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Gary Houghton has been appointed Baker Tilly’s Head of Corporate Finance for the North-West region. Gary joined Baker Tilly in 1997, and has extensive experience of working...
Date Published 18/01/2014
Commenting on the speech by the Leader of the Opposition, Darrell Matthews, North West Region Director for EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: “Ed Miliband has set out...
A Rochdale-based re-upholstery firm and company director have been fined after workers were exposed to potentially-deadly asbestos fibres for nearly five years. Mansfield Soft...
Date Published 17/01/2014
Mary Portas' 'Great British knicker experiment', in which Portas aimed to revive the UK's textile industry, trying to prove it is still possible to make affordable, quality...
Just before Christmas the government launched “Building a Responsible Payment Culture”, a 24 question consultation on all issues around the thorny subject of late payment.
Date Published 15/01/2014
The Chamber has published some of the strongest Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) results since the survey began. The results for Q4 of 2013 were revealed by the Chamber’s Chief...
GJD Manufacturing of Heywood and Harper Chalice Group of Coventry have announced a new strategic partnership where their respective strengths and product ranges have been combined...
Team members at the Wilko store in the Wheatsheaf Centre, Rochdale, are offering a helping hand to community groups and charities in the area who need extra support in 2014....
RRG Toyota has become the first organisation in Rochdale to sign the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. The signing of the covenant by the leading car dealer on Edinburgh Way,...
Date Published 14/01/2014
AMR Textiles Ltd has been fined for safety failings after an employee from Middleton was injured when he was dragged into a machine. The 25-year-old, who has asked not to be...
Date Published 10/01/2014
Commenting on yesterday’s trade data, Darrell Matthews, North West Region Director of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: “While today’s figures show an overall...
A Rochdale apprentice has won BMW’s Service Technician Apprentice of the Year award. Andrew, who works at the Williams Rochdale workshop, was chosen as the winner of the...
Date Published 09/01/2014
As business optimism grows in the North West, Clive Drinkwater, Regional Director of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) North West is urging companies to expand their horizons in 2014...
Date Published 08/01/2014
The majority of independent businesses in the town centre have reported "average" trading figures over the festive season, however, one business, Denis Hope on Drake Street, has...
Date Published 07/01/2014
Heywood based company Pillar Wedge has helped to upgrade the Silver Jubilee Bridge in Runcorn. The firm galvanized 100 tonnes of structural steel for the renovation of the...
Two trainees at Baker Tilly’s office in Rochdale have passed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales exams. The exams provide the penultimate step for...
Crown Trade Decorating Centre in Rochdale has won Branch of the Year at the Crown Decorating Centres Sustainable Growth Event. Manager of Rochdale Crown Decorating Centre,...
Date Published 06/01/2014
Britain’s manufacturers are expecting an improved outlook in 2014 which should lead to growth in exports to emerging markets and a turnaround in investment, according to a major...
Suprafilt, a design and engineering company based in Rochdale, has secured a £1m contract to work on an upgrade of the town’s water system. The company, which started work on...
Date Published 03/01/2014
The latest flooding crisis has once again highlighted the Government’s over-reliance on electronic communication, says the CLA in the North. With 21 severe flood warnings and...
Commenting on todays PMI data, Darrell Matthews, North West Region Director at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, said: “Manufacturers ended the year on a strong note and...
Date Published 02/01/2014
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging businesses to focus on their legal responsibility to ensure lives are not put at risk and make the safety of workers their top...
Date Published 30/12/2013
New ‘challenger’ banks will find it easier to check credit worthiness of potential business customers making it easier to provide finance, under new proposals published by the...
Date Published 27/12/2013
Local Peugeot Dealership, RRG Rochdale, has donated £150 in high street shopping vouchers to Fairfield Hospital as a festive goodwill gesture this Christmas. The vouchers were...
Date Published 26/12/2013
Businesses are being warned to beware of the latest scam which is targetting small businesses and fleecing them of hundreds of pounds. Rochdale Council’s public protection...
Date Published 24/12/2013
Water bosses are urging the North West's businesses to get lagging - and avoid the misery of mopping up a wet and washed-out new year. Every year many small businesses shut up...
Date Published 23/12/2013
David Chad, a partner at AST Hampsons, is retiring from his role as a solicitor. David qualified as a solicitor in 1984 having worked at solicitors Temperley Taylor in the...
Date Published 20/12/2013
Quality Solicitors, AST Hampsons has welcomed a new solicitor to their team, Jenny Doran, who has joined the firm in October as a Commercial Property Solicitor. Jenny, who...
Users of a car park on Water Street in Rochdale Town Centre have been thanked for their custom this year by being given an early Christmas present. Users of the car park were...
NMIPS Group, Rochdale has raised over £500 for When You Wish Upon A Star. A Christmas party, which was held on Friday 13 December, saw staff members dress up as superheroes and...
