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373 Article(s) Found

Help for firms to avoid disaster

How would your business cope in the event of a serious fire, flood or major loss of computer data? Business...

Date Online: 16/05/2008

Chamber helps companies go green

Businesses are being offered a helping hand to cut their carbon emissions through a new standard launched by Greater Manchester...

Date Online: 16/05/2008

Rochdale company wins £2.5million MOD contract

The Government has awarded a £2.5million contract to a Rochdale firm to make sea water drinkable on board the Royal...

Date Online: 14/05/2008

Waste awareness training

Groundwork Oldham & Rochdale are offering businesses the opportunity to improve their waste management knowledge by attending a Waste Awareness...

Date Online: 14/05/2008

Campaign to stamp out software piracy

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is launching a six-week campaign to stamp out software piracy in Greater Manchester.
The aim...

Date Online: 14/05/2008

Small businesses get free cccess to public sector contracts

A free trial has been launched this month to provide small and medium-sized businesses with access to thousands of public...

Date Online: 14/05/2008

Conference Business Forum

A Conference Business Forum is being organised as a key part of the Labour Party Annual Conference, which will this...

Date Online: 14/05/2008

Next Generation Gymophobics

Gymophobics ladies only gym has recently welcomed its youngest members through the doors. Gym Instructors Lois Darlington and Catherine Farrar...

Date Online: 08/05/2008

Project management professionals benefit Little Monkeys

Arras People, a national project management recruitment agency based in Heywood, made a £360 donation to Heywood Children’s Charities -...

Date Online: 04/05/2008

Peel Holdings lobby businesses over congestion charging

Andrew Simpson, the Chairman of Greater Manchester Momentum Group (GMMG) and Group Managing Director of Peel Holdings has contacted businesses...

Date Online: 30/04/2008

£1.3Million plant opens in Littleborough

Elliott Absorbent Products, the UK’s foremost manufacturer and supplier of Food Absorbents and Paper Consumables has announced the opening of...

Date Online: 30/04/2008

Businesses losing out on R&D tax relief

Companies could be losing out on substantial tax savings if they don’t claim research and development tax relief, according to...

Date Online: 30/04/2008

REACH Regulations

The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulations – the REACH Regulations - are now in force and will...

Date Online: 22/04/2008

Keep business healthy

Work can have a positive impact on our health and wellbeing, but many factors inside and out of the workplace...

Date Online: 22/04/2008

Landlords take the tax-friendly course

The council is helping local landlords to make a friend in hard times - the taxman.
Rochdale Borough Council's Landlord...

Date Online: 18/04/2008

Welcome to ‘Think Local’

Think Local is a new initiative funded by the Rochdale and Oldham Partnership that will help bring new opportunities to...

Date Online: 17/04/2008

Made in Rochdale prize winners

Heywood Civic Centre was bustling at the end of last month, when more than forty local women entrepreneurs, including Rochdale...

Date Online: 17/04/2008

DTC downgrades Rochdale operator's licence

A local operator, whose proposed transport manager had disappeared, has had to downgrade its licence from a standard national to...

Date Online: 16/04/2008

Workshops for new business owners

A workshop series for new and young businesses which have been trading for up to two years.
Business Support Solutions...

Date Online: 16/04/2008

Save money with resource efficiency

With 2008 starting out on an uncertain economic footing, embracing resource efficiency could help local firms to mitigate the impact...

Date Online: 14/04/2008

Going green causing entrepeneurs to go red!

According to entrepreneur think tank, the Tenon Forum, the costs of ‘going green’ is dampening North West businesses appetite for...

Date Online: 11/04/2008

Viridor Laing win waste management services contract

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) has confirmed that it proposes to award the contract for its 25 year...

Date Online: 11/04/2008

Rochdale builder sells firm for millions

A Rochdale builder, who has been in the industry for 25 years, sold his company this week for more than...

Date Online: 10/04/2008

Zen Internet moves to Sandbrook Park

Rochdale's leading internet service provider has completed a move to new headquarters at Sandbrook Park.
All Zen Internet employees are...

Date Online: 10/04/2008

Be prepared for new regulations coming into effect

6 April 2008 was the first Common Commencement Date (CCD) of 2008, a twice yearly event when the Government introduces...

Date Online: 07/04/2008

Celltek Communications in liquidation

Rochdale based Celltek Communications has gone into liquidation with well over half a million pounds of debt.
The failure is...

Date Online: 04/04/2008

Changes to water rates - have you been affected?

United Utilities has changed the way it charges business customers for their waste water and highway drainage with effect from...

Date Online: 02/04/2008

A Presentation and Q&A Session with Sir Howard Bernstein

We will soon hear whether the Government has approved the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities’ bid to the Transport Innovation...

Date Online: 02/04/2008

Rochdale Chamber Networking Lunch

The second of the Rochdale Chamber of Commerce monthly lunches in Rochdale for 2008 will focus on networking and the...

Date Online: 02/04/2008

Made in Rochdale trade fair a hive of activity

Heywood Civic Centre was a hive of activity for the Made in Rochdale trade fair on Friday 28 and Saturday...

Date Online: 30/03/2008