Doing Business in Russia – a briefing on Friday 13th July 09:30hrs at Medway Innovation Centre Russia with its rich natural resources, a well-educated workforce and a reforming industrial base Russia has the potential for substantial future growth. Russia is the UK’s fastest-growing major export market, and the third-largest export market outside Europe and North…

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Professor Victor Newman, specialist on business innovation at Greenwich University referred in a blog to a quite well known quote. He said: “To paraphrase an old quote, insanity is the expectation that old approaches will still work when the context you are operating in has changed.” This begs the question;  ‘How many organisations today have…

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 “If you think you can do something, or you think you can’t do something, you’re RIGHT!” Henry Ford  The fact is we ‘can‘ all be creative because we once were – all of us! Remember that first painting our parents drooled over – well you probably won’t as it was a long time ago, but…

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One of the difficult social issues of this century is how to engage young people in work from areas of poverty. As the world economy since 2007 has taken a voyage of discovery that has baffled even the most experienced, this social problem has been accentuated. In some areas of the world it’s a disease…

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SWALE HEATING RESPONSE TO HIGH COURT RULING ON SOLAR TARIFF CUTS Responding to a High Court ruling yesterday (21 Dec) that Government plans to rush through cuts to subsidies for solar panels on homes are legally flawed, Swale Heating has urged ministers to take this opportunity to “rethink their plans”. The Government’s planned cuts to…

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FREE often is synonymous with inferior. Often this is true, but within the computing industry, software that once made a significant dent in budgets can now be picked up for free – thanks mainly to new “cloud” technology. Here at roost, we’ve kept our overheads to a minimum by using some really great tools. In…

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Blog: HMRC keep us guessing? Who’s next for a visit? More news from HMRC landed across our desk today, it didn’t make cheery reading, although the headline was almost encouraging Business Record Checks re-launched Our initial interest was raised, are they to be toned down? No, just re-launched.  Strange that this all comes hot on…

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Principal Corporation have organised a free exhibition in conjunction with our friends at the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce and Holiday Inn North Ashford for ONE DAY ONLY between 9am and 5pm on Weds 25th January. We will also be extending the invite to Chamber members and their guests until 7pm. Come and play with…

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