Business News & Updates
- 19th September 2008
FELLOW Croydon travellers: have you heard the good news. The dead hand of monopoly is about to be lifted from the throat of Gatwick Airport.BAA, a former government regulator, privatised as a virtual monopoly, has decided to jump before the Competition Com
- 8th September 2008
Matt Allright is the familiar face we associate with uncovering Rogue Traders every week on BBC1, going undercover to find all sorts of deceit and exploitation, from restaurants employing illegal immigrants to plumbers ripping off the elderly, but perha
- 4th September 2008
LET ME share with you the first exchanges of a short conversation I had this week with someone I haven't seen for a couple of years."Hello David. Are you enjoying retirement?""I'm not retired""Oh dear, can't you afford to retire?"I will refrain from naming
- 4th September 2008
LONG before the Olympic flame arrives in Stratford and for many years afterwards, Croydon will be feeling the benefit of the 2012 London Games.And with a little ingenuity and some political leadership the advantages to the whole of south London could be ev
- 4th September 2008
A PROPOSED auction of London airports is good news for anyone in Croydon who travels by plane.The Competition Commission - of which, curiously, there is only one - has finally acknowledged the blindingly obvious and recommended that BAA should be required
- 4th September 2008
All doom and gloom out there? I don't think so...As of yesterday the FTSE 100 was up just over 9 percent compared to its lowest point in July this yearThis is a big move andreflects the rotation into the value end of the UK equity market. Sectors that have
- 4th September 2008
thebestof has launched a nationwide promotion that's sure to get companies in tune with their customers.Anyone submitting a testimonial of a business featured on thebestof between now and the end of September will be entered into a draw to win an iPod touc
- 28th August 2008
Richmond upon Thames residents are being invited to help the Council review its public consultation process.
A new scrutiny task group has been set up to examine how consultation is undertaken and to assess how satisfied residents are with the proces
- 14th August 2008
Stop talking, Sir Humphrey - do something!IT MUST be 15 years since I was a guest on a Croydon Council charabanc trip - I accompanied a party of Coulsdon sceptics on a jaunt to Cambridge and Guildford.The council's charm offensive was an attempt to neutral
- 13th August 2008
I was out at a dinner party last night and someone made a very interesting comment indeed.
This person does regular networking with a printer, who has been in the business for over 40 years so has seen it all before, proper recessions included.
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