Coming up roses
Matthew Bent MD of Bents Garden & Home discusses his Vistage membership and how it supports and benefits his business. Located on the outskirts of Cheshire, Bents is more than just a garden centre. Passion, experience and an understanding of exclusive living have earned the family-run business a reputation for quality, experience and innovation. Established in 1937, they’ve always remained... [Read more]
Cashing In On Your Banking Relationship
Love them or hate them, banks often play a vital role in the helping their clients maintain and grow their businesses. Vistage Speaker Roger Martin-Fagg’s recent forecast is that the UK is in for a “rocky economic ride” through 2011. Prompted by this to think about cash and banking isssues, Vistage Chair Dr Alex Kent invited Lloyds TSB Relationship Managers Dan Batchelor and Rebecca Kingdon-Saxby... [Read more]
Google launches business ideas portal
Google has launched Think a platform for sharing industry viewpoints to “help you navigate in the business landscape”. Thanks to the O2 Ideas Room for finding this resource. “The channel is basically a library of bite-sized videos of remarkable people speaking about what they think on topics such as marketing, digital, business strategy and consumer behaviour,” according to the O2 blog. The... [Read more]
Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime for Annie
Congratulations and best wishes for Annie from the membership services team who is gettting married on Saturday! Read More →
Clouded out!
Take a look at the Vistage staff skydive which unfortunately didn’t go ahead due to cloudy skies. Not to be defeated they plan to return to the Cornish coast in the next few months to take to the skies again. Read More →
Interview with London Chairman Charles Llewellyn
Read our interview with chair Charles Llewellyn discussing the challenges and rewards he faces as a Vistage chair and his top tips on exit strategies. To find out how Vistage could benefit you and your business go to our website Read More →
Immediate learns – the Vistage way
July was a great month for our Open Day programme with over 200 members, guests and colleagues enjoying sessions at The Barn, Berkeley and Old Trafford. Peter Knight and Jeff Grout presented well received sessions which gave all attendees food for thought and ideas they could implement in their businesses straight away. Dave Abraham CEO of Signify wrote to tell us that they used techniques from the... [Read more]
Skydiving staff- we hope 30 and not out!
Victoria Cotton, Trevor Cleal and Sinead Donohoe are all taking to the skies this Friday for tandem skydives. Trevor thought that jumping from an aeroplane at 10,000 feet would be a great way to celebrate his 30th birthday! They are winging it down to Cornwall on Thursday night and all here at Vistage HQ wish them well. Victoria will be jumping for charity so if you want to sponsor her feel free... [Read more]
Fantastic achievement!
Congratulations to Vistage members Jonathan Eddy and Bob Smith of B Hepworth & Co Ltd on their inclusion in the Sunday Times International Track 100 League Table. B Hepworth & Co Ltd were ranked 26th in the first annual International Track 100 league table supplement, published in The Sunday Times on 11 July 2010, with title sponsor HSBC. The league table ranked companies’ international... [Read more]
Goodyear Dunlop MD on the benefits of Vistage
Find out what Mark Brickhill MD of Goodyear Dunlop has to say about his Vistage membership. The testimonial was filmed at Brands Hatch on the launch day of the BTCC championship. To find out how membership could benefit your business visit our website Read More →
Hello there. My name is Steve Gilroy and I am the CEO of Vistage International (UK) Ltd. Vistage is the world’s leading organisation for chief executives and MDs. We show people how to be better leaders, make better decisions and achieve better results. Business leaders join Vistage as members of a local Vistage Group – and they stay with us year after year because we do what we say – we show them how to be better leaders. I hope that you’ll see from this blog that there’s a lot of activity in the world of Vistage, and that you’ll contribute to issues or stories that interest you. You can email me at chiefexecutive@vistage.co.uk, or visit our website at www.vistage.co.uk.
