The new Euro stars

The past three years have seen buyers from Eastern Europe coming into the UK market. But are we fully utilising this talent, asks Jane Simms

Cover feature, 2 August 2007

Opinion

Viewpoint

And what do you do?

It's worst when I'm at a dinner party with people I don't know. They'll be in medicine, marketing or merchant banking and I know that sooner or later they're going to ask me.

Soapbox, 23 August 2007

Adviser

Well-intentioned words

We are doing a lot of work with local SMEs and are identifying how we can use social/community benefit clauses in contracts. Do you have examples of the exact wording we can use in public sector contracts?

Adviser, 23 August 2007

Regulars

Reviews

Working Abroad - The Complete Guide to Overseas Employment

Jonathan Reuvid Kogan Page £12.99 3/5

Reviews, 23 August 2007

Global Outsourcing Strategies

Edited by Peter Barrar & Roxane Gervais Gower £75 3/5

Reviews, 23 August 2007

Update

Prepare for 'EuroSox'

Paul Carter Hemlin explains how the revision to the European 8th Directive on Company Law is likely to affect purchasers, as firms tighten up their corporate governance systems

Law update, 23 August 2007

Court report

John F Hunt Demolition Ltd v ASME Engineering Ltd

Court report, 23 August 2007

First person

Ways to fill the August lull

Put this magazine down at once and get on with your work. What? You call that work? Well, I suppose in this era of the "knowledge economy" hoovering up information wherever you find it must count as constructive effort of some sort.

First person, 23 August 2007

Home truths

Gears for fears

After showcasing some of readers' self-proclaimed 'best cars in procurement', Home Truths has received entries to its follow-up competition: 'crummiest car'.

Home truths, 23 August 2007