Kevin Harrington

Tag: England

  • Great Britain or United Kingdom (GB or UK)?

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    I was signing up for an online service. One of the stages was to select my country from a drop-down list. That should be easy, I thought, but the UK was not listed. Neither was England. A further hunt and I spotted ‘GB – United Kingdom.’ Now, let’s be clear: Great Britain is not the…

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    Union Flag - the flag of the United Kingdom

  • What’s 1966 famous for?

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    England winning the World Cup? Well I guess so, but it was also the year that the first credit card in the UK was issued by Barclaycard. And who launched the first telephone banking system in the UK and in what year? Girobank in 1980. These and other interesting titbits can be found at A history of innovation in payments.

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  • Best medium to large company

    In the annual shareout of awards, The Stopgap Group(Stopgap, Rightstop, Fitzroy and Courtenay) won the award for “Best Medium-to-Large Recruitment Firm to Work For“. They collected the award at the big recruitment industry night, hosted at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, at the annual Recruiter Awards for Excellence. Image by Skitch776 via Flickr Stopgap, one of the UK’s leading marketing recruiters, had…

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