DEBATE: Will the new ban on stereotypes in advertising help improve gender equality? December 17, 2018 Will the new ban on stereotypes in advertising help improve gender equality? Christi Tronetti, marketing director at creative agency isobel, says YES. There is an unconscious gender bias in advertising that needed to be addressed. Do we really need to see men struggling to change nappies in this day and age? Or women beaming as [...]
Businesses on both sides of the Channel are fighting for a strong future relationship December 17, 2018 A week is a long time in politics, but the last seven days have felt like an age. The postponement of the Brexit vote, the Prime Minister’s trip to Brussels to try to secure further concessions, then her survival of no confidence by Conservative MPs in the span of a week is remarkable even by [...]
The age of the electric car? Not before we talk about metals December 17, 2018 SINCE exuberance for electric vehicles (EVs) started to gain traction in recent years, there has been no shortage of bullish forecasts predicting that the end of the internal combustion engine is nigh. In other words, cars as we know them are on their way out. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on reducing – [...]
UK export growth contracts for first time since 2015 as European economies face turmoil December 17, 2018 UK export growth has dropped to its lowest level since 2015 as political uncertainty and falling demand take their toll on European economies. The growth of UK exports fell by 0.7 points to 94.9 in the fourth quarter 2018, according to figures from BDO’s latest European Export Index. The UK is not the only European [...]
London house sales drop over political uncertainty, according to Rightmove data December 17, 2018 Londoners are hesitant to sell their homes due to political uncertainty, according to new research. The number of properties that were brought to market this month was down 19 per cent on the same period last year, leading to a smaller than usual December price drop of 1.8 per cent. Inner London home owners were [...]
UK banks taxed almost double the amount of the rest of the FTSE 100 December 17, 2018 UK banks pay nearly double the amount of tax compared to the rest of the FTSE 100, new data has revealed. The five biggest banks paid an effective tax rate – the rate at which a corporation’s profits are taxed – of 42 per cent last year, almost twice as much as the 23 per [...]
Early cost estimates for HS2 were wildly inaccurate says former insider December 17, 2018 A former insider at rail project HS2 has said that the early land and property cost estimate considered by MPs was “enormously wrong”. HS2’s chairman Sir Terry Morgan resigned from the project this month after cost overruns at another project he chaired, Crossrail. However, Morgan hinted that HS2 could face similar problems. Now former head [...]
Workers rights receive boost as government unveils new reforms package December 17, 2018 The government will today unveil a new package of workplace reforms in response to the Matthew Taylor review into working practices in the UK. Under the new legislative reforms, on their first day of a new job workers will receive a statement of rights for setting out their entitlements for annual leave and pay. The [...]
Will Tony Blair help or hinder the campaign for a second referendum? December 16, 2018 Of the four living former Prime Ministers, three are united in vocal and (to a varying degree) active opposition to current government policy. John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have taken very different approaches to life after Downing Street but what unites them now is support for a second referendum. Major has called for [...]
Christmas is giving us the gift of retail relationships December 16, 2018 This year’s flagship Christmas advert from John Lewis shows how the gift of a piano to Elton John as a child gave him a talent that he nurtured into an incredible career as a musician. The ad also raised an important question – what can marketers learn from the idea behind the slogan “a gift [...]