an interesting presentation by Prof Gerard Hodgkinson at Leeds University Business School, who suggested there is a growing body of evidence that gut feelings are a better guide to making decisions than simple rational analysis. As a …
As the Olympic torch arrives in the Chester next Monday on the first North West leg of its pre-games tour, I ask myself what it is about the Olympics that excites me so much. As long ago as 1964, my …
Digital Hollywood was a gathering in Los Angeles of execs from across the film, TV and digital media spectrums – over the course of four days it explored the changing nature of the broadcasting landscape and the relationship with, and …
I take my paternity leave very seriously. I was quite clear that for me to be dragged away from my new son even for just a couple of hours, it would require an event with at least one Cabinet Minister, …
Japan has just passed a significant milestone: the average household now spends more on bread than it does on rice. I'm not sure why, as most of the bread on sale here has the taste and texture of cotton wool (I'm imagining the taste …
