Recruitment can be really tough, especially for a small business. Coming to the decision of taking on a new staff member is often the result of working at full capacity until breaking point is reached, or – worse – losing a valued team member. Although the need to recruit and grow your team is usually
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Can taking a long, adventurous holiday boost productivity?
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Research has shown that UK SME leaders typically only take 14 days holiday a year, with one in eight taking no annual leave at all. A further 27 per cent claim that since becoming self-employed, they now work longer hours finding themselves ‘on duty’ for up to 13 hours a day. And it’s not just
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Dream big: Brits block themselves from starting their own business
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
More than half of UK workers (61 per cent) are desperate to work for themselves but those dreams never become a reality for one in six (17 per cent) budding entrepreneurs because they do not know how to market themselves properly, according to research commissioned by direct selling company Vorwerk. The scuppering statistic sees East
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Avon Products Appoints Jan Zijderveld As CEO
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP), today announced that Jan Zijderveld has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
He succeeds Sheri McCoy, who previously announced her intention to retire from the Company and Board. Jan will also serve as a member of the Board of Directors.
Jan joins Avon from Unilever N.V./PLC (“Unilever”), a global leader in personal care, home and food products, where he has had a 30-year career, living and working in seven countries across three continents. He most recently served as a member of Unilever’s Executive Committee, and as President of Unilever’s $14 billion European business.
As President of Europe, Jan was responsible for Unilever’s largest operating business, encompassing 34 countries and 25,000 employees. Under Jan’s leadership, the European business stabilized and returned to growth and improved profitability following several years of decline and during significantly challenging market conditions.
He previously served as Executive Vice President in South East Asia and Australasia, where he drove substantial organic growth through a significant step-up in innovation, market development and in-store execution. During this time Jan was also Non-Executive Chairman of Unilever’s listed Indonesian business, with a market capitalisation in excess of $20 billion.
Prior to that, as CEO of Unilever, Middle East and North Africa, Jan successfully led a complex business, in a volatile region, which included many joint
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LegalShield Membership Reaches A New Record High
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
LegalShield, one of North America’s leading providers of affordable legal plans and the IDShield identity theft solution for individuals, families and small businesses, announced today that it has grown its membership base to exceed 1,751,000 members, adding over 52,000 new memberships in January 2018.
In January, LegalShield continued its pace of adding new memberships to the base and achieved a 14th straight month of record high active members.
In addition to the record high in memberships, the company’s Business Solutions division continued its record setting December into January. It surpassed its projected monthly budget by more than 8,800 units with outstanding execution of annual enrollments for LegalShield and IDShield.
“While 2017 results broke many records and the company reached historical highs, our dedication to excellence keeps us looking forward,”
said CEO Jeff Bell.
“Our January results are proof positive that we must continue with more determination than ever to provide equal access to the liberty, opportunity, equality and justice that every human deserves. We are truly just getting started.”
About LegalShield
A pioneer in the democratization of affordable access to legal protection, LegalShield is one of North America’s leading providers of legal safeguards and protection against identity theft solutions for individuals, families and small businesses.
The 45-year-old company
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Small business fraud: Why you could be the victim
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
Many of us may think that fraud or scams tend to be almost the stuff of legend: the emergence of a long-lost relative on the other side of the world asking for donations, or the bank clerk in Burkina Faso who has millions of dollars to share. While such attempts may make great conversation around
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Why do companies outside of London not use EIS?
by Owen Gough • • 0 Comments
Research shows that the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is worryingly under-utilised by businesses outside of London and the South East, says Moore Stephens. Official data shows that just 33 per cent of investments through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) were outside of London and the South East, despite these regions representing 62 per cent of
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Even Jeff Bezos Is Excited About SpaceX's Landmark Falcon Heavy Launch. Here's How to Watch Tomorrow.
by Nina Zipkin • • 0 Comments
Watch as Elon Musk’s space company attempts the first flight of the most powerful rocket in the world.
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Your Next 'Rockstar' Employee Might Be a Former One
by Heather R. Huhman • • 0 Comments
Hoping to lure back a former, or ‘boomerang,’ employee? Here are the attitudes and steps that can help make that happen.