£24m hotel anchors in Birmingham

Birmingham is set to house a new £24m hotel complex - the first privately funded property from the newly-founded Hotel La Tour group. The company's managing director, Jane Schofield, told Insider the company planned to open five more hotels in the same number of years and was looking at "every major city in the UK" as a potential investment.   READ MORE...

Forming an exit strategy

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Serco in £385m Indian swoop

Serco Group, a service company which has operations in Birmingham, has bought Mumbai-based outsourcing company Intelenet for up to £385m.   Read More...

Midven agrees investment venture

Birmingham venture capitalist Midven has signed a joint venture agreement with New Wave Ventures LLP to co-invest in opportunities based in the West Midlands.   Read More...

AMB insures growth plans with funding

Insurance broker AMB Insurance Services has announced plans to relocate to Wolstanton after securing a finance package from NatWest Commercial Banking.   Read More...

Private equity-backed businesses 'not expecting' sale

More than half of chief financial officers (CFOs) of private equity-backed businesses don't expect their private equity investor to exit before 2013, according to a survey by Deloitte.   Read More...

LEP board expands with five

Stoke and Staffordshire's LEP board has grown with the appointment of five new members.   Read More...

Mids tycoons open to emerging markets, says report

Nearly three-quarters of entrepreneurs in the West Midlands regard exporting to emerging economies as one of the UK's biggest opportunities. That's according to HSBC's Future of Business report, which was released this morning.   Read More...

Manufacturing grinds to 20-month low

Manufacturing output fell to its lowest level since September 2009, according to the latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), as additional bank holidays and weak domestic conditions took their toll.   Read More...

Staffs Uni agrees Austrian venture

Staffordshire University has secured a franchise agreement with its first academic partner in Austria.   Read More...

Miller joins Finance Birmingham

Finance Birmingham has appointed a new client relationship manager to boost business support activity.   Read More...

Palletways drives fleet investment

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