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Nemesis Networks, a Liverpool communications provider, is undergoing expansion thanks to a £290,000 cash boost from Alliance Fund Managers through the MSIF Small Firms Fund and private investment, which includes capital from seven of its staff, who now retain a small equity stake in the business. Nemesis, based in Netherton, provides an integrated IT, carrier and telephony service to customers throughout UK. The company was set up in 2006 by directors Kevin Cheston, Michael Cheston and David Griffiths and now employs 15 staff. Turnover last year reached £1m and it is expected to reach £2.7m next year. The company expects to double its workforce during the next two years. 
Chemicals business acquired Liverpool-based chemical distillation company Albion Distillation Services (ADS) has been acquired by Veolia Environmental Services as the waste management company looks to expand its solvent recovery activities in the UK. ADS, which employs 23 people, was sold by the Albion Chemicals Group, part of global chemical distributor Brenntag.
Warrington lawyers merge Forshaws Solicitors and Davies Ridgway Solicitors have merged to form a new combined practice, Forshaws Davies Ridgway. The combined Warrington-based firm will have 150 staff specialising in commercial law, conveyancing, criminal law, family law, litigation and probate.
Peel Power, part of Mersey Docks and Harbour Company owner Peel Holdings, has been named as one of four bidders to pre-qualify for the government's carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration competition. CCS has the potential to capture up to 90 per cent of carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations and developers are likely to be forced to address the CCS capabilities of new power stations when taking their plans to government. The other bidders selected are BP Alternative Energy International, EON UK and Scottish Power Generation. Meanwhile, Peel Power has also been involved in a feasibility study into the potential for using the River Mersey for tidal power generation.
Henry in the House Folio Hotels, which is developing a new hotel on Brunswick Street in Liverpool city centre, has announced that the boutique establishment is to be named Heywood House and that Nick Henry has been appointed as general manager. Folio is developing the 36-room hotel on the site of a former bank at a cost of £3.5m. Henry joins from Print, the design hotel in Stanley Street, and first worked in the city in 2002 at the former Moat House Hotel on Paradise Street.
Record-breaking visitors for Capital of Culture Liverpool will this week break the five million barrier of people who will have attended a cultural event or attraction in the city during its year as European Capital of Culture. Tate Liverpool has recorded its busiest month ever, welcoming almost 140,000 people in June - the first time numbers have exceeded 100,000. National Museums Liverpool also broke the magic million mark for the first time from January to June, with the eight venues combined attracting almost 1.2 million people to date. Attendance at the Merseyside Maritime Museum is up 60 per cent on 2007. Most Liverpool venues are recording an average 30 per cent rise on attendances last year.
Plans by Jersey-based property group Viride Holdings to create an £85m environmentally friendly mixed-use scheme in Liverpool have been recommended for approval by planning officials. The Via Verde scheme comprises 356 apartments along with offices, shops and restaurants and a new high street, to be built behind Leeds Street to the north of the city centre alongside the widely-praised housing cooperative Eldonian village. The plans will go before Liverpool City Council's planning committee next week.
NWDA holds back, but talks still positive The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has said that it will withhold the £9m grant due to Liverpool FC's new stadium until the club provides "detailed evidence" that it has the money for the £350m scheme. However, NWDA chief executive Steven Broomhead confirmed that the money is still available and that dialogue with the club over the new Anfield proposals remains positive.
From little pebbles North Wales-based Pebble Hill Property has secured a one-acre development site on Parc Menai, Bangor, from the National Assembly for Wales. The site, which is one of the last available on the Parc, will be developed into a 8,000 sq ft office scheme known as Llys Menai, which will create around 50 jobs.
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