Archive for July, 2011
Company Sale Saves Local Jobs
Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by editor.
The sale of Derby engineering company, Brettex Engineering Limited has been completed avoiding the loss of 24 jobs,
Brettex Engineering Limited, who formerly traded from Raynesway Park Industrial Estate, instructed the business recovery and insolvency team at Smith Cooper in June after experiencing financial difficulties.
The team at Smith Cooper marketed the business and its assets and [...]
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East Midlands Accountants Announce Merger
Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Greenhalgh Chartered Accountants have merged with Derby firm HSKS Chartered Accountants. The new firm will employ around 75 people, based in offices in Nottingham, Derby, Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter.
Greenhalgh Chief Executive Nigel Shaw confirmed that the merger will see the firm achieve one of its long-term objectives: “It has long been an ambition of [...]
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Trade Minister Urges East Midlands Firms To Give Exporting A Sporting Chance
Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by editor.
With just a year to go before the start of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Trade and Investment Minister Lord Green attended an event at Loughborough University this week, to urge local companies to make the most of the export opportunities that exist around major sporting events.
Lord Green gave a keynote speech at the [...]
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Staffline In Latest Growth Acquisition
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Browne Jacobson has advised Nottinghamshire based Staffline Group plc on the acquisition of certain assets and commercial relationships from Milton Keynes based Arnashade Recruitment after the business went into administration.
Arnashade Recruitment specialises in industrial recruitment servicing a number of corporate customers in the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area, including Northern Foods, Flamingo Flowers and Whitworths. With [...]
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BSP Play Key Role in New £15m Health and Leisure Scheme
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by editor.
The latest integrated medical and leisure centre designed and built by an award-winning team featuring BSP Consulting has opened its doors.
The £15 million Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre development in Blackpool features an eco-friendly drainage system which has been incorporated into the play area and park around the scheme. It is thought to be [...]
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Repeat Business for Edmond Shipway with Center Parcs
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Nottingham firm Edmond Shipway, the multi-disciplinary construction consultancy has been appointed project managers for the new Treehouse accommodation at Center Parcs Longleat Forest.
Their appointment follows the successful completion of similar Treehouses at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. Edmond Shipway will be working with architects Jackson Design Associates, who have designed the Treehouse and Uplands Construction [...]
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Excitement Mounts In The East Midlands Over London 2012
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by editor.
East Midlanders are among the most excited in the UK about the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics, according to research by PwC.
44% of consumers in the East Midlands said they were looking forward to the event and the benefits it could bring. The region is the most excited outside London, beating the West Midlands (41%) and [...]
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Experian Purchase Notts Based Credit Check Agency
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Experian, has acquired LM Group Ltd, a leading provider of credit information to SME’s in the UK.
Founded in 1994, LM Group, which trades as Riskdisk Ltd, provides commercial credit reports and commercial risk information to approximately 18,000 SME businesses in the UK. Riskdisk is an existing partner of Experian and integrates Experian’s commercial credit data [...]
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iNet Support Is Dynamic
Posted on 25. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Support from the Transport iNet has allowed three regional companies to complete invaluable research into aerodynamics in order to help them to shape future innovations.
The Transport iNet secured the slots at the MIRA wind tunnel with help from the Niche Vehicle Network (Cenex). The three companies; Cougar RED, Great British Sports Cars and Norton Motorcycles, [...]
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Yorkshire Building Society Acquire Egg Business
Posted on 25. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Citigroup has sold the mortgage and savings business of its Derby-based subsidiary Egg to the Yorkshire Building Society. The deal also includes the Egg brand.
The news puts hundreds more jobs under threat in Derby.
Citigroup sold its Egg credit card portfolio to Barclays earlier in the year, so has now effectively broken up the popular internet [...]
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Thameslink Protest To Go Ahead In Derby
Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by editor.
A huge rally will take place in Derby on Saturday to protest against the government’s decision to award the Thameslink rail contract to German firm Siemans, rather than Bombardier.
Since the decision, Bombardier has announced it will be cutting 1400 jobs from its Derby plant, which is a devastating blow for the East Midlands and one [...]
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Nottingham Law Firms Announce Merger
Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Having both been in the city since the 1800’s, two Nottingham law firms are set to merge in a deal that will create an eleven partner private practice.
Young & Pearce and Sharp & Partners, which between them have six locations in Nottinghamshire, including city centre offices in Talbot Street and Weekday Cross respectively, have this [...]
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Listed Retford Building Sold
Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by editor.
DTZ has sold a former bank premises in Nottinghamshire to a private individual for £225,000.
23-24 The Square is a four storey, Grade II listed Georgian building located in the market town of Retford and comprises 4,500 sq ft of retail and office space.
The building has planning permission for a ground floor extension and conversion to [...]
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Economic Outlook Report Predicts Modest Growth
Posted on 17. Jul, 2011 by editor.
According to PwC’s latest UK Economic Outlook report, economic growth in the East Midlands is forecast to remain modest, rising to 1.5% in 2011 and 2.3% in 2012, only slightly ahead of the projected national growth rates for both years (1.3% and 2.2% respectively).
The report concludes that, nationally, the modest rate of UK GDP growth [...]
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Wells McFarlane To Manage Rural Business Park
Posted on 17. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Lutterworth based commercial property management and chartered surveyors, Wells McFarlane has been appointed to let and manage one of Leicestershire’s most attractive and historic rural business parks, Dovecote Court at Potters Marston.
The business park comprises a number of high specification offices which have been sympathetically restored and converted, set in the attractive courtyard of Potters [...]
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emda’s Legacy to Live On at Nottingham Trent University
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by editor.
East Midlands Development Agency (emda) has signed a unique agreement to transfer its knowledge legacy to Nottingham Trent University.
emda will be closing in March 2012, and in order to ensure that the knowledge created through the Agency’s activities can continue to be made available to partners including Local Authorities and Local Enterprise Partnership (LEPs), it [...]
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Rate of Growth Remains Solid in the East Midlands
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by editor.
The latest Lloyds TSB East Midlands PMI report pointed to further solid increases in both output and new orders, although rates of expansion eased since the previous month. Meanwhile, the rate of job creation remained at a near-record high during the month.
Inflationary pressures eased further from the highs seen earlier in the year.
Although the headline [...]
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Haulage Firm Take New Delivery
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by editor.
Sherwood Truck and Van, the East Midlands commercial vehicle group, has supplied six Iveco Stralis Active Space trucks to haulage firm IMR Transport.
They are now part of IMR’s 50-strong fleet operating from its base in Coventry Lane, Bramcote, near Nottingham.
IMR owner Ian Robertson said the Iveco Stralis AS440S45TXP was an impressive vehicle but he had [...]
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