BCC responds to LOTO Speech at Labour Party Conference

Shevaun Haviland, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said:  “The Leader of the Opposition is right to focus on business conditions that would help small and medium-sized firms. Businesses will welcome the focus on digital skills, investment in R&D and the need to make Brexit work. However, despite the warm rhetoric, what firms really need are concrete, costed proposals and meaningful detail on delivery.”  On Skills:  “The…

SmartHead at EXPO 2020 in Dubai

SmartHead to represent sustainable innovations at EXPO 2020 in Dubai After last year’s postponement, EXPO 2020 officially began on October 1st. This time, in exotic Dubai. With its solution – the digital Sustainability Profile – SmartHead will represent innovations in the field of digitisation of corporate sustainability. The company’s SaaS product fits perfectly into the…

BCC Forecast: business investment set to be left behind in record economic recovery 

UK business investment is expected to decline this year despite the prospect of record economic growth, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) economic forecast.  The leading business group predicts UK GDP growth for 2021 of 7.1%, which, if realised, would be the strongest outturn since official records began in 1949.1    Following robust GDP growth…