BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: British Chambers Of Commerce

  • a national network of accredited chambers of commerce. The BCC represents over 135,000 in the United Kingdom.
  • Abbr. BCC

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O2 announces strategic alliance with the British Chambers of Commerce.
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 June 2003-O2: O2 announces strategic alliance with the British Chambers of CommerceC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12062003 O2 and the British Chambers of Commerce BCC today announced that they have joined together to raise awareness of the benefits of mobile ...
Tags: BCC, O2 Plc.
Research articles 2003-06-12
British Chambers of Commerce agree stakeholder deal with Prudential
The British Chambers of Commerce BCC, which represents 126,000 firms of all sizes across all business sectors in the UK, has chosen Prudential to be its preferred provider of a stakeholder pension scheme.
Tags: Prudential Insurance Company of America
Research articles 2000-12-01
British business body warns of recession risk
LONDON AFP — An influential body which represents British business said there was a "distinct possibility" of the country facing recession in the next six or nine months, in a report published Sunday. In its quarterly economic forecast, the British Chambers of Commerce BCC said that while a major...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, recession
Research articles 2008-08-17
Save us from credit crunch; PLEA TO BANK OF ENGLAND AND CHANCELLOR:
Byline: By ALAN JONES BRITAIN is now in a recession with business confidence, profits and turnover at record lows and unemployment set to rise by up to 350,000 in the next year, says to a report out today. An authoritative survey of 5,000 firms by the British Chambers...
Tags: Bank of England, FINANCE, recession, survey
Research articles 2008-10-07
Royal Mail wary of last-ditch union offer
Postal workers are threatening national strikes from October 22 unless Royal Mail agrees to a last-ditch deal on jobs, pay and working conditions. The Communication Workers Union CWU wrote yesterday to the state-owned postal operator offering what it claimed was a "genuine alternative" to resolve the long-running dispute, but said...
Tags: union
News items 2009-10-14
Need to know: Sinclair buys . . . Yell hires . . . Carillion sells
View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Public finances: Britain must raise taxes by £26 billion a year or cut public spending by 17 per cent in the three years to 2013-14, over and above the measures proposed in this year's Budget, because of damage done to the...
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Mobile Broadband, Carillion Plc.
News items 2009-10-12
Why Pay Cuts Are Welcome
When is a pay cut a pay rise? When the economy is in deflation. If prices are falling, then the same amount of money buys more goods so a wage freeze is a real increase. Employees may start to find that forfeiting a pay rise may be better than forgoing...
Tags: Job, Salary, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Finance, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Northedge
Blog posts 2009-04-29
Patricia Hewitt sets red tape record straight.
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 January 2000-UK GOVERNMENT: Patricia Hewitt sets red tape record straight C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20012000 Patricia Hewitt, Minister for Small Business and E-Commerce said, "figures published today by the British Chambers of Commerce BCC are nonsense."...
Tags: OECD
Research articles 2000-01-21
Queen's Speech: What Business Thinks
Broadly, the Queen's Speech's focus on restoring financial stability gained broad business approval, as did the aim of streamlining upcoming legislation. But some of the bills raised concerns about red tape and, in the case of the Business Rate Supplements bill, direct costs. Some responses... ...
Tags: Small Business, Queen, Government, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2008-12-03
Go Play: OECD's DIY Economic Forecasting Tool
British business leaders are worse at reading the economy going into a recession than consumers. But they pick up on recoveries much more quickly. That's my conclusion from playing with a fascinating interactive chart available at the OECD website. It plots consumer and business confidence against industrial...
Tags: Consumer, OECD, Recovery, Recession, Business Leader, Business Confidence, Richard Young
Blog posts 2009-07-07
Home Secretary calls on business to join a partnership to fight crime.
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 April 2002-UK Government: Home Secretary calls on business to join a partnership to fight crime C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23042002 The Government and business need to join forces in a partnership to fight crime benefiting customers, staff...
Tags: A Partnership Inc.
Research articles 2002-04-23
Sterling remains on backfoot
LONDON AFP ? Sterling remained on the backfoot, largely on profit-taking and concerns over possible overvaluation of the currency, despite upbeat remarks by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and a relatively buoyant economic survey from the British Chambers of Commerce. The dollar was steady after a raft of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, chancellor, FINANCE, MARKETING
Research articles 2004-07-15
Web site advice panel provides UK small with free advice from too business executives.
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 July 2000-Smallbiz.uk.com: Web site advice panel provides UK small with free advice from too business executives C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30062000 Smallbiz.uk.com has enhanced its 'Best Practice' service to enable small firms to seek free advice from...
Tags: Direct Marketing Association, director, INTERNET, MARKETING, Royal Bank of Scotland, U.K., Web
Research articles 2000-07-03
Web site advice panel provides UK small firms with free advice from top business executives.
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 July 2000-Smallbiz.uk.com: Web site advice panel provides UK small firms with free advice from top business executives C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30062000 Smallbiz.uk.com has enhanced its `Best Practice` service to enable small firms to seek free advice...
Tags: Direct Marketing Association, director, INTERNET, MARKETING, Royal Bank of Scotland, U.K., Web
Research articles 2000-07-04
Agencies `neglect small companies'
Chris Godsmark Business Correspondent Regional development agencies across the UK should be drastically reformed to give a much bigger say to smaller companies, according to a study from the British Chambers of Commerce BCC. The report, to be submitted to the Government as part of its...
Tags: United Utilities Plc.
Research articles 1997-08-22
More Mixed Signals from the UK Economy
Let’s start with the good news; the FTSE in London closed at its highest level for more than a year. At yesterday’s close, the FTSE stood at 5210.17, a level not seen since September 2008. The bullishness has been put down to higher commodity prices and an optimistic outlook over...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Daily Forex, CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust
External links 2009-10-13
Bankers Take a Bashing While Darling Takes a Bow
Bank bailout views turn to banker bashing in as the Guardian's Polly Toynbee demands a "clear out" at the top of City institutions in an interesting, albeit long, weekly political podcast. Rather than allowing the perpetrators of the chaos, all "thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the...
Tags: Bank, Ruth Sunderland, Financial Services, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2008-10-09
Rate Cuts Demanded as Business Failures Soar in England, Wales.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 8 -- The number of firms going bust is rising sharply, triggering calls for more cuts in interest rates. DTI figures show 3,729 company insolvencies in England and Wales in the first three months of 1999, an...
Tags: Bank of England, England, FINANCE, Manufacturing
Research articles 1999-05-07
'Golden Hellos' Lack Lustre
The government's claiming it will spend millions -- £500m -- to avoid shelling out billions for the long-term unemployed of the future. This is in addition to £1bn pledged to help those who'd lost their jobs before Christmas, apparently. But its plans to get the long-term unemployed...
Tags: Job, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2009-01-12
If I Were Chancellor...
For all its vaunted support of the SME sector, can the government help them now, when access to funding and supply chain pressures are constricting their ability to grow? According to the Chartered Management Institute's latest Economic Outlook Survey, 85 per cent of managers think the government...
Tags: Job, Business, U.K., Small Business, Chancellor, Government, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Smb/Sme, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2009-04-22
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