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B&Q has confirmed their Rochdale store will be closing. The home improvement retailer said they would be seeking to redeploy as many employees as possible. Kingfisher, B&Q’s...
Date Published 30/09/2015
When one of Taiwan’s leading air and refrigeration compressor specialists required superior rotor milling capability, there was really only one choice: a 3EX-R rotor production...
Date Published 29/09/2015
As of today (29 September), there are 150,000 independent businesses operating out of Greater Manchester. According to data compiled by Inform Direct, the landmark firm...
More than 100 delegates attended the second Rochdale Business Forum on 23 September 2015 at Rochdale RUFC. The event emphasised the need for a new optimism in Rochdale’s...
Travelodge, the UK’s biggest independent hotel chain with 522 hotels, is looking for its first hotel in Rochdale as part of its plans to expand in Greater Manchester.
Date Published 28/09/2015
Classy Cakes is celebrating 10 years of business this week. To celebrate, the Littleborough shop will be offering free cake, champagne and strawberries to anyone who pops in...
Date Published 24/09/2015
The Rochdale Online Business Exhibition, now in its fifth year, saw 66 local businesses display and demonstrate their services to members of the public, as well as providing...
Date Published 23/09/2015
Sysop has been appointed by the North West Skills Development Network (‘the Network’) to deliver IT service management, ‘ITIL’ training for NHS IT and informatics professionals...
Rochdale is the top North West town to benefit from reduced business rateable values (RV) with a reduction of -40.20%. The new RVs will be introduced on 1 April 2017.
Date Published 21/09/2015
GJD recently achieved a high level recommended status in the Benchmark publication 'external detection’ group test. The company’s D-TECT 3 external detector achieved 83% in the...
Aspect has been chosen as one of 100 small businesses who are championing Small Business Saturday for 2015. The Littleborough and Wardle based business has been chosen as part...
Date Published 20/09/2015
Workplace pension law has changed and every employer will have to act to fulfil their new legal responsibilities, says Katie Bowmer at TBD Associates.
Date Published 19/09/2015
Gareth Mayers has joined construction and regeneration specialist Emanuel Whittaker as Health, Safety & Environment Advisor. Gareth, 26, who lives in Rochdale joins the company...
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has published a comprehensive study into current small businesses' opinion on the forthcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the...
Date Published 18/09/2015
Yearsley Group took on an extreme test of physical endurance, Tough Mudder, to help raise £60,000 to celebrate their 60 years in business. 13 members of staff from Yearsley...
Nine Chambers of Commerce representing over 16,000 businesses, who employ over 1.4m workers across the North of England, have produced a joint assessment of the considerable...
Date Published 17/09/2015
Norman Halsall, the owner of The Tanners Arms Pub on Whitworth Road, says that the current road works at Townhead junction are affecting business. Speaking to Rochdale Online,...
Date Published 16/09/2015
Argos Collect, a new branch of the digital retailer Argos will be coming to Littleborough soon. Located in Sainsbury’s on Hare Hill Road, Argos Collect will provide a local...
Rochdale Training celebrated the completion of the recently refurbished Training Centre on Fishwick Street on Friday 11 September. Employers and apprentices were joined by Simon...
Date Published 14/09/2015
Situated next door to the Co-Op Museum on Toad Lane, The Baum opened its doors on 1 September 1980 as a small local pub. Since then, the pub has become one of Rochdale’s finest...
Hundreds of eager customers lined the streets to be the first into the new Aldi store on Mellor Street on Thursday (10 September). The store officially opened at 8am, but many...
Date Published 11/09/2015
Evans, the fashion retailer located in The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre, will close down on Saturday 19 September 2015.
Brown’s Handcrafted Cakes, owned by Natasha Brown, in St. Mary’s Gate, Rochdale, has been crowned the nation’s Celebration Cake Business of the Year at the Baking Industry Awards...
Date Published 10/09/2015
Rochdale businesswoman Charlene Wallis has been nominated for an Enterprise Vision Award. Charlene, 27, from Syke, runs Diamond Dazzle Hair and Accessories stall in Bolton...
The CLA in the North has recruited a new Territory Manager to work in Lancashire and Cumbria. John Clarke, 38, joins the CLA, which represents landowners, farmers and rural...
Date Published 09/09/2015
The Government must end unfairness against small family businesses if it is to make the countryside more productive. That’s the message from the CLA to the Business, Innovation...
Rochdale based Lancashire Farm Dairies has won 11 awards for a range of its yogurt and dairy products. Lancashire Farm won the awards at two summer shows - the Nantwich...
Date Published 08/09/2015
Simon Danczuk wants to put the gears in motion and help a local firm build on more than a century of manufacturing tradition. Rochdale's MP Simon Danczuk visited the Renold...
Date Published 07/09/2015
Poundworld created 30 new retail jobs at the opening of its first store in Rochdale on Thursday 3 September. Situated on Yorkshire Street, the new store was officially...
A global list of economic woes – including uncertainty in Europe, China and Greece – is casting a shadow over UK manufacturing. However, North West manufacturers appear to be...
