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A brand new Fife business is bringing a range of locally grown organic herbs, cut flowers and fresh salads to Fife Farmers Market.

Meadowsweet Organics was started in February 2015 by Rosy McLean and David Demjanovic on Falkland Estate with the aim of producing top quality organic produce for both culinary and medicinal use, whilst at the same time developing a beautiful, fertile and diverse natural environment.  Rosy is training as an herbalist and will develop a range of herbal products in the future.
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Wednesday 24 June 2015

Are you prepared to enter new international markets or develop and grow existing markets?

Scottish Development International’s upcoming Preparing to Export workshops can help you build your companies export capabilities in a range of areas to successfully enter new international markets and develop and grow existing markets. 

These workshops, delivered at introductory and intermediate level cover a range of areas from understanding how to price your product or service for international markets to developing your international value proposition. 

Monday 22 June 2015

Are you ready to be challenged?!
 
If so, Acorn Business Bootcamp is for you!  This unique event, running on 25 June from 10am to 4pm at Fife College, St Brycedale Campus is designed for both students and the wider business community.

For Fife College students, the theme of this event is to give you a flavour of what running a small business is really like and to encourage you to consider launching your own start-up business!

Wednesday 17 June 2015

£200,000 event fund launched to celebrate Scotland's 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.

A brand new £200,000 events fund created to develop activity to celebrate Scotland's achievements in innovation, architecture and design has been launched by EventScotland, part of VisitScotland's Events Directorate. Applications opened on Wednesday 10 June, 2015 for the events and festivals sector across Scotland to apply for a 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design event grant up to £20,000.

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Southern Manufacturing is the largest annual trade exhibition in the UK dedicated to engineering, manufacturing technology, electronics and subcontracting.  Exhibitors cover a wide range of industries and disciplines including auto sport/automotive specialists, electronic components & contract electronics manufacturers, aerospace and defence contractors, packaging & labelling solutions, marine engineering & offshore suppliers or specialist suppliers to the Pharma/Bio sector. 

Monday 15 June 2015

We are running our final "Introduction to 3D Printing" event, in partnership with Acorn 3D Printing, on 29 June.  During this 2 hour session, you can find out more about this rapid prototyping to stay ahead of the game.

Attendees will also be given the opportunity to attend further, in-depth sessions by putting their knowledge to good use and work on specific related projets that can help benefit their business.

Thursday 11 June 2015

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has produced a set of online seminars – ‘webinars’ – both live and pre-recorded, to help customers to understand a variety of tax systems and learn what obligations they need to meet.

Webinars are free online presentations that enable you to attend a seminar anytime, anyplace. HMRC offers a wide variety of live and pre-recorded webinars on subjects such as business expenses for the self-employed, operating PAYE in real time, statutory sick pay, VAT awareness and many more. Customer feedback tells us that these are a great way to get started.

Thursday 11 June 2015

Fife Chamber of Commerce are delighted to announce their Annual Dinner, which takes place on Friday 11th September at the Fairmont, St Andrews.

Wednesday 10 June 2015

Detailed consent has been granted for the country’s largest green data centre in Fife Scotland.

Plans are now in place for the first of two cloud hosting facilities at Queensway Park in Glenrothes. The first green data centre will cover an area of over 90,000 sq ft and is hoped to be complete towards the end of 2016. Once completed, Queensway Park will be the largest data centre campus in Scotland with a development value approaching £100 million.

Wednesday 10 June 2015