Business

A fire risk assessment isn't just about your company's bottom line. It benefits your customers by ensuring their safety and improving your brand's reputation. Missing safety issues can negatively affect your business. Most customers won't frequent an establishment with violations.

Keeping Others Safe

It's not only your moral obligation to keep your customers and tenants safe. It's also your legal duty. Failure to have a complete understanding of the risk can lead to fines and even prison time for negligent situations. Penalties and notices from failure to follow basic...

By now, you have likely heard of Dogecoin after it completely took off when Elon Musk tweeted about it. Dogecoin is considered almost a mockery of all other cryptocurrencies considering the fact that it was made as a joke, but it has actually become something quite admirable. Dogecoin is named after the famous internet meme Doge (pronounced DOJH) which was substantially popular back in 2013.

While it may seem like a joke, it is very real and actually quite popular, perhaps that pertains to the joke of it. As of March 2021, Dogecoin has a market cap of $7 billion which is really...

by Susan Davy, CBI South West Chair

The past 12 months have exacted a terrible toll on both our population and our economy – but with vaccine delivery progressing well and a roadmap to reopening now defined, thoughts are rightly turning to recovery. But let’s be clear – recovery has to be about more than regaining lost ground. Instead, we must aim higher.

If the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered one unexpected positive, it has been a chance to reassess. With so much of our traditional activity on hold, we have had an opportunity to take stock, to re-evaluate our future,...

Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) funding for hundreds of East Devon businesses is waiting to be claimed before the deadline at the end of March. Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) will remain open until further notice.

The LRSG emergency coronavirus funding for firms will go back to the Treasury at the end of the month if it is not claimed.

As of 8th March, £14,649,070 has been paid by East Devon District Council in grants to local firms. £14,051,357 has been paid to businesses legally required to close and £597,713 has been paid to businesses which could remain...