Recent magazine features
Government support for industry needed now
Inflation in industry is running at roughly double the retail/consumer indices and has been for some time. Material increases have been posted at up to 30% and there is now real evidence of long-term supply contracts for power being withdrawn by suppliers who now desperately need to renegotiate, there’s no price cap protection for industry. Labour costs are increasing in line with inflationary...
Pandemic Boost For Zoo Accounting
“We are people first, accountants second,” says Wayne McCormack as he reflects on the four-year success story that is Zoo Accounting – and the extraordinary progress of the firm after Covid struck and sent the UK economy into turmoil. “Lockdown/Covid was a major factor in our growth, but at the same time we were on the upward trajectory anyway. When I say we are people first, what I mean by that...
40 Years Of Property Expertise
The John Truslove story began in modest circumstances more than 40 years ago - but it seems that the same business approach and principles have been largely intact throughout four decades of often bewildering change in the outside world. Call it tradition, call it longevity, call it the human touch - there's something reassuringly old school about Ben Truslove and Ian Parker as they...
Jacob’s Digital Dream
Jacob Styler may be only 23 - but he's already got his finger firmly on the pulse of the ever-changing digital world. As founder and digital marketing director of Pershore-based Infinity Digital Jacob is the very embodiment of a modern day entrepreneur, and has already packed a considerable amount of experience into his career so far. His CV includes spells with household names such as...
The bloody side-effects of a stroke survivor
I’ve written many times about how I try to play down the difficulties of living with a brain injury. I accentuate the positive; I talk about how being alive and having to deal with the laundry list of problems I face daily is a damn sight better than the alternative, which is being dead, which I so nearly was. But sometimes, that laundry list of problems rears its ugly head - and that’s what’s...