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Thursday 9 December 2021

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TOP STORY

A global ecommerce business has selected Warwickshire's Prologis Park Ryton for its UK Net Zero distribution hub.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Mark Wilcockson, from British Business Bank, looks at how MEIF is helping smaller businesses fulfill big ambitions in the Midlands.
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DEALS

A Black Country specialist in digital training services has landed a £625,000 funding package to drive forward its growth strategy.
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Tes Global, a UK-headquartered education technology services provider, is to be acquired by Onex Corporation from Providence Equity Partners. Tes' management team will also invest alongside Onex.
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A German food conglomerate has entered into a strategic partnership with plant-based food business VBites, founded by Heather Mills, that will include the purchase of a minority stake of the company.
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McCain Foods is investing $55m (£42m) in a plant-based frozen food company to support its expansion.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Paul Edmeades, asset based lending director at Independent Growth Finance (IGF), explains why creativity, certainty of delivery and speed of execution remain key attributes when selecting a funding partner.
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Alexeis Garcia-Perez, professor of management information systems at Coventry University's Centre for Business in Society, considers the role that the people within a business can play to protect them from cyber-attacks.
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PROPERTY

Plans for the construction of hundreds of homes on a site allocated for housing in Telford have been recommended for approval ahead of a planning committee meeting next week.
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A 100,000 sq ft warehouse in the Black Country has been let to a distribution firm.
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Hortons' Estate Ltd has completed the refurbishment of an industrial and logistics building on an established business park in North Staffordshire.
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Planning approval has been secured for an affordable housing project in Bromsgrove.
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The longstanding chief executive of housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is to step down.
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INSIDER FEATURE

In a day and age where huge corporations race to announce their own future constructs of a metaverse, Gowling WLG partner David Brennan takes a look at the ethical implications these new, parallel universes will have on society and how to ensure that such "worlds" are kept safe.
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Richard Harden, CEO of British manufacturing firm Stuart Turner, discusses how a private equity partnership is helping to realise his ambitions.
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BUSINESS

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed Plan B restrictions are to be introduced in England - including the return of working from home guidance, the introduction of vaccine passports and stricter rules on mask wearing - in a bid to slow the spread of the Omicron Covid variant.
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Birmingham-based mid-market corporate advisery firm Orbis Partners has made a pair of senior promotions.
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Alantra, a global mid-market investment banking specialist, has strengthened its Midlands team with the appointment of a vice president.
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Claritas Tax has has welcomed a further four recruits as the firm continues to expand.
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Frasers Group, the company behind Sports Direct and House of Fraser, has reported a surge in revenue and pre-tax profits for the first half of its financial year.
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MANUFACTURING

The chief executive of iconic shoe brand Dr Martens has hailed the company's performance for a first half in which it upped revenue and pre-tax profits.
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OTHER NEWS

MEMBER NEWS

Knight Frank has grown its regional residential development team with a fresh appointment.
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A Birmingham-based consultancy has been appointed to lead the remediation of a historic building in South London that was once home to Robert De Niro. 
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