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Dr Ricky Joseph, chair of Citysave, and Brian Hall, sales and marketing director with BHSF, with a kiosk

Hi-tech kiosks to help Birmingham factory workers with banking

Birmingham

Citysave Credit Union and isurer BHSF install internet access across city

Wragge & Co appoints seven new directors

Birmingham

Quentin Poole, Senior Partner, Wragge & Co — Commercial law firm launches drive to drive to boost its capabilities in core practice areas and growth sectors

Nominations open for the 2013 Birmingham Post Business Awards

Edgbaston

The Post's annual awards ceremony presents an opportunity for companies to sit back and enjoy the merits of their efforts.

Jaguar Land Rover backs high-tech campus with £45m

Jaguar Land Rover

National Autimotive Innovation Campus Artist Impression — Up to 1,000 new jobs will be created by the new National Automotive Innovation Campus that will be built at the University of Warwick, with work scheduled to start later this year

Play to strengths and fly high says CBI chief John Cridland

Jaguar Land Rover

Director general of the Confederation of British Industry John Cridland — Speaking to the Post during a visit to the region, John Cridland said Birmingham and the Midlands as a whole should be building on excellence in manufacturing and innovation

Catherine Hepton, Denise Mickle, Ed James Group; Laura White, Margaret Daly, Sunny Gill, Kerry Pybus, Natasha Small, Alma Aganovic.

Ladies nail networking event at The Mailbox

Left Right

Commercial Property

Mailbox refit could ruin us, say Birmingham city centre retailers

Mailbox

Retailers in Birmingham’s traditional shopping heartland fear a major investment in the city’s exclusive Mailbox could be another nail in the coffin for them.

£50m facelift planned for Mailbox in Birmingham

£50m facelift planned for Mailbox in Birmingham

Costs spiral for regeneration at former Walsall copper works

Black Country

Former IMI James Bridge Copper Works site at Darlaston — The projected costs of a major Black Country regeneration scheme have spiralled after a private sector development deal fell through according to a confidential report seen by Birmingham Post.

Finance

Dominic King and Ross Andrews from Zeus Capital

Familiar faces return as broker sets up city office

Brindleyplace

Dominic King, one of the founders of Arden Partners, will head up the new city office for corporate finance and brokering firm Zeus Capital

Boris Johnson forms alliance with Birmingham Airport over plans to expand

Midland peer calls for return to traditional ‘Dad’s Army’ banking

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, a Labour peer, told the Lords that small business was still struggling to secure finance, he warned.

West Bromwich Building Society taking on staff after cutting losses

Black Country

Better protection for investors

Business Opinion

Trevor Law writes "A common feature of the financial press in recent months has been discussion of the regulator’s new guidelines about Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs)".

Insuring adequately for the true cost of raising a family

Banks must find the means to support innovation and reap the rewards

Economy

Manufacturing

David Hillan corporate tax partner at Grant Thornton

Manufacturers missing out on tax relief says Grant Thornton partner

Birmingham

David Hillan, corporate tax partner at Grant Thornton, said bosses were failing to realise they could be in line for savings on innovative research

Birmingham firm unveils tracking lock for cargo shipments

Birmingham

Matt Harwood, from Barkley Plastics, Andrew Harrison from Guardfreight and Steve Gaston from MAN — Birmingham-based Guardfreight International has created a new satellite-tracked lock for cargo shipments and is promising to deliver dozens of jobs on the back of it.

Jobs promise with E-Containerlock cargo lock launch

Birmingham

Matt Harwood, from Barkley Plastics, Andrew Harrison from Guardfreight and Steve Gaston from MAN, who are working on the new E-Containerlock — Birmingham-based Guardfreight International launched E-Containerlock – which aims to prevent £70 billion worth of cargo going missing every year – at the Subcon conference in the city this week.

Legal

Paul Wilson, chief executive of Shakespeares

Shakespeares law firm plans merger with Marrons

Birmingham

Birmingham-based Shakespeares has announced another proposed acquisition as part of its growth strategy.

Lawyers take protest against legal aid cuts to Birmingham Crown Court

Lawyers take protest against legal aid cuts to Birmingham Crown Court

Crime

Legal Aid Protest outside Birmingham Crown Court — Law Society and Bar Council join forces to oppose Ministry of Justice cutbacks

Birmingham Law Society president wants to bring fun to the legal profession

Solihull

Martin Allsopp — The new president of Birmingham Law Society is aiming to help boost beleaguered high street law firms during his year in office.

Moseley Arts Market to make a return to Birmingham business district

Creative

University of Warwick's statistics work on brain scans gets Wellcome boost

University of Warwick

Researchers at the University of Warwick have been awarded £1.1 million to develop the statistics needed to pool the vast quantities of data generated by brain scans.