Category: Manchester

Halliwells carve-up confirmed

Administrators BDO have officially been appointed to Halliwells - and details of the stricken law firm’s carve-up have been confirmed.

Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield

Business angels call for match funding network

Delegates at today's British Business Angels Association conference gave their overwhelming support to a call for the establishment of a national match-funding network.

European Union, Manchester

Start up numbers soar says survey

Research by direct marketing company Selectabase, suggests that the number of new businesses starting up in the UK is up by 19% compared to last year, at 240 start ups per day.

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Selectabase

Business Angels head to Manchester

This year’s British Business Angel Association (BBAA) two day Conference and Awards will take place in Manchester on July 13 and 14.

British Business Angel Association, Manchester

Headhunters' Academy opens

The UK’s first headhunter training academy is to open in August in Altrincham, Greater Manchester.

Elliot Marsh, Executive Headhunters, Manchester, Mike Walmsley

Peter Stephenson named E&Y North & Midlands Entrepreneur Of The Year

Peter Stephenson, executive chairman of Able UK Limited, was last night named Ernst & Young North & Midlands Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 at an awards dinner held in Manchester.

Able UK Limited, Ernst & Young, Leeds, Manchester, Peter Stephenson

Coalition cost-cutting threatens major infrastructure projects

The £6.2bn worth of national cutbacks announced by Chancellor George Osborne have reduced the Department of Transport’s budgets by £683 million and put dozens of planned investments in the country’s infrastructure projects under threat.

George Osborne, Manchester

3,600 retailers collapse in 2009

Business failures in the retail sector last year hit levels not seen since the early-90s recession, according to the latest Industry Watch report by accountants BDO and thinktank the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). Rising unemployment and low consumer confidence further suppressed high street spending, meaning around 3,600 retail businesses went to the wall in 2009.

Dermot Power, Manchester, The Centre for Economics and Business Research

Red tape costs rocket

The director general of the British Chambers of Commerce called for a four-year moratorium on new labour laws as evidence was released today of the spiralling cost to business of red tape.

British Chambers of Commerce, London, Manchester