The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
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Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
Friday, March 2, 2012
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Coach Broker Announces Business Opportunities During London Olympics
LONDON, February 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Get your business seen by millions by wrapping a coach or minibus with your company's logo and branding during the London 2012 Olympic Games!
Coach Broker is the UK's leading provider of chauffeur driven coach and minibus services and as one of the country's busiest and most sought after providers, Coach Broker will be undertaking a large number of bookings during the London 2012 Olympics. Coach Broker are offering companies the chance to take advantage of the coach providers strong presence on London city streets during the Olympics through company branding on Coach Broker vehicles.
The city of London will be showcased on the world stage when the Olympic Games arrives on July 27th as the population of London is expected to swell to 11 million as scores of visitors descend on the capital to witness this world renowned event.
Don't let this unique marketing opportunity pass you by, ensure your business is highly visible during the London Olympics and gains valuable exposure by branding one of the state of the art coaches which will be travelling around the capital throughout the 2012 Games.
Coach Broker boasts an impressive fleet of executive style coaches and luxury minibuses and double-decker coaches so not surprisingly, Coach Broker's services are in high demand during the London Olympics with bookings being taken to transport VIP guests, national teams competing at the Games and also sporting officials.
Only the very highest standard of vehicle will be used to transport these high profile passengers, so what better opportunity is there to market your business than by wrapping one of these top spec vehicles with your company's logo and branding?
The marketing team at Coach Broker will oversee the complete transformation your chosen vehicle, arranging every aspect of the vehicle wrapping process. In the past, Coach Broker have worked with a number of well known brands who've chosen to brand a vehicle for advertising purposes so Coach Broker are ideally placed to take care of the entire wrapping process on your behalf.
The streets of London won't be this busy again for a long time so make sure your company is highly visible during the Olympics by branding a coach or minibus through Coach Broker.
Visit our website at http://www.coachbroker.co.uk/ or get in touch with our corporate team or call Alex Drummond on 0871 789 6655 to discuss the London Olympics coach branding opportunities with Coach Broker.
Website: http://www.coachbroker.co.uk/ - Tel: +44(0)871-789-66-77
Coach Broker Announces Business Opportunities During London Olympics - News Channel 25
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SOURCE Coach Broker Corporate
LONDON, February 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Get your business seen by millions by wrapping a coach or minibus with your company's logo and branding during the London 2012 Olympic Games!
Coach Broker is the UK's leading provider of chauffeur driven coach and minibus services and as one of the country's busiest and most sought after providers, Coach Broker will be undertaking a large number of bookings during the London 2012 Olympics. Coach Broker are offering companies the chance to take advantage of the coach providers strong presence on London city streets during the Olympics through company branding on Coach Broker vehicles.
The city of London will be showcased on the world stage when the Olympic Games arrives on July 27th as the population of London is expected to swell to 11 million as scores of visitors descend on the capital to witness this world renowned event.
Don't let this unique marketing opportunity pass you by, ensure your business is highly visible during the London Olympics and gains valuable exposure by branding one of the state of the art coaches which will be travelling around the capital throughout the 2012 Games.
Coach Broker boasts an impressive fleet of executive style coaches and luxury minibuses and double-decker coaches so not surprisingly, Coach Broker's services are in high demand during the London Olympics with bookings being taken to transport VIP guests, national teams competing at the Games and also sporting officials.
Only the very highest standard of vehicle will be used to transport these high profile passengers, so what better opportunity is there to market your business than by wrapping one of these top spec vehicles with your company's logo and branding?
The marketing team at Coach Broker will oversee the complete transformation your chosen vehicle, arranging every aspect of the vehicle wrapping process. In the past, Coach Broker have worked with a number of well known brands who've chosen to brand a vehicle for advertising purposes so Coach Broker are ideally placed to take care of the entire wrapping process on your behalf.
The streets of London won't be this busy again for a long time so make sure your company is highly visible during the Olympics by branding a coach or minibus through Coach Broker.
Visit our website at http://www.coachbroker.co.uk or get in touch with our corporate team or call Alex Drummond on 0871 789 6655 to discuss the London Olympics coach branding opportunities with Coach Broker.
Website: http://www.coachbroker.co.uk - Tel: +44(0)871-789-66-77
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Cloud computing fueling global economic growth: London School of Economics study - Forbes
The development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses, according to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The LSE study selected two industries, aerospace and smartphone services, and examined the impact of cloud computing on these industries across the UK, USA, Germany and Italy between the years 2010 and 2014. The LSE study was underwritten by Microsoft.
Investing in cloud computing is contributing to growth and job creation in both the fast-growing, high-tech smartphone services industry as well as the longstanding and slow-growth aerospace sector, the study claims. In addition, cloud is directly creating employment through the construction, staffing and supply of data centers, which will host the cloud. Using cloud computing enables businesses of all sizes to be more productive by freeing managerial staff and skilled employees to concentrate on more profitable areas of work.
There will be a new range of employment opportunities opening up as a result of the shift to cloud as well. As the study points out, “as firms shift from proprietary application servers towards virtualization and cloud computing, related skills will be in demand among employers. New direct hires and upskilling for public cloud enablement result in higher-than-average salaries.”
Of the countries analyzed in the study, the US is leading the way in terms of cloud job creation. US cloud-related jobs in the smartphone sector are set to grow to 54,500 in 2014. This is compared to a projected 4,040 equivalent jobs in the UK. The authors of the study say that this can be attributed, in part, to lower electricity costs and less restrictive labor regulation compared to Europe.
Small to medium-size businesses will benefit as well. In the smartphone sector alone, “cloud computing will form the basis for a rapid expansion and high-start-up rate among SMEs 2010-2014 in all four markets in services,” the study says.
The study also shows that there is in fact little risk of unemployment from investing in the cloud, as companies are more likely to move and re-train current staff. This would be alongside the hiring of new staff, likely to be in a higher salary bracket, who have the necessary skills for using virtual data-handling systems.
But researchers found that the level of impact the cloud has on a business or department’s growth and productivity depends on a number of factors, primarily the type of sector in which the business is involved and the regulatory environment in which it operates.
Unsurprisingly, the cloud has a much greater effect on the web-centred smartphone services industry than traditional high tech manufacturing, with expansion and a high-start-up rate among small and medium size businesses in 2010-2014 forecast. For example, in the UK from 2010 through 2014, the rate of growth in cloud-related jobs in the smartphone services sector is set to be 349%, compared to 52% growth in aerospace. German, Italian and US equivalent growth rates will be 280% vs 33%, 268% vs 36% and 168% vs 57% respectively.
The study’s authors, Jonathan Liebenau, Patrik Karrberg, Alexander Grous and Daniel Castro, also talk about the direct and indirect employment and business opportunities that will stem from cloud, which may not be apparent at first. “Our analysis shows jobs shifting from distributed data processing facilities to consolidated data centers, resulting in a drop in data processing jobs overall as efficiency gains occur especially through public cloud services,” they write. “We see a reduction in IT administrators within large firms in smartphone businesses (and most likely in many other similar sectors) compared to their level of employment otherwise expected by taking into account overall IT spending.”
They add that direct and indirect employment gains will be seen in the construction of new data centers needed to accommodate the public cloud businesses, and an “unanticipated effect is in job creation of site maintenance, janitorial staff and security guards in newly built data centers. Overall, more than 30% of short-term new employment in cloud services originates from the construction of data centers and outfitting them accounts for around another third.” Almost 25% of new jobs accrue from direct employment in public cloud services firms, they add.
Then there’s the “cloud dividend” that enterprises will see as the cloud infrastructure develops. These gains will be “in the form of shifting
the work of existing IT staff towards general administrative responsibilities and strategic management rather than exploiting short-term payroll reduction opportunities. Herein lies one of the main new skills challenges to the existing labor force.”
(Full PDF of the study, Modelling the Cloud: Employment Effects in Two Exemplary Sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, available from the LSE Website.)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
London 2012 Olympics: businesses unprepared for disruption during Games but stand to benefit from legacy, survey says - Daily Telegraph
A survey of 1,200 companies around the UK conducted by Olympic sponsor BT has revealed some critical issues for businesses – particularly small and medium-sized enterprises
BT president of global services UK Emer Timmons said businesses see no major concerns about maintaining productivity and service levels during London 2012, but stressed that this confidence may be misplaced. She said companies had to start planning immediately for the impact and opportunities that the London Olympics presented.
However, there may be reasons for optimism as three-quarters of businesses in Vancouver, which hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics, say they have continued to enjoy higher sales even though peak demand fell once the event was over.
Sixty per cent say they have experienced ongoing Olympic-related benefits. Most of those businesses benefiting were in the media and leisure and retail areas.
"Four out of five organisations are confident of maintaining service and security during London 2012 despite the fact only 34 per cent have assessed the impact of risks such as a cyber attack," said Timmons.
"Seventy-two per cent of organisations are expecting their supply chain to be disrupted in some way but a quarter of them are seemingly prepared to put up with consequences because they are not planning to do anything about it.
"Forty per cent of companies expect staffing to be a headache because staff will want time off or are not able to get to work but a third of these companies have no plans to deal with this reduced staffing level."
Timmons said while a third of British companies surveyed are planning to hire temporary staff to deal with extra demands during the Olympics, the Vancouver experience was much greater. There, 56 per cent of companies hired temporary staff.
The senior trade commissioner for the Canadian High Commission Brian Parrott told Telegraph Sport that hotel occupancies across Vancouver continued to be at high levels nearly two years after the Games. The former British Columbia Olympics Minister Colin Hansen said the Games were much bigger than anyone had expected.
"It engaged with the excitement and emotion of 99 per cent of the public and many companies underplanned for that," Hansen said.
The survey showed 38 per cent of Canadian private sector companies believed they could have taken fuller advantage of the business opportunities of the Vancouver Olympics.
Hansen said London and the United Kingdom needed to appreciate leading executives from around the world would come to London because of the Olympics and this could create enormous opportunities for British companies.
Such was the unique drawing power of the Olympics, the chief executive officers of McDonalds and Coca Cola met for the first time at the Sydney 2000 Games.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
Monday, December 26, 2011
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
London 2012 Business Opportunities
The London Business Network explains how businesses can access London 2012 business opportunities through CompeteFor, a website that enables businesses to compete for contracts linked to London 2012 and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
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