A Test Match against India helped Warwickshire County Cricket Club achieve a 50 per cent rise in sales last year, but pre-tax losses rose to more than £500,000.Read
West Midlands businesses have been warned that the economy is edging ever closer to the “bottom of the economic cycle” – with more turmoil inevitable in coming months.Read
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon enjoyed some Christmas sales cheer but its chairman warned expansion plans may be scaled back in the face of more tax hikes.Read
Number Nine The Gallery walked off with the Birmingham Post readers’ best arts and entertainment venue at the seventh annual Best of Broad Street Awards.
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The prospects of finding a job are likely to get “much worse” in the face of fresh cuts in public spending this year, union leaders have warned ahead of new unemployment figures.Read
The founding family of the UK’s biggest fresh milk supplier is set to pocket nearly £100 million after agreeing to sell out to German giant Muller.Read
A start up recruitment firm, a business that produces Sri Lankan sauces and an event management company that specialises in bringing academics and businesses together have all been chosen as winners of the Local Business Accelerators 2011 competition.Read
The UK is likely to already be in recession, according to two highly regarded economic forecasters, as developments in the eurozone paralyse the country’s recovery.Read
A number of big name retailers and pub chains will reveal how they held up over the UK’s austerity Christmas, while easing inflation figures are set to underline declining pressure on for cash-strapped families.Read
NEW flats planned for the car park of Edgbaston cricket ground have been branded “inadequate” – leaving some tenants looking out on to the back of the venue’s stands, it has been claimed.Read
A Birmingham city centre housing project that has already seen more than 1,000 properties developed and sold has been given the go-ahead for the next phase of the scheme.
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Just 1,200 jobs across the entire West Midlands region were supported by the Government’s flagship jobs creation scheme, Treasury figures have revealed.Read
