Business

Helpful Measures and Disappointing Omissions. Business leaders in Greater Birmingham said today’s Budget was a mixed bag of helpful measures and disappointing omissions.   Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC) welcomed moves to help exporters with the doubling of finance available to...

The first in a series of ‘supper time’ South and City College InBusiness network events took place in September at the appropriately named 1000 Trades Bar and Kitchen in the historic Jewellery Quarter. History mixed with new technology was the...

The Bank of England has been dragged into a Libor scandal after BBC Panorama secretly recorded a senior Barclay’s manager and a Libor submitter. The recording shows that the Bank of England pressured banks into pushing down their Libor...

According to a report published by the Birmingham Commonwealth Association (BCA), and supported by Birmingham City Council’s International Affairs Team, using the most recent reliable figures it has been conservatively calculated that international students (non-EU) bring in over £400 million per academic year. Of...

Naeem Arif is a highly experienced customer-orientated leader, with over 15 years experience as director of multiple successful Private Limited Companies in the Retail and Management Consulting world. He the founder of NA Consulting, a retail and management consultancy,...

However BCC Issues Caution West Midlands business leaders welcomed today’s announcement by the Office for National Statistics that the unemployment rate for the West Midlands has fallen to 8.1 per cent in the quarter from September to November, down...

Qasim Majid is a technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Wow Zone – a digital marketing agency. He has been in the digital industry for 20 years.  With the recent update to Apple’s iOS, now on version 11,...

A Birmingham City University employee has been announced as the UK’s ‘Mentor of the Year’ at a special event held yesterday in Doncaster. Nasrin Akhtar, who works as an Ambitious Futures Graduate Trainee in Leadership and Management at Birmingham City...

Winners AnnouncedWinners of the third annual English Asian Business Awards presented by Lloyds Banking Group were revealed on Monday 29 September at a glittering ceremony in Manchester.   The evening was one of recognition, celebrating the great success and business achievements...

Camran Khan, Director of Technology for Innovation Birmingham Campus-based digital lettings and property management provider, brightLET, has been shortlisted for this year’s international Talent Unleashed awards. A cloud based lettings and property management platform that connects landlords directly with tenants,...