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5 key ways to ensure safe and legal overseas hires

When it comes to expanding your business internationally, a common starting point is to bring foreign talent into the fold. Hiring overseas talent comes with complex immigration laws and requirements...
Dakota Murphey
Dakota Murphey
Posted on: 09.08.23
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How to protect both your premises and profits from climate change

Extreme weather and shifting climate patterns are becoming the new normal. We’re now seeing rising sea levels, intense heat waves and extreme storms more regularly. These climate change impacts pose...
Dakota Murphey
Dakota Murphey
Posted on: 09.08.23
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Gloucestershire Needs Homes

A few years ago I was involved in the Gloucestershire 2050 project when perhaps the key concern exposed was the haemorrhaging of talented young people from the county. And as our companies are now...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 09.08.23
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Get ready for Maison&Objet: simplify your trade fair experience with an ATA Carnet

ATA Carnets for trade fairs and exhibitions Maison&Objet is a bi-annual home, décor and lifestyle trade fair which will be taking place in France this autumn (7th – 11th September 2023) and early...
Elsa Mendl
Elsa Mendl
Posted on: 04.08.23
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Business and Civic Leaders Welcome Secretary of State and Norwegian Ambassador to Swindon

Business West and the Office of Sir Robert Buckland MP welcomed the Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper MP, and the Norwegian Ambassador, His Excellency Wegger Strømmen and his wife, the...
Huw James
Huw James
Posted on: 04.08.23
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Region boosted by the Tour of Britian race

Ian Mean, Business West Gloucestershire director and vice chair GfirstLEP, congratulates Gloucestershire County Council and South Gloucestershire Council in bringing this year’s Tour of Britain, the...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 02.08.23
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President of Bristol Chamber receives Honorary Degree

Jaya Chakrabarti (pictured with her husband, Stuart and children Talin and Arjun), the highly respected President of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Initiative, was today (Tuesday 1st August 2023...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 01.08.23
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HMRC customs intermediary consultation

By Joe Goldsworthy, Customs Agent HMRC are currently consulting with a variety of businesses in the UK with a view to improving the customs intermediary sector. Consultation with businesses began...
Fiona Parsons
Fiona Parsons
Posted on: 01.08.23
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Business West helps clients prepare for the world's leading production tech show

Our Carnet team is currently preparing for the busy trade show season, and coming up next is EMO Hannover , the world’s leading production technology trade show, which will be re-launching for the...
Elsa Mendl
Elsa Mendl
Posted on: 27.07.23
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