Archives: localism

And Now the Small Business Signatories

April 27, 2015 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: business, politics.

With less than two weeks to go until the election we now have a letter from 5,000 small businesses pledging their allegiance to one party and it’s the blue party again. Furthermore, that letter is once again published in The Telegraph where, this morning, the newspaper’s website calls it a “boost for David Cameron”…

Reshoring British Manufacturing

February 18, 2014 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: business.

Watching the 10 o’clock news last night on BBC iPlayer I was encouraged to see the story about British companies bringing work back to these isles after many years of offshoring. The benefits of offshoring from a British business point of view are obvious – If you can cut costs by using foreign workers on • Read More »

Save the Tumbledown

August 24, 2013 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | 1 Comment | Filed in: appeal, business, history, Pubs.

I need your help to save our pub, please. If you want to skip the preamble and just get on with objecting to the current planning application then go straight to http://bit.ly/172HhaX

Hive: Books Arrived

February 16, 2013 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: Books, business.

As previously posted, I was recently looking for an alternative to Amazon. The thought process came about after I was accused, quite reasonably,  of putting money into Amazon’s pockets when there were serious questions to be asked about their ethics and morality. The main points of contention are that: 1) Amazon have been accused of • Read More »

Cash Mobbing Lifts Local Business

August 10, 2012 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: Books, business, philosophy, random.

Cash Mobbing Lifts Local Business” was first written by Paul Mackenzie Ross for the is4profit small business blog The flash mob is a public gathering where people use social media or other communications to organise and congregate on a public place and perform some usually pointless act and then disperse again.  Now, after the flash • Read More »

The Rise of Localism?

August 3, 2012 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: business.

A couple of days ago I read an interesting piece over on the BBC News website about Totnes in Devon; the town is soon to be home to a new branch of the national chain Costa Coffee. Now Costa Coffee is a brand that is well known in the UK with some 1,375 shops in this country, • Read More »

Independents Day 2012

July 4, 2012 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: business.

“Independents Day 2012” was originally written for the is4profit small business blog When I woke up this morning the first thing my American wife said to me was “Happy Independence Day”. On this day in 1776 the United States declared independence from Great Britain and the rest, as they say, is history. I told my • Read More »