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Jan 9 2008
LIVERPOOL’S new inward investment superquango will be headed by Jim Gill – the chief executive of one of the three agencies it is replacing....
Jan 9 2008
THE global credit crunch and a weakening residential property market have not prevented a Liverpool developer from securing £130m of funding for a spectacular 54-storey skyscraper on Liverpool’s waterfront....
Jan 9 2008
LIVERPOOL-BORN Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy will be the keynote speaker at the confer- ence that will open the city’s new BT Convention Centre, in April....
Jan 9 2008
LAND Rover has seen its third successive year of record sales – driven by the Halewood-built Freelander 2....
Jan 9 2008
MERSEYSIDE firms are being urged to cash in on an estimated £45bn that could pour into the UK from China in 2008....
Jan 9 2008
Retail group Marks & Spencer is today warning of tougher times ahead as it reports a 2.2% drop in Christmas sales - its worst quarterly trading for more than two years....
Jan 9 2008
SPORTS retailer JJB Sports is set to move out of its Williamson Square store to make way for a new market hall as part of the £100m revamp of the St Johns Shopping Centre....
Jan 9 2008
JOHN Lewis Partnership expect its stores to continue to face difficult trading conditions in 2008, despite encouraging Christmas sales....
Jan 9 2008
EASYJET shares nose-dived yesterday to a six-month low after the company released its passenger figures for December showing a fall in the proportion of seats sold....
Jan 9 2008
ROYAL Bank of Scotland’s Liverpool-based property finance team provided funding for more than £500m worth of projects in 2007 – a 20% increase on 2006....
Jan 9 2008
LIVERPOOL John Len- non Airport chairman Robert Hough will be the guest speaker at a North Wales Business Club dinner later this month....
Jan 9 2008
TWO Liverpool-based tax experts are warning that small firms face difficult decisions in 2008 because of radical reforms of capital gains tax (CGT)....
Jan 9 2008
MORE than 200 students from Liverpool’s John Moores University School of the Built Environment have taken part in a week-long assignment, to create a design proposal that will form part of a major housing and retail development in Merseyside....
Jan 9 2008
WORK to build Warrington’s £1bn Omega business park will begin in April....
Jan 9 2008
THE prospect of weakening sales of Airbus’ commercial jets - the wings for which are made at Broughton, near Chester - has prompted a sell-off of shares in the aircraft manufacturer’s parent group....
Jan 9 2008
AROUND 80% of the North West’s small businesses expect overall running costs to increase in 2008, according to new research....
Jan 9 2008
THE Bank of England should cut interest rates again this week in the face of growing evidence that the UK economy faces the prospect of a more significant slowdown than expected accor- ding to EEF, the manu- facturers’ organisation in the North West....
Jan 9 2008
A MERSEYSIDE business support company says small firms need to “thoroughly examine” alternative finance sources as the credit crunch bites harder in 2008....
Jan 9 2008
WARRINGTON-BASED environmental engineering firm MWH is distributing free “Ecobags” to its UK staff to encourage them to use fewer plastic bags....
Jan 9 2008
THE five-star Chester Grosvenor Hotel and Spa has announced that the final stage of the £3m refurbishment of its meetings and events facilities has started....
Jan 9 2008
ALEX Turner meets LISA HORNE, owner of Healthy Paws...
Jan 9 2008
PHILLIP RAMSEY is managing director of Clarity Creation, a new marketing agency borne out of the acquisition of Paver Downes creative division by Gap Infomedia, the company he founded nine years ago....
Jan 9 2008
THE chairman of Cheshire tile and flooring retailer Topps Tiles says he expects the business to continue its growth despite the “challenging” retail environment....
Jan 9 2008
NORTHERN Trust has announced a second letting at its Vortex Court office scheme in Liverpool....
Jan 9 2008
HOMEBASE, the UK’s second largest home improvements retailer, is nearing completion of its fit-out at St Modwen’s recently- completed Bridge Retail Park, Runcorn, Cheshire....
Jan 9 2008
PIONEER Business Park, in Ellesmere Port, is set for expans- ion after the launch of phase one of the 90,000 sq ft development....
Jan 9 2008
RESEARCH from commercial property firm King Sturge forecasts commercial property prices will continue to fall in the first quarter of this year, possibly by as much as 10%....
Jan 9 2008
A WIRRAL company has scooped a contract to print the steering wheels for the Williams Formula 1 team....
Jan 9 2008
TAKING Jaguar back up-market could help turn the fortunes of the prestigious brand. Alistair Houghton reports...
Jan 9 2008
THE UK’s leading regeneration specialist wants to create a major new shopping centre in a £8m redevelopment project in Deeside....
