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COVID: 7 ways your business can adapt to win in a New World Order

Post COVID, it will take some time to restore the economic prosperity, growth and productivity that businesses have previously enjoyed. Now is the time to explore and develop new business models to...
Paul O'Collins
Paul O'Collins
EEN South West
Posted on: 01.07.20
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Boris' £5 billion spending pledge is a drop in the ocean

Boris Johnson’s New Deal speech today in the heart of the West Midlands at Dudley was high on rhetoric but pretty thin on detail. We were promised a so-called New Deal to re-build Britain in the wake...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 30.06.20
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Mental health during lockdown and beyond – what can your business do to support your staff?

In recent years, the conversation around mental health has grown and collectively we’ve become better at talking about it more openly. However, coronavirus has catapulted mental health right to the...
Posted on: 30.06.20
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How one digital marketing agency is coping with the lockdown

I am not sure how I would have responded if someone had told me in 2019 that this year we would be forced to abandon our office’s due to a “Lockdown” caused by a viral pandemic that jumped to humans...
Andrew Burgess
Andrew Burgess
Equimedia
Posted on: 30.06.20
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Government chooses Business West food and drink initiative to help drive industry bounce-back overseas

Business West are leading a coronavirus bounce-back campaign to encourage UK food and drink producers to break into overseas markets for the first time. The campaign, which was chosen by government...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 26.06.20
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Businesses can steer West of England away from ‘Carmageddon’

“Lockdown has provided us with the biggest behaviour change programme we have ever seen. It would be a real travesty if we went back to ‘business as usual’ without locking in some of the benefits...
Ben Lowndes
Ben Lowndes
Social
Posted on: 26.06.20
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Bill to allow al-fresco drinking and dining welcomed by hospitality industry

With many hospitality businesses hanging by a thread, a new government bill to enable al-fresco dining and drinking is very welcome. A Business and Planning Bill is being published by ministers today...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 25.06.20
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Business West Finance Hub launched to connect borrowers, lenders and investors

Faced with an increasingly complex lending landscape and with business finances pushed to breaking point as a result of lockdown, the Business West Finance Hub has launched to enable businesses to...
Leigh Jenkins
Leigh Jenkins
Enterprise Europe Network
Posted on: 24.06.20
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Business West responds to Prime Minister’s announcement on further easing of lockdown restrictions

ps-brexit.png Commenting on the Prime Minister’s announcement of further easing of Coronavirus restrictions from 4 July, including the reopening of culture, tourism and leisure venues as well as a...
Posted on: 23.06.20
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