Horizon Construction, based in Colchester, has fought off stiff international competition to scoop a prestigious RoSPA Award, demonstrating its commitment to health and safety excellence.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
If your local community is important to you and your staff, now could be the prefect time to think about choosing an Essex charity to support as your charity of the year.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
Essex Director, Norfolk Director and Suffolk Director’s first event, ‘Helping to Run your Business Better’, has been hailed as a huge success by business leaders across the region.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
East Anglia is Britain’s breadbasket and a centre for horticulture, pig and poultry farming. The region’s farmers produced crops and livestock worth £3.9 billion in 2021, across 1.4 million hectares of land.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Andy Skinner, AMS Business Consultants
We are specialists in Lean Six Sigma, a method that uses collaborative team effort, to improve business performance by removing waste and reducing variation.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
Fairfields Farm Crisps
Our lead interview in the CHANGE issue of Essex Director business magazine is Husband and Wife, Robert and Laura Strathern.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
Partner, Ensors Chartered Accountants
Zoe is a Chartered Certified Accountant and Audit RI and has worked at Ensors for nearly 25 years.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
Equity Partner & Head of Intellectual Property, Birkett Long LLP
As a full-service law firm, we deal with most of the areas you would expect including family, probate and property. My team gives commercial legal advice, particularly in the fields of patents and trademarks. Innovation is at the heart of all of our work – we want to help the eco-system of innovation grow in East Anglia, enhancing wealth and prosperity in the region.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Charlotte Bate, MAD-HR
MAD-HR has worked with numerous business owners whose organisation is centred in, or focused on, food or farming. Here I answer six key questions which all leaders (in any sector) can learn from.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
Accountancy : Ensors Although recent announcements regarding rewards for Environmental Management will help, these changes become ever more important as the continued reduction in the
By Christine Bhatt, Systematics International
Change is a constant in business
The Covid-19 pandemic was a catalyst for transforming organisations, profoundly changing how we live and work. This, combined with directors facing changes that are driven by digital transformation, rising costs and the push towards Net Zero, means that standing still is no longer an option.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Tim Price, Park City Consulting
At Park City Consulting, we discourage the use of one word: ‘template’. The company developed its Health & Safety Service within the first year of launch, in 1998, founded on providing personal, face-to-face support at the client’s location.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
The North Essex Economic Board (NEEB) has launched its new website, a platform from which the partnership can signpost and showcase the support on offer via its fully-funded programmes.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Caroline Peters and David Rose, Rickard Luckin
The agricultural sector is vital to the UK’s economy, contributing billions of pounds each year.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Tim Field, Birkett Long
I am sure every business owner will be only too aware of the difficulties caused by high inflation, rising energy costs, increased interest rates and the forecasted slowdown in the economy.
Published in Suffolk Director Magazine Spring Summer 2023
By Mike Bowden, Cory Brothers
With four divisions and an international network of offices and partner agencies, Cory Brothers is an ever adapting and innovative shipping and logistics organisation.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Rob Thacker, Pozitive Insurance
Property developers and construction specialists need to understand the implications of the new Building Safety Act (BSA) on their insurance protection and should be reviewing their risks.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Steve Leech, Granite Transformations
Sustainability is the absolute buzzword of 2023, and with governing bodies imposing ever more demanding targets, the pressure on businesses to take responsibility for reducing their carbon footprint is increasing all the time.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
By Jenna Morgan, Wallis Shipping
For over 35 years, we’ve specialised in food & drink logistics across the world. Based on the Suffolk / Essex border, we’re among a huge range of agricultural, farming & food industries, and within easy reach of two of the UK’s largest freight ports.
Published in Essex Director Magazine Spring | Summer 2023
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