There’s no doubt that the past 18 months have been challenging for all retailers and continue to be. Many well-established retailers have unfortunately gone out of business and our high streets are recovering very slowly.
The number of Britons officially registered as living in Portugal shot up by more than 30% between 2019 and 2020, well beyond anything that has been seen in recent years. The 34.6% increase was revealed by the latest Immigration, Borders and Asylum Report for 2020 from Portugal’s borders and immigration service, SEF.
Lifestyle product retailer MINISO is further strengthening its business foothold in Europe as it has announced the opening of a new store in Seville, the capital city of Andalucía in southern Spain on August 26. The opening of the new location in Spain, the 36th in the country, is followed by the unveiling of the Oxford flagship store in the UK on August 27, then the franchise store opening in Sardinia on August 28, which is the brand's fifth store in Italy within just four months.
In addition to filling this critical driver shortage, transport and haulage providers must do better in terms of gender equality. Here, we discuss how you can encourage more women into the sector.
Skills and labour shortages across the UK’s trade and logistics sectors have been hitting the headlines, most obviously for goods vehicle drivers. Less newsworthy, but equally threatening, is the shortfall in staff with knowledge and experience in Customs procedures; a situation that is beginning to pose an existential threat to many small, and not so small, companies that rely on international trade.
The World Economic Forum has published a new study on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to accelerate a more equitable energy transition and build trust for the technology throughout the industry.
An emerging British start-up, iov42, has been chosen over corporate giants to leverage blockchain technology to improve standards of cross-border services for public administrations across the EU.
The UK uses an estimated five million tonnes of plastic every year, nearly half of which is packaging. As the plastic problem worsens, countries across the globe have been looking at ways to deal with overflowing landfill sites and polluted soils, rivers and oceans.
Laka the specialist insurer of cyclists, turns its attention to the commercial cycle and electric-assisted vehicle (EAV) sector. Read the full story here.
Many UK businesses have yet to grasp the significance of Brexit divergence and its impact on parallel trading laws, according to specialist lawyers at national law firm Irwin Mitchell.
As the British economy continues its gradual reopening, there is growing motivation to ensure that businesses can “build back better” from the difficulties of pandemic restrictions.
We have all been through so much thanks to the COVID pandemic over the course of the last year and a half. The amount of hard work, ingenuity and sacrifice it has taken to simply make it through to this point is incalculable and we all deserve a break. For anyone thinking about launching a new business during the pandemic, it has been a white-knuckle ride while waiting to see what state the marketplace would be in if and when things got better.
