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Rochdale's town centre Renault dealership PGC has ceased trading and 17 employees are to lose their jobs in the run up to Christmas. The family run Molesworth Street company...
Date Published 01/12/2008
A Stakehill business depot has collapsed – leaving a number of warehouse staff jobless just a fortnight before Christmas. Workers from A Novo, a multimedia and...
Lorry drivers who are contracted to Woolworths have been told they have 30 days before being shown the door. Wincanton transport, which employs hundreds of lorry drivers who...
A new set of healing hands have opened up in Milnrow. Physio Works is a healthy hybrid of physiotherapists, including sports injury specialists, foot health practitioners, and...
Date Published 27/11/2008
Local small businesses are being invited to find out about becoming a supplier of products or services for Rochdale Borough Council at a special event at the Town Hall this coming...
Date Published 21/11/2008
The Regenda Group’s regeneration housing development on Halifax Road, Hamer in Rochdale, beat off stiff competition to win a “Silver International Green Apple Award for...
The Government is launching the Aspire Fund - a £25 million investment fund for women-led businesses - to be jointly funded by the Government and private sector. Shriti Vadera,...
Date Published 20/11/2008
The Manchester Evening News is 'fighting for its survival' amidst the biggest financial crisis to hit the local newspaper industry for thirty years. Carolyn McCall, chief...
Date Published 14/11/2008
An open evening will be held at Rochdale Training in Fishwick Street on Thursday 27 November 27, 5-8pm, to help school leavers and their parents find out more about...
Date Published 13/11/2008
Budding Rochdale entrepreneurs will be able to get free advice when the Enterprise Bus comes to town next week. The bus, which is the brainchild of Business Support Solutions...
Date Published 11/11/2008
The outlook is gloomy for North West businesses, according to the latest regional economic survey. Chambers of Commerce North West’s Quarterly Economic Survey reveals that UK...
Date Published 05/11/2008
North West Labour Euro MP, and Labour’s Chair of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, Arlene McCarthy MEP, will lead a vote on toy safety standards in her...
Date Published 03/11/2008
The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce has launched an online survey on the region's Transport Innovation Fund and congestion charge proposals. The propsals, which could...
It’s not easy running a business right now – but do you know about all the help that’s available to you? Independent companies across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are...
Date Published 30/10/2008
Tenon Group plc has announced that it will be launching Tenon Capital Management Limited (“TenonCap”), a fund management business which intends to raise a new fund, T-Fund LP (the...
Rochdale Council say that there is lots of help and support available to help you or your business during the current economic downturn and they have provided a list of facilities...
Date Published 29/10/2008
Woolworths in Castleton, one of the town's largest employers, has cancelled its retirees Christmas lunch this year. Rochdale Online received a copy of a letter today (Wednesday...
Rochdale’s Zen Internet has been named North West Business of the Year in the 2008 British Chambers of Commerce Awards. The judges were impressed by Zen’s entry and described...
Date Published 28/10/2008
Levels of pay are not keeping pace with inflation, according to this year’s North West Wages Survey. The survey shows that, despite record inflation rates, fewer employers are...
Following news last week that JD Sports are thought to be the potential buyers for a new plot at Kingsway, Heywood Township Chairman, Councillor Alan McCarthy, has expressed his...
Date Published 27/10/2008
More than 300 people have found employment in the construction sector thanks to J21 in Oldham and Rochdale and hundreds more have received training in the skills the construction...
Date Published 24/10/2008
It’s not an easy time for small businesses in Rochdale so the council is urging firms to make sure they’re claiming any business rate discounts that they might be entitled...
JD Sports Fashion is believed to be the latest company to move to the Kingsway Business Park. It is thought that the sports clothing manufacturers are behind Wilson Bowden...
Rochdale based Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISP), has been awarded the ‘ISP of the Year’ at the Custom PC Awards, held last week. The...
Date Published 21/10/2008
Greater Manchester Chamber has welcomed Government and Opposition support for small businesses. Chris Fletcher, Deputy Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Chamber, said:...
The editorial director of the Manchester Evening's News' weekly newspapers, which includes the Rochdale Observer, has been made redundant. Richard Catlow leaves the newspaper...
Mags Smith, former deputy headteacher of All Saint’s Primary School, has entered a new profession. She is now training teachers all over the UK in how best to manage young...
Date Published 20/10/2008
Wilson Bowden Developments and the North West Development Agency, in partnership with the Rochdale Development Agency and Rochdale Council, have submitted a planning application...
MFI have confirmed that their Rochdale store is to close down. Rochdale Online reported three weeks ago that the store would soon close down. MFI's administrators, Kroll, have...
Date Published 17/10/2008
Supporters of the Kingsway Business Park are backing the project to thrive in the face of adversity as the economic recession kicks in over the next couple of years. Speakers...
Date Published 16/10/2008