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Thursday 10 June 2021

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“Credible” results in Covid-hit year at Caterpillar dealer

A long-established Caterpillar machine and engine dealer has described its financial results as "credible" after a year impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ask the expert: How can asset-based lending help Midlands businesses create a sustainable competitive advantage?

The last 18 months have tested business resilience to its limits. As companies look to emerge from the pandemic and start to adapt to a new environment, many are now making the shift from response to recovery and re-imagination. Keith Rose, director of business development (Midlands and South West) at Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending, looks at how businesses are currently focusing on re-building their competitive advantage.
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Deals

Access Legal acquires Oosha

Legal technology firm Access Legal, part of Loughborough-based The Access Group, has acquired Wolverhampton cloud IT services provider Oosha.
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Delivery service closes campaign after raising almost £600k

A hyperlocal delivery service has closed its crowdfunding campaign after raising almost £600,000.
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Ensafe Consultants snaps up environmental specialist

Daventry-headquartered health and safety firm Ensafe Consultants has snapped up a Burton-on-Trent-based environmental specialist.
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Palatine backs digital firm as YFM exits

Palatine Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in a Manchester-headquartered digital transformation and customer experience specialist – whose clients include 10 Downing Street and the Bank of England – in a move providing an exit for YFM.
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Tigerbond completes Beattie Communications MBO

Tigerbond has completed the management buyout (MBO) of Beattie Communications.
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Altice UK takes stake in BT Group

Altice UK has acquired a 12.1 per cent stake in BT Group. 
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Business

Gaming hub project set for council backing

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been recommended to support the development of a new gaming hub project which aims to create additional employment opportunities in the city.
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New funding round launched for Coventry 2021 projects

A new round of grant-funding has been made available to develop new projects during Coventry UK City of Culture 2021.
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Hitachi Capital (UK) hails strong financial results

Hitachi Capital (UK) has hailed strong full-year financial results despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Strong half-year for musicMagpie

Prominent recommerce website musicMagpie has been buoyed by strong half-year underlying profitability as it begins life as a listed company.
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Property

BECG relocates Birmingham office

Public affairs agency BECG has relocated its Birmingham office as part of plans for further growth.
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Walsall office building snapped up

A private investor has snapped up a Walsall office building for an undisclosed sum.
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FigFlex Offices launches in Coventry

FigFlex Offices has launched in Coventry with the region’s first location now open at Friars House.
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Manufacturing

Parker Technical Services appoints regional director

Burton-on-Trent-based Parker Technical Services, part of the Edwin James Group, has appointed has made a fresh appointment for its newly created regional director role.
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BT triples broadband speeds for 8,500 micro-businesses

BT has tripled broadband speeds for almost 8,500 micro-businesses in Birmingham as it launches a new unit to serve the country’s smallest firms and start-ups.
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Associate director promotion at Burley Browne

Sutton Coldfield-based property consultancy Burley Browne has promoted an industrial agency specialist to associate director.
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