Archive for July, 2010
Social Enterprise Mark awarded to East Midlands businesses
Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by editor.
BrightKidz based in Kettering, The Cooke e-Learning Foundation from Leicester and The TREES group which includes Leicester’s Highpoint conference centre, have been formally presented with the Social Enterprise Mark, which identifies them as trading for social and environmental purposes.
The Social Enterprise Mark, launched in February this year, is the brand for social enterprises in the [...]
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Farming New Rural Offices
Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by editor.
A Leicestershire farmer who took the decision to diversify his business due to the struggling farming industry has had a £500,000 tailor-made office scheme built on site by Westleigh Commercial.
Simon Marlow-Thomas, owner of Rectory Farm in Marston Trussell, near Market Harborough has had an attractive two-storey building created where an old Dutch barn once stood, [...]
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GasFill create a gas powered Smart car for the open road
Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Eco friendly manufacturer gasfill Ltd is revolutionising the way we drive by being the first to switch a petrol Smart car to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
The new, greener, Smart car developed by the Leicestershire based company, uses the innovative gasfill 2000 home refuelling system to fill up. The unit can refuel vehicles from [...]
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Go online to give your views…
Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by editor.
EMB Ltd, the organisation responsible for delivering the regional Business Link service, is encouraging individuals and local business leaders to go online and give their views to help the Government redress the balance between the citizen and the state, as part of the ‘Your Freedom’ campaign launched by the Deputy Prime Minister.
Stephen Smith, Chief Executive [...]
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Ex-Vantis BRS Partners Lead MBO to form FRP Advisory LLP
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Following the administration of Vantis plc, Vantis Business Recovery Services (BRS) has been sold in a management buy-out (MBO) to existing Vantis BRS partners for an undisclosed sum. The new firm, FRP Advisory LLP, will be led by partners Geoff Rowley and Jeremy French.
FRP Advisory retains the staff of previous Vantis BRS offices at 9 [...]
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BEST AUCTION RESULTS OF THE YEAR FOR NOTTINGHAM FIRM
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Savills latest auction raised £3.2 million recently at Nottingham Racecourse.
The Savills team said this was one of the biggest land and property auctions for many years.
Highlights of the commercial lots included the sale of 353/353A Mansfield Road in Carrington, a mixed retail and residential investment producing £10,800 pax. Bidding was strong from the outset with [...]
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Willmott Dixon’s Midlands Division Helps Turnover Verge on £1 billion
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Willmott Dixon is on the verge of becoming a £1 billion business after posting a substantial 69 per cent growth in turnover.
The group’s annual results for the year to 31 December 2009 show a turnover of £998.946 million compared to £592.446 million for the previous year. Pre-tax profits rose by 52 per cent to £18.183 [...]
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Spearing Waite’s Ascot Day is a clear winner
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Spearing Waite’s Ascot Day again proved to be a firm favourite with 450 guests in attendance.
Now in its 12th year, this annual occasion held in the grounds of the Leicester law firm’s Friar Lane premises, is a clear winner with clients, contacts, partners and staff.
Strawberries and cream, Pimms, champagne and wine and – for the [...]
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EAST MIDLANDS TOURISM INDUSTRY REMAINS BUOYANT FOR SUMMER 2010
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
According to a recent survey, part of an annual barometer, commissioned by East Midlands Tourism (EMT), emda’s tourist arm, an unprecedented number of factors look set to impact on the region’s tourism industry. Yet, the mood among East Midlands’ tourism businesses – from large hotels and attractions, to Tourist Information Centres and smaller guest houses [...]
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Rok reels in a raft of work in Derby
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Builders Rok have won a raft of extension and improvement projects in Derby worth almost £5.2m to the business.
A new customer for Rok is the University of Derby where the team will be helping with the remodelling of Britannia Mill, part of the campus on the western edge of the city. This former industrial building [...]
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Harvey Ingram’s Information Team wins national award
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
The Information Team at Midlands’ law firm Harvey Ingram has won a national award for its innovative approach in providing top-notch, fast and timely legal updates to clients and staff alike.
The firm was handed a coveted Best Legal Information Services (Commercial Sector) accreditation at the 2010 British and Irish Association of Law Librarians’ (BIALL) annual [...]
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Take the canny approach to company sales
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Business owners looking to sell up should play it canny, an expert has warned.
Phil Waller, a tax partner in the Nottingham office of international accountancy firm Mazars, urged entrepreneurs to think carefully before rushing their company on to the market following capital gains tax concessions in the emergency Budget.
In most situations vendors looking to obtain [...]
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EAST MIDLANDS GARAGE CHAIN SHOWS NO SIGN OF TYRING
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
An East Midlands automotive repair firm with year on year sales growth in excess of 20 per cent has recently opened a new branch in Nottingham using a £500,000 loan from Lloyds TSB Commercial.
Riddings-based Eden Tyre Sales, which has branches across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, opened an outlet in Giltbrook, Nottingham after identifying a gap in [...]
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£150,000 new investment for GB Security Group
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
GB Security Group is to invest a further £150,000 in round the clock CCTV remote monitoring services at its Lincolnshire-based central control room.
A three month upgrade programme will keep the company’s ARC Gold approved control centre at the leading edge of technology and provide its national customer base with greater remote management.
Remotely monitored CCTV provides [...]
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EDDIE STEPS DOWN AS CHAIR OF BUSINESS CLUB
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Councillor and businessman Eddie Strengiel is to stand down as Chairman of Lincoln Business Club after six years in the role.
Eddie was one of the founder members of the club whose aims are to encourage networking among Lincoln businesses and to raise money for charitable causes.
When the group was set up in 2004 it had [...]
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BAGGALEY STARTS WORK FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
Work has started on a £5.3million three storey Biosciences Building for The University of Nottingham at its agricultural campus in Sutton Bonington.
The building, which has been designed by Make architects, is being built by leading Mansfield based building contractor Herbert Baggaley Construction and has an environmental target of BREEAM excellent.
It is the largest prefabricated straw [...]
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Investors should review options for protecting portfolios in new tax climate
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
With increased rates of income tax, capital gains tax (CGT) and various forms of indirect tax arising from last week’s Budget, it is essential that investors make use of all available exemptions and reliefs to protect their investments, according to wealth experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in the East Midlands.
There are a number of ways [...]
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BioCity welcomes R5 Pharmaceuticals acquisition by Aesica
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by editor.
The purchase of Nottingham pharmaceutical formulation specialist and clinical manufacturer R5 Pharmaceuticals by Aesica Pharmaceuticals was announced on Tuesday 29th June and welcomed by major shareholder BioCity Nottingham.
R5 Pharmaceuticals was set up towards the end of 2006 and has grown rapidly within BioCity, employing around 60 highly specialised staff. Export sales account for 75% of [...]
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