Kurt Jacobs

1 month ago | insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs

https://www.insidermedia.com/insider-business-tv/video/atlantic-allies-navigating-us-uk-trade-breakfast Up to 75,000 jobs are at risk in the UK automotive industry if the government cannot convince Donald Trump to reduce tariffs on British-made cars, according to a major expert on the sector.

1 month ago | insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs

Businesses need to 'drink the MAGA Kool-Aid’'and get out to the US if they want to overcome tariffs and sell to the world’s biggest economy, an Insider conference on transatlantic trade has been told. And yesterday's Atlantic Allies: Navigating US-UK Trade breakfast heard from the country's biggest chamber of trade that "tariffs should be seen as a temporary slowdown, not a stop sign."The conference, held in Birmingham, was generally upbeat about the possibility of trade with the US.

2 months ago | insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs

Monarch Care Group, one of the Midlands' biggest care home operators, has been acquired by the owner of one of its largest peers, potentially creating a business with almost 2,000 staff across more than 30 homes. Nottingham-based Monarch has been bought by Sameer Rizvi of Birmingham-based RDCP Care Holdings. The deal sees an exit for Monarch shareholders Angela Bir, Amit Bir and Hiten Shanghav. Rizvi is founder and chief executive of London-based venture capital firm RD Capital Partners.

2 months ago | insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs

https://www.insidermedia.com/insider-business-tv/video/midlands-cyber-security Most businesses score just "one out of ten" when it comes to the standard of their cybersecurity – despite the scale and sophistication of cyber attacks increasing rapidly and attacks being a matter of "when" rather than "if" – according to a panel of experts brought together by Insider.

2 months ago | insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs

We’ve gone through the annual returns of more than 10,000 Midlands-registered businesses to find out who they are. And in this month’s magazine - out later this week - we name the Top 30  . To make the list, a company has had to have shown more than 20 per cent annual growth in turnover consistently over three years, according to their results Companies House. It also had to have started that period with at least £1m turnover.