Business Cornwall

The low carbon economy has been the focus of major conference at St Mellion today. Matthew Clarke talks to event organiser Candida Whitmill of Oxford Innovation, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Lord Jonathan Marland, on how businesses can successfully move forward, but with less environmental impact.

Holiday let specialist Cornish Gems has recruited a new team member to help take its luxury Cornish Cribs division to a new level.

Eden Project chief executive Tim Smit has received an honorary knighthood.

The county’s largest training provider, Cornwall College Business (CCB), has unveiled details of a new range of short training courses.

A detailed plan of how £750k could be spent on improving business for over 450 businesses in Newquay has been published this week by Newquay BID, the not for profit limited company behind the proposed Business Improvement District (BID).

Manufacturers in the south west are being urged to start the year by having their say on the future of industry support.

Hotel occupancy levels in Cornwall increased by just over 2% in 2010 on the year before, according to the latest findings from accountant and business adviser Winter Rule.

A family-owned Cornish business has sounded an optimistic note for the county’s tourism industry with a £4 million pound investment programme involving up to 30 new jobs at three locations.

Funding has been secured to offer a full time job to a graduate living in Cornwall who has made a massive impression during her temporary employment.

Matthew Clarke asks Cornwall Chamber of Commerce chief executive Richard Glover, what impact today’s decision by Ryanair to pull out of Newquay Airport will have on the local business scene.