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Steve Purdham
Debbie Pierce
Richard O'Sullivan
Brian Hay
Gary Jacobson
Jeremy Roberts
Tony Caldeira
David Pollock
Ian Morris

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The impact of the spending cuts due to be announced in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review are beginning to cause panic amongst those who really should know better, particularly in the North.

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I am told by those readers who live in the more pleasant parts of our region that if you cut a worm in half you finish up with two perfectly functioning worms. I have checked: it is true.

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Rejoice! Rejoice! The one-eyed Scottish lunatic has gone.

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In the early Middle Ages, a large part of the economy of western Europe was based around the buying and selling of religious relics. Nothing, from the shinbone of a saint to his tears, was without a value. No doubt the venture capitalists of the day could ascribe an expected internal rate of return to the thigh bone of a notable crusader.

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The recent suggestion by US President Barack Obama that the retail and investment functions of the major banks should be separated has not gone down well in either the US or the UK. That Wall Street and the City should fight tooth and nail a move that at a stroke would transform them from Masters of the Universe to the more humble banker is understandable.

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In February 1942 Singapore, the great Asian fortress of Great Britain, meekly surrendered to a smaller and less well-equipped Japanese force. Defeat had seemed inconceivable.

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Such treats may soon be a thing of distant memory, but for those of us who enjoy such things, the annual accounts of the North West Development Agency are now upon us.

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Those who had bothered to read this column with the diligence its author deserves would not merely have seen the recessionary clouds gathering before most other people, they would have realised that the storm, when it arrived, was going to be brutal.

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Some time ago this magazine covered the Government’s botched attempt to relocate the Office For National Statistics (ONS) to Cardiff and warned that the loss of senior statisticians as a consequence of the botch would lead inevitably to increased errors and a lack of trust in our official statistics.

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If there is one factor which makes the current recession different from any other, it is that our media and economic commentators have forgotten that a recession is simply a consequence of growth. The Prime Minister may not like it, but after every boom, there is a bust. Without fail.

  • Turning excess lard into dough? It’s like taking candy from a baby. EN heads to the fit farm and examines a bulging bottom line.

  • EN visited the British Business Angels Association’s annual conference and found a sector torn between confidence and crisis.

  • Are we emerging from recession into an energy crisis? Probably not, as EN discovers.

  • EN and Downtown in Business hosted a wide-ranging panel debate following June’s emergency Budget. This is what happened.

  • Making money out of nurseries should be child’s play. Shouldn’t it? EN examines the real bottom line.

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Frank McKenna has never exactly been shy about being the public face of the Downtown in Business brand, which he founded in Liverpool in 2004 and now boasts operations in Preston and Manchester (the latter launched earlier this year). His weekly, “Thank Frank it’s Friday” email missives, “Frankie Says” blog and Tarantino-inspired advertisements are cases in point.

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