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Digby promotes British business in Bahrain
Published under Latest News Monday 23 November, 2009
Lord Digby Jones made an Official Visit to Bahrain on Monday 16 November 2009 as Business Ambassador for UK Trade & Investment. HM Ambassador Jamie Bowden OBE hosted Lord Jones who promoted British business interests in meetings with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Bahrain; HE Dr Hassan Fakhro, Minister of Commerce and Sameer Majali, CEO of Gulf Air.
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Digby joins International Oil & Gas leaders in Saudi Arabia
Published under Latest News Monday 23 November, 2009
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2nd Saudi Arabian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (SAOGE), along with other leading international speakers including Dr Randy Gossen, President of the World Petroleum Council, Lord Digby Jones said ‘We are at the fulcrum of the world - where the world is in economic balance. It hinges on the Region that is how important this (SAOGE) is”.
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Launch of BT Small Business Week 2009
Published under Latest News Monday 23 November, 2009
Lord Digby Jones spoke at the Launch of BT Small Business Week 2009 in London. According to research carried out by BT small businesses at the forefront of technology adoption have been the least impacted by the recession.
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Digby joins Harvey Nash
Published under Latest News Thursday 12 November, 2009
Following the announcement that Lord Digby Jones has joined Harvey Nash as a Senior Advisor he said “I have known and admired Harvey Nash for a number of years. They are a trusted and respected British brand committed to delivering the best talent to a broad base of international clients.
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Playing the ‘Last Post’
Published under Latest News Tuesday 20 October, 2009
Tens of millions of people in this country, from the small business woman to the pensioner, from the Dad working away from home to keep his job to the unemployed single mum doing everything possible to get back into the world of work, are looking at the proposed actions of the Royal Mail workers with frustrated disgust.
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Manufacturing Matters
Published under My Opinion Friday 25 September, 2009
After some twenty years as a business lawyer in Birmingham, acting for so many companies in the industrial heartland of the Nation and helping them export their goods all over the world together with working through the recessions of the early eighties and nineties; after six-and-a-half years as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry and some fifteen months as Minister of State for Trade and Investment in the "Government of All the Talents" where in both positions I visited over seventy countries banging the drum for UK Business and learning just how little is the credit we give ourselves for what our businesses do around the globe; and being born and raised a spanner's throw from "the Austin", the huge car plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, it would be fair to say that I have manufacturing running through my veins.
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