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M42 business corridor could mean £19bn economic boost
Economic Development
A blueprint for Ƶ Central (ƵC) – the area around the NEC and Birmingham Airport – claims it could boost the region’s economy by £19.5 billion by 2040
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Foreign Investors in the English Regions: Who ya Gonna Call?
Opinion
David Bailey writes "The recent survey by Ernst & Young of the Ƶ's attractiveness to foreign investment showed a 2.7% rise in foreign-backed Ƶ projects"
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Post Comment: The opportunity of a lifetime for Birmingham
Economic Development
Plans are being forged which could transform transport, revolutionise air travel, breathe life into Birmingham businesses and give skilled jobs to thousands.
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Birmingham Airport unveils vision for growth, a new business park and 250,000 jobs in the region
Economic Development
Airport's long-term vision endorsed by Midland business leaders including GBSLEP and Chamber of Commerce
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Marketing Birmingham Commercial Partners meeting
Economic Development
More than 100 business delegates from across Birmingham came together for Marketing Birmingham’s Commercial Partners meeting.
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Business leaders welcome launch of Birmingham Post tablet edition
Economic Development
Business Daily published five days a week for tablets, iPads and Android devices.
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Birmingham Post Business Round Table: Universities could do more to help SMEs
Economic Development
Universities need to do more to engage with SMEs when designing qualifications for the workplace, according to businesses at a Birmingham Post round table discussion.
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Go-ahead for £9m scheme to improve Birmingham city centre traffic
Economic Development
Work on a £9 million project to cut congestion in Birmingham city centre will begin this year.
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Employers sign up to Birmingham's new professional services academy
Economic Development
Seven of Birmingham's biggest professional services employers have signed on as partners at the Ƶ's first sector specific academy for young people.
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Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP want to trial Heseltine's single pot
Economic Development
Plans to divert billions of pounds from central government to the regions could be piloted in Birmingham and the surrounding area if the city’s business and civic leaders get heir way.
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Birmingham Post Letters To The Editor - Friday May 10
Economic Development
This weeks Birmingham Post Letters To The Editor on Friday May 10.
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Post Comment: City's diversity is reaping rewards
Economic Development
Birmingham is an international city in every way.
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Skills will be key to new Birmingham Baccalaureate, say firms
Economic Development
Dozens of companies have spelled out their hopes for a new “Birmingham Baccalaureate” – with cutting-edge digital skills and traditional engineering expertise high on the wish list.
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Birmingham enjoys record levels of foreign investment
Economic Development
Foreign investment in Birmingham has soared by 52 per cent in the last year – with more than 2,200 jobs created as a result – as the city continues to buck a Ƶ-wide fall.
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Vince Cable dismisses Heseltine's LEP vision of regional economies
Economic Development
Plans to revive the West Midlands economy by handing billions to Local Enterprise Partnerships have been thrown into confusion after Business Secretary Vince Cable ruled them out.
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David Bailey: Osborne must put money where his mouth is on local enterprise partnerships
Economic Development
After Regional Development Agencies were scrapped by the Coalition government in 2010, smaller scale Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) were set up - effectively as partnerships between local authorities and business.
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Post Comment: Cable's spanner in the works
Economic Development
Business Secretary Vince Cable has set the cat among the pigeons with his strong comments warning that the Government is not ready to hand funding over to Local Enterprise Partnerships.
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Neil Elkes: What price the city jewels?
Economic Development
Former Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby set a few hares running some years back when he suggested that some of the city's assets could be sold to wealthy Arabs.
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Greater Birmingham LEP launches strategy to create 100,000 jobs
Economic Development
A blueprint to increase private sector jobs by 100,000 and boost the West Midlands economy by £8.2 billion by 2020 has been unveiled.
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'LEPing' forward in spatial planning in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership
Opinion
The GBSLEP is preparing a spatial framework recognising the linkages between economic growth and good spatial planning.
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John Clancy to challenge Albert Bore for Birmingham council leadership
Economic Development
A Labour backbencher has launched his second bid to become Birmingham City Council leader with a pledge to get the city building and invest in small businesses.
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John Clancy: A new municipal bank may pay off for our region
Economic Development
Regional development banks and municipal banks have been at the heart of my calls over the last 16 years for radical reform of banking.
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Pheonix 10 regeneration scheme in Walsall back on track after collapse
Economic Development
A major Black Country redevelopment scheme could be back on track just weeks after the collapse of an £18 million deal.
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Rich List 2013: No.12 - Sir Peter Rigby (£520m)
Economic Development
Sir Peter Rigby’s Birmingham-based Specialist Computer Holdings has had the best year in its 37-year history.
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