The North West Fund for Development Capital, launched in 2010 using £185m of European cash and designed to provide financial assistance to help established businesses in the north west grow, has failed to make the investments that it had anticipated resulting in its funds being cut from … [Read more...]
Marketing Stockport News
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...]
Stockport Business Expo
Stockport Business Expo: Organisers Plan Biggest Ever Business to Business Event in Stockport The organisers of the upcoming Stockport Business Expo are on target to deliver the biggest Business to Business event in Stockport for 2012. Taking place at Edgeley Park Football Stadium on the 22nd … [Read more...]
Manufacturing is making UK comeback says professor
Textile and clothing manufacturing is returning to the UK as fashion trends change more frequently and overseas labour costs rise, according to a Manchester professor. See this weeks Stockport Express for the full story. … [Read more...]
Ryanair to expand routes from Manchester Airport
Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of budget airline Ryanair, has today announced it is to expand its operation, creating up to one thousand jobs at airports in Liverpool, Manchester and the East Midlands. Ryanair will be adding nine new services and adding two aircraft from summer 2013, at … [Read more...]
Plans for a new type of employment contract
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a new type of employment contract to be known as an employee-owner. Under the new contract employees will be able exchange some of their UK employment rights for shares in the business they work for. Gains on the disposal of the shares will be … [Read more...]
Stockport MP warns delay in rates review will affect HIgh Streets
Local Stockport MP Ann Coffey has warned 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 and called the decision the 'political equivalent of the poll tax'. Today's rates were set … [Read more...]
Kids Allowed expands into Stockport
Kids Allowed, the independent Manchester-based nursery chain is to create 50 jobs with the opening of its fifth site, this time in Stockport. The new nursery is being built on the former site of the Acton Court Hotel just a mile south of Stockport town centre and will have places for … [Read more...]
Hunt for A6-Manchester Airport relief road builder
Stockport Council is inviting firms to register for early contractor involvement in building a 10km dual carriageway from the A6 to Manchester Airport. The proposed relief road would bypass heavily-congested areas in Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme, Hazel Grove and Handforth. Stockport Council aims … [Read more...]
Robinsons kick off new partnership with Manchester FA
Robinsons Brewery have just announced a 3-year deal to partner the adult grassroots game in Greater Manchester with Manchester FA, the guardian of our national game in Greater Manchester and one of the biggest and most progressive of the football associations in the whole of the UK. It comes … [Read more...]
Stockport Safety Firm receives Second Queens Award
The JD Hughes Group of Bredbury, Stockport has received a Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2012 - Continuous Achievement. It is the second time the Company has received a Queen's Award and recognises an increase in exports of more than 200% over the previous six years. The … [Read more...]