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Exporters offer taste of Britain
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A group of West Midland food and drink companies are hoping to take a bite into the Polish market, after starring at a food extravaganza in the Eastern European country organised by Ƶ Trade & Investment.
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China trade blow
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TOM SCOTNEY
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Legal advice column
Professional Services
Fahmida Ismail's legal advice column
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Wragge & Co lands London Crossrail advisory role
Professional Services
Wragge & Co has been appointed to advise on one of the biggest public property developments in Europe – the £16billion Crossrail project in London.
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Worcester firm's case for sea defence is a winner
Professional Services
A Midlands law firm is celebrating after helping a pensioner protect his home.
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Eversheds wins Comet appointment
Professional Services
International law firm Eversheds has been appointed as the sole legal adviser to retail giant Comet to provide support on all its legal matters for the next three years.
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Birmingham firm wins investment from Standard Life
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A Birmingham professional services firm has announced pensions giant Standard Life is to become a minority shareholder in the firm’s Financial Management business.
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Challinors appointed to Government advice panel
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Midlands law firm Challinors has been appointed to a top government advice panel.
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Weightmans climbs in Top Legal Employers survey
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Birmingham law firm Weightmans has had a storming performance in this year’s Top Legal Employers survey.
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Challinors warn against extreme regulation
Banking & Finance
The global and national financial situation continues to pummel businesses and individuals, in a recession blamed largely on a lack of regulation.
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Birmingham firms have key role in Zenos sale
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A team of professionals from Birmingham has advised on one of the biggest corporate finance deals of recent time.
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Credit insurers pay out record £97m in third quarter
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Insurance companies in the credit sector paid out a record £97million in the third quarter of this year due to the decline in the economy, according to experts at Birmingham’s biggest independent insurance brokers Perkins Slade.
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Umeco eyes wind energy market with purchase of Italian plastics firm, IPM
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Leamington Spa defence firm Umeco has bought an Italian plastics firm to boost its growing sustainable energy department.
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Oval sees healthy rise in profits
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National insurance broker Oval has announced robust results, after a string of high-profile acquisitions..
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Birmingham-based shares scam is wound up in High Court
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A “boiler room” shares scam centred on Birmingham that left 350 investors high and dry has been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
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Crackdown on cash-in-hand economy
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It’s not unknown for builders to offer a discount to customers able to pay cash.
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Birmingham legal firm pays out £75,000 compensation to former employee
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A Birmingham MP has agreed to talks with a city law firm after a Muslim legal assistant won a £75,000 payout when she was nicknamed “tent head” by a senior partner.
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House price drop sends pound into freefall
Banking & Finance
News of the steepest ever monthly fall in house prices shortly before the Bank of England made its interest rate cut sent the pound into a fresh slide to touch $1.4467, its lowest level against the greenback for more than six years.
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Mixed reaction from banks over interest rate cut
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Lloyds TSB and HSBC said they would be passing on the one per cent interest rate cut to their variable rate customers in full.
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Austerity Britain ... and how to escape it
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If you always wanted to retire to a former lock-keeper’s cottage on one of Britain’s canals, the chances of achieving that dream rose considerably after the chancellor’s recent pre-Budget report (PBR).
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The complexity of hedge funds
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“Investing should be like watching paint dry or grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas”.
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Joint ventures enable savvy to obtain skills
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There is no doubt that the economic climate is having an impact on companies from all sectors.
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When dealing with the east we need to learn patience
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In the last year we have seen a change in the attitude and behaviour of potential buyers in India and China towards the purchase of mid-market businesses in the West.
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BRIC in better shape to weather the storms
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Confidence at EU service sector firms evaporated in the autumn in the midst of the worst global financial crisis in 80 years, with a contraction of activity expected heading into 2009, according to a survey of almost 3,000 service sector firms.
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