To better understand the impact of COVID-19 on Dorset’s business community, Dorset LEP has launched a Business Impact Survey. The short survey is open to businesses of all sizes, the self-employed, and charities in Dorset. It aims to understand the impact COVID-19 is having on business operations across the county....
We have some further detail today on the 100% business rates break. We really appreciate your patience at this stressful time and we want to reassure you that we are working as hard as we can to support you and your business.
For more information about what this means...
Business and Insurance information from Craig Oakes at Oakes Insure:
First of all we need to make clear that we are not experts on this outbreak in any way shape or form and after reading this information you may still have more questions than answers.
As we write this we are...
You will have seen that, due to the ongoing uncertainty around the full impact of Coronavirus, supermarkets have been much busier than usual and customers are choosing to stock up.
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I wanted to personally reassure you that we have more food and other essential items coming to us from manufacturers...
Marketing West, the Dorset based marketing and business events specialist are part of a selected panel that contributes to a quarterly nationwide marketing survey known as the Bellweather Report. The results for the last quarter of 2019 have just been released.
During the last quarter of 2019 total marketing budgets...
The owner of a Dorset-based online fancy dress costume business has been ordered to pay up over £65,000 following a prosecution for the misuse of trade marks.
On 5 September 2019, at Bournemouth Crown Court, Ms Michelea Mariner (aged 49) of Ralph Road, Corfe Mullen was sentenced having pleaded guilty...
This year's South West Economic Forum and breakfast, being held on Thursday, 10th October at the George Albert Hotel near Evershot, has released details of its speaker line-up.
It's the third year of the event, and this year the focus will be on how small to medium-sized local businesses are...
Marketing West, the Dorset based marketing specialists, is one of the national contributors to the Bellwether Report, a quarterly review of UK marketing trends.The latest figures, just released, confirm the Brexit delay is causing confusion amongst UK businesses and consumers.
As a result, following on from the previous quarter's...
Sherborne Chamber of Commerce and local marketing specialists, Marketing West, Â recently organised a July business breakfast at the newly refurbished Cross Keys in the centre of Sherborne.
There was a full house to hear Dorset based TV chef Sarah Ali Choudhury talk about her career and how she starting on...
Gillingham will benefit from a £3.45 million investment in its transport infrastructure thanks to a successful growth deal fund bid secured by Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership.
The proposed ‘Gillingham Growth’ infrastructure works include:
Improvements to road junctions
At Shaftesbury Road/New Road and Newbury/Le Neubourg Way
‘SCOOT’ (real time adaptive traffic...
