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Apr 16 2008
UP to 500 Ethel Austin employees lost their jobs today....
Apr 16 2008
MERSEYSIDE-BASED retail chain Ethel Austin collapsed into administration yesterday, raising fears for the jobs of thousands of staff....
Apr 16 2008
UNCERTAINTY in the commercial property market is hampering progress on a huge regeneration scheme in south Sefton....
Apr 16 2008
RETAIL chain JJB Sports says it will shut 72 stores by the end of the month as it bids to recover from a sharp drop in profits....
Apr 16 2008
LIVERPOOL’S newest hotel – Jurys Inn – opens its doors this week, and its general manager has told the Daily Post that business is already booming....
Apr 16 2008
SHARES in Talk Talk owner Carphone Warehouse slumped yesterday, after the company unveiled a disappointing profit forecast and secured fewer broadband connections than expected....
Apr 16 2008
The search is on for the best of the region’s economic movers and shaker. Alex Turner reports...
Apr 16 2008
A ST HELENS-BASED cosmetics manufacturer has changed hands in a deal worth £1.5m....
Apr 16 2008
AIRBUS is considering fundamental changes to the way it builds aircraft as part of ongoing restructuring efforts driven by a slide in the value of the dollar, the head of parent company EADS said yesterday....
Apr 16 2008
NORTH West manufacturers have reported good results for the first quarter of 2008 according to the latest survey by EEF North West, the manufacturers’ organisation....
Apr 16 2008
SUSTAINABLE business expert Envirowise is calling on the North West’s businesses to try out its new web-based environmental impact measurement tool....
Apr 16 2008
THE Deputy Governor of the Bank of England – on a visit to Deeside to assess the impact of the credit crunch on local companies – has insisted the UK was not on the brink of a recession....
Apr 16 2008
BANKS once again snapped up all of the wholesale bank funding offered by the Bank of England in its latest auction held yesterday....
Apr 16 2008
SHELL Step has launched its 22nd annual summer placement programme and is seeking small firms in Merseyside to take on enterprising undergraduates....
Apr 16 2008
ANGLO Irish Bank insists it is still looking to fund major property deals in Liverpool, despite the credit crunch....
Apr 16 2008
THE latest PMI Business Survey Data produced for the Royal Bank of Scotland shows the North West was the top performing regional economy in March....
Apr 16 2008
FOOD and drink companies from across the North West can now access a new e-business portal – FoodPort – which has been launched by Food Northwest....
Apr 16 2008
DEBBIE THOMPSON, Head of Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank’s Merseyside Business Centre:...
