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North West SMEs completed 88 equity deals in Q1-Q3 2023, a 27% decrease compared to the equivalent period in 2022, according to a report from the British Business Bank. The fall in the number of deals comes alongside a 64% fall in total investment, down to £175.3 million in the same period. The … [Read more...]

Customer Experience (CX) specialists, Insight6, explain the return on investment (ROI) of investing in making your customers happy. Ready to supercharge your revenue? Forrester reveals that businesses prioritising customer experience (CX) grow their revenue 1.7 times faster than those that … [Read more...]

Ahead of their upcoming Rise seminar, Drivers for Growth, Stockport accountants Hallidays explains the factors that contribute to business success. We’ll let you into a secret. You don’t need to be a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs, or even a Richard Branson, to turn your vision into enviable … [Read more...]

Stockport Council has set its 2024/25 Revenue Budget following approval at the Budget Council meeting held on Thursday, 22 February 2024. Cllr Mark Hunter, Leader of Stockport Council, said: “Everybody knows how challenging the financial situation is for local authorities at the moment as the … [Read more...]

Hallidays’ popular Rise with Xeinadin business support programme will hold its next session on 12th March on the topic of ‘Drivers of Growth’. After a chance to grab a coffee and network, Hallidays’ business advisors will spend the next two hours helping attendees to devise the actions to take to … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester has once again been named as top Large UK City for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the FDI Intelligence European Cities and Regions of the Future 2024 report. In the assessment of over 500 locations across Europe, the ranking once again recognises the city-region's strengths … [Read more...]

The UK economy entered a technical recession in second half of 2023, after recording two consecutive quarters of negative growth, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed. The latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures from the ONS reveal the UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the … [Read more...]

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Office of National Statistics' (ONS) headline rate of inflation, has held at 4% in January, despite forecasts predicting a small rise. A small rise in inflation in January had been expected as a result of the increase in Ofgem's energy price cap pushing up … [Read more...]