Business

Plymouth based SSG Training and Consultancy have had a great start to 2018 with five new members joining their head office team.

Strong demand for SSG’s health and safety training and consultancy services has fuelled the recruitment drive across all areas of the business. SSG has seen recent company growth adding over 200 new clients in 2017 and the opening of new training centres...

Mattresses are a huge environmental problem which might be about to be solved thanks to a brainwave by Squirrel Medical, a company based at the internationally renowned Plymouth Science Park.

Currently, the UK sees some 169,000 mattresses dumped into landfill. Hygiene concerns mean many of the parts mean cannot be recycled.

It’s a global issue with industry experts saying...

Businesses in the UK are shunning traditional overdraft and loan facilities from the high street banks according to in-depth nationwide study.

The SME Finance Monitor, which is funded by the high street banks themselves, shows that 50% of small and medium-sized companies describe themselves as “permanent non-borrowers” which is up from 33% from 2012. Indeed, only one in three SMEs are...

The impending European legislation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force this year, and for those businesses that are aware of it, it probably all seems a little similar to the frenzy surrounding the Millennium Bug. However, the GDPR is going to have a significant effect on your business strategies and, more importantly, on your online security. Although the...