Steve Currie, director at Stoke-on-Trent-based business advisory and insolvency specialists Currie Young, reflects on the significance of the government’s recent £120 million support packages for the ceramics industry and examines the challenges that continue to face manufacturers across Staffordshire and beyond.
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By Wendy Dean, Group CEO Strategi Solutions and Strategi Global Having worked as an Exec leader and board member for more than 20 years across global companies of varying sizes, I’ve seen first-hand the journeys businesses go on to achieve growth. Those journeys are rarely smooth, and the way businesses
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University of Staffordshire Director of Commercial Strategy Martin Tideswell on why actively “bigging up” the area where we live and work – Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire – has big picture benefits. I want to talk about place… and why I’m always banging the drum for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. On social media
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For Mental Health Awareness Week, Horizons Coaching founder Helen Dos Santos shares why supporting workplace mental health and wellbeing needs to start long before crisis point.
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Stuart Elford, Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce’s new Chief Executive, has arrived in the county at a time when its businesses are navigating rising costs and global uncertainty. During his first month in post, he’s been quick to engage with the policy landscape shaping the prospects of local enterprise. Following yesterday’s
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Today is the 10th annual Staffordshire Day, a celebration of the people, places and stories that define our county.
Here, Louisa Shaw, from We Are Staffordshire, the county’s place promotion agency, talks about how what began as a moment of pride has grown into something far more powerful - a platform
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Alison Ranwell is preparing to celebrate the first birthday of her Italian deli Mangia Mangia. From opening on a tiny budget, the Lichfield business has gone on to win – and be nominated for – a host of awards.
Here, Alison talks about the journey so far with the hope of inspiring other small businesses
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Employment expert John Wood, a partner at Knights, has stressed that businesses will now need to be taking additional care when handing disciplinary action to an employee who has been involved in industrial action – even if the two are not linked.
It comes as changes related to strike action and the
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In this guest article, Councillor Steve Watkins, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, outlines why supporting the Armed Forces Covenant matters to the city and its Armed Forces community. “As a veteran myself, it is important to me that Stoke-on-Trent supports the Armed Forces community. That’s why I am proud that the
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Award-winning events organiser Castle Artisan Events has evolved from a single monthly market in Newcastle-under-Lyme into a vibrant family of six artisan markets across Staffordshire, Cheshire and beyond.
Here, co-founder Jake Burgess reflects on how far the organisation has come, while staying true to its core values of supporting local talent, celebrating creativity and
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