Gloucestershire-based Wildlife World will have to hire additional staff after successfully securing some very lucrative international contracts following its attendance at the world’s largest toy and educational fair in Nuremberg, a news report reveals.
US-based biotech company Viropharma has just revealed plans to extend its UK presence and increase its office space in Maidenhead in the process, a new report reveals.
The firm will also rent the fourth floor of Chatsworth House, 29 Broadway, pushing the total amount of space it occupies at the property to more than 10,000 sq ft. Viropharma already has office space on the second and third floors and will pay an estimated £251,375 per year in rent, after receiving some serious rebates from the building’s managers.
Unemployment across the UK has reached the 2.52 million mark in February, marking the first increase in over a year, a report by the Office for National Statistics reveals.
Nevertheless, the total number is still lower than a year ago, while the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance has dropped to just 1.54 million.
There’s a very real need for the Government to support the activity of small and medium-sized UK businesses in order to attain a boost in exports and help the country’s overall economy, the British Chambers of Commerce declared yesterday.
Fingerprint readers might actually not be the ultra-safe, secure access control solutions everyone believed them to be, since a major fraud involving this type of devices has been discovered at a hospital in Brazil.
An investigation has revealed that hospital doctors had been covering for absent colleagues by using fake silicone fingers with their prints to fool biometric scanners. Moreover, they would also take delivery of slips of paper indicating they had in fact clocked in to work.
Given the fact that the economy is not going particularly strong right now, CBI, Britain’s largest business lobby group has urged Chancellor George Osborne to apply a sort of “electric shock” to it by spending £1.25bn on building 50,000 new homes.
A joint statement by three councils welcomed news that Jaguar Land Rover is investing a further £150 million in one of its plants.
The largest civil service union in the UK has voted to strike over matters such as pay and pensions. Those working in job centres and tax offices will among those walking out later this month as part of the PCS union.
The TUC general secretary gave his reaction after it was revealed one in 10 UK workers is now officially underemployed.
A recent report from manufacturers’ organisation EEF called "Invest for Growth" reveals the fact that UK-based manufacturers are seriously considering investing in new technologies for improving their productivity, although fewer actually manage to carry out their plans.