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Marketing student helps promote a Lakeland legend

By Eileen Jones

Oct 13 2019 12:00AM

Marketing Business News - A Chinese marketing student has helped to promote the brand character based on the Bownessie legend of Windermere. Xiaohui He was recruited as an intern by the Cumbria Innovations Platform on a project to research the buying behaviour of international visitors.


Marketing student helps promote a Lakeland legend

New film festival for Lake District

By Eileen Jones

Oct 13 2019 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - A collaboration between one of the north s leading independent cinemas and the home of the poet William Wordsworth will bring a new film festival to the Lake District next month.


New film festival for Lake District

Innovative coaching for small businesses

By Eileen Jones

Oct 03 2019 12:00AM

Technology Business News - A series of practical workshops to help small businesses identify their next innovation is being staged in Cumbria. The Coaching for Innovation mini-series has been organised by Cumbria Innovations Platform and The Harrison Network to help business owners identify changing customer needs and to explore how they can meet those needs.


Innovative coaching for small businesses

Leisure Business News - A family who rescued an iconic Lake District hostel are celebrating five years in business. Christine and Alan Thomas and their son Adrian were looking for a potential holiday home in the Lakes when the YHA decided to sell Elterwater Hostel.


Five years in business for the family who rescued a hostel

Hitting the right note with musical holidaymakers

By Eileen Jones

Apr 03 2018 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - While most visitors to the Lake District head out onto the fells for fresh air and exercise, at one guest house they re encouraged to stay indoors and play the piano.


Hitting the right note with musical holidaymakers

Bear essentials at guest house

By Eileen Jones

Feb 04 2018 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Visitors to a Windermere guest house might occasionally be joined in the dining room or sitting room by an unexpected character a teddy bear. The extra guest will be one of the collection of more than 300 bears owned by Mary and Philip Burton who run the guest house 1 Park Road.


Bear essentials at  guest house

Leisure Business News - Foraging is the buzz word in the top kitchens, but now a leading chef has teamed up with a beauty therapist to take the art to a new dimension.


Top hotel and beauty therapist create menu for a perfect bath

Luxury retirement homes unveiled in pioneering project

By Eileen Jones

Jul 10 2017 12:00AM

Property Business News - A multi-million pound development to provide luxury retirement homes in a pioneering project launches in Cumbria this week.


Luxury retirement homes unveiled in pioneering project

The collaborators who bring expertise to business

By Eileen Jones

Jul 03 2017 12:00AM

Marketing Business News - Multi-tasking may be one of life s admirable aspirations, but there are times when precise and specific expertise is required. And those experts need to work in harmony imagine a building site where the bricklayers and the plumbers, the gas fitters and the electricians had no idea what each other was doing.


The collaborators who bring expertise to business

Poets, poultry and how a Lakes farm diversified

By Eileen Jones

Jun 06 2017 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Poets from around the world will gather on the shores of Coniston in the Lake District this summer to read and write and ramble at an farmhouse venue. Led by David Whyte, American based Irish poet, the group will be based at a location with a strong literary heritage.


Poets, poultry and how a Lakes farm diversified

Natural beauty business wins major contract

By Eileen Jones

May 23 2017 12:00AM

Health Business News - A businesswoman with a distinctive range of natural beauty products and treatments has won a key contract with the Lake District s first world class resort hotel. Jo Evans who runs Bespoke Aroma will provide a specially-created signature range of products for the re-developed Low Wood Bay on Windermere.


Natural beauty business wins major contract

Guests vote for top hotel in the UK

By Eileen Jones

May 23 2017 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor hotel has taken the top prize at a major award ceremony in London. The hotel was named the best in the UK at the BoHos , the boutique hotel awards, and was also named the winner of the UK country and coast small hotel category.


Guests vote for top hotel in the UK

Partners in fight against crime of tool theft

By Eileen Jones

May 09 2017 12:00AM

Construction Business News - A top northern web development company is leading the fight against a crime which is costing British firms millions of pounds tool theft. SYPO of Kendal has created a website for a new service designed to help trace tools offered for sale which have previously been stolen.


Partners in fight against crime of tool theft

Expert advice for selling online...overseas

By Eileen Jones

Apr 27 2017 12:00AM

Retail Business News - While politicians argue about trade agreements as well as boundaries, in the post-Brexit world individual online retailers who sell overseas are simply carrying on as normal. For the time being.


Expert advice for selling online...overseas

Web experts know what's afoot in online sales

By Eileen Jones

Mar 06 2017 12:00AM

Retail Business News - South Lakes web experts SYPO are winning a nationwide reputation as the leaders in web development and online selling. With more than 200 customers ranging from major enterprises to solo operators, their aim is always to simplify the process of trading via the internet, and to increase efficiency.


Web experts know what's afoot in online sales

Security warning to business as Google makes changes

By Eileen Jones

Feb 13 2017 12:00AM

Technology Business News - A dramatic change to safely accessing the internet with implications for anyone with a website is being highlighted by a web development expert. Google Chrome, the world s most widely used web browser, has started to flag HTTP sites as insecure, which will lead to loss of trust says Kendal s Alan Jewitt.


Security warning to business as Google makes changes

Double accolade for award-winning hotel

By Eileen Jones

Jan 27 2017 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor Hotel is listed in the top 20 in the UK in two different categories in a ratings chart published this week. The boutique hotel owned by Caroline and Jonathan Kaye comes in at number 9 in the Travellers Choice Most Romantic hotels list, and at number 19 in the best hotel for customer service awards.


Double accolade for award-winning hotel

Celebrating 35 years in retail

By Eileen Jones

Jan 11 2017 12:00AM

Retail Business News - Retired art teacher June Rodick has collected a new microwave oven thanks to the rock band Dire Straits. June won the oven in a competition organised by domestic appliance specialists Clocktower who are based at Milnthorpe. All they wanted to know was, which rock band sang a song about microwave ovens.


Celebrating 35 years in retail

Top holiday firm is new festival sponsor

By Eileen Jones

Dec 05 2016 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Top holiday cottage company Heart of the Lakes has joined forces with Ambleside Together as headline sponsor for next year s Festival of the Fells. The company, based in Ambleside, will help the local organisers fund the event which was a big hit when it was staged for the first time this autumn.


Top holiday firm is new festival sponsor

Top designer in award-winning hotel makeover

By Eileen Jones

Nov 21 2016 12:00AM

Leisure Business News - Windermere is getting a makeover. Not England s biggest lake, though, but the room named after it at the award winning Cedar Manor hotel not far from the water s edge.


Top designer in award-winning hotel makeover

Milestone as retailer reaches 35 years in business

By Eileen Jones

Nov 14 2016 12:00AM

Retail Business News - A North West business is preparing for its 35th anniversary in the New Year, proving that there s still a place for local independent specialists in a world of anonymous online trading.


Milestone as retailer reaches 35 years in business

Wedding gift? A picture of my dog, please

By Eileen Jones

Nov 02 2016 12:00AM

Retail Business News - Wedding present lists get more exciting by the season. Gone are the days when a bridge and groom would ask their guests for dull but worthy household items to mark their special day.


Wedding gift? A picture of my dog, please

Campaigners hail new book on climate change

By Eileen Jones

Oct 26 2016 12:00AM

Technology Business News - Leading environmental campaigners have welcomed a new book about climate change produced by a Lake District-based photographer. Ashley Cooper s Images from a Warming Planet will go on sale shortly after launching at the start of a new exhibition in Grasmere.


 Campaigners hail new book on climate change

Leisure Business News - Fans of Arthur Ransome s classic Lakes story Swallows and Amazons will have a chance to live the adventure for themselves next summer. Cumbria-based Swim the Lakes are hosting a weekend activity holiday which includes a sail on Captain Flint s houseboat and a swim to Wild Cat Island.


Swim experts to host holiday based on children's classic tale

Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor has been chosen as the first European hotel to join the list of a prestigious American-based register. Select Registry is a collection of independent, boutique lodging properties which has recommended hotels and inns to travellers across the USA for 45 years.


European first for the Lakes as elite US hotel listings heads globally