By Simon Martin, Ensors Chartered Accountants

With general inflation running at 9.4%* and fuel, energy and food prices rising much higher than that, there is increasing financial pressure on businesses and households alike.
Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

Directors of Wincer Kievenaar Architects, Phil Branton and Craig Western talk to Essex Director magazine about striking the balance with designs that preserve the past whilst enhancing the present.

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Peter Osborne, Stoke by Nayland Resort

The Stoke by Nayland Resort celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, making it a timely example of how foresight and innovation can leave a legacy for generations.
Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Perry Norton, Essex Community Foundation

For those new to the concept, Essex Community Foundation helps people, companies and public agencies, to give back to their local community in an effective and efficient way.

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Liz Owers, MAD-HR
MAD-HR has decades of experience working with business leaders to define culture and strategy. But all too often, a question that leaders have forgotten to ask themselves is: “What will my legacy be?”
Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Peter Wilson, Cory Brothers

With 180 years of successful trading under your belt, your legacy should be quite clear, shouldn’t it? Well, from our humble beginnings in Cardiff, to becoming a worldwide business with a revered and a respected reputation, Cory’s legacy could be viewed in many ways.
Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Philip Hoddell, Birkett Long

It takes time, money and hard work to head up a successful business. But what happens if things don’t go to plan?

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

The Institute of Directors (IoD) East of England revealed the winners of its Director of the Year Awards at a gala dinner at the Radisson Blu Stansted Hotel, hosted by IoD regional chair Biplab Rakshi.

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By James Boustead, Rickard Luckin

Multi-generational businesses are common in the UK and Essex is no exception. In fact, according to a report prepared by Oxford Economics less than five years ago, 85% of family firms in the UK plan to remain family-owned ‘for the foreseeable future’.

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

By Karen Dixon, Essex Wildlife Trust

Many of you will have appreciated the benefits that nature has to offer, none more so than in the last few months.

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By Carole Burman, MAD-HR
What is your company’s approach to succession planning? Do you have a strategy? It’s such an important topic for companies of all sizes, and it’s never too early to start planning.

Published in Essex Director Magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

For most, stress is unavoidable when it comes to running a business, and as the boss, your life is a maelstrom of activity that sometimes can be very difficult to navigate. So, how can you avoid ‘burnout’ and the detrimental effects to your mental and physical health and well-being?

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

The definition of an entrepreneur is ‘a person who makes money by starting new businesses’. However, this doesn’t seem to encompass the distinguishing characteristics that separate a person who owns a business, from someone we think of as entrepreneurial.

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

Family firms are the backbone of the UK economy, and Essex is no exception. To shine a light on the county’s family- owned businesses and celebrate their contribution to the economy and wider community, Rickard Luckin has teamed up with Family Business United to find the oldest family firms across Essex.
Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022

Director, Boxford Group
Our lead interview in the LEGACY issue of Essex Director business magazine is Robert Rendall, MD of Boxford Farms and Peake Fruit

Published in Essex Director magazine Summer|Autumn 2022

By Mike Tarbard, Every Child Online

Businesses across Essex are adopting an IT Full Circle philosophy and donating their surplus PCs and laptops to Essex-based asset management charity Every Child Online.
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By Brian Wilcock, UK Director Magazines
It’s strange that some people don’t like the words ‘sales’ or ‘selling’ and use ‘business development’ instead. But, essentially, they are the same and whether you are an owner, partner or MD, you have a part to play.
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By Ross Cracknell, Evolve Business Solutions (EA)
After leaving school in 2006, I joined Digital Copier Systems (Eastern) selling and maintaining photocopiers and printers and I have not looked back since.

Published in Essex Director magazine, Summer|Autumn 2022