Dear Member, 

Welcome to this week's edition of our SFA e-zine.  

This week we are delighted to begin to announce some of the speakers at the SFA Annual Conference, 'Time to transform'. As this event is free for our members to attend I want to encourage you to book your place as soon as possible, seats are limited and filling up quickly.

For our GDPR tip of the week this week we are looking at the need for a Data Protection Officer in your business. Tomorrow we have our GDPR webinar on record keeping, if you are not registered there is still time, just register here. 

Force majeure is an issue that confuses many business owners and HR managers so today we have a very useful guide to handling it within your business.

We have two articles relating to Brexit, the first relating to the impact of Brexit on the retail sector.  The second article is part of our Supporting SME’s programme and looks at the Start to Plan voucher.

As always, we’d love to hear from you about any queries you may have, issues you wish to have raised with Government or other stakeholders and your ideas on how we can improve the business environment for us all. Please contact me on tel: 01 605 1602 or e-mail: sven@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind regards, 

Sven Spollen-Behrens

SFA Director