More than 600 jobs have been pledged on a site close to the Leeds Castle junction off the M20 - but only if a controversial business park is given the go-ahead. Full exclusive details are revealed in Kent Business, the KM Group monthly distributed this week with most KM Group paid-for newspapers.
The award-winning title also includes a feature on Canterbury City Council’s plans for business sites, and the impact of Rocksalt Restaurant on the regeneration of Folkestone.
Other features include
A look at the work of the International Association of Book-keepers, which is based at Kings Hill, West Malling, and celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
Cedric Frederick is one of the most influential back business leaders in the UK, and he tells Kent Business about the financial and staff challenges of running the social care organisation Avante Partnership, based in Faversham.
A profile of Saga Group’s head of marketing Alan Griffiths explores the unusual side of a man who wears a felt trilby hat and dark casual clothes, every inch a magician who needs to work his spells for the over-50s Folkestone-based travel and financial services business.
Achievements of young people are celebrated by a centre spread on Young Enterprise which was founded 50 years ago in Chatham and returned to its roots for the Kent Final.
Richard Cork’s Turner Contemporary lecture about the artist’s interest in industrial scenes is reported, along with Shepherd Neame’s decision to extend its sponsorship of Kent County Cricket Club, leading to its Canterbury headquarters being re-named the Spitfire Ground St Lawrence.
Kent Business also includes stimulating expert comment, and features on business security, finance, law and insurance. Be sure to pick up your copy.
