Cape Town – The South African maritime industry has opened for business and has encouraged partnerships with those prepared to give local seafarers an opportunity to support international trade. Speaking on board the SA Agulhas 1, which was docked next to HMS Belfast in London, on Tuesday night, Sindiswe Chikunga, Deputy Minister of Transport said: […]
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SA maritime industry opens for business
June 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Kebony Wins 2013 Enterprise Award
June 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Kebony AS, the innovative company offering sustainable alternatives to tropical hardwoods, has won the 2013 Ethical Corporation Responsible Business Award for small and medium enterprises. The Ethical Corporation awards recognise and celebrate the success of the world’s leaders in responsible business excellence from the leaders in sustainability and corporate responsibility. The small and medium enterprises […]
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Scheme For Investors In West Bromwich
June 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Leading housebuilder David Wilson Mercia is offering investors in West Bromwich the chance to earn a six per cent annual return through an innovative buy-to-let initiative. David Wilson Mercia’s show home sale and leaseback scheme allows investors to purchase a show home and then rent it back to the housebuilder for an agreed fixed term. […]
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APD A Barrier To Tourism Growth
May 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Air Passenger Duty
Ministers, Airports and tourism leaders have joined forces to demand that Air Passenger Duty (APD) be devolved as soon as possible.
Ahead of the busy summer holiday season, figures illustrate that the latest increase means that from 1st April, a family of four flying in economy class from the United States has to pay £268 to add Scotland/the UK to their European itinerary, or a couple from Spain have to pay an extra £52 to fly premium economy return here. [Read more…]
Food Tourism Helps Boost Economy
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
According to Visit Wales, the tourism industry in North Wales already injects £2.1 billion a year into the Welsh economy, with visitors to Wales on average spending almost a fifth of their holiday budget on food & drink, providing over 200,000 people with jobs in the food industry across the country. Producers in North Wales […]
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Osborne Must Resist New Wealth Tax Temptation
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Despite growing fears of a triple-dip recession, Chancellor George Osborne must resist pressure from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners to introduce a new wealth tax in his 20th March budget, as it could “deter much-needed new foreign wealth from entering the UK and drive out wealthy foreigners who already live here,” says the chief executive […]
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Big Profit Thinking To Stop Your Small Business Sinking
December 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Business growth expert Annette Du Bois’s new book Big Profit Thinking To Stop Your Small Business Sinking: Powerful Strategies To Accelerate Your Business Success will allow you to unlock the true potential in your business using powerful, practical and proven strategies for success. This book will help business owners with redirected recession-limiting focus and present […]
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Billions moving into land buys
December 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Farmland has risen in value at an average rate of 3.4 per cent a year since 1850 in the UK, and at an average of 6.2 per cent since 1967. Farm prices in the US have risen by 150 per cent in real terms over the past century. Some well-known private investors such as Jim […]
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Property Prices To Date
December 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Despite some crazy newspaper headlines about what’s happening to property prices, whether they are up or down, the reality is that from a national average property price perspective, nothing much is happening. And this has been the picture for the last two years as the chart and analysis shows below:- Chart showing average property prices […]
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