Businesses should be made to train up one apprentice for every non-EU worker they employ, according to Labour leader Ed Miliband. Miliband is desperate to ensure that more apprenticeships are created if Labour gets back into power and believes this initiative will help do just that. He outlined his bold new ideas ahead of the Labour Party […]
Business owners largely unaware about government lending schemes
Business owners remain largely unaware about the government lending schemes available to them, according to a new poll. A survey conducted by invoice factoring company Touch Financial has suggested that just 42 per cent of small business owners were aware of the Funding for Lending scheme, whilst a similar percentage had heard of the Enterprise Guarantee Scheme. […]
Business owners urged to outsource their accounting
Business owners have been urged to outsource their accounting, after a new survey revealed that time is their most coveted asset. A new poll published on freshbusinessthinking.com has indicated that more than a third of bosses value time more than their hardware, their website or their shop. Exactly half of the survey’s respondents said they don’t […]
Jim is Driver Hire’s nationwide flavour of the month
Driver Hire franchisee, Jim Richards, and the team at his Birmingham office have won a national award. The business has beaten off the challenge of Driver Hire’s nationwide recruitment network to claim the company’s coveted ‘Office of the Month’ prize. “Jim Richards and his Birmingham team: Carolyn, Tee, Jordan & Gareth have been on great […]
Franchise Opportunities Live at Heathrow update
The Driver Hire franchise team are back in the office having spent last Friday and Saturday (6th/7th Sept) at Franchise Opportunities Live in Heathrow. It differs from the large traditional franchise exhibitions in that you can pre-book appointments with a number of attending franchisors just by calling the organizers ‘hotline’. This meant we had a busy […]
Average hours worked by British business owners lower than European counterparts
British business owners work fewer hours than their international counterparts, according to a new study. Figures gathered by small business insurer Hiscox indicate that business owners tend to work 37.6 hours a week on average. That’s fewer than those in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Spain or The United States, who averaged 41 hours a week. What’s more, British business owners […]
Volkswagen introduces vehicle safety technologies concept
Volkswagen has announced it is to launch a range of affordable vehicle safety technologies in an attempt to reduce traffic accidents, autocar.co.uk reports. Under it’s ‘Vision Concept’, the German car manufacturer has said it will develop ten new technologies using existing hardware, in order to keep costs low. That way, the safety features could be […]
Driver Hire gets the ‘Spa’ treatment
Driver Hire, got the ‘Spa’ treatment last weekend, thanks to its equity investment backers, LDC. LDC is a founding investor in the Marussia F1 Team, and provided Driver Hire with the opportunity to display their company logo on the rear wing end plates of the Marussia F1 Team cars for the 2013 Formula 1™ Shell […]
Come and visit us at Franchise Opportunities Live in Heathrow
Driver Hire will be exhibiting at Franchise Opportunities Live at the Heathrow Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel on the 6th and 7th September 2013. Visiting us at the show could be your first step towards an exciting new business investment and career. Show opening times: Friday 6th September 10am – 5pm Saturday 7th September 10am – 4pm Driver […]
