Is your office scaring off staff
Offices come in all shapes and sizes. Some are fancy, others dull but the reality is we all spend more time in the office than any other place. Like our homes, if we don’t like the environment, our mood and attitude will be affected.
It’s credit crunch week!
Joining the ranks of breast cancer week, national vegetarian week, enterprise week and tax week comes credit crunch week.
FD watch David William Smith
David William Smith has been appointed finance director and company secretary of plantation developer Anglo-Eastern.
Meet the MoneyExpert
Moneyexpert chairman, the entrepreneur Nigel Warr, is making big moves with his financial comparison business.
FD watch Antony Harris
Antony Harris has been appointed finance director of Arena Leisure.
Scots aren’t lazy
Scottish racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart recently accused his countrymen of being workshy, lazy and reliant on safe public-sector jobs for their employment. "That was pretty insulting,” says Steve Leach, founder of Edinburgh-based Bigmouthmedia. “There are plenty of successful entrepreneurs north of the M25.”
Flexi-time works for small business
T-Enterprise co-founder Zarrar Chishti says the bigger the software and games development firm gets, the less likely it will be able to offer the flexible working conditions its employees currently take advantage of.
The case for branding: lessons on how to raise your company’s profile
If I were asked to name the single most important thing a new company should be thinking about, it would be branding.
The tax perils of associated companies
When Andy Davidson started Leaf-it-at-home, he wanted it to be an independent operation. But the taxman had other ideas.
Companies Act 2006 Order form
Download your Companies Act 2006 order form
Time to cut your costs
She may have just sold her flooring company Flowcrete for £35m but it hasn’t been a smooth ride to success for Dawn Gibbins. And given the current economic climate – she says now is the time, more than ever, to focus on reducing your variable costs.
Are you the future of British business?
Private jets, chateaux, cognac – sometimes it’s hard work being a business hack.
