Midlands Business News

The “what’s your postcode?” company Postcode Anywhere was delighted to officially open its doors to customers, partners and friends to celebrate and reflect on its incredible journey.

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A local business entrepreneur is celebrating the ultimate success today after his newly-launched book ‘Lead Magnet’ reached the prestigious number one spot on Amazon’s best seller chart.

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Staffordshire digital design agency, R1 Creative, sees its first birthday this month.

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Now running like a well-oiled machine, Morris Lubricants Online’s new eCommerce website has a streamlined user experience, and additional functionality. A complete redesign and platform upgrade, with fresh graphics and a user-friendly navigation system, ensures that customers find the products they need as easily as possible. Previously, it took up to three clicks to reach [...]

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Albrighton-based developers Oppolis, are providing tablet publishing software to Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, which is being used to teach the next generation of editors and journalists how to create content for the iPad and all major tablet devices.

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A graphic design and web design agency celebrating 10 years in business is offering its services free of charge to a needy cause.

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UK cloud, dedicated server and colocation hosting specialist CWCS Managed Hosting has been awarded certification to ISO 27001:2005, the global Information Security Management System standard.

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A new team has been formed in Telford to offer a complete ‘one-stop-shop’ for people looking for the design, construction and maintenance of websites and e-commerce sites.

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Two successful Shropshire businesses specialising in different areas of website creation are to join together to provide clients with a service set to be second to none.

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A technology entrepreneur has chosen Birmingham to launch a new web-based peer-to-peer trading platform, ‘barter bay’ and has ambitious plans to generate a revenue of £1million from one million trades within the first three years.

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Shropshire web developer, Kirsty Burgoine, of Kirsty Burgoine Ltd, launches a refreshed brand identity and website this week in a move designed to underscore the developer’s status as one of the UK web industry’s rising stars.

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Nottinghamshire entrepreneur and Image Consultant Alicia Kite launched her new online venture, Style Me Slim™, yesterday Monday 26 November.

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Technology company Postcode Anywhere invited Young Enterprise students from The Chantry, Martley to sell their wares in a business environment.

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Businesses can learn more about mobile devices and Google Analytics thanks to the final two eBiz byte seminars being offered next week.

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The work of a Stoke-on-Trent marketing agency has enabled a designer menswear retailer to increase traffic to their website by 600%, and orders by almost 100 a day. Before Terraces Menswear linked up with Fifteen Digital in 2009, they were receiving approximately 500 visits a day to their website, and generating fewer than 10 online [...]

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A new Shropshire business has been launched in response to the growing trend in online retailing.

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Coping with large volumes of paperwork is a common headache for many organisations associated with the legal profession but a digital marketing and design agency has developed a ground-breaking online client relationship management (CRM) platform that stream-lines the workflow process for a leading specialist professional indemnity insurance broker in the Midlands. Visualcode, based in Shropshire, [...]

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Address specialist, Postcode Anywhere, has been shortlisted as a finalist in two separate categories in the annual Software Satisfaction Awards. The Software Satisfaction Awards are amongst the most prestigious in the IT industry and are voted for directly by customers who participate in the largest business software survey undertaken in the UK. They were established [...]

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Birmingham Science Park-based Soshi Games has completed a deal with Raw Power Management to feature two of its Kerrang! Award-winning bands in Music Festivals Game on Facebook.

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Global data quality expert Postcode Anywhere has announced it will be sponsoring the “Outstanding Data Provider” in the B2B category at the 2012 Database Marketing Awards. Launched last year to recognise and reward excellence in the sector, the Awards are already a firmly established feature in the marketing calendar. Since its inception in 2001, Postcode [...]

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V12 Retail Finance has highlighted the importance of bank account validation in building a successful business this week. V12 Retail Finance is the UK’s only specialist provider of Retail Point of Sale Credit. The company uses Postcode Anywhere’s software for bank validation, email and address capture on their website. Matt Hatton, IT Director said: “Accurate [...]

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A new course giving people the chance to learn how to create their own website video will be launched at The Academy in Shrewsbury next month.

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Alcohol brands must take their social media marketing seriously and not be tempted to just dabble, or they could risk their reputations and a run-in with regulators. That was the overriding message from a seminar staged by Birmingham-based communications agency Seal, which was attended by representatives from 10 brewery and alcohol brands and the Advertising [...]

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Birmingham’s business owners are showing Britain how it’s done when it comes to mobile search, according to T-Mobile. A national survey of owners of micro businesses found that the city’s businesses are making the most of a busy summer by ensuring they’re visible through mobile search. Over half (54%) of the smallest businesses in Birmingham [...]

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Local mums and businesswomen Sally Hall and Emma Fear received a business boost from TV Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis

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Mobile web design group Wapple is expanding fast after taking a five year lease on new premises in Redditch.

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A new website has been launched to spread the word about the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

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Hobzy has secured £100,000 from private investors and Birmingham City Council, delivered via its Finance Birmingham subsidiary.

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Web development specialists ExtraMile Communications have launched a new service which will enable companies to take advantage of a growing number of online searches on mobile devices. Responsive Design is aimed at companies with websites which were created for larger screens, or that have developed mobile versions of their original site to try and cater [...]

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Expanding technology company Postcode Anywhere announces its inaugural Graduate Day which takes place on the 18th July at Worcester Rugby Club. The itinerary has been devised with the help of The People Experts™, a local recruitment specialist that utilises social media and team exercises to find and assess candidates to make sure the employer and [...]

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An award-winning Shropshire company has clinched a new contract to ship bespoke gifts and souvenirs from the Far East to destinations across the globe.

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Petrolheads in the West Midlands are in for a treat on Saturday 9th June as the range of modern and classic cars set to feature at Coventry Car Day grows ever more impressive.

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Ecommerce specialists at Postcode Anywhere will be demonstrating a new address validation service today at Cloudforce UK, “the largest social enterprise event in Europe,” at the ICC London ExCeL.

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St.Tropez has now been using Store Finder from Postcode Anywhere for over three years, in order to help their online customers locate their nearest professional salon or spa, offering St. Tropez treatments.

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British forces and their families abroad will now be able to shop online with ease, thanks to a new dataset introduced by Royal Mail and implemented for the first time by address specialist Postcode Anywhere.

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Turn90 has recently expanded its team with the appointment of two new web developers following a move into a new office space in the heart of Birmingham city centre.

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A Shropshire web design company is offering free social media training for all new clients to make sure they are part of the “online revolution”.

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Ethical website developer Make Hay is marking the first anniversary of a sponsorship deal with a voluntary organisation that promotes creative individuals and groups in Nottingham.

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A Coventry based e-portfolio company is celebrating after achieving rapid growth and receiving positive industry feedback within its first six months of trading

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Privacy in the 21st century is more important than ever and now, thanks to an innovative service, it’s possible to protect your mobile phone number.

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An enterprising local business owner has launched a free service designed to make sure a client or employee birthday, anniversary or special occasion is never forgotten.

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Local website design specialist, Stafford Website Company, has launched its own, flexible e-commerce platform in response to rising demand. Over the past six months the company has seen more and more businesses seeking sophisticated e-commerce solutions that will enable them expand their customer base online as MD, Penny Gamble, explains:

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