Geeta Sidhu-Robb and Rupa Ganatra were the key note speakers at a recent Asian Business Association Women in Business networking evening hosted by Tony Matharu A rapt audience in the Jaipur Room of the Mint Leaf restaurant in Haymarket heard how Rupa Ganatra had grown up in a family of entrepreneurs and worked in investment

Vietnam is one of the most dynamic economies in Asia, with a large market for capital goods and a growing domestic market for consumer goods. With a vast market of over 95 million people and its fast GDP growth of 6.7 per cent in 2015, exceeding world’s average, Vietnam remains an enticing destination for UK

London businesses have called on the government to undertake necessary infrastructure enhancement now to ensure English ports can fully support the economy post-Brexit. The call followed a Dover – Calais fact-finding trip where an London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) delegation was briefed onsite about on port operations. LCCI Policy Director, Sean McKee said: “With

Tom Evans joined a recent LCCI visit to Dover and Calais to discover what was in store for the ports post-Brexit During the summer of 2015, a French ferry workers strike resulted in a tailback of 7,000 lorries that stretched all the way from Dover to Maidstone. Now, with 1.2 million vehicles passing through the port

Latin America may not be the first destination that comes to mind when British companies are trying to establish new export markets. Understandable enough as we consider the issues surrounding safety, corruption and dire fiscal and monetary management. However, it is wrong to generalise and tar the whole continent with the same brush. Openness While

Creating a world where people want to work to make a life not just a living is no small undertaking. That is the driving force behind the commercial explosion that is WeWork and was the subject of a recent LCCI breakfast discussion with Dave Fano, the company’s Chief Product Officer and Chief People Officer John

At the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Property and Construction Group, Colin Stanbridge was the moderator when Tony Pidgley CBE, Chairman of the Berkeley group and LCCI President, went head-to-head with Councillor Darren Rodwell, Leader of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. “How did this event come about? Two strong personalities with differing

Forget notions about a ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ Brexit, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) members are calling for a pragmatic Brexit, which at its heart places emphasis on maintaining the capital’s competitiveness, now and into the future. Following the momentous result of the 23 June 2016 LCCI has published two reports specifically on Brexit

Today, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) called on City Hall to appoint a Freight Commissioner to lead on freight and logistics in London, as the Mayor consults on a new Transport Strategy for the capital Why is this important? Freight plays a vital, if not always appreciated, role in our everyday lives. From

Recent government figures show that nearly half of all businesses suffered at least one cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months.  Cybercrime truly entered the public consciousness in May this year, when a global ransomware attack on thousands of private and public sector organisations crippled NHS services in some parts of the