“We have stopped lending outside the county – with the market as it is I feel I need to hold a bit more liquidity,” says Mike Heenan, chief executive of Stafford Railway, a one-branch operation that is among the smallest in the UK. “If savings keep coming in we can start lendin...
“Our mission was to go out and try to reach the people that would not consider themselves to be gamers,” explains Amy Cotteleer, president of A Squared Group, a marketing consultancy hired by Nintendo. At the penultimate event of a 24-date tour of the US, the 30 or so women in the...
“These girls are starting out very small, but their dreams are bigger. Many of them wrote business plans for larger enterprises – such as a dry-cleaning business, a soap-making business, daycare for small children, or a catering business. I am trying to help the girls become more creativ...
Up to 4,000 jobs are set to go at Tui, the German travel and shipping company, with the bulk of cuts expected at Thomson Holidays in the UK, where the travel market remains in poor shape. First in line are understood to be the 730 Thomson Holiday shops, which have seen revenues and ...