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With the euro looking increasingly vulnerable and the Government and business representatives engaged in a senseless battle of words as to which side should be working harder, it would be easy to overlook any good news. However, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Purchase Managers Index, which was released today, April saw solid increases in Scottish private sector employment and o….
A V66 member, Becky Woodhouse has been celebrating after her PURE Spa in Aberdeen won the Day Spa of the Year category at the 2012 Professional Beauty Awards. PURE Spa saw off stiff competition from other spas such as The Sanctuary and The Dorchester in London. After several years working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Becky left the accountancy firm and started her own business. The firs….
One of the reasons people often give for joining Vistage is to improve their management skills. One of the difficult first steps towards improvement is being able to assess objectively how good or bad your management skills actually are. It is not an easy task. According to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), there can be a large gap between ….
The Sunday Times published its annual Rich List yesterday and, as always, it makes for fascinating reading. One imagines the actual amount in their bank account has ceased to be of any real consequence for many people included in the list – when you measure your value in billions then the odd million here or there really doesn’t matter. It seems more likely that for the people in ….
Two members of Vistage Scotland’s V66 group have been in the headlines recently after their companies scooped two significant awards. Fiona Dewar (pictured) is one of the Directors of Vets Now, the out of hours emergency service for pets which has won the Scottish regional prize at HSBC’s prestigious Business Thinking awards. Founded in 2001, the company now treats around 100,000 ….
Conducted in conjunction with the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute, the latest Scottish Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Business survey was released today. It reports that there has been a slight improvement in activity in the Scottish economy in the first quarter of 2012 but widespread difficulties remain for Scottish businesses. With the exception of retai….
Going back to work on a rainy morning after the Easter weekend may not be the most uplifting of occasions but, for Vistage Scotland members, there are plenty of reasons to whistle merrily as the laptop loads up. First up, a new survey by the office space provider Regus seems to show that business confidence and company performance in Scotland have improved and are above those in the U….
The next Vistage Scotland Member Guest Day features Mark Robb who will deliver a workshop called Success Through Service: How to Love Your Customers and Ensure They Love You. It takes place in the Apex Hotel on Waterloo Place, Edinburgh on the morning of Tuesday 15th May. Using an engaging blend of demonstrations, stories, research, case study presentations and practical hands-on appl….
After last week’s sunshine the weather may have turned rather chilly in Scotland but a new survey from the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) seems to show that the economy may be warming slightly. The BCC’s Quarterly Economic Survey for the first three months of 2012 show that almost all the key national balances have strengthened in Q1 and are now much stronger than during the w….
Accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young have just released an eye-opening survey which shows that Edinburgh is the UK’s most productive city. The firm analysed the Gross Value Added – the measure of a region’s contribution to the UK economy according to the value of the goods and services it produces – of 40 British towns and cities. Their figures revealed that residents of Edinburg….
