Question of the day…. Are you on LinkedIN? Statistically you are way more likely to respond positively to that than you would have been 12 months ago. LinkedIn has seen growth of 65 % increasing from 48 million members to 79 million in the year to March 2011 (now at over 100 million). In roughly […]
How do we boost the economy and create new jobs TODAY?
As I said back in May, when I put my suggestion to Vince Cable at the Greater Manchester Chamber Annual Dinner – instead of offering an NI holiday to start up businesses who employ staff (how many start up businesses do YOU know about who start up and immediately employ 4 or 5 people?? That’s […]
Lord Davies’ boardroom gender targets ignored by most UK firms
All but a handful of the UK’s biggest companies missed last week’s deadline to set out their plans to put more women on their boards. Only eight companies in the FTSE 100 have announced how they aim to meet the target of 25% women directors set down by the government. Proportion of women on boards […]
Manchester is in The Top 3 for Business!
Something we who live and build businesses in Manchester know already is that Manchester is one of the top places in the UK to run a business. There are a number of reasons for this – the fact you can get anywhere in the North West in under an hour from Manchester and you can […]
Some good news on the Economy at last with inflation falling against the odds
Well, its about time isn’t it. Dear dear, not good news for the media and doom mongerers. Inflation has fallen – against all predicitons of it going up to 5% it actually fell to 4% in Feb. Quite obviously nobody should be getting overly excited about this – it is still too high, but at […]