New initiative set to fuel start-up growth
16 January 2012 14:31 by Georgina-Kate Adams
British entrepreneurs may soon be able to switch off their car engines and start up a business, as mobile business lounges are set to appear on petrol forecourts across the country.
The purpose-built hubs, provided by oil giant Shell in tandem with serviced office group Regus, will offer speedy internet connections, printing and photocopying machines and even courier delivery services so technically an entrepreneur could start a business from one of the portals.
The first business lounge has already opened at a Shell station near Paris, and the initiative could soon be rolled out across the companys UK branch network.
Istvan Kapitany, vice-president of retail in Europe for Shell, said: This alliance allows Shell and Regus, as market leaders in their respective fields, to come together to better serve our customers.
Although Regus currently manages 1,200 offices in 550 cities, the latest move is expected to expand the firms reach across the European transport network. It is also hoped to promote the benefits of cost-cutting mobile working to big businesses.
Mark Dixon, founder and chief executive of Regus, added: Though they communicate and work using smartphones, tablets and laptops, [mobile workers] miss access to a professional place to work, meet or think where there is easy access to state-of-the-art business facilities.
By opening Regus business lounges at motorway stations, Shell and Regus are bringing vibrant business hubs right to the roadside.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
