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UK & US to discuss steel prices
Finally the time comes to start to discuss and hopefully irradicate Donald Trump's import taxes on British Steel and aluminium. In turn, the UK imposed tariffs back at the US on some good, such as whiskey. In a statement on Wednesday, the U.K. Department...
West Midlands Gigafactory gets the ‘go ahead’
The Gigafactory will create 6,000 new jobs and will manufacture lithium-ion batteries for the automotive and energy industries. Despite a large number of objections to the site from locals, parish councils and charities, Warwick District Council have given the...
Big Changes ahead at Trade Pages
Over the coming months, we're introducing some new & exciting features to Trade Pages. You might have already seen the soft-launch of a couple of them (sneaky!), but we'll be bringing in some staged improvements and features to make your Trade Pages experience...
Sky Broadband users reporting huge outage
A huge outage across Sky Broadband services are causing havoc this morning with websites and mobile banking. Users are struggling to connect to their emails, websites and Natwest banking due to a widespread DNS problem. Sky Broadband are aware of the issue and it's...
Europe’s largest quartz worktop processing facility to open in Scunthorpe
Up to 300 new jobs are to be created in a new 150,000 sq.ft. manufacturing base in the Scunthorpe as with Wren Kitchens are investing a further £20 million on another facility. Wren's UK manufacturing operations director, Kes Serelis, said: “We’ve reinvested back into...
How to become more profitable than Google
We saw this article the other day and have been pondering on it ever since. "To become more profitable than Google" reads like an answer you'd give on a business loan application, if you had absolutely no business plan in place. No-one would have that as an actual...
How to BOOST your productivity
Being productive and busy are different things. How can we stop that feeling of 'fire fighting' and become more pro-active, but actually less busy? Well, we've put together a few suggestions to take away some of the pain of busyness, or indeed, business. This is just...
EE to bring back EU Roaming Charges from January 2022.
Having previously reported that EE had no plans to bring back roaming charges across the EU, they have today announced that they'll be re-introducing their charges inside the EU (excl. Rep of Ireland) from January 2022 for upgrades and new customers, who upgrade or...
What happens once things are back to ‘normal’? Where and how do I work?
We've seen lots of talk lately about what will happen once things get back to 'normal'. Will workers all return to the office, or will there be a greater interest in moving towards safer and more flexible working? During the pandemic, there was a large shift to...
Rising costs – a big threat to the construction industry
The UK's biggest builders' merchant, Travis Perkins, has warned of 'considerable cost increases' of raw materials, whilst there are big concerns about the wider supply chain. Travis Perkins have warned that the price of basic materials such as cement, chipboard and...
£300m boost to UK Electric Insfrastructure to help switch to Electric Vehicles
Ofgem has today approved a £300 million investment to help re-wire Britain as part of a wider project for safe, secure and clean energy and speed up projects across Britain's power-distribution networks. This latest investment will support over 3,500 new electric...
How to: A more successful & engaging LinkedIn Profile
Without a doubt, LinkedIn is an excellent way of online networking amongst the B2B Community. With 766 million users, it's something pretty mega to be part of. There are so many tools that you can use to engage with people in your target industry and keep in touch...