Marketing Stockport Limited was officially launched on 31st October with the publication of the website. Marketing Stockport is an independent, inclusive, non-political organisation, set up by three Stockport-based business people, with one objective: to drive greater awareness of and encourage … [Read more...]
Marketing Stockport News
Local Business Accelerator Scheme announces more opportunities for SMEs
The Local Business Accelerator scheme is an initiative by the regional press industry to boost local businesses, fronted by the Dragons' Den's Deborah Meaden and supported by the Business in You. The initiative offers small businesses aged between one and five years old the opportunity to win … [Read more...]
Two thirds of retailers agree rates rise will hit jobs
Following our report where Mary Portas agrees with local MP Ann Coffey that a hike in Business Rates would have a dire impact on local town centres, around seventy per cent of retailers believe another business rates rise would stunt job creation and resut in less investment in new … [Read more...]
Bristol cafe-bar chain Loungers aims to double up
Bristol-based cafe and bar chain Loungers £16m investment from Piper Private Equity in April of this year is going to help the chain to more than double its outlets to 50 over the next three to five years. Loungers opened its first site in Bristol in 2002 and now has 20 Lounges – … [Read more...]
M60 Reopened Ahead of Schedule
Weekend work to install a new bridge on the M60 this weekend has been completed 8 hours ahead of schedule, lessening disruption to drivers. The M60 was due to be closed for 24 hours, in both directions between junctions five and eight, from 22:00 GMT on Saturday but instead it was able to open on … [Read more...]
November business events
Business events for November. Stockport Breakfast Club Date: Thursday 8 November 2012 Time: 7.15am - 9.00am Place: Alma Lodge Hotel, Stockport SK2 6EL Stockport Breakfast Club's November speaker is Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce's Stockport President … [Read more...]
Veterinary Group Open New Centre in Cheadle
The Woodcroft Veterinary Group has opened it's latest centre in Cheadle, bringing the total number of clinics to seven in the south Manchester Area. The new £1.3m branch has state-of-the-art facilities including a digital x-ray machine, hydrotherapy pool, two operating theatres and an … [Read more...]
Stockport’s Vintage Village Market – ‘Best in Greater Manchester’
Stockport's monthly Vintage Village Market has been awarded 'Best in Greater Manchester' by VintageManchester.com at a ceremony held in Manchester's Matt & Phred's in the Northern Quarter. The Vintage Village, run by Alan Lowe and Sarah Norris, is held on the second Sunday of every … [Read more...]
Mary Portas disputes delay in rate review wil benefit town centres
Retail tsar, Mary Portas, the name behind Stockport's winning Portas Pilot scheme, agrees with local MP Ann Coffey that the government's delay in reviewing business rates until 2017 will do nothing to aid the recovery of the UK's High Streets and town centre communities. She has said that … [Read more...]
EHL Ingredients serves up record sales
EHL INGREDIENTS, set up 18 years ago and whose Head Office is at Broadstone Mill in Stockport, has served up record results with an impressive year-on-year increase of 20% as sales of its seeds, dried fruits, spices and pulses imported from around the world exceed £5m for the first … [Read more...]
Seven big in-house marketing challenges
The prominence of agencies in today's digital marketing ecosystem is not surprising: the digital marketing landscape is so complex and seemingly all-encompassing that moving forward alone simply doesn't seem like a viable option. Agencies aren't perfect, however, and companies that believe … [Read more...]
Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner candidates
Elections will be held in November to choose police and crime commissioners who will replace police authorities currently in charge of 41 forces in England and Wales. PCCs, as they will be known, will be responsible for setting priorities for their police force, overseeing its budget and … [Read more...]