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News: Improving skills will strengthen economic growth
Writing in a guest blog for the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Nigel Brewster, LEP board member and partner at Brewster Pratap Recruitment Consultants, discusses the need to...
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News: Autumn Statement 2014
Rothbiz editor, Tom Austen picks out some of the announcements made by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement, an update on the Government's taxation and spending plans.The headline-grabbers...
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News: Spend Small Business Saturday in Rotherham
Shoppers in Rotherham are being encouraged to celebrate "Small Business Saturday" this weekend and shop local.Launching in the UK last year, Small Business Saturday is a grassroots, non-political,...
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News: Santander close another Rotherham branch
Spain's Santander bank has closed its second branch in Rotherham town centre as part of an "on-going branch de-duplication programme" as customers increasingly use other methods to do their banking.The...
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News: Moorhead's crisis helpline tackles Christmas debt problems
Rotherham insolvency practice, Moorhead Savage is again launching its popular annual Christmas debt helpline to provide support for people who fear what financial horrors the New Year might bring.The...
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News: Sheffield city region agrees devolution deal
The Sheffield city region (SCR) has agreed on a devolution deal with Government which will give local authority and business leaders greater say over how they grow the local economy.Last year, the nine...
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News: US advisor to visit Rotherham
Bruce Katz, an expert on the role of cities in growing the economy, is visiting Sheffield and Rotherham next month to see Europe's leading research led manufacturing cluster, centred around the...
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News: FireChill in liquidation
FireChill, an innovative green cooling and heating company that could have created hundreds of manufacturing jobs in Rotherham, has gone into liquidation.FireChill began in 2009 when Regional...
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News: Crawshaw appoints Lidl man as CEO
Crawshaws, the Rotherham-based meat focused retailer has appointed Noel Collett as the chief executive officer as it heads towards its ambitious target of 200 shops within eight years.Crawshaw has...
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News: Profits up at United Carpets
Rotherham-based United Carpets, the second largest chain of specialist retail carpet and floor covering stores in the UK, has reported an increase in profit before tax of 18.1% against the comparable...
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News: Champion's equal pay bill passed
Sarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, has helped women everywhere take a big step forward in the fight for equal pay.A Ten-Minute Rule Bill from Sarah, which fights against pay inequality...
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Manufacturers' bullish expectations at the beginning of 2014 have eased back, leaving firms cautiously confident as they head into 2015, according to the annual EEF/Aldermore Executive Survey.The...
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News: City Link deliver job losses at Christmas
The Rotherham depot of collapsed national delivery firm, City Link, looks set to close after the administrators confirmed that 2,400 staff have been made redundant.The depot at Bradmarsh Business Park...
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News: Finance Yorkshire invests full £90m
Regional funding body, Finance Yorkshire has fully invested its £90m fund into companies in Yorkshire and Humber and the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is hoping to established a similar vehicle to...
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News: Crawshaw reports on Christmas trading
Crawshaws, the meat focused retailer has reported a great start for its new factory shop at its new site in Rotherham.The AIM-listed firm recently moved onto Sandbeck Industrial Estate at Hellaby,...
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News: 10,000 new jobs aim in Rotherham Growth Plan
An "Innovation District" focused around the AMP, continued support for growing businesses and further regeneration in the town centre, all form part of a new economic plan to help deliver 10,000 new...
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News: Prompt payment to support SMEs
There is little evidence that the government's commitment to pay 80% of undisputed invoices within five working days is having the intended effect of helping the UK's five million small and...
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News: 31 East granted EZ status
31 East, the next phase of employment land at the site of the former colliery at Dinnington, Rotherham, has secured Enterprise Zone status after the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and St Paul's...
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News: Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District for Rotherham and Sheffield
As a world leading destination for advanced manufacturing, the economic corridor between Sheffield and Rotherham can become an "Innovation District" if it can build on the strong links between the city...
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News: Stafforce launches four new offices
Fast growing national specialist recruiter, Stafforce, is expanding its national branch network by four new offices, including two in South Yorkshire.With a head office on Percy Street in Rotherham...
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