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I took a summer job at my father's firm - now I'm MD

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

HE ONLY joined his father’s firm for a summer job – now Cliff Barclay is leading Inter-Group Communications to record growth.

Retailers find it’s an uphill road on the high street

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sustained improvements in sales are still the exception among retailers. Alex Turner reports

Trading Gossip: Lord tough guy heads north

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

AS THE uncompromising tough guy boss on TV’s The Apprentice, Lord Sugar is used to dishing it out.

Tempering volatile markets with new economic realism

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

THERE are many analogies that have been coined to characterise the action of stock markets.

My working day: Andy Procter of MGL

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Andy Procter is Services Director for MGL, a Liverpool- based IT services provider that focuses on the education sector. He lives in Mawdesley, Lancashire, with his wife, Claire, and their two boys, Ben, six, and Tom, three.

New Media will make this election a campaign like none other

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WHILE May 6 is widely tipped to be the day the nation decides who its Members of Parliament will be (as well as the day of many local council elections) we still do not know for sure when our General Election is to take place.

Deloitte review finds Europe’s footballing elite are ‘well-placed’ despite the recession

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DELOITTE’S football money league published yesterday showed that the world’s top 20 clubs, all European, had combined revenues of £3.3bn in 2008-09.

Football’s financial folly casts a dark shadow over wonderland

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chester City could be the first of many football clubs to go out of business, reports Alex Turner

Profile: Rob Crossland of Parasol

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Alistair Houghton meets ROB CROSSLAND, MD of payroll specialist Parasol

Working Day: Jamie Anderson of Pickled Walnut

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Jamie Anderson is managing director of Wirral-based catering company Pickled Walnut, which provides tailored cuisine for weddings, gala dinners, corporate and private functions.

Trading Gossip: Bloxham’s in the house

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL shops selling designer shades will get a bit busier over the next week as a delegation from the city prepares to jet off to Cannes for this year’s Mipim property conference, starting on March 15.

Manufacturers call for a ‘rebalanced’ economy

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

MANUFACTURING in the UK has a perception problem – and one which threatens to destroy its future.

Why manufacturing matters: the manufacturers' viewpoint

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Does Britain make anything anymore? It’s a question people often ask, yet few realise the UK remains the sixth largest manufacturing nation in the world.

Matt Johnson: The multi-media age continues to grow

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:05:00 GMT

HOW we consume our media is changing so rapidly, whether it be on the move with mobile, listening to a DAB Digital radio in the kitchen, downloading our favourite music from iTunes or Spotify; the landscape has changed beyond all recognition.

Rensburg Sheppards: How will the Chinese respond to yuan fears?

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:02:00 GMT

FOLLOWING the shorthand of today, the investment opportunities in emerging markets are commonly agreed to focus on the BRIC countries – namely, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Chris Johnson sees the upturn on the way

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CHRIS JOHNSON acknowledges the severity of the current recession, but also carries the air of a man who has seen it all before.

Bill Gleeson: Nostalgia aside, Lewis’s closure seems inevitable

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I FEEL a little nostalgic about Lewis’s closing its doors for good in a few months’ time.

Royal Liver Assurance hopes to get a lifeline from big rival Royal London

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

One of Liverpool’s defining companies talks survival with a big rival. Peter Elson reports

Working Day: Julie flies the flag for Liverpool across the world

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Julie Mackenzie is events co-ordinator for regeneration and investment agency, Liverpool Vision. She is organising the Liverpool delegation heading to MIPIM next month

Ben Hatton: Facebook takes on Google Buzz in battle to control the internet

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

LAST week, the digital stratosphere was “a-Buzz” with Google, when the internet’s biggest search company upped the ante on Facebook and announced its assault on social networks.