A group made up of manufacturing firms from the Midlands will unveil more than £1.5 million of new technologies at the forthcoming MACH 2012 event.Read
Britain’s biggest banks lost £2 billion from their combined market value today as fears over Spain’s creaking finances saw investors dump financial stocks.Read
Prudent borrowers in the West Midlands are shunning high-cost credit and are more likely to ask for a loan from the bank or their family, according to a survey.Read
An historic Jewellery Quarter firm that made the winners’ medals for the 1908 London Olympics has hit out at the lack of merchandising contracts awarded to UK companies for the 2012 Games.Read
Electric vehicle firm Zytek Automotive has more than doubled turnover in the last two years – and has promised to develop the technology to make electric cars sexy.Read
A Birmingham-based family firm has triumphed over a host of “big players” in the utilities sector by landing a £10 million gas servicing contract with a Midland housing association.Read
Gold exploration firm Hummingbird Resources (HUM) has revealed “one of the fastest growing gold resources in Africa” amid a successful first quarter.Read
Aerospace firm Umeco – which supplies components for Formula One racing cars – is set to be taken over by a chemicals-maker in a £274 million deal.Read
Measures to make it easier for businesses to hire – and fire – staff would help ease the unemployment crisis according to business leaders in the region.Read
