Contracts worth over a billion pounds are still up for grabs, delegates attending the London 2012 Business Summit at ExCeL were told yesterday.
The London Organising Committee (LOCOG) and Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) have yet to award roughly £1.7bn worth of contracts.
Around 300 unemployed jobseekers attended a Birmingham jobs fair staged by Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) in Birmingham.
Multi-sector recruiter Acorn has appointed two new members of staff to its Preston branch.
Samantha Nieuwenhuizen has been recruited as a recruitment consultant, while Maciej Gorczyca takes the role of account co-ordinator. Both Nieuwenhuizen and Gorczyca will specialise in the industrial sector.
Access to funding remains a significant problem for UK firms, according to the British Chambers of Commerce. (BCC)
The latest BCC survey shows that 33% of companies reported that accessing finance had been more difficult over the last quarter, compared with 20% in June who believed access to finance had worsened.
US executive search firm Slayton Search Partners has appointed Jay D’Aprile as senior vice-president in its Chicago office.
Online recruitment services provider Optimal Internet has appointed Adam Dungworth as account manager of the job multi-posting software Logic Melon division.
Speculation is mounting that the government will announce a windfall tax on bankers’ bonuses in Wednesday’s Pre-Budget Report.
On Sunday, Alistair Darling told the BBC: “We are not going to be held to ransom by people who believe you can pay extraordinarily high bonuses without regard to what’s going on.”
A change to the existing national minimum wage (NMW) regulations and how they apply to Travel and Subsistence schemes would not be the best solution, according to Brian White, tax partner with accounting firm Deloitte.
