News & publications

31/01/2012 The Baltic Demographic Timebomb

I have spent this week in Riga, I was here to attend the launch of the Baltic IP commercialisation challenge (http://balticip.wordpress.com/) , and also to interview for a new PA...

25/01/2012 CCB Client Secures contract with Lithuanian Institute of Cardiology

More good news for one of our clients, Ithaka Life Science the Cambridge based life science consultancy who have just signed a contract with the Cardiology Institute, which is part of the Lithuanian University of Health Science.

18/01/2012 It’s a Win Win Opportunity

The Christmas break always gives me a chance to take a step back and look at my business, also to try to anticipate opportunities that may open up in the year ahead. The troubled economic situation in the UK, and the Eurozone uncertainty affecting the Baltic made that a fairly challenging activity this year.

16/01/2012 The Capital of Lingerie

We picked up an interesting job this week, working with the Latvian Development Agency on the promotion of Latvian Lingerie in the UK on behalf of the Latvian Lingerie Manufacturers Association.

11/01/2012 Bright Purple

Exciting news has been announced this morning in the Sunday Herald. Bright Purple the Scottish based recruitment company has just announced the opening of a new office in Lithuania. We have been helping them with this project for almost a year, so delighted that the news is finally out in the open.

06/01/2012 UK Universities and Colleges should look at the Baltic

Things are getting tough for Universities an Colleges in the UK as the cuts begin to bite, and many are now looking around for other ways to generate revenue to help them sustain their institutions.

03/01/2012 VC Interest in Baltic

A strange thing happened in December, I started to get approached out of the blue by US VC firms who wanted to talk about the Baltic. How they found me I don’t know (but I am guessing it is the power of the internet) but it was very interesting to speak to VC firms across the USA who had suddenly developed an interest in looking at the Baltic

30/12/2011 New year 2012

As 2011 draws to a close I think it would be safe to say that many of us are delighted to see the back of it, for business people across Europe it has been tough... However the end of the year is a time to look at the positive and not the negative

21/12/2011 Christmas time

Christmas is fast approaching and many will be breathing a sigh of relief that 2011 is almost over, for anyone in business this has been a challenging year.

12/12/2011 Latvia’s self-fulfilling prophesy

In Riga last week I was asked by two senior academics for help in finding a UK university to help develop a joint degree programmes in entrepreneurial studies. I have always been sceptical about these courses...