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May The Force Be With You: Pals launch indie shop packed with Star Wars, Harry Potter, Minecraft and Batman gear
Retail & High Street
Town centre store sells everything from bags, caps and t-shirts to Pokémon balls, mugs and even wizard’s broomsticks
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New podcast aims to demystify digital marketing for businesses
Marketing
The Happy Hour Marketing Show is a light-hearted weekly discussion on the latest in marketing tactics
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Seventeen West Midlands companies receive a Queen's Award for Enterprise
West Midlands
Group works in sectors such as tech, manufacturing and healthcare
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2021 East Midlands Queen’s Award winners revealed
The Queen
Snack manufacturers, sportswear companies and cooking tech businesses among the recipients
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Birmingham businesswomen team up to launch new comms agency
West Midlands
Three Blondes and a Brunette has been created to offer marketing and PR services
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Marketing agency Calloway Green merges with Scottish firm
West Midlands
Firm founded 15 years ago in new tie up with Grand Bridges which has offices in Edinburgh and San Francisco
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Graham Mulholland says Legend 480 supercar plans still on – despite his company going under with 45 job losses
Insolvency and Administration
Firm linked to the sports car is in administration, but the man behind the project says it still has a future
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Recruitment agency Gi Group opens Birmingham branch
West Midlands
East Midlands outfit expands its presence in the region by launching second West Midlands office
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Family creating new flats in Market Harborough nightclub where they used to go dancing
property news
Plan is to turn former Enigma nightclub building into 13 flats with roof terrace, cinema room and workspace studio
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Tool hire entrepreneur transforms rugby legend's former social club to create third Humber branch
Construction
Clive Sullivan's Chamberlain Road place taken on lock, stock and disco ball!
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£120m deal struck to buy BioCity laboratory park group
Pharmaceuticals
New company We Are Pioneer Group will run science parks in Nottingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Cheshire, Aberdeen and Newcastle
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Blue Light Card discount scheme for 999 and other key workers takes on 60 staff in just 12 months
Retail & High Street
2m members get discounts online and on the high street, with offers available on restaurants, fashion, tech and days out
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Meat free mince, kebab strips and BBQ-style food maker Better Nature raises £1.62m crowdfunding in 48 hours
Food and Drink
Its Asian tempeh recipes use fermented plant-based protein made using soybeans or other beans, nuts, grains or seeds
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Online store Dyno scaling the heights of global climbing equipment market
Retail
Luke Northbrooke launches website to act as shop window linking suppliers in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ and Europe with climbers over here
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No let up in firms grappling with complexities of Brexit
Brexit
Companies still getting bogged down in red tape as they try and cope with new levels of bureaucracy that came in on January 1
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Poor pay and conditions found in Leicester’s textiles factories – but not modern day slavery, says report
Fashion
Report also says no evidence linking textile trade to Covid-19 spike in the city last summer
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Councils buy 28 acre site to support South Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone
Local Enterprise Partnership
Phase one is already underway with the University of Lincoln recently completing a Centre of Excellence on the site
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Work-from-home software developer StaffCircle wins £1.275m funding
Technology
StaffCircle has tripled revenue since the first lockdown a year ago when huge numbers of people started working from home
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Flower delivery company Lazy Flora wins £500,000 investment to support 20 new jobs
Retail
Revenues have shot up over last year as more people shop from home
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Manufacturers, engineers and logistics firms in and around Boston, Grimsby and Scunthorpe offered £300k of support
Education
Businesses will get University of Lincoln support and can apply for a seed fund grant of up to £10,000
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Black Country creative agency relocates to new Birmingham home
West Midlands
Colour Cubed Creative Communications has taken up residence in the historic former home of pen maker
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New store The Lifestyle Barn uses end of lockdown to launch in Leicestershire's Charnwood Forest
Fashion
New shop sells soft furnishings, jewellery, clothes and fashion accessories as well as food and drink including Burleighs Gin
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White Peak Distillery raises £1m to build global sales ahead of release of its first single malt whisky
HMRC
So far 660 investors have put money into the Peak District whisky distillery that began production three years ago
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Confidence returning for East Midlands business says Chamber report
Economy
More companies say they hope to invest – though Brexit has hit those that deal with the EU
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