Morven Fraser will never forget this week. And with good reason too, because the University of Glasgow student has just won the 2015 Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award for her innovative energy storage concept. She is about to embark on six months of industrial experience with Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, Peugeot, Skoda, Toyota and Honda as...Read More

Outplacement may well not be at the forefront of many business minds right now. A  high number of companies within the automotive industry are flourishing and unemployment is at its lowest rate in seven years. Despite one or two high-profile casualties in the sector, the mood in the market is generally buoyant for an industry...Read More

AUTO INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR BOARDROOM DIVERSITY REPORT – reproduced with kind permission from Auto Retail Agenda, written by Iain Dooley, 30 October 2015 Pleased to be quoted in this piece by Auto Retail Agenda, which references Lord Davies’ report about women on boards. The report into gender diversity in boardrooms, led by Lord Mervyn Davies,...Read More

I promised a second instalment of our blog about how employment law can step in when employers and employees fail to be civilised! Today, in the latest of our “Ennis & Co interviews…” series of blogs, we once again get the thoughts of Greg Hughes, a Senior Associate at Clarke Willmott solicitors. Here, Greg talks...Read More

In the latest of our “Ennis & Co interviews…” series of blogs, we speak to Greg Hughes, a Senior Associate at Clarke Willmott solicitors. Greg is a Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution specialist and has a great deal of experience dealing with disputes between employers and employees, particularly in relation to post-employment Restrictive Covenants. Greg...Read More

Ennis and Co are proud to introduce our newest team member, Freddie Keyworth, who joins us as a trainee – and we’d like Freddie to introduce himself through our blog! So without further ado… Having come from a world of à la carte menus, wine lists and expensive tastes, I now embark on my newest...Read More

The holiday season is upon us once again, and although we’re still working as hard as ever at Ennis & Co, with so many people taking a well-deserved week or two out to dip their toes into sea and sand, we thought we’d take a moment to pause and look back over the year so...Read More

I have interviewed a lot of people in my career in Automotive Executive Search, and there is something I have been noticing more and more over the last couple of years. For want of a better way to put it, it is a rise in evidence of poor behaviours in the workplace or, more specifically,...Read More

A business is nothing more than a bunch of people working together (one would hope) to achieve a common goal or goals. Of course there are myriad ways to look at a business that make the thing seem a lot more complicated than that, but essentially, that’s what it is. And when you have to...Read More

I don’t know about you, but I found the London Marathon inspiring and not a little instructive. I participated in the marathon-length London Moonwalk a few years ago, so I know that it’s a great undertaking to cover 26 miles at any speed. I remember the training, the sore feet, and the occasional sugary intake...Read More