01 Jan 1992
UK: Ten kindly lights amidst the encircling gloom - PROSPECTS FOR 1992 LOOK
BETTER. - David Smith lays aside his mourning coat and sees some good cheer in 1992.
01 Jan 1992
UK: Why charity could lead Major to a minefield. - John Major's statement prior to the Maastricht summit that he was considering pushing growth of the charity sector during Britain's EC presidency in 1992 may have seemed a banal attempt to avoid hotter i
01 Jan 1992
| by Helen Kay.
UK: Low-profile Smiths has an exemplary way with recession and the City. - London's leafy suburbia is hardly the first place you'd look for the forging of Britain's industrial revival. But set amidst the dentists' and doctors' surgeries, the solidly resp
01 Jan 1992
UK: The CBI report no businessman should be without. - Roger Eglin acclaims a guide to positive aspects of the present and future strategy.
01 Jan 1992
UK: The cost of getting a government grant. - In these hard-pressed times, one would expect managers of both large and small businesses to be queuing up for government grants to help stave off some of the effects of the present recession. Surprisingly, t
01 Jan 1992
UK: Hail the big Swiss concept - MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC
ACHIEVEMENT. - Some managers are far ahead of politicians in recognising our new role. Robert Heller.
01 Jan 1992
UK: FOSTER YEOMAN SUCCEEDS AS DEMAND FOR AGGREGATES BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT TO
FULFILL. - Measure the scale of an industry simply by the weight of material it produces, and aggregates - the quarrying of sand, gravel and stone - easily ranks as the biggest
01 Jan 1992
| by Charles Darwent.
UK: LINFIELD'S SELF SUFFICIENCY HAS HELPED TO KEEP THEM AFLOAT. - You get a better class of production-line pin-up girl in Ulster. On mainland shopfloors, the favoured icon is the gibbous Samantha Fox. In the Belfast weaving sheds of Ulster Weavers, by c
01 Jan 1992
UK: PROFILE - PETER BONFIELD CHIEF OF ICL. - ICL's chief is described as a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get). Not quite right, thinks Shirley Skeel.
01 Jan 1992
UK: A regular look at small business - SLE. - You're a niche manufacturer. You make a narrow range of highly specialised equipment, and you're largely dependent on one huge public sector buyer. Comes the recession. The customer, in the throes of reorgani