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Once You’ve Raised the Bar, Candidates Will Respond

Written by Michael Warrington, CEO-AX Group AX Group is known for its construction and restoration work, its top-quality hotels in Sliema, Qawra and Valletta, and its advanced age facilities and services. Operating all these are the Group’s 1000+ employees, many of whom have been with the company for years. Central to the Group’s employment strategy […]

Creativity in Business: How a creative spirit helped AX Hotels rise above the pandemic

There’s a common misconception that creativity has no place in business leadership. Managers, directors, and business leaders are meant to be strategic, logical, analytical. We’re supposedly meant to leave imagination and blue-sky thinking up to the artists and creatives. However, I have often found throughout my career that the best business decisions arise when lateral […]

Diversity and Inclusion at AX Group

My name is Simbarashe Mapfumo. I am 27 years old and I come from Zimbabwe. I arrived in Malta in December 2018 after living in Cape Town for five years, where I also worked in hospitality. I fled my beloved Zimbabwe due to the unstable political situation. I miss my country and my family deeply, […]

I have Learned from Experience to Never Give Up

It’s safe to say that 2021 is not turning out to be the year we had hoped for. After a tumultuous 2020, we were all determined to make this year a success. We had plans in place, ideas to improve our hospitality offerings, a new restaurant and menu concepts to launch, exciting marketing strategies to […]

AX Group’s 2020 Annual Report

AX Group’s 2020 annual report is now available online. The publication contains the Group’s financial statements along with overviews of its core activities across the key sectors it operates in, namely construction, development, healthcare, and hospitality. In the face of a public health emergency and unprecedented operating conditions, AX Group has continued to respond to market conditions to deliver for […]

Improving our Mobility with a Monorail System

Written by Mr. Angelo Xuereb, Chairman AX Group I am very pleased that the President of Malta is strongly supporting the idea to introduce a Monorail system to eliminate traffic congestion and ever-increasing emissions in Malta. I have been promoting the concept of introducing a Monorail system since 1991. At the time, I already considered […]

Finding the Right Career Path

Written by Zsofia Antal, Senior Recruitment Specialist AX Group Dear Knowledge Centre Visitor, What knowledge can I share with you as a recruiter? This is what I asked myself when I started to work on this article. First, I was thinking of writing about job interview preparation then I quickly realized there is plenty of […]

The Evolving Role of the Corporate Lawyer

Written by Dr. David Wain, Chief Legal Officer AX Group  A corporate legal office (CLO) can be generally described as the department within a commercial organisation which is vested with the responsibility of overseeing every legal aspect of the business. In the past, this role was generally incorporated within the ‘administrative’ function of an organisation, […]

The Law must Change

  Written by Mr. Angelo Xuereb, Chairman AX Group The following are my comments on how we can improve the new construction laws for the benefit of all those concerned. They are based on my 45 years of practical experience in the construction industry. Excavation adjacent to party walls During my tenure as president of […]

All We Have are Moments

Written by Charmaine Attard, General Manager Hilltop Gardens and Simblija Care home Elements of the “Butterfly Model” were included in the framework used for the Butterfly Unit in Simblija Care Home. The Butterfly unit is a memory support unit that houses residents who suffer from different degrees of dementia. Dementia is not a specific disease. […]