Midlands Business News

Webs Furniture Training in Beeston has strengthened its board with the appointment of two new directors.

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Leading Midlands furniture retailer Lee Longlands has invested in a new 2,000 sq ft showroom at its flagship Birmingham store highlighting the best in French style and design.

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A local children’s hospice has received a bundle of presents this Christmas thanks to staff at a Birmingham based furniture store.

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An entrepreneur from Birmingham is set to give local businesses a welcome boost. Amanda Britton has become the new manager of Edward’s Restaurant located inside Erdington based Cookes Furniture and will source all of the produce she sells from the region’s businesses. Amanda Britton, owner of Brittons caterers, said: “Taking on Edward’s Restaurant is a [...]

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The Duke of York opened Webs Furniture Training’s new state of the art facility during a day long visit to Nottinghamshire.

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The UK’s first ever showroom dedicated to a range of beds owned by celebrities and sporting stars has been unveiled by leading Midlands furniture retailer, Lee Longlands.

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Birmingham Children’s Hospital has received an amazing £1,000 donation from a local independent furniture business.

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One of the UK’s leading independent furniture retailers has created opportunities for other neighbouring businesses in Birmingham.

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A Midlands logistics firm beat off competition from a host of rivals when it won a contract to deliver thousands of beds, chairs and sofas used by star athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Games to homes all over the country. Park Logistics, based in Colwick, Nottingham, will spend the next two months processing items [...]

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A Birmingham company is celebrating its jubilee year by strengthening its senior management team, making two key appointments.

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The two fastest men in the world received a taste of the ‘Caribbean’ when they arrived in Birmingham recently.

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A Shropshire based provider of catering services has recently completed a high profile contract for this weeks Royal Welsh Show.

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A Birmingham couple are celebrating after scooping £1,000 voucher to spend at furniture retailer Cookes. Felix and Claire Hughes from Sutton Coldfield took part in the prize draw and were overwhelmed when they were contacted with the news. Cookes Furniture held an online and in-store competition to celebrate managing director Graham Cooke’s 60th birthday, rewarding [...]

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Products with brittle shells, such as dragées or chocolate-coated cereals, can now be rapidly packed without significant collision damage thanks to a unique Ishida multihead weigher design.

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A 74-year-old great-grandfather at the helm of his Shropshire family business today revealed a £400,000 investment in a new factory had transformed his business into a multi-million company.

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A new manufacturing venture offering high precision laser cut metal profiles has opted to purchase a brand new Bystronic Bysprint Pro laser to run at the heart of its operations.

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A Worcestershire company specialising in products which protect communities from the havoc wreaked by floods is enjoying “meteoric” success in global markets with help from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI).

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Leicestershire brewery Everards has joined an elite UK group of companies after achieving a top award for the way it works with its employees.

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Employees from the Kraft Foods site in Bournville have spent a day volunteering at their local FareShare depot in Birmingham, continuing the company’s relationship with the national hunger charity.

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The search is on to find the UK’s stars of export. Local manufacturers are invited to show how they’re boosting sales overseas by entering the EEF/DHL Outstanding Export Award (www.eef.org.uk/awards).

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Export expert for the East Midlands, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Regional Director Peter Hogarth, has welcomed the news that East Midlands exports hit £4.6 billion for the first three months of 2012, lower than the last quarter but £155 million higher than this time last year. The total for the year ending March 2012 at £17.8 billion almost achieved the region’s highest ever value of exports in any previous twelve month period.

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Phase Vision (stand J20) will be bringing a range of new, innovative non-contact 3D measurement solutions for manufacturers to the SUBCON Exhibition, taking place from 14-16 June at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. In addition to its Quartz Scanner products, Phase Vision will be presenting new options for industrial users to gain competitive advantage through improved inspection capability.

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A Telford firm is winning its own race against time to ensure a prestigious Olympic contract is successfully completed well ahead of the upcoming London sporting extravaganza.

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Midland Tool and Design has won a major order to supply razor blade tooling to a manufacturer on the Indian Subcontinent.

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East Midlands composites manufacturer Atlas Composites have today pledged their support for Erewash MP Jessica Lee’s campaign to reintroduce a railway station to Ilkeston.

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Demand for a commemorative cuppa is hitting record highs for iconic British ceramics company Emma Bridgewater.

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Manufacturing SMEs in England are bucking sluggish growth forecasts with encouraging reports of increased sales and new jobs.

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Building materials firm Lafarge has splashed out £8,000 so scouts and brownies in Leicestershire can spend a penny in comfort.

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Handmade chocolate maker Holdsworth Chocolates has unveiled its new pink theobroma cube gift box of chocolates.

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Phase Vision Ltd has underlined its intention to become the leading provider of three-dimensional non-contact scanning solutions following the appointment of two additional members to its management team. Bob Hughes and Matthew Hutchinson have joined Phase Vision as Operations Manager and Marketing Manager respectively.

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East Midlands based Atlas Composites are commencing celebrations to mark 15 years at the forefront of UK Composites Manufacturing with a nostalgic look back over the last decade and a half in composites.

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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), Rolls-Royce and the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) are hosting an event at The Learning and Development Centre at Rolls-Royce, Derby on Tuesday 29 May from 9am until 1pm to help local companies find out more about securing the world-class employees they need to land global business.

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A businessman today said Telford had become a world leader in anti-slip floor coverings after bringing in more than £10million of business to the town from China.

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Westfield Sportscars of Kingswinford recently played host to Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade and Investment who visited the company to find out more about the company’s range of eco friendly sports cars.

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The UK’s soggy Spring and the need for logistics firms to satisfy manufacturers’ ever-increasing demand for better protection for their goods has fuelled a rise in enquiries for temporary loading canopies.

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A £1.6M investment in state-of-the-art Bystronic laser cutting and press brake machinery is the latest development in the meteoric growth of Midtherm Laser Ltd from its roots as a small subcontractor to becoming one of the largest sub-contract laser cutting operations in the UK.

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Worcester MP Robin Walker gained an insight into the low-Carbon engineering sector when he visited Vickers Electronics, which is tripling the size of its workforce in the city.

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Jetstream Europe, whose machines are helping to clean up Blackpool Tower, is hosting an open house event to show off its latest products.

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Top industrial robot supplier KUKA Robotics UK has proved its quality and environment management systems meet with the highest international standards.

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A unique manufacturing collaboration is set to mark its first appearance at IFSEC International with the sector’s first look at the Raptor, a major breakthrough for policing and security patrols.

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Birmingham-based, Evac+Chair International, has been selected to take part in an exhibition demonstrating the very best of British manufacturing this summer, alongside some of the biggest names in UK manufacturing excellence.

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Accuracy and especially consistency of manufactured components are prerequisites for today’s production environment, which means that tooling used on machinery must have similar properties. Nowhere is this more important than in grinding, as it is fundamentally a high precision finishing process. With this in mind, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, the world’s largest manufacturer of abrasives, has raised to the next level the precision with which it manufactures grinding wheels

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One of the UK’s leading sheet metal fabrication sub contractors has recently invested in a high capacity Bystronic Bysprint 3015 sheet metal laser cutting system in order to meet growing demand and increasingly challenging delivery schedules.

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Auto Styling UK, the West Midlands 4×4 accessory manufacturer, is reaping the benefits of apprenticeships after signing two trainees up to permanent employment.

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MEL Secure Systems, the leading developer of surveillance and security solutions, has launched a new set of H.264 IP decoder/encoder modules. Fitted inside existing camera housings or externally mounted, they extend the functionality of existing analogue CCTV cameras by enabling them to transmit images over IP networks in a wide range of surveillance applications.

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A Birmingham company beat off competition from China, Germany, Italy and France to win a lucrative deal to supply designer tableware to the city’s new £24 million Hotel La Tour.

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Steelite International – the UK’s biggest tableware producer – has posted record sales as it prepares to expand its state-of-the-art manufacturing base.

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This years’ Subcon seminar programme aims to hit the hot topics concerning UK manufacturers with top-level speakers from Jaguar Land Rover, Aero Engine Controls – the Rolls-Royce and Goodrich joint venture, crane manufacturer Liebherr, EEF – the manufacturers’ organisation, the Design Council and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The key themes in 2012 include mitigating supply chain risks and taking advantage of emerging opportunities.

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Form-correction, polishing and inspection of complex, high precision artefacts such as optics, orthopaedic joints, semiconductors and moulds can be carried out in one visit to a Zeeko Optics Fabrication Centre. It was the main reason for the machine being voted Best Specialised Machining / Manufacturing Equipment in the 2012 awards organised by MWP Advanced Manufacturing magazine.

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Students of the newly formed Black Country University Technical College (UTC) impressed delegates during a one-day event aimed at boosting the image of manufacturing to young people.

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