Subject: Working life

Jun 10, 2013 10:15 BST Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce Looking to break into the UK market or boost your UK business performance? Since 2001, Mark has been helping Finnish companies including Sonera, Digia, Futurice and InterQuest, to grow in the UK.

Jun 07, 2013 12:27 BST Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce House of Bulldog & Moose is an online boutique specialising in original home accessories. We stock good quality items which are beautiful and practical and will add a special touch to suit the modern home. Although Bulldog & Moose are strongly influenced by British and Nordic designs, products from other countries are also stocked.

Jun 07, 2013 11:45 BST Volkswagen UK Volkswagen has established a Group Human Resources Academy for HR personnel. The Academy will pool the transfer of specialist knowledge, skills and experience by experts within the HR profession. The Board Member for Human Resources of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Dr. Horst Neumann, and the Chairman of the Group Works Council, Bernd Osterloh, signed the cooperation agreement in Ingolstadt.

Jun 07, 2013 11:28 BST Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce The European-Japanese Playground Publishing seeks growth by expanding to Finland. The game company will open an office in Kotka, southeast Finland. Playground Publishing states that its focus is exclusively on products that bring something new to game enthusiasts around the world. The company aims to release its first games in June.

Jun 07, 2013 09:50 BST Wales Co-operative Centre Employee Ownership: Solutions for the Private Sector, will offer an insight into developments in Employee Ownership coming from the UK Governments Employee Ownership Implementation Group.The event on the 28th June is staged as a pre-cursor to the national Co-operative Congress which takes place in Cardiff from 29th – 30th June.

Jun 06, 2013 16:46 BST Wales Co-operative Centre Co-operative housing could play an increasingly important role the UK’s housing market, a conference in Wales will hear. A seminar being held as part of Co-operative Congress in Cardiff on 29 June will consider how co-operative housing can help to tackle problems such as the shortage of affordable housing and the problems young people have getting on the housing ladder.

Jun 05, 2013 19:12 BST Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Jun 05, 2013 14:59 BST Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce Outokumpu is today celebrating the inauguration of the new ferrochrome works in Tornio, Finland. Inauguration marks the start of the ramp-up phase of the EUR 410 million investment project ahead of schedule. With the ramp-up of the world’s biggest ferrochrome furnace Outokumpu plans to double its ferrochrome production to 530 000 tonnes by 2015.

Jun 05, 2013 09:56 BST Finnish-British Chamber of Commerce Nina Mäklin is a Finnish interior designer based in London. Her design studio creates high-end residential as well as commercial properties and provides a bespoke service from concept to completion. Through her network of contacts she is also able to provide architectural, project management and construction services to complete the project at hand.