The horse meat crisis has now been running for a month. How time flies.
Back in January, this blog looked at how Tesco had responded to the initial scare and what a crisis communications plan should look like.
A question from a client made me realise the blog didn’t address internal communications, which of course is as critical as dealing with the outside world.
I was recently asked to give a webinar for Worldmark’s management development programme on understanding the customer.
As always, there is nothing like teaching others to remind yourself of all the things we should be doing in our own businesses.
Jobs at Worcester based Backup Staff have been saved following the sale of the business to the management team. All 13 members of staff will retain their jobs.
Mr Justice Supperstone has delivered his ruling today (Wednesday 6 Feb) in the high court action taken by Montpellier Estates v Leeds City Council and ruled in favour of Leeds City Council.
We have worked with insolvency practitioners for more than 20 years. Without doubt, the most difficult part of their job is making people redundant. It’s an extremely pressured job and when you go into a company, your legal duty is to protect the assets of people who have lent money or are owed it, such … 9 tips for insolvency practitioners – learn from #HMVemployees and don’t get caught out by Twitter
When done well, Pinterest can be a great part of your overall SEO strategy, and an invaluable source of traffic to your site.
When done badly, it can be a waste of your valuable time, and a possible dent to your brand’s reputation.
With this in mind, here are my top tips on what you should and shouldn’t be doing to build your presence on the internet’s biggest pin board.
Chris White and Gareth Rusling, partners at The P&A Partnership were appointed joint administrators to James Forsyth Coatbridge Ltd on 29 October 2012. They have rescued 81 jobs with the sale of the company in November 2012. The administrators continued to trade the company through early November last year and marketed the fresh produce business … The P&A Partnership saves 81 jobs at James Forsyth Coatbridge Ltd
Tesco has had a busy 48 hours. On Tuesday, Irish food inspectors reported that their ‘value’ burgers had 30% horse meat in them. By Thursday morning newspaper advertisements appeared in all national newspapers with an apology to their customers. In its advertisements, with the headline “We Apologise”, Tesco says: “We and our supplier have let … Tesco apology – how would your organisation deal with unexpected horse meat?
David Thurkettle of PwC gave his usual thought provoking analysis of trends in law firms from PwC’s Law firms’ survey 2012. I had introduced his session, saying that my own view of the legal market is that it is still very tough, quite patchy and performance is generally flat. David said the survey pretty much said the same thing.
