Business ideas in a wide range of markets will compete for the £15,000 prize package, organisers of the 2015 Spark Business Idea Competition at Stockport Business and Innovation Centre (SBIC) announced today. Left: A year’s free tenancy at the stylish Stockport Business Innovation … [Read more...]
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VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN STOCKPORT
Stockport Council, along with its partners has organised a very special range of events to celebrate the 70th anniversary of VE Day. 8th May – 2 minutes silence at 3pm Beacon Lighting Ceremony and Tribute from 9.15pm (beacon lighting taking place at 9.30pm) Left: Stockport Street … [Read more...]
LOCAL COMPANY DIRECTOR GUILTY OF PRODUCT SAFETY OFFENCES
Following an earlier trial, Mr Haiwen Yang, director of HL trading Ltd, was sentenced yesterday at Manchester Crown Court, Minshull Street for five offences committed under the Consumer Protection Act 1987. Left: Trading Standards Officers from Stockport Council raided Mr Yang’s … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT COUNCIL AND PARTNERS SUPPORT WORLD ASTHMA DAY – TODAY!
Stockport Council, together with the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, are supporting World Asthma Day - today, Tuesday 5 May. World Asthma Day is an annual event organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), which aims at improving asthma … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT ACCOUNTANTS ANNOUNCE NEW DIRECTOR
Hallidays Accountants have promoted Nichola Coles from Client Manager to Director, a move that sees the company expand from seven to eight Directors and means they can boast that five of their top team trained within the firm! Nichola joined Hallidays in 2006, qualifying as an accountant in 2010 … [Read more...]
MICHELLE HAY WINS TRAINING WORK FOR HUGHES SAFETY SHOWERS
Stockport’s health and safety training expert Michelle Hay has partnered with fellow Marketing Stockport member Hughes Safety Showers to deliver training to their staff working at their manufacturing base in Bredbury on working safely resulting in their CIEH Health and Safety in the Workplace … [Read more...]
MAY’S TAX TIPS FROM CLARKE NICKLIN
May's tax tips from Clarke Nicklin's include this month's key tax dates; P11D & P9D submissions; VAT-MOSS; ATED Reporting; Auto-Enrolment exemptions? and this month's Question & Answer session ... May's Tax Dates ... 2 - Last day for car change notifications in the … [Read more...]
CLOUD SERVICES SKY HIGH FOR SMEs
An increasing amount of SMEs are abandoning traditional desktop computers in favour of the cloud, according to a new study from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) as reported by smeinsider.com. IT infrastructure spending has risen astronomically, with spending by public and private cloud … [Read more...]
MANCHESTER AIRPORT CELEBRATES ABOLITION OF APD FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12
From today the millions of families that fly through Manchester Airport, the UK’s global gateway from the North, will benefit from the abolition of Air Passenger Duty (APD) for children under the age of 12. For some families this will cut the cost of going on holiday by hundreds of pounds. … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT BUSNESS COMMUNITY CELEBRATES DOUBLE LAUNCH DAY!
In this week's Stockport Express Business section - the 2015 Stockport Business Awards launched at Infiniti's spartkling showrooms at S.Park and Vision Stockport's launch attracts great support from businesses. … [Read more...]
AIRPORT CITY FLYING HIGH AFTER CHINESE TOUR
A four-city tour of China promoting Manchester’s multi-million pound Airport City scheme has generated scores of enquiries from the country’s e-commerce and information technology companies, according to Movehut - the commercial property website (see link below). Reporting back on … [Read more...]
PODIUM AT SILVERSTONE FOR HUGHES SPEEDWORKS MOTORSPORT
The Hughes/Speedworks Motorsport squad were on 'home soil' for their latest endurance outing, as they tackled the Dunlop 24 Hours at Silverstone, finishing the round-the-clock contest a fine third place in class. The Stockport based team fielded an altered line-up from the one that raced at … [Read more...]