New rules to ensure fairness and transparency around handling tips and gratuities will soon go live for hospitality and other service sector businesses.    New rules to ensure fairness and transparency around handling tips and gratuities will soon go live for hospitality and other service sector businesses.  These are designed to ensure an even-handed approach […]

Business and supplier relationships are crucial for success It is a relationship defined, amongst many other factors, by payment terms, credit control and, in some instances, offering customers a line of credit.  But not all businesses are created equal, and it can be difficult to determine how a relationship might develop. For all businesses beginning […]

Kent has always been unique in the eyes of its residents. However, post-Brexit, we now have a more significant relevance in that we have two of the UK’s three juxtaposed borders. This may lead you to ask: what are they and why does it matter? In our case, a juxtaposed border is where another country […]

Young people don’t know what they don’t know, and this is particularly true for insights into careers – one reason why the latest Future Skills Forum, born out of the Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP), was a great place to launch a suite of new localised careers factsheets, aimed at young people, careers advisers and […]

The British Chambers of Commerce manifesto sets out a clear plan for sustainable growth for the next government. We want to build an economy that has the green transition at its core, with a workforce fit for the future, living in thriving local places and powered by businesses that are globally facing and digitally enabled. […]

In my first job, back in 1986, I was handed an Apple Macintosh Plus, with only 1 MB of RAM and an 800kb hard drive. It immediately connected with me, and I was hooked after I wrote my first-ever press release on it. Since that day, most of the tech I use at Maxim’s office […]