Saturday, 17th May 2008

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Engineers are pressing ahead

Staff at Holdfast Manufacturing

Engineers Holdfast Manufacturing have a pressing engagement with the future – to double turnover in the next couple of years.

Mortgage firm beating the crisis

Stafford Railway Building Society chief executive Mike Heenan

A small Stafford-based building society is prospering despite the credit crunch after refusing mortgages to anyone outside the area.

Bosses tell of fight to save firm

Simon Carr, Steve Walker and Suresh Bawa

The bosses of a Black Country loans company which has closed with the loss of 70 jobs ploughed hundreds of thousands of pounds of their own cash into the firm in a desperate bid to save it, it has emerged today.

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Awards joy for Glitter Girls

A pair of Sandwell entrepreneurs, who turned their card-making past time into a hugely successful business, have been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Babs Scarlett and Kathy Mills are also known as “The Glitter Girls”.

Brintons to axe 100 jobs

Kidderminster carpet giant Brintons is to close an overseas factory in June with the loss of 100 jobs.

Success as deals keep rolling in

A boom in manufacturing is proving good news for one Wolverhampton company, which makes its living supplying factory equipment to some of the biggest names in UK industry.

Carillion accused of price fixing

Building firms across the West Midlands, including Wolverhampton-based Carillion, were today accused of “bid rigging” by competition watchdogs.

Ethel Austin jobs threat

Thousands of jobs - many of them across the West Midlands - were at risk today after discount clothing chain Ethel Austin was placed in administration.

JJB Sports jobs go as 70 stores closed

Struggling retail chain JJB Sports today confirmed that it will shut more than 70 stores by the end of the month - with the loss of around 800 jobs - as it looks to recover from a sharp drop in profits.

City is hotspot for out of work

Wolverhampton is becoming a jobs blackspot, with the number of people out of work in the city rising again this month despite regional and national falls.