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Monthly Archive January, 2010

Every cloud has a silver lining…

WE were left speechless today when a news item arrived in our Inbox. We thought we should share it….
Bad news ahead could be good news for Begbies
Begbies Traynor, the Manchester-based insolvency and recovery specialist, has released its interim results for the six months to 31 October 2009. Profit before tax rose by 69 per cent [...]

Filed in: Sound community

Redundant MEN weekly staff launch own local newspapers

A RAY of hope for local newspapers this week as five redundant journalists team up to start their own publication.
The five were all employed by the Manchester-based MEN Media before their papers were either shut-down or centralised miles away from their readers, in the wave of cost-cutting prompted by the recession and growth of the [...]

Filed in: Media relations

Ethical spending grows – but slowly

CONSUMER spending on “ethical” goods has almost tripled in the last decade, according to the Co-op Bank.
Their annual ethical consumerism report shows that ethical spending in Britain has grown from £13.5 billion in 1999 to £36 billion ten years later.
Fairtrade products lead the charge with just £22 million spent on them in 1999, compared to [...]

Filed in: Corporate Social Responsibility (Sound behaviour)