Social media can be a very powerful tool in a company's marketing strategy but do you know how to get the most out of social media for business? We sat down with Stockport creative Aqua Design Group to talk about the pros and cons of a variety of social media platforms. LinkedIn For a platform … [Read more...]
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Belle Vue boss swaps four wheels for two wheels
Stockport transport company Belle Vue's boss Phil Hitchen swapped four wheels for two to cycle from his Greater Manchester home to Blackpool and back in aid of the hospital where he was once treated for cancer. Phil, aged 53, managing director of Stockport-based bus and coach hire firm Belle Vue … [Read more...]
HMRC issue Making Tax Digital Stakeholder Comms Pack
HMRC have provided stakeholders with Making Tax Digital information to support businesses that need to make the transition to digital VAT business record keeping and submission of VAT returns using MTD-compatible software from 1 April 2019. Most VAT-registered businesses with a taxable … [Read more...]
Microbrewery opening at Manchester Airport
The UK’s first airport microbrewery is set to open at the newly extended terminal 2 at Manchester Airport where beer produced on site will be available to passengers. Joseph Holt brewery and The Restaurant Group are opening The Bridgewater Exchange pub, the venue for Europe’s first … [Read more...]
Stockport’s flagship Aurora Business Park Fully Let
Aurora Business Park, created by Stockport Council as part of the £1 billion investment taking place across the town, has transformed a once derelict 18-acre site alongside the M60 into a thriving, high spec 145,000 sq ft industrial park. Businesses across the borough told the council … [Read more...]
Stockport businesses encouraged to support digital skills in schools
Stockport businesses are being encouraged to lead the digital skills revolution across the Northern Powerhouse and Greater Manchester by supporting digital skills training in Stockport primary schools. It's never too early to teach young people digital skills - so believes John Goodier, Google … [Read more...]
Equity Housing Group secure £55m refinancing package
Equity Housing Group, based in Stockport, has secured a £55m refinancing package to build more than 800 homes over the next five years. Equity’s lender NatWest has agreed to extend the term of an existing £20m loan and add £35m in additional debt. Equity manages and builds a range of … [Read more...]
Stockport saddles up for ‘Cycle to Work Day’
Promoted by Transport for Greater Manchester - TfGM - Stockport businesses are being encouraged support 'Cycle to Work Day' - to get on their bikes on Thursday August 8th. The UK's biggest community cycling event, Cycle to Work Day is for everyone. It doesn't matter if you haven't cycled in years … [Read more...]
Stockport organisations unite to help communities thrive
Local Stockport organisations - businesses, community and voluntary organisations and charities joined forces recently to support one another and help improve the lives of people across our borough. Over 50 Stockport organisations took park in the ‘Sector Connector’ event – which was delivered in … [Read more...]
Stockport firm one of UK’s Best Workplaces for women
Stockport based Rowlinson Knitwear recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women Stockport-based Rowlinson Knitwear has been recognised this week as the UK’s 5th Best Workplaces for Women in the small business category of the Great Place to Work® Programme, joining an elite group of … [Read more...]
Stockport shortlisted in Future High Streets Fund
Stockport is one of 51 UK towns to be shortlisted to present a business case for a share of the £675m Future High Streets Fund. There were more than 300 bids to the Future High Street Fund, which was open to all 326 councils with planning powers – so at least 249 councils (83%) were … [Read more...]
Northern Powerhouse: Five years on
It’s been five years since George Osborne’s speech in Manchester coined the now often-used phrase ‘the Northern Powerhouse’. Loved and loathed in equal measures, it’s become the go-to shorthand for the mission to reinvigorate the North’s economies. A bid for the North to become greater than the sum … [Read more...]