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Retail giant Next is expecting a more gentle trading environment in 2012, it said this morning. The Leicestershire company said a combination of reduced cotton prices and eased manufacturing capacity constraints in the Far East would make for a less pressurised trading environment. The comments came as Next revealed a sales rise of 3.2 per cent through its latest trading update. READ MORE...
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Two of the East Midlands' local enterprise partnerships have received all of the cash they asked for from the government's £5m start-up fund. Read More...
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More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of Britain's entrepreneurs plan to raise capital from external sources in the next year. That's according to research from Investec Specialist Private Bank. Read More...
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Balfour Beatty has won a £230m street lighting PPP contract with Northamptonshire County Council. Read More...
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Construction is underway on a £2.9m hangar at East Midlands Airport. The site has been pre-let to aerial surveying, surveillance and aviation company Reconnaissance Ventures (RVL). Read More...
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Loughborough-based contractor William Davis has completed work on the £25m Crocodile Works development in Birmingham. Read More...
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Civil engineering company Danaher & Walsh, based in Leicester, has won a place on a framework worth £220m with Anglian Water. Read More...
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Profits have plunged 99 per cent at Toyota Motor during the three months to 30 June. The company, which has major operations in Derbyshire, attributed the drop to March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read More...
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Midlands accountancy firm Smith Cooper has promoted Michael Roome and David Crump to director level within the business recovery and insolvency and corporate finance teams respectively. Read More...
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