Business Up North

Members of a successful Northumberland disabled football team are looking good both on and off the pitch after winning funding for new branded training kit through the local branch of Newcastle Building Society.

A Yorkshire-based bathroom retailer is launching a new initiative for giving back to local emergency workers — that’s anyone who works in the NHS, military, fire or police services.

The booming female networking organization based in Ilkley, that has featured on BBC Business, CNN and Forbes over the last few months is celebrating turning one this month and has plans right across the country to mark the occasion, as working mum of 4, Catherine Asta Labbett continues to give back to other working women across the region, on her mission to support and inspire them, when moving from the 9-5 to life as a female entrepreneur.

With the recent launch of the long-awaited £120m North East Fund, and subsequent announcements on the fund managers who have been given responsibility for investing its different constituent parts, the race is on for businesses across the region to be among the first to access investment capital from it.

As Salford races to become one of the world’s most attractive cities for digital enterprise, The Mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett (alongside the Salford Digital Collaborative) has today announced the appointment of Jon Corner as the city’s first ever Chief Digital Officer (CDO).

Entries for the Stockport Business Awards are now officially open. Businesses within the borough of Stockport will have the opportunity to enter one or...

Microbiosensor secured £50,000 funding from Health Innovation Manchester to pilot the PD Safe device at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Device successfully used a small dialysis waste sample and colour-changing chemicals to alert patients to an infection, acting as an early warning system for peritonitis, a potentially fatal infection if untreated.

With more small businesses launching online, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards has announced its first e-commerce partner, Ingenico. Ingenico’s message is that entrepreneurs can now compete effectively with the major online retailers. Businesses of all sizes can create a slick user experience and attract customers with their own unique service and brand proposition.

Over 180 representatives drawn from Lancashire businesses, schools, colleges and stakeholders gathered at the Barton Grange Hotel in Preston recently for the launch of Lancashire’s Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) Toolkit. The LMI Toolkit, which was commissioned by the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP), includes a new in-depth study of Lancashire’s recent employment performance together with projected demands for different jobs and skills across the county in the future. For the first time, it also contains a series of in-depth area profiles which highlight specific local data for all of Lancashire’s major conurbations and regions. These include detailed factsheets for Preston, Chorley and South Ribble; Lancaster and Morecambe; West Lancashire; Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre; Burnley and Pendle; Blackburn, Hynburn, Rossendale and Ribble Valley.

Europe’s leading price comparison site idealo has appointed full service media communications agency We Are Boutique to raise its consumer profile in the UK.