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While US president Donald Trump was threatening China, Mexico, and Canada with trade tariffs, some of America’s biggest companies were making headlines of their own. Beauty giant Estee Lauder – whose brands include Clinique, MAC, and Aveda –...
Read moreThe damage from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires shocked the world and raised important questions about the insurance industry’s response to natural disasters. Twenty-four people died in the inferno, thousands more were displaced, while over...
Read moreRedundancy doesn’t have to be a disaster, just as long as you plan what it is that you want. Governments are preparing for more layoffs as the Coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on international labour markets. The UK’s already beleaguered retail...
Read moreAn online summit revealed how businesses should think smart to survive the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus lockdown restrictions may be easing but that doesn’t mean life is about to get back to normal. To begin with nobody knows what “normal”...
Read moreAs governments reopen economies, public transport is crucial in the post Coronavirus planning In 2018 I wrote a blog about the economic importance of transport and why the media should cover it more extensively. It was written a week after I flew to the UK from...
Read moreAn international summit reveals why it’s time we started taking transport seriously. The evening flight from Leipzig to London should have been an hour and forty minutes, but it felt longer. Maybe tiredness, the two-hour delay or the bad-tempered restlessness...
Read moreThe first few months of 2018 have gone by with unseemly haste although that hasn’t stopped me looking back on my memories of 2017. Why, you might ask? The only way I can gauge how well or how badly my business is performing is by comparing the achievements...
Read moreI enjoy radio as a listener and as someone who has spent a fair amount of time working in the medium. When I graduated from university in 1982, I was offered a place at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication) where I trained...
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