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Online entrepreneur Natasha Tucker has launched a crowdfunding drive to boost her UK green fashion website.
Ms Tucker, co-owner of Reve en Vert, based in London, said: “Basically, we thought it was a really good way to engage our community and custom...
DATE: Feb 28, 2017
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Adversity. I read a book over the last week that theorised that those who have faced significant adversity seem to have more success in growing entrepreneurial businesses than others.
From my own experience there is little doubt that the challenges ...
DATE: Feb 28, 2017
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Public services could be provided by private-sector firms set up by ex-civil servants, an audience of business people heard yesterday.
Erica Smith, executive director of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, said: “With the potential restruct...
DATE: Feb 28, 2017
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Business confidence has grown over the past few months, a major survey has shown.
And Bermuda-only businesses outstripped their international counterparts in the optimism stakes.
Local business hit 105.9 in the second survey of last year, up 5.3 poin...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017
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A US-based start-up firm is to trial a Bermuda service to allow deaf and speech impaired people to communicate more effectively with telecoms and power suppliers.
Pypestream, in partnership with the Bermuda Islands Association of the Deaf, is to run ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017
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HSBC Bank Bermuda Ltd booked net profits of $117 million last year — up more than a third on 2015.
A fall in loan impairment provisions and lower operating expenses after the sale of private banking operations last year contributed to the increase.
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DATE: Feb 24, 2017
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Bermudian telecoms firm One Communications has boosted the revenues of the US firm that owns more than half of it.
Massachusetts-based ATN International, which last year acquired a 51 per cent stake in One, formerly known as KeyTech, announced net in...
DATE: Feb 24, 2017
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd’s full-year profit more than doubled to $1.26 million as cost-cutting measures bore fruit.
While revenue fell in the year ended September 30, 2016, the group was able to generate a $750,000 increase in consolidated net pr...
DATE: Feb 23, 2017
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Bermudian jobs could face the axe as international telecoms firm Digicel announced plans to cut 25 per cent of its worldwide workforce over the next 18 months.
But Digicel stayed tight-lipped on whether the island would be affected by the job losses....
DATE: Feb 23, 2017
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Butterfield today announced the pricing of its secondary offering of shares at $31.75 per share.
Several shareholders are selling off portions of their stakes in the bank amounting to a total of 9.55 million shares.
The majority of the offering is co...
DATE: Feb 23, 2017
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