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The skills shortage remains a familiar problem for UK employers, hurting both productivity and profit.

Despite headwinds such as supply shortages, rising interest rates, skills shortages and soaring costs, 79 per cent of business leaders are continuing to plan for growth, according to the HLB’s Survey 2023. Some have found that diversification is not realistically an option and so are looking to achieve growth by trading overseas.

E2E, in association with The Independent and in partnership with IWG plc as founding partner, has today announced its International 100 list which identifies the fastest-growing companies, with export sales reaching £5 million or more in the past two years, with a turnover in excess of £10 million, from data gathered by Experian and Go Live Data.

Seqera Labs, the leading provider of data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, announced that it has raised €22 million in Series A funding.

Innovative data-collection service app, Shepper, is predicting a 900% increase in revenue in 2022, compared to 2020, as demand for real-life, tangible data insights and side hustle incomes skyrocket.

According to the Office of National Statistics, the average UK household now spends around £3,601 on groceries per year, which is equivalent to £300 per month.

Over three quarters (77%) of tech talent in the UK are unhappy in their current jobs and actively seeking out new roles, according to a new report out today.

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, announced that it has expanded its partnership with Vodafone Germany towards the transformation of its sales and customer experience processes.

The need for green technology that can solve the climate crisis has increased sharply. This applies in particular to the demand for hydrogen technology.

As the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions gains momentum, the undercurrent of seismic cultural shifts is creating a challenging business landscape for energy companies to flourish. Indeed, varied energy-specific concerns continue to dominate the news cycle—both intra-industry related to technology modernization, scalability, adaptability, generational recruitment and more as well as environmental, societal and cultural issues of consumer resonance.

Four Danish companies, Topsoe, Alfa Laval, Copenhagen Atomics and Aalborg CSP, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the ammonia producer Pupuk Kaltim, together with Pertamina New & Renewable Energy, both of which are owned by the Indonesian state, about building a facility in Bontang that can produce one million tonnes of ultra-low emission ammonia per year.

Through servicing customers’ vehicles at their 50+ sites nationwide, Jardine generates used lubricating oil which is now sent through a re-refinery process supported by oil recovery specialists Slicker Recycling.