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Firms argue for reduced levies as Budget looms THE Budget is two weeks away and Dorset firms want tax cuts to further stimulate spending.
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SMALL businesses are pinning their hopes on improved sales and marketing strategies to beat the effects of recession.
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TWO Dorset organisations have been included in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.
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THE Jelf Group, the insurance broker, which has moved to Crow Arch Lane, Ringwood, has established an advisory unit to help customers secure lending, according to chief executive Alex Alway.
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THE British government has officially thanked a small business in Bournemouth for helping the UK escape the grips of recession.
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Crippling taxes are forcing Lyndhurst-based Ineos, the world’s third largest chemicals company, to consider moving to Switzerland, the company claims.
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Recycled paper can be as tough as wood or metal.
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Merlin Entertainments, the Poole-based owner of Legoland, Alton Towers, Madame Tussauds and the London Eye, recorded revenues of £769m to December 26, 2009.
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David Cross, farmland director at Savills in Salisbury, says that of the 12 farms he sold last year, many were in Dorset and 61 per cent were purchased by farmers – up from 53 per cent in 2008 –
countering the myth that farming is dead.
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JMC (J Motor Components Ltd) in Vantage Way, Mannings Heath, Poole is celebrating its 60th year of trading.
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Judy Wright has been appointed as receptionist at The Balmer Lawn Hotel in Brockenhurst. She has worked as a receptionist for the past 10 years
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Intergage, the digital marketing agency in Poole, has recruited Jess Willson as an internet marketing executive. Search engine marketing manager Keira Long said: “She has already achieved a number
of page one search engine listings for a variety of clients.”
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Moore Blatch Solicitors in Lymington has recruited corporate specialist David Bright in the commercial department. Head of the Moore Blatch corporate team Roger Bailey said: “The volume of work we
have secured over the last 12 months has allowed us to expand the corporate team with the addition of two candidates.”
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Professor Nick Petford, currently pro-vice-chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bournemouth University, has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton. He will
take up his appointment in September.
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MORE than 50 staff, including over 30 call centre personnel, have been recruited in the last two weeks at Insure4Retirement, the Bournemouth-based over-50s insurer.
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SAMANTHA Smith from New Milton has been appointed director of dentistry at Trafalgar Dental Services, which has clinics in the New Forest, Gosport, Portsmouth and Southampton.
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LIZ Lean PR in Poole has appointed Chloe Parmiter as events manager.
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ELLIS Jones Solicitors has appointed Claire Bodington and Marie Pethen to its private client department and Hayley Bugler as secretary to partner Craig Wells at its Canford Cliffs office.
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BEN Ryves has been appointed company director at Image Commercial Interiors, the fit-out and refurbishment specialists in Ferndown.
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BOURNEMOUTH & West Hampshire Water has appointed Roger Harrington as managing director. He succeeds Tony Cooke, who is to relinquish his executive duties in April after heading the water
company for nearly 19 years.
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- I have always been interested in research and market data but I had to smile at a piece of work completed by Keele University’s school of psychology. - THE UK National debt is set to rise above £2 trillion, a figure that is higher than Britain's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - meaning the nation's wealth would be outstripped by its debt. At the end
of March 2008, general government debt was £614.4 billion, equivalent to 43.2 per cent of GDP. At the end of January 2009, general government debt was £703.4 billion, equivalent to 47.8 per cent of
GDP.
- Last Friday I was one of the speakers at the Chamber of Commerce seminar Swim, Don’t Sink!
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IT has been said, "A Butterfly flapping its wings in Peru can start a change in the weather that leads to a typhoon in China." Fear is infectious, spreads quickly and can turn out to be
overwhelming and like the flapping of butterfly’s wings affecting the weather, the current economic fear started somewhere.
- I have real concern about the rising doom-and-gloom which has been voiced by many, including the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) following a recent economic survey.
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HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing. As recession grips, “bust” (a state of the economy allegedly banned to history) seems to be following the “boom” (another state of the economy also banned to
history).
- With the economy under strain, many small and medium-sized businesses in Dorset are beginning to find conditions tough. - In his pre-Budget report Alistair Darling delivered economic downgrades bigger than any since the 1980s - the row of glum faces on the Government benches as he predicted misery for large swathes of the population said it all. -
THE British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey (Q3 2008) received over 5,000 responses from businesses of all sizes and sectors and virtually all the key national balances have
worsened, and many are in negative territory for the second quarter in a row.
- Prosperity based on borrowing is how, over the last decade, this Government have fuelled the economy. This Government and the Country has been on a borrowing binge on the back of property prices
and the belief that somehow the property boom would go on and on.
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