Solutions SK's award-winning School Meals Team have been working with a food supplier to raise more than £550 for Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Charity. The team worked with Pasta King on a charity initiative in primary schools across the borough, to encourage children to eat … [Read more...]
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LEISURE PLANS FOR BRIDGEFIELD APPROVED
Stockport Council’s Executive has approved plans for a major leisure development in Stockport town centre, known as Bridgefield. Plans for the site - which is located between Merseyway Shopping centre and the M60 - include a nine-screen cinema, food and drink outlets, shops and a new … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT’S HILLGATE CLOSED TO MAKE BUILDING SAFE
Hillgate in Stockport will be closed with immediate effect until Monday 23rd December to allow a dangerous building to be made safe. Following an examination of the building by both Stockport Council and the building owners’ structural engineer it was agreed that immediate measures were … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT CAROL SERVICE RINGS OUT FOR CHARITY
Some of Stockport's finest voices joined together in a Carol Service to bring together the business community in celebration of Christmas and to raise funds for Mellor Country House. The Carol Service, arranged for local businesses by Marketing Stockport, was held in the splendour … [Read more...]
ROBINSONS BREWERY HOST MAN V FOOD
The American cult culinary TV series, ‘Man V Food’, has fast become a worldwide cultural touchstone, but how did local contestants cope with the mammoth meat feat dished up by Robinsons Visitors Centre in Stockport?!? On Tuesday the 17th December, Celebrity Chef Simon Rimmer put his … [Read more...]
THE FRESH GROUP JOINS UP WITH THE SKILLS SHOW
Following a highly successful event in 2012, full service creative communications agency The fresh Group was appointed to deliver the Special Events programme at The Skills Show for the second year. Taking place at The NEC Birmingham in November, The Skills Show is the UK’s largest skills and … [Read more...]
TRUST DIVES INTO DIVERSITY PROJECT FOR RIVERSIDE
Stockport-based Trust has dived into a new project for housing assciation Riverside and developed a range of posters that would appeal to the diverse range of Riverside communities. As well as being a housing association, Riverside offers volunteering opportunities that help their residents to … [Read more...]
HEATON MOOR DELI TO CREATE NEW JOBS IN MediaCityUK
Pokusevski’s Deli originally based in Heaton Moor has said that it will create at least ten new jobs as it takes a 25 year lease on a 1300 square foot property in MediaCityUK. Pokusevski’s, which has a deli and licensed café on Shaw Road and also runs a concession at Northern … [Read more...]
WILLIAMS’ CHAIRPERSON MARGARET ORTON-WILLIAMS MAINTAINS FESTIVE TRADITIONS
Williams’ chairperson Margaret Orton-Williams is personifying the firm’s family values and its tradition of wanting to share Christmas with all by baking and personally delivering mince pies for all 600 members of staff. Every year Mrs Orton-Williams, daughter of the company’s … [Read more...]
THIS WEEK’S STOCKPORT EXPRESS – BUSINESS NEWS
In this weeks business section - Doggy Daycare success moves to Stockport; England's 4 millionth affordable home opens in Marple; UK POS raises money for charity in 'Movember'; a Stockport Plant Hire firm hopes that its latest acquisition will lift sales and Marketing Stockport believes the … [Read more...]
BUSINESSES RAISE £1000s FOR CHARITY
A business networking group has pulled together to arrange a festive fundraiser for a local charity. The event, organised by The Social, an invitation-only networking group for those in the property & construction sectors, took place at the Castlefield Rooms in Manchester and raised thousands … [Read more...]
NEW CARIBBEAN ROUTES LAUNCH AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT
With Winter schedules now firmly in operation, November saw eighteen months of consecutive growth at Manchester Airport, with 1,313,810 passengers travelling through the UK’s third largest airport last month. The moving annual total of passengers is currently at 20,624,526, a rise of … [Read more...]