Posted | 09:00, 05 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: Hobbs Parker is pleasantly full of contradictions. It has been around for 160 years and is perceived as a traditional independent local firm centred on the Ashford area.Yet it operates from modern offices ‘above the shop’ at Ashford Market on the town’s Orbital Park, where it can keep...Read more ►
Posted | 09:00, 04 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: Heartwood Wealth, the Kent-based independent investment management firm, has been the takeover target for several larger rivals and banks. But approaches are unwelcome according to City updates about the growing reputation of Heartwood, which manages £1 billion of assets and has...Read more ►
Posted | 09:00, 03 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: Dame Vera Lynn entered the battle for the future of the Port of Dover this week by backing plans for a ‘People’s Port’.Dover Harbour Board (DHB), which runs the port as a trust, believes privatisation is the only way to secure much-needed investment yet opponents fear this could see a......Read more ►
Posted | 09:00, 02 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: Entrepreneurial parents are on the march and they have a banner – mumpreneurs.And those who plan to launch a business once the kids start school this autumn or who have recently set up a business, can get free help at a seminar in Tunbridge Wells on Wednesday, September 15.It follows...Read more ►
Posted | 14:02, 01 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: The British Chambers of Commerce has increased its prediction for UK GDP growth to 1.7 per cent for this year, and to 2.2 per cent for 2011.But despite the more positive short-term view, the business group also predicts the pace of growth will slow sharply over the medium-term as the......Read more ►
Posted | 11:47, 01 September 2010 COMMENTS (0)
KENT NEWS: Shipping operations at Dover hit stormy weather this weekend as a row escalates over the port’s future ownership, and ferry lines review operations in a tough market.LD Lines announced that, almost immediately after axing one ship from its service to Boulogne, it would now shut down...Read more ►