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Government needs to be more creative to encourage businesses to take on apprentices which will be a timely intervention to reduce the region’s unemployment which has risen by 10,000 to 234,000 say West Midlands business leaders....

Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group has pleaded with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take urgent action to boost British businesses and exporters. The Chamber has written to the Chancellor, George Osborne MP, ahead of his...

Business leaders in the West Midlands today welcomed the Transport Select Committee’s report on HS2.     ‘High Speed Rail’, the report of the inquiry into the project, will encourage economic growth and investment and create thousands...

West Midland business leaders welcomed the Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates at a historic low of 0.5 per cent. Michael Ward, president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, said the move by the Bank’s...

Business leaders today welcomed the government’s decision to allocate £14.9 million to the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to help get building projects off the ground. But Jerry Blackett, chief executive of Birmingham...

McDonald’s Franchisee, Atul Pathak, launched a staff training centre at his Southall restaurant last month, offering workplace skills and nationally recognised qualifications to the 1,400 staff he employs across North and North West London. He met...

Xendpay, UK’s fast-growing specialist provider of international money transfers joins in the celebrations for one of the most auspicious dates in the Hindu and Sikh calendar, Diwali, the Festival of Lights. This Diwali, Xendpay has launched...

Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group (BCCG) is hoping to build on the region’s growing export figures by encouraging more businesses to look at overseas markets . Earlier this month, the organisation reported that the number of...

Birmingham business leaders are hopeful that the city’s airport will be one of the major winners when a new draft policy on aviation policy is published next March. Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group (BCCG), together with...

Business leaders in the West Midlands welcomed the Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent for the 32nd month in succession and to boost the economy by £75 billion through Quantitative...