A six-week delay by a supplier scuppered the autumn launch of an innovative washing machine from Monotub Industries. The company hopes that its washer will rival controversial vacuum cleaner maker James Dyson’s first washing machine.
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Business Express, the home-delivery division of retailer Littlewoods, is considering a novel alternative to lorry and rail for delivering its catalogues and orders - the humble milk float.
Introducing the much-awaited and controversial New Electricity Trading Arrangements (Neta) would slice between 3 to 5 per cent off average electricity prices by July, according to experts.
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Local authority spending on outsourced homecare has exceeded what they spend on the service directly for the first time, according to a new report on domiciliary social care and community health services.
With no bibliography, no diagrams and no detailed examples from real life, this is certainly not the average management text book. It is really a personnel or human resource management ‘how to’ book.
Bass Brewers withdrew plans last week to charge its suppliers £1,000 each to appear on a list of approved traders following hundreds of complaints.
A high-level business mission will be heading off to Japan at the end of this month to study how the change in its economic fortunes have affected supply relationships.
The Department of Trade and Industry-led initiative will include procurement directors and academia, and is being co-ordinated by the DTI and Confederation of British Industry joint initiative, Partnership Sourcing.
The Department of Trade and Industry-led initiative will include procurement directors and academia, and is being co-ordinated by the DTI and Confederation of British Industry joint initiative, Partnership Sourcing.
A decision by the European Parliament next week could help save hundreds of jobs at British Steel’s Rotherham plant and stop more than £100 million of extra costs escalating in the automotive component supply chain.