Organisers of a new initiative to encourage start-ups and support small businesses say it has the potential to develop almost 70 new businesses and safeguard 1,000 jobs in Warwickshire.Read
Five new members of staff are set to join Worcester Business School this September as it prepares to move into the university’s new city campus next year.Read
Entrepreneurs are being deterred from entering online markets because of misinformed attitudes towards the cost of owning a website, according to new research.Read
Chief executives of smaller companies received average pay rises of over 10 per cent last year, boosting basic pay to almost £200,000, according to a new report.Read
Development agency Advantage West Midlands will invest £300,000 into the Wheels to Work service – which provides mopeds for people to travel to work – despite funding cutbacks.Read
Researchers for a new study claim 44 per cent of people in the Midlands believe not enough is being done by Government, schools, universities and employers to help new graduates get their first jobs.Read
Building industry body ConstructionSkills has secured £1 million to fund construction companies in the West Midlands to take on apprentices who have been laid-off during the recession. Read
Three young entrepreneurs are making a success of a Black Country architectural practice after the previous owner literally sailed off into the sunset.Read
Shrewsbury’s £3.5 million Rural Enterprise Centre celebrated its official opening this week with news that more than 100 people are employed at the Battlefields site.Read
Some managers are targeting job candidates made redundant by rival firms, dispelling the “myth” that there is a stigma to losing your job, according to new research.Read
Six colleges and training providers are to get extra government funding for training to help people in the West Midlands who have lost their jobs or are facing redundancy get back into work.Read
