Madhouse Associates, a marketing agency in Manchester, has invested more than £150,000 in strengthening the company. The investment is part of a decision to refocus the business on offering a fully integrated service to clients, from brand ID to advertising, digital marketing and PR. This has resulted in an expansion of the business development department, developing a new website and enhancing staff training. Stuart Lunn has also joined the business team as business development manager from Yahoo!.

Roxtec, the international safety seal firm based in Bury, has signed another deal to supply its product to the wind-farm industry. The Swedish-owned company has agreed a contract with the power conversion specialists Converteam, based in Stock-on-Trent. It follows a deal with Scottish and Southern Energy to supply the offshore wind farm Greater Gabbard, based off the North Sea. Roxtec’s UK managing director Graham O’Hare said: “This will be a two or three year contract and again it demonstrates the quality, flexibility and cost effectiveness of our cable seal products.”

Ensor Holdings, the building materials suppliers based in Wythenshawe, posted pre-tax profits of £256,000 in the year to March 31 2010, down from £500,000 last year. Revenue also declined by 10.4 per cent to £19.4m from £21.7m in 2009. The building firm said the majority of its turnover decline came in the first half of the year, when sales were down by 15.4 per cent. Profit for the year attributable to equity shareholders was £383,000 compared with a loss of £2.27m in 2009. The company proposed to pay a final dividend of 0.15p per share.

Law firm Brabners Chaffe Street has appointed Claire Gregory as head of the environment and regulatory team. She will be based across the company’s three North West offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston. Gregory will also support the property and corporate teams on compliance issues. She previously spent six years at the commercial law firm Hammonds in the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Group.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club have been handed the keys to their £15m conference and events venue The Point by the construction company Morgan Sindall, in an official ceremony on the Old Trafford pitch. The venue was delivered on time and completed 14 months after work began on the development in April 2009. The centre’s team will move in to the building ahead of the grand opening on Sunday 27 June. The centre is part of the first phase of an overall £85m development of the local area.

It’s been a bumper week. Starting off with MIDAS for the Radisson Edwardian’s tasty nibbles, we lurched onwards via the Lowry Hotel – it’s a good job it’s a ten-minute uphill hike back after their lunchtime cakes - to Bolton with Logma Systems for tasty pots of chicken tikka. Then to Ancoats to eat Cabrelli Brothers ice cream at the topping out of the Ice Plant – a nice touch, even if it was raining. We were at all manner of events last night, with the highlights being Hill Dickinson’s Art Gallery party. Diet time! Oh wait, it's the World Cup.