Current Issue 15 (01 May 2011)

Fife must sell itself in competitive market

THIS will be an exciting year for our tourism industry but also one where Fife has to go out and ensure that it gets its fair share of a very competitive market.

Meet the Buyer - Fife deemed a huge success

More than 300 Fife businesses gathered at the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes to find out how to tender for more than £100 million of public sector contracts in Fife.

Courses that make a real difference

ADAM Smith Business Solutions pride themselves on providing companies with training courses that will really make a difference.

Thousands of children benefi t from plant initiatives

EXXONMOBIL Chemical Limited's Fife Ethylene Plant has been active in the Kingdom for over 25 years and in that time thousands of school children have benefi ted from their initiatives.

Innovation Exchange could provide key answers

A NEW partnership is aiming to help the Fife business community find answers to troubling problems they may have.

Business provides a key link for pupils

A HIGHLY successful link between Levenmouth's two secondary schools and the local business community is helping equip the area's youngsters for the work place.

Waterfront is strategic site

DEVELOPER Scarborough Muir is looking forward to servicing the needs of the many new Forth crossing contractors who will shortly be setting up shop in the Rosyth Waterfront area.

New principal for Carnegie College

FIFE'S Carnegie College - widely recognised as one of the "most entrepreneurial and commercially-minded" of Scotland's 43 colleges - has named as its new principal and chief executive the man who has successively managed the international convention centres in Edinburgh and Birmingham.

Youthful investors pull off a remarkable double

BELL Baxter High School pupils produced a remarkable double and showed that they know their way about the trading floor, when they took on the Stock Market challenge.

Business backs Thunderbolt's success story

TEAM Thunderbolt's success persuaded the business community of Fife and beyond to back them in their quest to impress at the Big Bang science and technology convention in London.

Business braced for base decision

FIFE has rallied to the defence of the 1200 jobs which are under threat at the Kingdom's fastjet air base at RAF Leuchars.

'Major boon for business in Fife'

A senior spokesperson for Fife Council sees the new Forth crossing as a major boon for business in Fife.

Fife golfing duo win young entrepeneur of the year award

A young Frenchman and his Brazilian partner have struck a hole in one by winning The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust 'Young Entrepreneur of the Year'.

Alternative Board can have the right answers

A FIFE based businessman is aiming to become the perfect nonexecutive director service provider.

New era in business support

MANAGING director of Impact 21, Joyce Duncan, has outlined a new era in business support for companies in Fife.

CMS taste further success with Green Apple Award

CMS Enviro Systems Ltd won a top environmental award at the Green Apple Environment Awards 2010 in London. CMS Enviro Systems picked up the Award as a partner to Fife Council who collected the award for local authority environmental best practice.

ARC Wins VIBES Award

Green Business Fife Members, Arc Architects have scooped two prestigious environmental business awards at the 2010 Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) Awards ceremony in Glasgow.

Following the Sabre Way

SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE have backed Cupar based company Sabre Safety to become a leading global success with its lifesaving brand of oil and gas equipment.

Lord Leitch announced as Honorary Chancellor of Carnegie College

The Board of Management of Carnegie College is pleased to announce the appointment of Lord Sandy Leitch of Oakley (left) to the offi ce of Honorary Chancellor.

Carnegie crowned UK Provider of the Year

AT the grand 'People in Power' awards ceremony, held at London's Twickenham Stadium on 9 March, Carnegie College was officially crowned as the UK's Education and Training Provider of the Year for its commitment to the delivery of skills for the power industry.

Start-up company shows its mettle

EXEMPLIFYING the "passion and commitment of Fife's small companies to the region and to growth," Fife Heat Treatment Ltd lifted the twin accolades at the Fife Business Awards for the Kingdom's most enterprising start-up company and the best business in the community.