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Midlands Edition   Monday 6th February 2012   
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Editor's Choice

Ricoh - ACL

Man with a mission Daniel Gidney

Mind Your Business Interview with Daniel Gidney ...more

Mark Ansell

Former Aston Villa Chief Executive Mark Ansell has always been one to seize an opportunity ...more

Paul Kehoe - BIA - My Best & Worst Business Decisions

‘Paul Kehoe - My Best and Worst Business Decisions ...more

How to win at business - Llewela Bailey

Llewela Bailey is one of the most familiar faces in regional television, having worked as a main anchor woman for ITV Central in the West and East Midlands for two decades. Llewela's career began in the early Eighties when, after completing her journalist training at The London Broadcasting School, she worked for BBC local radio in Northampton and Nottingham, as a reporter and latterly news producer. In 1988, she entered the TV world as a sub-editor for ITV Central, becoming late news presenter in Birmingham a year later. By the mid-nineties she'd joined the main presentation team, and could be seen nightly on the station's flagship programme 'Central Tonight' alongside popular presenter Bob Warman. ...more

Drayton Manor celebrates 60 years of fun

Colin Bryan knows when his customers are happy – he can hear them screaming and shrieking as loudly as a World Cup stadium-full of vuvuzelas outside his office. ...more

The Urban Bakery

Being her own boss is the icing on the cake for Anne Marie ...more

The Budget - By Peter Bartram

The Budget

What will George Osborne’s Emergency Budget mean ...more

Forget the BANKER!

20 different ways to raise cash without the bank manager’s help by Peter Bartram ...more

No time to waste

Waste industry commentator Peter Jones OBE ...more

Chapter –  a Birmingham success story

Local creative talent... one to watch! ...more

Stuart Godman

Sent to Coventry!

City Link focuses its National Operations Hub at Coventry ...more

Feature Categories

  • Business Breaking News

    News sound bites that are headline grabbing

  • Business Start-Ups

    Experts from a cross-section of professions and sectors offer their experience and expertise from start-ups to executives planning their exit.

  • The Launch Pad

    *New for 2010*
    An insight into the start-ups that make it beyond the first lap in business. How the owners of these new companies have survived the pressures to get their companies through the initial trauma of launching a new business.

  • Business Finance

    Our qualified legal experts will not just write about the topical legal issues facing businesses but invites readers to send in their questions.A must read in today’s increasing litigious business environment.

  • How To Win At Business

    Top impartial advice and proven tactics from men and women who have been at the top – and stayed there! Winners in business advising those who want to win!

  • How I Made It

    Exclusive interviews with self-made men and women in business whose entrepreneurial skills helped them climb the career ladder to the top.

  • Cover Feature

    Spotlight on the men and women whose business acumen justifies front page billing… Mind Your Business pulls no punches with its questions to the individuals who make the headlines.

  • Techno File

    Whether you are a ‘Techie’ or suffer from ‘Techno-Fear’ this is the gadget page for you with new and off the wall gizmos to improve your efficiency or just simply to amuse!

  • (NOT) Nine To Five

    *New for 2010*
    Focus on the busy executives working day (and night!)

  • Business Expert

    *New for 2010*
    Sound knowledge from hand picked local business guru’s happy to share their expertise from tax issues to sales training.

  • Executive Health

    You may know how to organise a balance sheet but is your health top of the agenda? This new column offers a number of tips to improve your general well-being as well as your business health.

  • Legal Eagle

    Our qualified legal experts will not just write about the topical legal issues facing businesses but invites readers to send in their questions.A must read in today’s increasing litigious business environment.

  • Best & Worst Decisions

    Key business figures share their best and worst business decisions

  • Movers & Shakers

  • Marketing Mix

    We ask a cross section of marketing experts from the fields of PR, Advertising, Creative Marketing and Telesales just what is the best marketing mix for businesses large and small. Our marketing experts will battle out their views in a series of hard hitting articles.

  • After Hours

    A leisure section with a difference to help busy executives and managers wind down after hours. The latest news from restaurants, bars, theatres and sporting venues and late night entertainment.

  • Diners Directory

    *New for 2010*
    Want to be ‘in the know’ about the best restaurants and bars for quality food, service and value for money? Our ‘undercover customers’ highlight the -good, bad and the plain awful from the local cuisine scene...

  • Lifestyle

    How do you juggle a busy business career with a quality lifestyle. Our lifestyle coaches will help point you in the right direction of quality time – achieving the correct career/ work balance that we are all seeking.

  • Motoring

    The new Mind Your Business is going into top gear (literally) with a new regular feature on all aspects of motoring – from in depth road tests of the latest models from the manufacturers to ‘must have’ accessories.We will be inviting guest writers from the world of motoring to give their views and our ‘Legal Beagle’ will be advising readers on the daily battle to keep within the law and the penalties if you don’t!

  • Women in Business

    Women are having an increasing influence whether in the boardroom or heading their own successful start-ups. Mind Your Business will highlight the female executives and entrepreneurs who are hitting the headlines with their success stories and will outline their formulas for success.

  • Education

    *New for 2010*

  • Waste Management

    *New for 2010*

  • Go Green

    *New for 2010*