Saturday, June 6, 2020
- News
Union hits out at East Midlands aerospace parts firm as 420 redundancies planned
Aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies "must not exploit the lockdown" to slash jobs and terms and conditions at its sites in Nottingham, Leicester and...Streets focus on job and employment schemes in latest business update
Streets Chartered Accountants provide details of changes to Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme including the introduction of flexible furlough in its latest business support update. As...3 business tips for saving money during Coronavirus
Coronavirus has changed every business in the world. Whether you’ve been made to work remotely, put your staff on furlough, or redirected your resources into...New ownership for Market Harborough ventilation, maintenance & hygiene company
System Hygienics, formerly the service arm of the Hotchkiss group - the largest duct manufacturer and installer in the UK – have new ownership,...Business debt will slow recovery without action – IoD
Business debt will slow the economic recovery from Coronavirus unless steps are taken to make the burden more manageable for small and mid-sized companies,...
- Property
Shared office spaces cautiously reopen
Many of the UK’s network of 5,000 shared office spaces are tentatively re-opening this month as more businesses return to the workplace as the...Construction of Kirkby’s new Leisure Destination takes a step closer
Plans to bring a new state-of-the-art leisure centre to Kirkby in Ashfield have taken another step forward. Ashfield District Council is seeking tenders from contractors...Seven Derby managed workspace buildings to reopen
Connect Derby, the managed workspace provider, is reopening its seven buildings and services to tenants on Monday (8 June). Connect Derby buildings were closed at...Bourne housebuilder restarts construction
Bourne-based housebuilder Larkfleet Homes has reopened some of its construction sites and show homes across Lincolnshire and Rutland after reviewing safety measures in line with...Housebuilder gets back to work
Rippon Homes is resuming construction work and reopening its sales offices across the East and North Midlands. In line with government guidelines, work had been...
- Finance
Northamptonshire fresh fruit giant maintains supplies with CLBILS loan
Fresh fruit company, Blue Skies, has secured a seven-figure loan from HSBC UK through the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) to ensure...Pre-tax loss expected at Van Elle as COVID-19 bites
Van Elle, the Nottinghamshire-based ground engineering contractor, is expecting to report an underlying pre-tax loss for the year ended 30 April 2020. In a trading...Sygnature Discovery expands capabilities with new acquisition
Sygnature Discovery has acquired Alderley Oncology, a focused in vivo pharmacology service provider which undertakes in vivo services for cancer drug discovery, strengthening its...Lincolnshire builders’ merchants secures facility to support 200 workers
Turnbull & Co, the independent builders’ and plumbers’ merchants in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, has secured an overdraft facility from HSBC UK to help manage...Revenue rise and return to profit for Lutterworth cyber security solutions provider
Lutterworth-based cyber security solutions provider Intercede is looking forward to "a further year of progress" as newly released preliminary results for the year ended...
- Manufacturing
Rolls-Royce to cut 1,500 jobs in the East Midlands
Rolls-Royce is to cut 1,500 jobs in the East Midlands. The news comes after the company confirmed in May that at least 9,000 jobs would...225 jobs on the line at Forterra
Approximately 225 jobs could be lost at Forterra plc, the Northamptonshire-headquartered producer of manufactured masonry products, under new proposals to mitigate the impact of...Gov urged to support strategic manufacturing sectors
The Government is being urged to provide direct support to key strategic manufacturing sectors and companies to ensure their short-term survival through the pandemic. The...Hundreds of jobs to be cut at Triumph Motorcycles
240 people are to be made redundant in the UK at Hinckley-headquartered Triumph Motorcycles, with global job cuts said to be at 400. The move...University of Derby supports advanced manufacturing project
The University of Derby is supporting an advanced manufacturing project which has secured a £1.2m UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grant. The award has been...
- Appointments
New tax director for Midlands accountancy firm
Midlands firm, Edwards Accountants, has appointed a new tax director as it looks to expand and diversify its offering to clients across the UK. Steven...Chesterfield mortgage advice firm expands team
Chesterfield-based mortgage advice firm Mortgage 1st has continued its growth plans with the recruitment of two new Mortgage Advisers, despite huge setbacks and disruption to...Trio of non-executive directors join Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce Board
Three new non-executive directors have been appointed to the Board of Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce. Nicola Langton, Head of Business Support at EBP, Roy Colclough, previous...Digital marketing agency appoints three new directors
Hallam, the Nottingham-based digital marketing agency, has appointed three new directors as part of its strategic restructure. Charlotte Tomlinson (Media Director), Matt Berry (Client Services...XCellR8 founder joins Nottingham scientific research charity’s Board of Trustees
Dr Carol Treasure, the Founder and CEO of specialist animal-free contract testing laboratory XCellR8, has joined the Board of Trustees of Fund for the...
- Advice
Covid-19 and business owners – guidance on Job Retention Scheme
All UK businesses will be able to apply for assistance to support paying part of their employees’ salary for those employees that would have...With 2021 looming, what’s in store for trade?
The end of January brought with it the end of the UK’s member ship in the European Union. Last month, the government began setting...2020 vision: Fiona Duncan-Steer, founder of RSViP Business Networking Agency
Fiona Duncan-Steer, founder of RSViP Business Networking Agency, talks goal setting and vision boards. It’s a brand-new year ladies and gentlemen, a brand-new year. Now we’ve...Make the media fall in love with you this Valentine’s Day: Greg Simpson, founder of Press for Attention PR
Greg Simpson, founder of Press for Attention PR and Enterprise Nation Champion for Nottingham, offers his advice on how to make the media fall...US top destination for future UK small business trading, report finds
The US is the foremost country for small businesses in the UK to trade with over the next three years, according to a major...
- Out Of Office
Work to transform Derby into one of the world’s best digitally connected cities begins
Derby is celebrating a major milestone in its digital transformation as work begins to extend its full fibre network to reach almost every home...Virtual business scene – RSViP event: ‘success in adaptation – stories shared’
Last week RSViP, the business networking agency, invited six of its own members from various industries to share their stories of adaptation since lock-down. Hosted...Toyota Engineer takes on a mountain challenge in support of local hospice
A Principal Engineer at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, took on the challenge of a lifetime, to support Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People. Ian Clemson,...Derby company wins major railway and infrastructure award
Composite Braiding, a manufacturing firm which specialises in thermoplastic composite braiding technology, has won a major accolade at the JEC Composite Innovation Awards 2020. The...Borderfields donation helps keep wheels turning at Lincoln food bank
To help ease the pressures that COVID-19 has put on food banks, Hammond Food Oils has donated 1,000 bottles of cold-pressed rapeseed oil and...
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