A senior Midland business leader has said firms are “right to be optimistic” after research showed they were taking the weak economic outlook in their stride.Read
Businesses welcomed the decision to press ahead with a new high speed rail line as “a fantastic day for the West Midlands” - but warned the Government must speed up plans to get the line built.Read
Editor Alun Thorne speaks to West Midlands businesses about how trading prospects have changed in light of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement which followed gloomy figures on the future of the country’s economy.
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Midland business leaders have said the Government is not doing enough to make the UK truly tax competitive – and a radical programme of business tax reductions is called for.Read
A high speed train service between Birmingham and London is far from a done deal and could be thrown off course by further deterioration in western economies, the chairman of Network Rail has warned.Read
Birmingham’s business community has been “inefficient” for years and “almost at war” with the Black Country, according to the city’s new Chamber of Commerce president.Read
Businesses throughout the West Midlands will be hit hard following the shock rise in inflation to 5.2 per cent, the president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has warned.Read
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