Talking Business

It pays to register energy use under efficiency scheme

ENERGY INCENTIVE: Mark Howard, an associate with Michelmores who specialises in environmental law

Friday, March 12, 2010

LEGISLATION designed to encourage companies to reduce their energy consumption and so help the UK to meet its carbon reduction targets comes into effect next month.

The new CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme — formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment — is...

Talking Business: Jerry Davison, South West Society of Chartered Accountants

LOOKING AHEAD: Jerry Davison, president of the South West Society of Chartered Accountants

Friday, March 05, 2010

LAST week I was delighted to host a business conference at Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs. This inaugural annual conference was organised...

TALKING BUSINESS: Steve Rysdale, of Engineering Design Practice

CARBON FOOTPRINT: Steve Rysdale, managing director of Engineering Design Practice

Friday, February 26, 2010

DO you know the size of your company's carbon footprint? Or that of your home? Very few of us can answer yes to either of those questions. Does it...

TALKING BUSINESS: Sam Hembury, of Evado Media,

Friday, February 19, 2010

WE are being told that the recession is officially over and that businesses across the UK need to remain bullish as we move into the new decade. Of...

TALKING BUSINESS: John Crocker, Christie and Co

IMPROVING BUSINESS: : John Crocker, director at Christie and Co GARETH WILLIAMS EE100210_GW08_03

Friday, February 12, 2010

TRANSACTIONAL activity, which dropped from a peak in 2007 to a trickle at the end of 2008, finally found its base level during 2009. Buyers...

Talking Business: Steve Westaway, AME Solutions

HOME THOUGHTS: Steve Westaway of AME Solutions GARETH WILLIAMS EX020110_GW02_01

Friday, February 05, 2010

THE idea of working from home was given a boost in the 2002 Employment Act. It stated that any employee with children under six could request more...

Talking Business: Curtis Alcock, of Broome Reid & Harris Hearing Care

LISTEN UP: Curtis Alcock of Broom, Reid and Harris, says good hearing is essential for business effectiveness OLIVER SANDERS EE241008_OS02_01

Friday, January 29, 2010

THE most important tool of your business is possibly also the most underrated: your sense of hearing, writes Curtis Alcock, of Broome Reid &...

Investment from abroad can help us achieve goals

GLOBALISATION: Paul Lewis, of Charles Stanley stockbrokers, looks at foreign ownership of firms in Britain LAURENCE UNDERHILL EE180110_LU04_03

Friday, January 22, 2010

With Kraft's takeover of Cadbury agreed by directors in the same week Alcoa Howmet announced 95 more potential job cuts in Exeter, Paul Lewis, of...

TALKING BUSINESS: Andrew Yendole, of Ashfords solicitors

TAKING CARE: Andrew Yendole, of Ashfords, says the cold weather raises safety issues for employers GARETH WILLIAMS EE130110_GW05_04

Friday, January 15, 2010

WITH the possibility of more snow forecast in the region for the coming week, employees' travel arrangements and issues around pay in adverse weather...

TALKING BUSINESS: Paul Lewis, branch director at Charles Stanley stockbrokers

TIMES PAST: Paul Lewis, of Charles Stanley Stockbrokers, looks back on a remarkable year in the financial world GARETH WILLIAMS EE160608_GW02_01

Friday, January 08, 2010

WHAT a year 2009 was — bankers got hammered for failing to understand that the taxpayer had kept them afloat, and MPs did untold damage to...

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