August 2018, Issue 71

This month we explain why sustainability strategies are the new money-makers for businesses, discuss the major challenges facing Northern manufacturers, look at the current issues in the employment and skills space and speak to one of our interims about successfully growing a business organically.

Meeting the 3 key challenges facing northern manufacturers

Mergers between retail giants, Brexit uncertainty and evolving consumer purchasing trends have placed mounting pressures on the North’s manufacturing power base over the past 12 months. It’s led to price squeezes on suppliers and...

How to grow your business with what you’ve got

Tom Legard, Head of our Manufacturing Practice talks to interim David Baldwin-Evans about the smart approach to growing a business.

In the business of being green: is there really a business case for sustainability?

Ali Palmer, Partner and Head of Odgers Interim’s Consumer & Telecoms Practice, looks at the shifting trend towards corporate sustainability and asks whether it can really be linked to profitability

Employment & Skills Convention 2018: a front-line look at the current issues of work

Employment is at record levels, yet too many groups in society still face entrenched disadvantages in accessing jobs and questions remain around the ‘quality of work’ and importantly, in-work progression. Amongst the many themes...