Archive for May, 2011
Sustainable Focus Can Drive Turnover Growth
Posted on 31. May, 2011 by editor.
Small firms in the East Midlands that have yet to grasp the business opportunities created by the environmental sustainability agenda are missing out on a potential £5.7 billion of economic growth in the next three years, new research from Lloyds TSB Commercial has revealed.
The bank, which questioned 125 East Midlands businesses with a turnover of [...]
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EMDA Bows Out With Impressive Record On Overseas Investment
Posted on 31. May, 2011 by editor.
The East Midlands Development Agency (emda), has announced record results for the number of jobs created or safeguarded as a result of its work in attracting overseas businesses into the region.
In 2010/11, the Agency was involved in a total of 42 inward investment successes, against a target of 35, creating or safeguarding 4,522 jobs against [...]
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Deadline For Tax Amnesty Ends On 31st May
Posted on 28. May, 2011 by editor.
RSM Tenon is urging traders to act now before an amnesty on unpaid tax ends and a fresh clampdown begins.
The HMRC tax disclosure facility, known as the Plumbers Tax Safe Plan, allows taxpayers to declare past tax irregularities in return for a reduced penalty.
Depending on circumstances, this could be as low as 10% or 20% [...]
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Planning Decision Secures Quarry’s Future
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by editor.
Leicestershire County Council has unanimously resolved to grant planning permission to Aggregate Industries for an extension to Bardon Hill Quarry in Coalville, thereby safeguarding 140 jobs directly, and another 150 indirectly.
Apart from the quarry, the Bardon Hill site supports 346 administrative staff. The 486 Coalville based employees have a total wage bill of £23 million, and [...]
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National Student Enterprise & Incubation Tour Comes To Nottingham
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by editor.
On Friday 3 June, Nottingham Trent University’s enterprise centre, The Hive, will play host to The National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) and Lloyds Banking Group. The visit is part of a tour of Britain and the largest ever consultation of students and graduate entrepreneurs, to understand their views on enterprise, entrepreneurship and university incubation [...]
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Engineering Software Firm Takes Root In Nottingham
Posted on 26. May, 2011 by editor.
Root Solutions has moved to new office premises in Nottingham.
Root solutions provides specialist engineering software assisting companies with the design and manufacture of products, has taken the first floor of Britannia House off The Ropewalk, taking 1,000 sq ft of office space.
Sales manager Dan Mahoney who heads the Root Solutions Nottingham office – which covers [...]
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Rugby International Buys Care Home Business
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Former England rugby international and Nottingham captain Simon Hodgkinson has successfully embarked on a new career as the owner of a care home.
Simon is the new owner of the Westcliffe Care Home in Radcliffe on Trent, a purchase he has made with the support and guidance of Berryman Healthcare.
On working with the Berryman Healthcare team, [...]
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Nottingham’s Bistro Chain Le Bistrot Pierre Expands
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Nottingham’s Le Bistrot Pierre, which now has eight restaurants in its portfolio, is close to opening its latest venture in the Yorkshire town of Ilkley. The Ilkley development has been funded by the company’s banking partners NatWest.
Le Bistrot Pierre is run by directors Robert Beacham and John Whitehead. The business originally started as a Pierre [...]
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Catapult Leads £1.5m Funding Injection
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Catapult Venture Managers has led a £1.5 million funding round into innovative molecular diagnostic company Lumora Ltd.
The capital injection will be primarily used to accelerate Lumora’s entry into the clinical molecular diagnostic market, which is already valued at $6 billion and has the potential for explosive growth in emerging markets. The company’s development programmes focus [...]
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Derby Business Expands Thanks To iNet Support
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Derby based Sim-Cast has successfully won two rounds of funding to support its growth and expand its service offering, thanks to the Transport iNet.
Sim-Cast provides improvement solutions to foundries, focusing on high value investment castings for the Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Industrial Gas Turbine industries. The SME approached the Transport iNet to help with some [...]
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City Campaigner Backs Cable’s Call For Bank Loans Action
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Derbyshire’s small business champion, Ian Hodgkinson, has backed Business Secretary Vince Cable’s call for the big banks to do more to help struggling companies.
In a national BBC News at Ten feature, the managing director of Derby-based Hodgkinson Builders, told viewers that many viable small firms were currently finding themselves under threat because of the difficulty [...]
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Nottinghamshire Firm Wins £250K Chinese Order
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
An award winning Nottinghamshire industrial supplies firm is on track for further expansion after winning an order worth over £250,000 with a Chinese firm, with help from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).
Hall-Fast Industrial Supplies, which employs eight people at its Newark HQ, now expect to be raking in over £3million a year in orders within [...]
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Cherry Professional Expands Into Leicester
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by editor.
Cherry Professional, the Nottingham-based recruitment experts, are expanding into Leicester.
The company, which specialises in finance and office support, has taken space at Imperial House, St Nicholas Circle, with the experienced Tim Grainger appointed to head up the territory. Miriam Parris, also joins their office support and administration division which was set up last year.
Tim has [...]
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New President For Leicestershire Law Society
Posted on 24. May, 2011 by editor.
James Coningsby has been elected as the new President of Leicestershire Law Society.
As President, James, who qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and is a director at the Leicester office of Nelsons, will be the public face and voice of the Society for a one year term. He was previously Vice President of [...]
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Fund Raising Exceeds Expectations
Posted on 12. May, 2011 by editor.
Law firm Freeth Cartwright has raised a massive £30,000 for the charity Anthony Nolan, exceeding the target originally set at £25,000.
The charity was chosen in memory of one of their young solicitors, Paul Richardson, who died in 2009 aged just 30. Paul had been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), which is an [...]
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Derbyshire Firm Launches in Morrisons
Posted on 12. May, 2011 by editor.
East Midlands snack company Crips has achieved its first national supermarket roll out after securing a deal to launch its new Crips 99Cals lower fat snacks in 300 Morrisons stores nationwide.
The contract follows the success of Crips 99Cals in 50 Tesco stores in the Midlands and 67 Waitrose stores across the country.
It represents a significant [...]
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NBV Help Create 5600 New Jobs In The East Midlands
Posted on 05. May, 2011 by editor.
Not for profit business support organisation NBV has announced that it has now helped create 5600 new jobs and 3608 new start-up businesses across the East Midlands region, as part of its mission to make it the best place in the UK to start, maintain and grow a business.
With Government changes recently announced to business [...]
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Dealing With Defamation Via Social Media
Posted on 03. May, 2011 by editor.
There is no doubting that the past few years have seen a major increase in the use of social media channels in relation to business. Twitter, regular blogs and even Facebook have become a familiar part of the marketing and PR strategy for many companies. However, with the increased use, comes a greater risk of [...]
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