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Manufacturing and Skills

Manufacturing and skills news

Industry output rises for first time since March 2008

  • Midlands firm Hampson clinch Canadian jet contract
  • Depth of recession revealed as profitablity falls to 17 year low
  • Manufacturers' call to re-balance economy
  • More Manufacturing and Skills News

Automotive

Automotive news

International automotive consultancy Ricardo expand test facilities in Germany

  • Fleet manager urged to drive out mobile phone abusers
  • WTO warns countries act unfairly in trade restrictions
  • French aiming for bigger slice of supermini market
  • More Automotive News

Other UK Business

Other UK business news

Rent-to-own schemes help BrightHouse to hefty jump in profits

  • Business diary: Key events for the week ahead
  • Poundland moves in on more empty Woolworths stores
  • Sunnier weather and food help Greene King to £118m profit
  • More General Business News

Enterprise and SMEs

SME and Enterprise news

Handsworth business support centre closes

  • Diversifying initiatives as recession hits homes and offices
  • Timely loan from AWM helps Rugby firm Apec beat credit crunch
  • Asian business stars recognised at awards ceremony in Birmingham
  • More Enterprise News

Creative Industries

Media & Marketing

TV chef's ambitious expansion plans were almost a recipe for disaster

  • Trinity Mirror axes Midlands titles
  • Blockbusters help box office sales at Cineworld
  • UK advertising spending falls by 4.3 per cent
  • More Creative Industries News

Commercial Property

Commercial Property news

Ashford Construction collapse halts Rugby power worker college

  • Birmingham property businessman Richard Graves dies
  • UK construction sector is on a knife edge warns CIPS boss
  • Not all doom and gloom for commercial property in Midlands
  • More Commercial Property News

Financial news

Financial news

Cash in on Sharesave scheme

  • Investing in woodland and forestry schemes can end up being pulp fiction
  • Credit cost warning to 'rate tarts'
  • Workers spend larger chunk of year paying off interest on nation's debt
  • More Financial News

Legal

Legal news

College of Law students celebrate a year of success

  • Challinors to host series of employment law seminars
  • Hugh Goulbourne to lead Cobbetts low carbon energy practice
  • Business costs hit by increasing number of tribunals
  • More Legal News

Technology & innovation

E-Business

Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse agree partnership

  • Bidding war for T-Mobile likely
  • Sanderson Group see profits fall
  • Vodafone could buy T-Mobile - reports
  • More Technology & Innovation News

Emerging Markets

Emerging markets

Future of sector unclear after Iraq oil auction flop

  • Firms briefed on Qatar opportunities
  • Lloyds British Testing open new office in Ghana
  • EIU research highlights China's need to collaborate more
  • More Emerging Markets News

Environmental & sustainable industry

Green industries

BP goes on an economy drive

  • EDF Energy co-ordinating Green Britain Day
  • Living wall with 15,000 plants and shrubs installed at LG Arena
  • New UK jobs promised by future energies
  • More environmental and sustainable business news