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23 February 2012

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22 February 2012

business travel

Employers reminded of duty of care over foreign trips


Businesses in our region are being urged to remember their statutory duty of care to employees sent on business abroad.


retail

City aims to drive up summer footfall

Lincoln BIG is attempting to increase footfall in the city by arranging a series of street markets to take place from Easter onwards.


safety

HSE puts construction sites under the spotlight

Construction sites in Lincolnshire and West Yorkshire are being put under the safety spotlight as part of an intensive inspection initiative aimed at reducing death, injury and ill health.


COMMUNITY

Sixty new jobs for Doncaster as care firm expands

A leading nursing and home care company is expanding its services in South Yorkshire creating sixty new jobs.


COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

‘Healthy activity’ predicted for South Yorkshire logistics market

Continued interest from a high-profile retailers and Sheffield’s Enterprise Zone status are set to give South Yorkshire’s industrial and logistics market a boost in the first half of 2012.


self-assessment tax

Taxman prepares to send out 850,000 late filing fines

As many as 850,000 penalties for late tax returns will be issued over the next fortnight, more than half a million fewer than the same time last year, HM Revenue & Customs has announced.


communication

Enterprise partnership launches e-bulletin

The recently-formed York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership has launched its first e-bulletin.


donations

Business Club fees fund charitable causes

Lincoln Business Club has been helping to put a smile on the faces of children and adults with disabilities in Lincoln after donating £400 to KIDS Strut and the Pelican Trust.


workspace

Lincoln start-ups get new potential premises

A partnership between Taylor Lindsey and North Kesteven District Council has presented an exciting opportunity for start-ups, businesses looking for their first business address or to expand into larger premises.


fitness

New gym gets hearts pumping in Leeds

The launch of the UK's biggest studio saw people from across the region come together to 'high five their hearts' at the new affordable Yorkshire gym operator as Xercise4less opened its doors.


debt recovery

Clarion Team recovers £12m of debt for clients

Since its launch two years ago, Clarion’s debt recovery team has succeeded in recovering over £12 million of commercial debts for companies in the region.


investment

Finance Yorkshire fills funding gap

A North Yorkshire GAP insurance provider is looking to bring new products to market and create more local jobs after becoming the first Malton-based company to receive an investment from Finance Yorkshire.


acQUISITIONS

PKF advises P&L Systems on latest acquisition

A team from the Leeds office of PKF Accountants has advised Knaresborough-based P&L Systems on its acquisition of SX Environmental Supplies from its founder Richard Lunn.


street traders

Grantham offers opportunities for traders

Opportunities for traders to work in Gratham’s Market Place have been created; an attempt by South Kesteven District Council to inject still more life into the area on which it’s just spent £1.6m on improvements.


employment

Government must change redundancy rules, says BCC

Rules that require companies to offer employees facing redundancy a 90-day notice period should be changed, according to the British Chambers of Commerce.


branding

Lincoln unveils new promotional identity

Businesses in and around Lincoln will get their first chance to see the new brand created for the City of Lincoln, which to be unveiled at a ‘First Look’ event at Bishop Grosseteste University College on Thursday 23rd February.


business growth

Resilient small firms believe they can grow

More than half of Britain’s small firms are being prevented from growing because of the torrid state of the economy – in spite of 70 percent having introduced new or improved products, according to a survey by the Federation of Small Businesses.


economy

Stronger January sales figures suggest economic improvement

Britain could be breaking free from economic gloom, says a leading economist.


PROPERTY

Low sentiment "doesn't reflect positive facts", says GVA

Sentiment in the regional office markets has declined markedly since the summer according to GVA’s latest edition of The Big Nine – the quarterly regional office market review.


FINANCE

Hitachi Capital reports £100 million worth of consumer lending in January

Leeds-based Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance, the finance provider POS credit solutions, has announced a record month in January.


APPOINTMENTS

Team expansion for insolvency specialist

Insolvency specialist Wilson Field has expanded its team for the fourth time in eighteen months with the appointment of ten new members of staff.


WAREHOUSING

Edward Symmons secures 55,000 sq ft of lettings at Leeds Containerbase

Two new tenants have taken warehouse space at Leeds Containerbase in deals that mean the landmark Yorkshire warehouse complex is now fully let.


brewing

You know when you’ve been Geevesed – Tango man branches into brewing

The actor who played the orange man in the Tango TV adverts plans to expand the micro-brewery he’s running with his son.


business start-ups

Scheme aims to create more business in Barnsley

A new scheme has been unveiled to help encourage more entrepreneurs in Barnsley – said to be one of the worst in the country for business start-ups, and in the bottom ten for the number of businesses that exist per head of population.


retail

Charity and pound shop numbers are up, says survey

Retail Britain is seeing more charity shops, pound shops, and credit union outlets at the expense of a decline in bookshops, electrical retailers and travel shops, according to a report just out.


Solar Energy

Freewatt powers college

The latest 21st century technology is being used to power one of the oldest independent schools in England – thanks to a Lincoln company.

22 February, 2012

town redevelopment

Rotherham optician sees art brighten up town centre

The latest piece of artwork to be displayed in the town centre open air art gallery has been painted by one of Rotherham’s own retailers.

22 February, 2012

engineering

Waldeck to show off innovations at processing, packaging and logistics show

An award-winning firm of consulting engineers based in Lincolnshire will be exhibiting at one of the UK’s biggest shows for food processing, packaging and logistics in March.

22 February, 2012

Energy concerns

Businesses urged to 'talk power'

EDF Energy has announced that Talk Power 2012, its annual conference for large energy users, will explore how energy companies and businesses can work together to ensure growth and competitiveness.

22 February, 2012

networking

Cheese company owner to speak on success in Yorkshire

The guest speaker at Wakefield First's first Friday event in March is Judy Bell MBE.

22 February, 2012

appointments

Cogs added to Factory creative agency

Leeds-based creative marketing and design agency, The Factory, is celebrating a strong start to 2012 with the appointment of two new team members.

22 February, 2012

innovation

Government sets out to reward business innovators

Business Minister Mark Prisk has launched a nationwide competition to find the most innovative pre-market products, processes and concepts the UK has to offer.

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Rotherham optician sees art brighten up town centre
Waldeck to show off innovations at processing, packaging and logistics show
Businesses urged to 'talk power'
Cheese company owner to speak on success in Yorkshire
Cogs added to Factory creative agency
Government sets out to reward business innovators
City aims to drive up summer footfall
HSE puts construction sites under the spotlight
Sixty new jobs for Doncaster as care firm expands
‘Healthy activity’ predicted for South Yorkshire logistics market


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