There is the age old saying: it wasn’t like that in my day.  I am sure many of us have caught ourselves muttering it under our breath when paying an extortionate  amount to get on a bus or going to the cinema. Well this saying is carrying on in to the world of business. [...]

  This is the 6th edition of our look at business case studies and this month we are looking at Recruit 121. Overview Recruit 121 is a SAP staffing specialist both in the UK and US with offices in Chicago, Cardiff, Amsterdam and California. The business prides itself on being flexible and connecting great businesses [...]

  In these difficult times, everyone is looking to save a little bit of extra cash. Unfortunately, fun stuff like hobbies can be one of the first areas to take the hit when you’re tightening the purse strings. Let’s face it: who wants to spend money on craft supplies when they are struggling to pay [...]

  Today International Airlines Group, have announced they had made a pre-tax profit of £425.6m. IAG is the parent company of British Airways and Iberia has had a 10% increase in revenue despite a 29.7% increase in fuel costs. This is a positive change for the company which had a difficult 2010 with the Icelandic ash [...]

  It’s just all doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? It feels like reading the financial section at the moment should come with a mental health warning: “may cause uncontrollable feelings of impending doom”. Heck, even this blog gets pretty depressing at times. Sorry about that. But is it really that bad? Only [...]

Today, thousands of Unilever workers will start 11 days of striking against plans to change their final-salary pension scheme. The strikes are due to take place for 11 days between today and 28th January with 12 different sites participating  including Norwich, Leeds, Manchester and North Wales. Union leaders “furious” Members of the Unite, Usdaw and [...]

  In this third edition of our monthly Case Study, we bring you ThirtyThree a recruitment organisation, part of the OneAgent global network. The London and Bristol based organisation, has a range of clients including the National Trust, Starbucks and many blue-chip companies and carries out campaigns such as the RBS graduate campaign and the ITV [...]

The top four UK supermarkets could face prosecution after an investigation into pricing found some supermarkets were in breach of consumer regulations. BBC’s Panorama investigated pricing and offers at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons and found that most of the ‘offers’ advertised are simply a marketing ploy rather than giving shoppers a real discount. These [...]

Unless you have been living in a cave the past few months, you will know that there are a number of countries in the Eurozone who are struggling to pay back huge debts they have: the Eurozone crisis.

Here is the second in our monthly instalment of business Case Studies. This month we bring you Plastic Data Card. Plastic Data Card was started in 1992 by Jim O’Carroll who was looking to capitalise on a growing demand and decided to start his own company to make the most of this demand. The Kent [...]