Birmingham’s business community is “overwhelmingly” in favour of proposals prepared for the creation of a Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
A 9,000-word document will shortly go to the Government advocating an LEP comprising business leaders and the local authorities in Birmingham and Solihull.
Birmingham and Solihull Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCI) has been a partner in preparing [...]

Birmingham: West Midlands business leaders welcome the news that nearly seven out of ten entries in this year’s GCSE results (over 69%) have been awarded a C grade or above.
The increase in the numbers of students taking up science is particularly good for the high number of manufacturing and engineering companies in the city, says [...]

Australia: If you live in a rural or regional town, or an out of town rural area, and have a normal electricity supply of 240 volts, you can help the Alternative Technology Association by taking part in a survey.
We are looking for 250 volunteers and the survey will take about 25 minutes to complete.
To complete [...]

London, UK: Commenting on the news that the RMT is to announce a series of 24-hour tube strikes in September, Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said:
“If these strikes go ahead it will cause massive disruption to London’s firms and damage our city’s reputation as a reliable place [...]

July 2010:
UK BPI -1.5%
London BPI -1.5%
June 2010:
UK BPI -1.8%
London BPI -1.8%

Thursday 12 August [...]

Pakistan : By installing water tanks, pumps and water distribution points and by disinfection measures, the SDC is strengthening its emergency aid for Pakistan in the particularly urgent area of water supply. Five experts from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit will be deployed in Pakistan for this purpose. Two of the experts arrived in Pakistan [...]

Australia: The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said to minimise this period of uncertainty, steps to appoint the next government should happen swiftly and with a focus on stability and maturity.
ARA Executive Director Russell Zimmerman said retailers need to get on with business.
“The next government can’t afford to be distracted by party politics and need to [...]

Australia : The closest federal election result in Australia’s history has seen an extension of the caretaker period of government and the prospect that Australia is likely to be governed with a minority Government. The business community and the broader economy can either make that work for it or it can regard it as a [...]

“I think these are three men of real substance and their decision to stay with the Labor Government or to move away from what has been a very challenging and disappointing government for small and family owned businesses will be critical and viewed with intense interest by my thousands of members, their
families and their staff,” [...]

AEPC chairman Premal Udani has urged the government to ensure that exports of cotton / yarn are calibrated and do not cause market disruption to producers of garments for export and domestic markets.
The prices of cotton / yarn have started sharply rising again due to two reasons: announcement by the DGFT that cotton will be [...]