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CONTENTS                                                                       ISSUE 51 APRIL/MAY 2021



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          5 Opening Up?             10 SPECIAL FEATURE:       21 60 Second Interview    28 Keeping It Pure
          New BOSS Commercial       “It was The Perfect Storm…”  Specialist OP market   BCD has teamed up with
          Director Cheryl Lamont    How global shipping costs   researcher Martin Wilde   beach-cleaning charity
          offers her thoughts.      have increased by 300-    talks to Darren Lloyd, CEO of   Pure Sea.
                                    400%, and how our industry   United UK.
          6 Plastic Packaging Tax   has responded.                                      30 Training and Webinars
          Details of a new tax on                             22 Reaching Out           Details of our upcoming
          plastics packaging.       14 Brexit Update          The BOSS Busines Supplies   webinars.
                                    How BOSS is assisting with   Charity is still here to help
          6 Government Lending      changes due to Brexit.    those who need it.
          Schemes To Business
          What you need to know.    16 Budget Briefing        DOWN TO BUSINESS
                                    Key takeaways from the
          7 Changing The Pecking Order  Chancellor’s recent Budget.  24 Taking The Strain
          HMRC has regained                                   25% of employees say their
          preferential creditor status:   20 Things Fall Apart?  mental health has declined                   30
          what does that mean?      Has the pandemic exposed   since the start of the
                                    a lack of trust between   pandemic.
          8 Leading Forward         Westminster and the rest
          Review of the recent BOSS   of the UK?              26 New Members                      boss
          Leaders of the Future                               We welcome new BOSS               training
          Conference.                                         members Tradesupply.
                                                              sales-i and Smart Business
                                                              Supplies.




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          Emily Jones, David Langdown, Stuart Login, Adam Noble, Sean Starkey, Frances Stephen
          Regional Directors: Marcus Clifford – East & South East, Dawn Reid – Midlands & South West, Darren Shepherd – North
          BOSS Federation Chief Executive Officer: Amy Hutchinson
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          Editor: Helen Dunn e: helen@bossfederation.co.uk t: 020 7915 8377
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