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Monday 4 October 2021

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TOP STORY

Wolverhampton is "having its day" as a major centre for investment as it goes ahead with a £4bn-plus development strategy, according to property developers, after the city missed out on previous building booms.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Rick Gray, regional director at Faithful+Gould, says more collaboration is needed to unlock the potential of MMC across the delivery, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
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DEALS

More than £2m of government funding has been made available to businesses in Stratford and Rugby in bid to support economic growth post Covid-19.
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TXM Group, a £250m-turnover business with operations across the UK, has completed a deal with technology recruitment consultancy NextGen Partners that will expand its reach into Europe.
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Alternative asset manager Gresham House has completed its acquisition of the venture capital trust business of Mobeus Equity.
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Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is set to acquire Morrisons after winning an auction to settle the bidding war for the supermarket giant.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Keith Rose, director for business development (Midlands and South West Region) at Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending (ACABL), looks at how businesses in the region are succeeding in sparking a 'Buy-and-Build' revolution.
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Frances Horne, associate landscape architect at Pegasus Group, discusses how climate change is increasingly on the forefront of people's minds. She explores how action can literally take place from home, however, without a change in attitude and action from governments and individuals, we will see the continued intensity of climate change in the years to come.
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PROPERTY

A national developer's plans for hundreds of student flats on the site of existing commercial units in Birmingham have been backed by the council.
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Flexible workspace provider x+why is to open at Brindleyplace in Birmingham after agreeing a joint venture to operate 40,000 sq ft of space at the estate.
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Work is moving forward on a UK headquarters in the Black Country for international engineering firm Sandvik Coromant following a £5m investment.
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Proposals for the development of 150 homes on the site of a farm in Coventry have been approved.
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A multi-disciplinary property company in Coventry has plans to grow its turnover by more than 400 per cent by developing new areas of business.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Peter Prahl, SVP International and Digital Cloud for IONOS, Europe's leading cloud services and web hosting provider, shares insight on the latest IT skills gap research and why it's essential businesses pay serious attention.
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BUSINESS

A contract to supply the official uniforms for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will have major long-term benefits that will go far beyond next year's sporting mega-event for the company that has won it.
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Cera, a healthcare-at-home provider, is to create 150 jobs across its branches in Staffordshire.
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The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has set out a £25m package of measures to help the region's unemployed back into work.
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Specialist lender Together has bolstered its commercial sales teams by appointing three new business development directors in the regions.
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MANUFACTURING

A German giant's UK arm is eyeing a rebound in sales after posting a set of results impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The company supplies wires and cables to the likes of Bentley and Aston Martin.
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UK commercial vehicle production dropped by more than 35 per cent during August as a result of supply shortages, according to new figures.
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OTHER NEWS

 

MEMBER NEWS

 

Stoke-on-Trent law firm Beswicks Legal has bolstered its corporate and commercial law department with a fresh appointment.
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Solihull-based Terra has lodged housing plans for a site on the outskirts of a village in Worcestershire.
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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

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