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The Government has announced plans to replace Regional Development Agencies with Local Economic Partnerships. The North West Development Agency (NWDA) said it had now...
Date Published 27/07/2010
Arras People, the Project Management Recruitment specialists, based in Heywood, have been awarded accredited supplier status by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Date Published 26/07/2010
A number of jobs are under threat as Middleton’s largest employer, McBride’s, carries out a reorganisation of the firm. The company which produces household goods is currently...
Date Published 23/07/2010
Cleansing products conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser has agreed a £2.5 billion deal to snap up the consumer goods group behind Durex and Scholl footcare. Reckitt will pay 1163p a...
Date Published 22/07/2010
A Rochdale business owner has raised concerns over the Metrolink plans and what it means for her firm. Norma Brown, and her husband Bob Brown run Honnor Marine Ltd which is...
Date Published 21/07/2010
A Heywood firm has completed a major expansion project which has seen it boost staff and move to a new base. Commercial Catering Spares (CC Spares) has been working with the...
Martin Yaffe International, the family-owned toy distributor based in Rochdale, has been placed into administration. Administrators at Manchester-based Leonard Curtis have...
Date Published 19/07/2010
Webbs Support Services in Littleborough has recently been accredited from two separate programmes. The firm has received accreditation from SAFEcontractor, a programme which...
Date Published 14/07/2010
Fineline showrooms on Featherstall Road, Littleborough had a special open-day today (Saturday 10 July 2010) following an eight week refurbishment. The deceptive three storey...
Date Published 10/07/2010
A Rochdale plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 after a Portuguese cleaner was crushed to death by a pallet of bags weighing nearly one and a half tonnes.
Date Published 07/07/2010
Business men and women from across the borough were given the chance to ask the council their burning questions at a special breakfast meeting held this morning (Wednesday 7 July...
Work has started on the JD Sports warehouse on Kingsway Business Park. On Tuesday (29 June 2010) the sports company cut the first sod at its new 850,000sq ft development on...
Date Published 02/07/2010
Bluebird Brands will move its central office to Rochdale, where it will launch new ranges and open a new showroom. The company was formed in October 2009 and already holds...
Date Published 29/06/2010
The highly prestigious Business in the Community (BiTC) Excellence Awards 2010 has awarded The Co-operative Group four Big Ticks in recognition of the positive impact of its...
Date Published 25/06/2010
Rochdale businesswoman Andrea Bolton has acquired a franchise for the Leeds-based home-improvement website decision2day.com. It will go live on 1 July, and Ms Bolton will also...
To help build an economy that works for the North West, the Budget announces: A Regional Growth Fund will operate in England and support proposals from private and...
Date Published 22/06/2010
RSM Tenon early reaction to the Emergency Budget. On any analysis the Budget which we have just heard was extraordinary. It was not just the scale of the cuts and tax...
Business Link outline how the Budget, announced today, (Tuesday 22 June 2010) will affect businesses.
An investigation into Rochdale-based solar-energy firm SPWEC, has found that it took more than £60,000 from customers, most of whom never got what they paid for. A winding-up...
Date Published 18/06/2010
Richard Tang, Founder and Managing Director of Zen Internet, has been named North and Midlands Regional winner of Ernst and Young Customer Service Entrepreneur of the Year. Ernst...
In the last of their pre-Budget alerts RSM Tenon cover personal taxes: The top rate of tax The 50% rate has now been in operation for a few months – the big question is how...
Date Published 16/06/2010
In this pre-Budget alert RSM Tenon cover business taxes: Rates One of the coalition’s early commitments was a reduction in the headline rate of corporation tax from 28% to...
Date Published 11/06/2010
Rochdale town centre has had a real shake-up after the opening of a milkshake store with a difference. John Fernandez, 32, and his wife Michaela, 36, both from Rochdale, deal in...
Date Published 08/06/2010
Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has appointed Mark Bulmer as its new Bid Manager. The Bid Management role is a new appointment for Zen and...
Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISP) is celebrating winning the Big Break category at the Greater Manchester Employer Coalition (GMEC) awards....
Date Published 07/06/2010
Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), based in Rochdale is doubling its monthly download usage allowances for Zen Lite, Zen Active, Zen Pro and...
Free speech advocates have been given a boost by the publication of Lord Lester’s Private Member’s Defamation Bill. The Bill, which had its first reading last week, seeks to...
Date Published 04/06/2010
A dedicated New Business and Regeneration Unit is to deliver a fresh approach to regeneration. The new unit incorporates Business Development, Priority Areas, Money Matters and...
Date Published 28/05/2010
Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISP) is celebrating winning the Big Break category at the Greater Manchester Employer Coalition (GMEC) awards.
Date Published 27/05/2010
A Rochdale plastics-recycling firm has been fined £15,000 after a worker had parts of two fingers cut off by blades on a high-speed fan. The employee, who has asked not to be...
Date Published 26/05/2010
