Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national & regional newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses.
Finally, they round off by picking the stories that have caught their eye in this week's Punchline-Gloucester.com.
The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors.
This week’s panel of experts were:
Daniel O'Neill - Co-founder of ProCook - the company has 6 stores and 800 staff, with a turnover of £70million. Last year Daniel stepped down from the day to day running of the business. However we’ll find out how important is this Christmas trading period to the business, what are the latest ‘kitchen trends’ , how their range of small electrical products are doing and what else is he working on.
Martin Surl - ex - Gloucestershire pioneering Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) The ex-police officer, who was the first incumbent of the role as an independent from 2012 - 2021, however he lost his job to Conservative Chris Nelson. He stood again in this years May election as a Liberal Democrat candidate missing out by only 700 votes.
We find out why, in his opinion, is Gloucestershire Police Force struggling financially so badly – and on a lighter note what he’s up to next.
Talitha Nelson - CEO of Gloucestershire Community Foundation - (GCF) has delivered over £3.5million in grants , supporting and reaching over 380,000 people in Gloucestershire communities but the need continues to escalate. We’ll find out more about that and how we can all do our bit to help.
Sam Holliday - Business development manager - FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) and ex-editor of The Bath Chronicle. We all now realise the impact of the chancellor’s budget raid on business with NI going up, the thresholds that people start to pay going down, the increase in the minimum wage – and it looks like its going to be a cold winter with an increase in energy bills.
We find out how Gloucestershire’s SMEs are faring and feeling
Another jam packed edition as always - also covered today: John Prescott, the impact of the NI and Minimum wage on businesses, the unfairness of business rates, charities in distress, the colour of kitchen mixing machines, Gloucestershire Police chief and so much more and more.
The show is sponsored by
HAZLEWOODS BUSINESS ADVISERS AND ACCOUNTANTS.
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