What is your company’s expertise, what can your company assist other members with? "Global Goes Local acts as one point of contact to smoothen the process for Swedish companies wanting to employ international talents that need a working permit as well as foreign companies wanting to establish a business and incorporate a company in Sweden. Global Goes Local is certified by the Swedish Migration Agency and has access to the fast track ...
Read MoreWhat is your company's expertise, what can your company assist other members with? "We support UK and Swedish Corporates and Institutions’ globally with different types of financing solutions as well as with financial risk management services." Being a member of the BSCC, how does that contribute to your and your business’ operations? "Our BSCC membership provides a great platform to interact with existing and prospectus clients, but also provides an important opportunity to ...
Read MoreWhat is your company’s expertise, what can your company assist other members with? "Lager & Partners is a leading executive search firm focusing on the financial sector in Sweden. We work with recruitment to management positions, qualified specialists and offer advisory services and support to owners and management in relation to human resources. Our clients include Swedish and international companies and institutions." How have you, and your industry been handling the pandemic? “The ...
Read MoreWhat is your company's expertise, what can your company assist other members with? "Experts and long expertise in how to work smarter and true digital with communication, administration and accounting. We can create better experience and better structure in work flows and internal communication." How are you and your industry handling the ongoing pandemic? "No major impact for current business, our clients have all changed to remote work from home and switched to ...
Read MoreWhat do you see as the main advantages of your membership and the BSCC network? “The BSCC offers a great network of well-regarded companies and organisations representing a broad range of sectors, all with some Swedish-British links. The activities and events are insightful, topical and come in perfect formats as they are easy to fit into the diary, being time efficient and nowadays often digital.”
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The UK Ministry of Defence’s ‘Defence Equipment & Support’ (DE&S) organisation exists to progress extensive projects for purchasing and supporting equipment/services for the operation of Europe’s largest military budget. Turner & Townsend, members of the BSCC, are to lead two delivery partnerships with DE&S to support the Ministry of Defence in its plans. This represents part of the planned £186bn investment, before 2028, which will create jobs and help sustain the ...
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Vaccine Roll-out and Lockdown End Date On the 11th of January the UK’s Health Secretary, Hancock, stated that the country was “on track” to vaccinate 15m people by the 15th of February. On Sunday this target was beaten after 10 weeks since vaccinations first began with PM Johnson declaring this “a significant milestone in the United Kingdom’s national vaccination programme”. The figure represents around 19% of the national population and is ...
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UK-EU Exports In 2019, the UK exported £294bn (43% of all exports) to the EU and imported an even larger £374bn (52% of all imports) back from the EU. This represents a £79bn trade deficit with the bloc but does feature a surplus of £18bn in services. However, the UK had a trade surplus of £49bn to non-EU countries with a strong £83bn surplus for the services sector which is set ...
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During what has been a challenging year, one of our BSCC Patrons, Handelsbanken have achieved steady year-on-year growth with operating profits of SEK 20,135m. This came alongside the positive news that individual customer satisfaction was now at 81% for 2020 too. The company have said they are now looking to work on “enhancing our relationship banking service through our digital capabilities, placing expertise and support even closer to our branches”. The ...
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At this webinar and Q&A, Jacob Lund, Corporate Affairs Director at AstraZeneca, gave an update on their COVID-19 vaccine and answered questions following the rollout of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. The results from AstraZeneca’s global vaccine distribution will help bring normality to everyday life, save countless lives and reopen entire sectors of the economy. With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout now underway, it is more important than ever for vaccine manufacturers and ...
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