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Alan Branagh

Scenarios can help prepare businesses for times of change

QUESTION: I run a small but thriving business. With the current ‘credit crunch’ and so much focus on climate change and rocketing fuel prices, I am concerned about what the future might have in store for business owners such as myself. How can I plan for the future?
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In pictures: Doing the business

  • Former Miss Northern Ireland and Miss UK, Lucy Evangelista welcomes the news that Chilli's Grill & Bar at Victoria Square will open its first restaurant in Northern Ireland on August 28. The restaurant seats 250 guests, serves authentic Southwest American cuisine and features Northern Ireland's first Margarita bar.
  • Taking the helm to launch the first Lower Bann Activity Guide aboard the Maid of Antrim on the Lower River Bann are Mark Christie, Lower Bann Partnership and Lisa Simpson Causeway Coast and Glens Tourism.
  • Jim and Lorraine Elder, Regent Chauffeur Services, and Gary Topping, ITS New Media, were guest speakers at The Business Network, Banbridge. Thanking them is Paddy Rooney, Air-Net and Chairman of The Business Network.

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• View From Dublin: Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil

The famous prayer attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asks for the serenity to accept the things one cannot change, and the courage to change the things one can. Shrewdly, Dr Niebuhr also asked for the wisdom to know the difference.

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• Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future

NORTHERN Ireland Water (NIW) is too important as a public utility to be a shuttlecock between uncertain political direction and aggressive regulatory intervention.

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• View From London: A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down

Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.

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