A series of workshops designed to give new and existing businesses the low-down on everything they need to know is being run by Plymouth City Council.
The events are being organised by the Council’s public protection team and the first one of the series will be held on Thursday 31 October at the Lower Hall of the Guildhall.
They are being put together to help companies tap into...
A new report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission argues that internships should be fairly paid and openly recruited. The report urges businesses to help create an opportunity for all society.
It provides evidence that, despite good intentions, firms are too often inadvertently excluding some of the best and the brightest. The report states:
In a recent survey of Devon and Cornwall Small Businesses only 13% of the businesses surveyed conduct Marketing Planning and yet 90% said that they see Marketing as important to the success of their business with 56% seeing it as critical to success*.
So what’s the problem? Why is there such a huge gap between those that do and those that don’t?
Jump-squats, abdominal crunches and shoulder presses may sound like hard work but it’s a daily occurrence for Plymouth’s FIT Bootcampers. Not only are the members getting stronger, the business is too.
Local business woman, Kate Leadbeater, and former Naval Physical Training Instructor, Mark Nesbitt, started FIT Bootcamp in Plymouth in 2009 and it’s been going from strength to strength...
In his conference speech on Tuesday (24 September 2013), the Labour leader Ed Miliband is expected to pledge a business rate cut for small firms and build 1,000,000 new homes, if his party wins the next general election.
The announcement will form part of a key note address to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, setting out part of Labour's alternative for the UK economy.
Aspiring entrepreneurs from across Britain will get financial backing from the government under a £69 million package of support that will help create tens of thousands of new businesses, according to the government.
David Cameron has announced the new funding which will include:
Business mentoring and funding for people who are unemployed but want to start up a company
A graduate entrepreneur is planning to expand his company after successfully working with a team of business students from Plymouth University.
Andrew Prosser, director of Series 41, enlisted the help of 55 first year Business Management students to focus on market research as part of the Inspiring Futures project, run by Plymouth Business School’s Talent Hub.
Measures to reduce "burdensome" accounting red tape for micro-businesses have been confirmed today by Business Minister Jo Swinson. In the government response to the consultation on how best to implement the EU’s Micros Directive, published today, the UK’s 1.5 million micro-entities will now become exempt from certain financial reporting requirements.
As more and more consumers look for tailored products and services, so the need to move away from the cookie-cutter approach for branding becomes necessary. In response to this the large chains and supermarkets are moving away from ‘generic’ and ‘corporate’ and taking into account their surroundings and locations in a new way and identifying that they need to serve different communities with...
Here at The Plum Consultancy, we are big fans of the well known saying, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, and our love for visuals has naturally made us fans of the visually-driven App Pinterest. Pinterest enables users to search through images (‘Pins’) and collect them by Re-pinning them onto boards, or by Pinning them directly from Pinterest-abled websites when browsing the internet....
