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Friday Feb 3 2012
This week our intrepid diarist forgoes his usual city haunts for a dose of country life - and muck-raking of a different kind.Birmingham Press Club legend Hazel Horton Peppercorn, is promising me load...
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Friday Feb 3 2012
SOLIHULL pubco Enterprise Inns has sold 15 pubs to rival Fuller Smith & Turner for £22.9m. The portfolio comprises 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs in the west and south west of England and Fuller&...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
JAGUAR Land Rover has announced it is to recruit its largest ever intake of apprentices.The automotive firm is set to take on a record 133 apprentices for its 2012 training programme, beating last yea...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
THE Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership has marked its first year of operation by claiming it has secured around £100m of investment for the area.The LEP said it had also helped to deliver one ...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
NINE West Midlands companies are featured in the Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 league table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private equity-backed companies with the fastest-growing profits (...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
A TRANSACTION which saw three Midlands professional firms working together to instigate and drive an international takeover has won TheBusinessDesk.com’s Deal of the Month for January 2012.Cobbe...
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Friday Feb 3 2012
TRANSPORT authority Centro has opted for a Spanish manufacturer in a £40m deal to build its replacement fleet of trams for the Midland Metro.The body said its preferred bidder for the new multi-millio...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
CITY mayoral candidate Siôn Simon is calling for Birmingham City Council’s major outsourced contracts to be independently audited.The former government minister and MP for Erdington argues such ...
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Thursday Feb 2 2012
MEDICAL technology group Smith & Nephew, whose UK orthopaedics operation is based at Warwick Technology Park, has seen good revenue performance during 2011 set against a challenging market backdrop. ...
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Wednesday Feb 1 2012
BIRMINGHAM City Council has signed a landmark deal to secure the future of public golf courses in the local authority area.The council has signed a multi-million pound deal with London-based social en...
