June 2021
EMN EVENT: Changing focus – how to adapt your marketing for business diversification
In partnership with Horizon Works, this webinar will focus on reshaping marketing activities to support market and product diversification. There are many reasons why businesses look to diversify. The Coronavirus, for example, led many businesses to adapt their product and service offerings to the changing economic landscape. Companies may need to target new sectors as demand for their products decreases in their traditional markets, or businesses might want to capitalise on its current customer base and extend its product offer…
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Find out more »AFFILIATE EVENT: Achieving Net Zero In Manufacturing. Practical Advice for SME’s
As the dust settles on a year that re-shaped our lives, climate change has taken centre stage globally. Greater awareness and emphasis from government, industry and prominent public figures has also been driven by added pressure from the general public to act. Sustainability has moved sharply into a business-critical initiative and the green economy is expected to grow 4x faster than the UK economy as a whole, while the investment into the green economy is growing >30% a year (Lloyds…
Find out more »July 2021
PEOPLE PANEL: Lets Talk Apprenticeships
Engineering & Manufacturing Network have at its core the desire to support apprenticeship strategies, working with businesses and educators, even helping create engineering degree apprenticeships with the University of Sunderland One of the biggest issues we face is that of retained skills within a business which creates sustainability and builds a robust workforce with less focus on individuals as skilled operators become mentors and build 'mini - me's' in their apprentices. Look at your key areas and identify where skills are…
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EMN Members in the North East LEP area are invited to this free workshop, to be part of a collaborative peer group, setting a clear agenda for business growth and prosperity in the region. Places are limited to 15 for businesses like yours with a certain level of turnover and/or number of employees. We have been working closely with Business Doctors and Northstar Ventures, to create a face to face fully funded peer to peer business planning workshop, focusing on…
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