Leeds University has had an annual business boot camp that took two days and was held at Weetwood Hall. The boot camp was run by Spark, which is the business start up service of the university and was aimed at giving the entrepreneurial students at Leeds University an opportunity to show their skills and the […]
Category: Business Strategy
Banks still not transparent enough over their charges according to new research
Although banks insist that they provide simple and clear charges, recent research indicates otherwise. According to a research that was done by consumer group, it was discovered that the fees charged by banks for overdrawing facilities were quite high like those imposed by payday lenders. Additionally, people had to incur high default charges if they […]
New jobs at Manchester Airport thanks to Chinese venture
A joint venture with a Beijing company will result in a great boost to Manchester Airport of £800 million, resulting to creation of 1600 jobs. The Beijing construction Group Company will work with the Manchester Pension Fund and Carillion PLC to ensure the Airport city project is successful. Considering that Manchester has the third busiest […]
Centrica set to go ahead with controversial plans for gas storage units
Centrica, the company who owns energy giant British Gas, has gone against its word to build two new gas storage facilities. The move seeks to reduce the UK’s dependency on gas imports and increase self sufficiency. The two storage facilities were to be built in the strategic areas of the North Sea, off the Norfolk […]
Ulster Bank plans biggest chain of hotels in Ireland
Ulster Bank invested a lot of its money in hotels during the boom period but now cannot take this money out because of oversaturation of the market. The bank has however come up with an ingenious idea to have a chain of hotels of its own. This will be the largest chain of hotels in […]
Opening announced of Day-Use rooms at Grange Hotels
Grange Hotels, the company who won the Best Small Hotel Company award for 2013 in the British Traveller Awards have just announced that have started offering rooms on a day use basis with check in and check out on the same day. In a reponse to customer demand, Grange are to cater for those seeking […]
More woe for Morrisons
Another poor sales performance has sent the shares of Morrison, the fourth largest supermarket chain in the UK, plummeting as the continue to lose ground against their biggest rivals. In the quarter that ended on the 5th May, their 1.8% drop in underlying sales was an improvement on the 4.1% slump they experienced in the […]
Dragon's Den star hopes to breathe new life into Jessops
Peter Jones, the star of Dragons’ Den, is hoping that he can bring back the dying camera chain Jessops after the brand went bankrupt back in January. His first move was to hire back 300 staff members that originally were made redundant when the chain went bankrupt. However, while some of the judges on Dragons’ […]
Adobe metrics not myths campaign gives marketing a slap
Love it or loathe it, you cannot escape digital marketing. It is everywhere you look but what is currently going on behind the scenes does not paint such a pretty picture. There has been such an influx of corporate garbage in recent years that marketing is going down a route that neither benefits the companies […]
Labour party report blames short term thinking for British business problems
Short term thinking is a large problem facing British business owners today and is responsible for slowed economic growth rate according to a new report that was published this week by the Labour Party. Sir George Cox, the boss of the Institute of Directors wrote in a document that the only way that a business […]