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Pro Manchester has posted an 8 per cent rise in revenues as its larger events programme helped it lose its reliance on public sector funding. But the corporate membership organisation slipped to a small loss as a result of increasing overheads. READ MORE...
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Document Express, an Oldham print and photocopying services company, has been sold to Lincoln-based Danwood Group for an undisclosed sum. Read More...
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Postal operator Secured Mail, which is run by Insider 42 under 42 alumnus Mark Bigley, has secured growth capital investment from Next Wave Partners. The deal sees Aquarius Equity Partners exit the business. Read More...
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Lancashire-based IT Works Recruitment has acquired new premises in Preston after securing a £200,000 loan from NatWest. Read More...
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Business
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China’s place as the global manufacturing hub will disappear in five years, according to Jason Tyldesley, managing director at CSL Sofas. The company, which is headquartered in Golborne produces all of its leather furniture in the Far East but Tyldesley told Insider he believes the balance of production is starting to tip outside China. Read More...
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Renold, the Manchester-headquartered engineering business, has grown revenue by 19 per cent for the year to 31 March 2011. Read More...
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Tourism leaders in Cumbria have called on the private sector to help the county address a million-pound funding shortfall following the government's public spending cuts. Read More...
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The location of the next ten enterprise zones in England will be determined by a government-run competition, communities and local government secretary Eric Pickles has revealed. Read More...
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Insider needs your help with our first international trade survey, in association with Ernst & Young. We are aiming to understand regional patterns of exports at a time when the private sector is under pressure to lead an economic recovery. Read More...
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Property
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Peter Lees, head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Manchester office, has said the company's merger with international property consultancy King Sturge is positive news for the firm's clients in the region. Read More...
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Norcros has paid £7.8m to exit a 25-year lease on a property in Essex. The Wilmslow home products company signed the lease in 1992. Read More...
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Housebuilder Miller Homes has secured the management contract for ten former McInerney residential developments with a combined value of £100m - including three in the North West. Read More...
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Standish-based construction company Denizen Contracts has won a £6.7m contract to build a hotel and Marco Pierre White restaurant in Newcastle. Read More...
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