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A breakthrough for an Australian print product to be exported to world-wide markets.

One of the oldest and most respected graphic design companies has joined with a leading International Marketing Consultancy to launch the Multi- Award winning Body of Work™ Photographic Collection into the Global Markets.

Grassroots Grants latest Over £33 million in grants have been given to over 13,000 charities and voluntary organisations in the first full year of the Government's Grassroots Grants scheme. Grants have been spent on a range of community activity from healthy food parcels for deprived communities to social activity for carers - helping communities to thrive and deal with the individual challenges that face each local community. Small and local community groups with annual incomes below £30,000 can apply for the grants of between £250 and £5,000 by contacting Community Development Foundation www.cdf.org.uk Government responds to Building Stronger Communities Taskforce

Sterling hit one-week lows against the dollar and euro this morning, as the pound fell to political uncertainty as Prime Minister Gordon Brown fought off an attempt within his party to unseat him.

Cheques are set to become a thing of the past by the end of October 2018, following a decision by the Payments Council.

Results for the financial year to date confirm that 14 Indian companies have set up or expanded their operations in London alone. Encouragingly the outlook for the full year suggests that the growth seen in 2008/09 will be sustained through 2009/10.

From 1 January 2010 there are three very important changes to VAT. You'll need to be fully aware of the implications of these changes; what they mean for your business, what you need to do and when.

Manchester based Copernicus Consulting, a strategic planning consultancy with a rapidly expanding international presence, is to recruit associate consultants as Business Evangelists to create new international trade opportunities for US companies in the various markets where Copernicus are represented, and to indentify potential trading partnerships within the US for international clients. "This was a natural progression for the business after our success in the UK, elsewhere in Europe and the opening of our office in China. We have already created a platform across the UK, Scandinavia, The Netherlands and Germany which has opened a network of opportunities for our clients. This first phase of expansion into Southern Europe has already created new possibilities that we have been able to generate for our clients in respect of international trade"explained Colin Fell, Group Managing Director. "Already we have had approaches from interested parties which may lead to our services being available in France, Portugal and Italy in 2nd quarter 2010, along with enquiries from government bodies in North Africa and UAE to explore how we can best assist them in developing or facilitating international growth in selective target markets. This in itself is a fantastic endorsement of the growing strength of the Copernicus brand and is fair recognition of the quality of the individual consultants carrying out the tasks and projects on behalf of our clients.

As a further step to improving the services offered to our clients Copernicus has been recognized as a member of the prestigious Market Research Society. (www.mrs.org.uk)

Copernicus opens new international business office in Valencia, Spain Growing international strategic planning consultancy Copernicus opens their first office in Southern Europe in Valencia, Spain.

The latest office within the Copernicus International consulting network opens today in the Sorolla Centre, Avda. Cortes Valencianas, 58, planta 5, 46015, Valencia - España

Copernicus Consulting has just run the first International Business Day of their Autumn 2009 programme in association with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

The unique Copernicus Interim Key Account Management Service offers clients an exceptional interim service to support the growth of their business in the demanding world of export marketing. International partnerships are easier to imagine than to implement. All too often, they achieve nothing, apart from draining money and management time. The Copernicus Interim KAM offers clients the opportunity to have a local presence, without the fixed costs associated with a subsidiary, satellite office or a full time employee until such time as the volume of sales are sufficient to warrant such an investment, while delivering an increased level of service that is not possible purely working from their home base and travelling on an irregular basis to make customer visits abroad. Alliances won't work unless the communication process has been thought through carefully and once an alliance has got off the ground, communication remains essential. Big alliance partners will expect and need information immediately. Many suppliers simply fail to deliver this. Also, in international partnerships expectations run high and unfulfilled expectations often lead to distrust, suspicion and over kill in negotiations.

Conservit.co.uk launched 22.06.09 as a truly innovative glass cleaning and protection system for the UK domestic conservatory market.

New to the safety work wear market is www.protekt365.com Protekt365 have created a range of products that they believe tick all of the boxes as a workwear supplier. Their products are high quality and at a great prices. As a workwear supplier they understand cost and quality are equally important factors in the decision making process when selecting a prospective supplier. When it comes to the workwear range...

"The first sun lounger for the 21st Century"is how Copernicus Partner Bill McFall describes this incredibly innovative sun lounger.

Economic Forecasts from the Budget April 2009 * Economy forecast to shrink 3.5% in 2009 * Growth expected to pick up in 2010, expanding by 1.25%. * Economy to grow by 3.5% annually from 2011 * Public borrowing to increase to £175bn this year * RPI inflation forecast to hit -3% in Sept 09 before recovering Copernicus View: Seemingly very optimistic forecasts - the really worrying figure being the inflation figure set for September.

Government plans to extend flexible working rights to an extra 4.5 million workers will impose a further "šÃ„òburden"šÃ„Ã' on British businesses, according to a new report.

Although all the provisions of the Companies Act will not be fully implemented until October 2009, as of 1 October a significant number are now in place.

Dating agencies and websites are seeing a dramatic increase in business as singles, and a few who say they are single but really aren't, look for cheaper ways to find romance other than investing in a night out in a club or bar.

Discount stores, DIY outlets and shops catering for teenagers, affluent adults and rich tourists are looking to be the winners during the credit crunch. A recent Copernicus survey on behalf of a leading financial institution has contrasted the above with weaker chains, and the 2nd tier retailers that are facing possible extinction.

by up to 350,000 in the next year, according to an "alarming" new report.

Guests from Sweden including Sten-Åke Håkansson CEO of Svepark , Siv Törmä of SCA Packaging Munksund AB and Monica WollménVice CEO/ HR Manager of the world famous Ice Hotel were joined by local business people from the North West at the invitation of Neal Barfoot of the North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce.

Entrepreneurs are being paid less for their businesses by trade and private equity buyers than at any time in the last 6 years , according to a report published by BDP Stoy Hayward.

Running counter to economic sluggishness in the consumer sector last year, b-to-b purchases grew 13% compared with 2006, according to Abacus, a division of Epsilon, in its 2008 Abacus Trend Report published last month.

A UK mother is entitled to a year off Growing numbers of people are concerned about the impact of working mothers on family life, a survey by Cambridge University suggests. It compared results of social attitude polls from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. In 1998, 51% of women and 45.9% of men believed family life would not suffer if a woman went to work. This had fallen to 46% of women and 42% of men in 2002, amid "growing sympathy" for the old-fashioned view women should be in the home and not the workplace.

The Government is proposing to limit the amount of new legislation that Whitehall can introduce by handing each department a regulatory budget. If the plan goes ahead, Britain would become the first country in the world to try to restrict the flow of new regulations by requiring governments to take into account their economic as well as social impact. "I think it's going to be a big shock to Sir Humphrey, but a necessary one," said John Hutton, the Business Secretary, referring to the verbose civil servant in the classic BBC comedy Yes Minister.

The government needs to do more to help small businesses take on apprentices, a business lobby group has claimed. Nearly 80% of small businesses said they would employ apprentices if there was financial support on offer from the government, according to a poll by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

The number of businesses in the UK increased by 212,000 to a record 4.7m in the 12 months to the beginning of last year, according to official figures published yesterday.

Britain's broadband speeds are threatening business efficiency, warns the Communications Management Association (CMA), part of the BCS Group.

UK businesses will face a trying time as energy bills continue to rise, MPs have warned.

Large companies are exploiting small businesses by delaying invoice payments and imposing new terms and settlement fees on owners, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The FSB says it has unearthed evidence that big organisations are unashamedly making smaller firms wait over 100 days before getting paid, often changing terms and conditions with little notice.

People from minority ethnic communities are more likely to start a social enterprise than members of the white community, new research has suggested. The findings, by entrepreneur think tank Delta Economics, also indicated that although white women are only half as likely as men to become mainstream entrepreneurs, they are just as likely to become social entrepreneurs.

Britain's small firms yesterday received a welcome boost from new European commission proposals to allow lower rates of VAT on locally provided, labour-intensive services including hairdressing, bicycle repairs, gardening and restaurant meals.They and their European counterparts also endorsed moves by the commission to cut red tape by automatically approving government aid for risk capital and innovation, as a boost to jobs and growth.

The latest office within the Copernicus International consulting network opens today on the 4th Floor, 401, Padma Palace, 86 - Nehru Place ,New Delhi 110019,India, with a second regional office already planned for Bangalore.

Strategic planning consultancy Copernicus in association with the London Chamber of Commerce is offering a unique one to one opportunity for businesses to explore the possibilities to sell to, or source from the exciting Polish market. February 2nd at the Chamber offices in Queen Street EC4, chamber and non-chamber members are able to register for a 1-2-1 consultation with market experts Copernicus and representatives from their Poznan office.