The 2018 German Business Awards Press Release

When you finally decide that the moment has come for you to start your own business or branch out as a freelancer, there is a lot to do and a lot to think about. Suddenly your time has become your biggest asset, so it is worth finding the tools to help you make the most of it. That way you will be able to plough through the work with the right support to help you.

European businesses and institutions have been striving hard to achieve a variety of different sustainability goals over the last several years. As climate change and global temperature rises have dominated news cycles, many have taken ambitious steps to optimise their resources while maintaining that all-important competitive edge. Economic turbulence and geopolitical disruption have certainly not made matters any easier whatsoever.

A group of Europe’s leading smart charging solutions providers have today signed a letter of intent pledging to open their networks for drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK through a roaming partnership by the end of 2019. Initiators of this initiative to open up the charging infrastructure are Allego, EVBox and NewMotion. Together with Chargemap, ChargePoint, Charge4Europe, Engenie, Franklin Energy, and Travelcard they want to make a statement on how easy access to charging infrastructure will help improve the switch to e-mobility for drivers in this region.

Europe, particularly the United Kingdom, has long been a center of fintech innovation. Neo-banks like Revolut and Transferwise have made it easier than ever for individuals to do business in multiple currencies. Electronic credit cards are even becoming the norm. This makes it natural that Europe has become the 3rd largest center of DeFi innovation after the US and Singapore.

Figures from Google’s Car Purchasing UK Report in April 2017, reveal £115.9 million was invested in online display and direct mail by car dealers in the UK, in 2016 alone.

In recent years, trade across the English Channel has gotten a little bit more complicated. There has been the Brexit transition to worry about, as well as all of the problems posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

What has now become the most powerful tool for businesses to advertise their products and services, social media dominates many of our daily lives. This makes it the perfect vessel for delivering marketing materials to customers as well as attracting new audiences to a business that may have never learned about that business otherwise. New EU laws are starting to tackle social media problems, helping regulate the industry. Social media is utilised by small and large businesses alike and can have a direct impact on sales as well as customer services.

Leading temporary power and temperature control company, Aggreko, has announced its new One Europe strategy with a view to better supporting companies decarbonise through the energy transition, as well as addressing more immediate concerns to reduce fuel usage and costs.

Today sees the publication of the UK’s first comprehensive research into the role of private-sector business crime reduction schemes in helping drive down low-level crime and anti-social behaviour.

Employees are broadly lukewarm about the New Deal for Working People, recently published in the King’s Speech as the Employment Rights Bill.