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Jaguar Land Rover supplier DHL facing shopfloor revolt

Plans for weekend working to keep pace with JLR growth anger workers

Boost to plans to save hundreds of Remploy jobs

Remploy
Disabled people working in Birmingham and Coventry could be set for a reprieve from the axe

Work starts ahead of Wragge & Co move to Two Snowhill

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Law firm's long-awaited city move progresses as fit out work set to start

Hi-tech kiosks to help Birmingham factory workers with banking

Dr Ricky Joseph, chair of Citysave, and Brian Hall, sales and marketing director with BHSF, with a kiosk
Citysave Credit Union and isurer BHSF install internet access across city

Wragge & Co appoints seven new directors

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

Business In Pictures

Commercial Property

The Mailbox in Birmingham

Mailbox refit could ruin us, say Birmingham city centre retailers

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

The Mailbox in Birmingham
The owners of the Mailbox are set to invest heavily in a major redevelopment to capitalise on the renaissance of Birmingham city centre.

Costs spiral for regeneration at former Walsall copper works

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 exclusive

Familiar faces return as broker sets up city office

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

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

Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya
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

West Bromwich Building Society
West Bromwich Building Society takes on extra staff as it plans to increase residential mortgage lending.
General business

Foreign Investors in the English Regions: Who ya Gonna Call?

David Bailey writes "The recent survey by Ernst & Young of the UK's attractiveness to foreign investment showed a 2.7% rise in foreign-backed UK projects"

Better protection for investors

General business
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)".

Manufacturing

David Hillan corporate tax partner at Grant Thornton

Manufacturers missing out on tax relief says Grant Thornton partner

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

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

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

Lawyers take protest against legal aid cuts to Birmingham Crown Court

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

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

Creative

University of Warwick

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

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.

Joy for Jo Harrington in her new role as chair of the BPA

Jo Harrington
Jo Harrington, regional agency manager at Free Radio, was appointed the new chair of Birmingham Publicity Association.

Tamworth software firm Flydocs to open China office

Anne Ryan, finance director at Tamworth based FLYdocs.
A Midland software company is to open a new office in China after signing a contract with Hong Kong's international flag carrier.

Post People

The BRENDAs awards.

The BRENDAs awards event held at the Burlington Hotel

The an annual tongue-in-cheek awards event, The BRENDAs, organised by Birmingham’s commercial property sector, was held at the Burlington Hotel in Birmingham.

Ladies nail networking event at The Mailbox

Catherine Hepton, Denise Mickle, Ed James Group; Laura White, Margaret Daly, Sunny Gill, Kerry Pybus, Natasha Small, Alma Aganovic.
Project Emerge, a new pop-store by Bournville College in The Mailbox, was the setting for a ‘Nails and Networking’ event.

BHSF celebrate 140 years in business

Peter Maskell, Chief Executive, Noel Cramer, Marie Curie Solihull Hospice.
More than 100 guests attended the BHSF annual dinner celebrating the Birmingham company’s 140 years in business.

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The BRENDAs awards.

The BRENDAs awards event held at the Burlington Hotel

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

Peter Maskell, Chief Executive, Noel Cramer, Marie Curie Solihull Hospice.

BHSF celebrate 140 years in business

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