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The Mersey Partnership's chairman Rod Holmes has criticised the time taken for Liverpool to get its local enterprise partnership (LEP) up and running, describing the situation as "disappointing and frustrating". READ MORE...
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Liverpool-based Vertex Group's disposal of its private sector division to rival Capita Group for £40.5m. Read More...
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Creative England has opened two new schemes of lottery funding totalling £400,000. Read More...
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The values of all mergers and acquisitions declined during the third quarter of 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics. Read More...
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Economic development company Liverpool Vision is in talks to organise an international 'green' trade expo in the city. It could bring hundreds of companies to the region and raise the North West's profile as a business and investment location. Read More...
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Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the "real legacy" that Liverpool's Festival of Entrepreneurship next year could create for the region. Read More...
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Food giant Kraft Foods has revealed that redundancies will be made at its Chirk site, near Wrexham, as part of the company's plans to scrap up to 200 jobs. Read More...
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A north-south divide is appearing in the take-up of apprenticeship places, it is claimed. Read More...
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Businesses were last night briefed on how they can win work through Liverpool's secondary school rebuilding programme. Read More...
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Sandy McBride has been appointed to lead housebuilder Redrow's operations in the North West and North Wales. Read More...
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