North East food and drink producers are being encouraged to showcase their talents to key buyers at a coming event.Top Quality Local Produce 2012 will bring together producers and buyers on Wednesday February 29 at the Mariott Hotel MetroCentre.Organised by Compete North East and supported by EAT! NewcastleGateshead Initiative, the…
Stricken clothing retailer Peacocks has been sold to Edinburgh Woollen Mill, in a move that will save 6,000 jobs.
The firm has acquired the Peacocks brand, 388 stores and concessions, as well as the business’ headquarters and logistics functions in Wales. However 224 stores were not included in the sale, resulting…
Senior executives are being called upon to give their time, skills and experience to work with ambitious small businesses.Pitching for Management event is returning to Newcastle, and will see some of the region’s most exciting entrepreneurs pitch to senior executives, value added business angels and serial entrepreneurs to find people…
InterContinental Hotel Group has announced it is creating nearly 3,000 jobs across the UK, along with the launch of a hospitality training academy in London.Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg this morning attended the launch at the soon to open Holiday Inn London Stratford City.He said: “It’s fantastic to see IHG…
The CBI has called for the Government to use the March budget to deliver on its proposals put forward in the Autumn Statement.It wants a £500m package of tax cuts including a new capital allowance to attract investment into types of infrastructure which do not currently qualify; new forms of…
It’s well over a year since George Osbourne originally announced that 24 Local Enterprise Partnerships would be established across the country. Developed as a remedy to the over-centralisation of power, and the perceived expense, and bureaucracy of regional development agencies, the LEPs are now beginning to take shape. A total…
Ten SMEs have been shortlisted as finalists for HSBC’s £200,000 Business Growth Grant Competition.A wide range of companies including a designer and manufacturer of innovative cycle racks, e-logistics provider, mobile app firm and a pudding producer are all in the running.On March 2, the finalists will pitch to a panel…
Employment minister Chris Grayling has said that recruiters should give preference to young British people over immigrants. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Grayling commented on how he perceived young people to be struggling to get hired, as older, more qualified workers from elsewhere in the EU were beating them to…
An Irish energy company has moved to the North West following an injection from two investment funds.Imperative Energy, a provider of biomass heat and power solutions, has received funding from The North West Fund for Energy and Environmental (NWF4EE) and the Environmental Infrastructure Development Company, and will now move its…
The prospect of a ‘John Lewis economy’ is being hampered a lack of access to finance for start-up and early expansion business, suggests the Chair of John Lewis.Speaking at a recent panel discussion organised by IPPR, chair Charlie Mayfield made the comments as he also pointed out that the much-citied…
