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Food firm clocks on to biometrics
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Workers at a Midland food factory are using sophisticated new access control technology to clock in and out of work.
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Potter's Poultry wins deal to export to Australia
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A Warwickshire manufacturing company has won substantial new business to export poultry nesting equipment to Australia.
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Tough future predicted for manufacturers despite improving global market
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Britain’s manufacturers are recovering more quickly than expected but still face a rocky future, according to a report by financial firm BDO and manufacturing body EEF.
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Dan returns for one more spell at Steelway
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Businessman Dan Houghton has completed a multi-million pound deal for a Midland manufacturing firm – 10 years after he bought it the first time.
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Hercules Cycle and Motor Company celebrates 100 years
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Hundreds of vintage vehicles will line up outside an old Aston-based factory this weekend to mark the 100-year formation of one of Britain’s biggest ever bicycle manufacturers.
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West Bromwich air conditioning firm signs lucrative Arab tie-up
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Air conditioning company Weatherite Manufacturing has signed a strategic partnership with one of the biggest mechanical engineering firms in the United Arab Emirates that could eventually be worth millions.
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Engineering chief and former High Sheriff acquires die-casting firm
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Byron Head, the engineering chief and former High Sheriff of the West Midlands, has acquired a Rochdale-based die-casting company in an acquisition advised by Midland law firm Freeth Cartwright.
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Dudley company Industrial Penstocks receives Queen's Award
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Dudley company Industrial Penstocks has been to Buckingham Palace to receive a Queen’s Award for International Trade.
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Surestop expands into new premises
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A Midland firm which has developed a popular plumbing product has expanded into new premises.
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Fruit contract brings work back to West Midlands
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Manufacturer Bird Stevens has won a £75,000 contract with a Herefordshire soft fruit grower which will see production work moved back to the West Midlands from abroad.
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Strike threat at Walsall firm as bonuses are withdrawn
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Workers at a Walsall-based galvanising company are being balloted over strike action after a row broke out about bonus payments.
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West Midlands suffers poor start in electric cars race
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China’s bold approach and sense of environmental urgency mean it is set to “clean up” in the electric vehicles market long-vaunted as a major hope in creating West Midland jobs.
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Rimstock agrees deal to supply V8 Supercar Championship in Australia
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Alloy wheel-maker Rimstock has secured a £450,000 deal to supply a prestigious Australian motorsport championship.
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Firm established by former MG Rover workers aiming for US success
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A Midland embedded systems company established by MG Rover staff in the wake of its collapse is hoping to chip away at the American market after a string of recent domestic successes.
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Sustainability West Midlands names Top 50 green leaders for the region
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Carillion’s chief engineer, the boss of the West Midlands Fire Service and a Gardener’s World presenter all feature in a newly-published list of the region’s Top 50 Green Leaders.
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GKN on course for £170m half-year profits
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Worcestershire engineering firm GKN is on course to make pre-tax profits of at least £170 million in the first half of the year.
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Kraft behaved badly when it bought Cadbury, says Vince Cable
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Ministers are preparing tough new laws making it harder for foreign firms to buy British companies, following Kraft’s takeover of chocolate-maker Cadbury.
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Norman Jordan named as new chief executive of Hampson Industries
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Black Country aerospace group Hampson Industries has appointed Norman Jordan as its new chief executive.
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GKN announces £1bn worth of aerospace deals
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Engineering firm GKN has revealed almost £1 billion worth of contracts – including a deal to supply parts for a new Airbus aeroplane.
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JCB predicts five-year wait before job levels return to normal
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The chief executive of JCB has said it could take as long as five years to return to 2007 employment levels after sales at the firm fell by a third last year.
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Big sales rise for Jaguar Land Rover
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Sales of Jaguars and Land Rovers soared last month as the recovery in the luxury car market continued.
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Brandauer presses on with diverse plans
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A 150-year-old manufacturing company which started off making pen nibs is embarking on plans to diversify into new markets.
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Workers praised after saving Goodyear Dunlop millions
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Two Goodyear Dunlop employees from the West Midlands have been singled out for praise by global bosses for helping to save the company millions of pounds.
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Fears for Wedgwood heritage if historic pieces are sold to fund pensions
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Business and community leaders say the heritage of Staffordshire’s pottery industry could be harmed after it emerged historic artefacts from the Wedgwood Museum could be sold to fund pension deficits.
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