County Durham – Building a home for future technologies
By John Smith,
Project Manager, NetPark
Rich in industrial and cultural heritage, the north east of England has undergone a radical transformation over the last three decades to emerge as a major manufacturing and technology centre, and County Durham lies at the heart of this process of change.

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It’s the people who make it work
By Richard Alexander,
Managing Director
A Company establishing a new business base in the UK or mainland Europe has a whole range of factors to consider. Typically, first thoughts are about products and markets, and how the commercial potential can best be realised.

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The crucial business of international people management
By Tom Hadley,
Human Resources Policy Directorate
The need for a flexible and internationally mobile workforce is ever more pressing. As a result, organisations have recognised the need to regularly review their people management policies and practices in order to recruit, develop and retain the employees who will really impact on organisational performance. The CBI has responded to the needs of member organisations by developing specific benchmarking tools as well as providing ongoing information on some of the external factors which can impact on the way companies manage their global workforce.

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Leeds Development Agency
By Leeds Development Agency,

Leeds is the business capital of Yorkshire and the Humber, one of the largest economic regions in the UK. The economy of Leeds is robust and diverse – amply illustrated by the fact that it has the third largest financial and business services sector and the third largest manufacturing sector in the UK, in employment terms.

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Business Relocation
By Stuart Mitchell,
Senior Partner of Business Moves Advisory Centre
When the winds of economic change are brought to bear on a business it often results in the need to relocate. Sometimes the winds are warm and the business needs to expand, sometimes the winds are cold and it needs to re-trench and shrink. in this new millennium business leaders are much more likely to have to face up to the need to relocate. The pace of change – particularly in technology and in key market sectors is getting faster and faster.

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Successfully addressing FISCAL bureaucracy on moving to the UK
By Andrew Bailey,
Managing Director
Over the last quarter century the UK as a centre for inward business investment has successfully shed its former notoriety for high levels of personal and corporate taxation, and a poorly trained, unmotivated workforce bolstered by non-competitive work place practices. The consequence has been an influx of foreign controlled business investments ranging in size from the multi-national enterprise to the opportunist entrepreneur

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Rotherham – business benefits today from investment in IT’s tomorrow
By Richard Poundford,

The Yorkshire borough of Rotherham, with its reputation built on steel and coal, might seem an odd choice of location for companies whose innovation and IT skills are shaping the future of the British economy.

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