A well-known city entrepreneur has acquired an established name in the Birmingham retail sector with a view to breathing new life back into the business.Read
West Midland business leaders say the increase in VAT brought into force at the start of the year has created an administrative headache and impacted on high street sales.Read
A new £4.6 million medical technologies support programme has been launched in the West Midlands to boost small businesses in the region’s growing medical technologies field.Read
Five teams of community-minded school-children teenagers have secured funding for a series of projects aimed at improving public perceptions about young people.Read
After socialising with friends and colleagues over the Christmas break, it seems that many business owners are expecting another tough year, talking trouble ahead and bracing themselves for more pain.Read
New figures suggest that more candidates from the business world are putting themselves forward as prospective MPs because they are disillusioned with enterprise policies.Read
Universities in the region are opening the doors of their laboratories to local hi-tech small and medium-sized firms as part of a £20million research programme into advanced materials.Read
Employers across the West Midlands have been told to improve workplace safety after new statistics showed 13,106 people were killed or injured at work in the region in 2008/09.Read
Hundreds more new jobs have been created at a rapidly growing Staffordshire insurance company which continues to defy the recession and has now moved into new, purpose-fitted offices.Read
Entrepreneurs have been warned to keep a tight rein on cash flow in the new year as the cost of running a small business in the Midlands is set to rise sharply on the back of rising commodity prices.Read
A surprise tax measure in the pre-budget report means now could be the time for innovation-focused Midlands SMEs to start reinvesting in research and development, according to experts.Read
Liberal Democrat Shadow Business Minister Lorely Burt has called on ministers not to end many of the schemes that have been helping businesses get through the recession.Read
