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Customs Reform Needed As Import Rules Change
Responding to news of the Government’s plan to widen customs charges to low value goods entering the UK, William Bain, Head of Trade Policy, said: “This has been on the cards for a while as the US has already made this change and the EU will do so at the start of...
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Customs Reform Needed As Import Rules Change
Responding to news of the Government’s plan to widen customs charges to low value goods entering the UK, William Bain, Head of Trade Policy, said: “This has been on the cards for a while as the US has already made this change and the EU will do so at the start of...
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New podcast launches for International Women’s Day ‘Females in their Field’
Women living, working and running businesses in rural areas now have a podcast and support activities focusing on their wellbeing needs and the unique challenges and solutions found when delivering a rural enterprise. Jennifer Barnes and Carrie Orgee have been running...
New faces and new roles at SME Solicitors
SME Solicitors has welcomed two new starters for 2025: Eoin Murphy and Aimée Batsford. Aimée joins the Reception & Document Management team, providing a friendly welcome to clients at our Sansome Walk office. Eoin, a solicitor with over 15 years’ experience,...
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Michelle Benjamin joins Hazelton Mountford
Hazelton Mountford continue to expand their team with the latest recruit, Michelle Benjamin, joining them in May 2022. Michelle started her insurance broking career in 1997 and is well known locally. Michelle is enthusiastic about finding bespoke risk management and...
OLPRO win FSB’s ‘International Business of the Year’ 2022
Outdoor brand, OLPRO, has been named the ‘International Business of the Year’ at the FSB’s UK awards 2022. The Worcestershire-based company has been recognised as an e-commerce success story due to the high growth in its international turnover, despite the challenges...
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Call for Worcestershire businesses to diversify into agri-tech
An innovative new project aiming to promote entrepreneurship to support Worcestershire’s agri-tech sector is set to launch its development programme next month at Pershore College. GrowAgri Worcestershire, a £2m joint initiative between the college and the European...
Sponsorship confirmed as Brooker-Smith British shooting champion to join Team GB 2020
With the 2019 shooting season now over and sponsorship confirmed for 2020, it’s celebrations all round for new British Champion, 16-year-old Mitchell Brooker-Smith, after taking first place in the Olympic Skeet junior men at the British Shooting Grand final in North...
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Prospecting brings positive face-to-face results
Door knocking has been an under-used sales technique for quite some time – says Simeon Chapman from Chartered Insurance Brokers, Hazelton Mountford. Since Covid hit, and before, the art of face-to-face prospecting has been set aside in preference to utilising digital...
Rising temperatures outside…and in the workplace
Partner, Darryll Thomas at Worcestershire law firm mfg Solicitors, is advising employers to take care of their staff during the hot weather. In recent weeks we have enjoyed another great run of hot weather with pockets of high temperatures, as high as 32c in places,...
Jane Newman Celebrates Founders Award Win at the WorcestershireHour Social Media Awards 2022.
The team at Jane Newman Financial Planning Ltd attended the WorcestershireHour Awards at Sixways Stadium last Friday 1st July to celebrate fellow Worcestershire businesses’ successes. It was made extra special because the financial planners based in Droitwich,...
Best Health Cash Plan award for Wolverhampton-based Paycare
Paycare has been named as the Best Health Cash Plan provider in the West Midlands. The not-for-profit organisation, which has been based in Wolverhampton since its launch in 1874, was given the title as part of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2022. Now in their fifth...
Students Tackle Philosophical Questions in Science Fiction-Styled University Event
A-level students from local schools took part in a special conference exploring a science fiction-styled moral issue, at the University of Worcester. The ‘Out of This World’ event involved Science and Religious Education students from four local schools: RGS...
How Firms Can Tackle The Rising Cost of Doing Business
We’re all now familiar with the cost of living crisis – how households are struggling to keep up with bills and afford the rapidly rising cost of food, fuel and other essentials. But there’s another crisis, similar to the struggle households are going through,...
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