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		<title>LEP Will Be One Of The Largest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is to become one of the largest in the country.  
Redditch and Wyre Forest have become members, joining East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Tamworth, Bromsgrove and Cannock Chase in addition to Birmingham and Solihull following a meeting of the LEP Development Board.
Interim chairman Bridget Blow (pictured) said: “We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New COO at Shakespeare Putsman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham-based law firm Shakespeare Putsman has recruited Steve Taylor (pictured) to the newly-created role of Chief Operating Officer.
Steve joins the firm from DHL Europe where he was Vice President Human Resources for Northern Europe with responsibility for 10,000 colleagues in nine countries. He has a strong background in general management with particular expertise in strategic change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Office Market Rents Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office take-up fell 43% in Q4 2010 after an exceptionally strong Q3, according to DTZ’s latest Property Times UK Regional Offices report. The drop was most apparent in the major regional cities, such as Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow. However, these locations had some exceptional deals in Q3 including 107,000 sq ft at Calthorpe House, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRP Advisory Boosts its West Midlands Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRP Advisory LLP, the specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm, has appointed Steve Stokes (pictured) as an appointment taking director at its West Midlands location, based in Birmingham.
Steve joins from PwC, where he spent nine years, focusing on mid-market assignments and working closely with both lenders and intermediaries around the Midlands area. He has also worked for Baker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beginners Guide to Asset Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be it the need to replace old machinery to continue operating efficiently or indeed the need to purchase new equipment in order to expand, business owners should think carefully about the finance options available to them.
Here we look at how asset finance can really work for a business, and ask Neil Kimberley (pictured) and Tom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will companies weather the fiscal storm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corporate sector is in a relatively good position to withstand the fiscal squeeze, and as the public sector retreats a wealth of opportunities for the private sector should emerge.
That’s the view of economist Roger Bootle (pictured) in the latest issue of Deloitte’s Economic Review, which looks at how companies are likely to fare during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a Successful Business</title>
		<link>http://www.bwmmag.co.uk/2010/10/starting-a-successful-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Garbutt, area director for Lloyds TSB Commercial in the West Midlands and Staffordshire, considers the steps that should be taken when starting out on a new business venture, and suggests that times of economic uncertainty shouldn’t necessarily deter new start-ups.
Turning good ideas and passions into a successful business during a period of economic uncertainty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making your way through the management buy-out maze</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Franks, Partner at Gresham Private Equity
Whilst all British businesses have taken a battering over the past 18 months, the UK still has a wealth of great companies and many are emerging from the economic storm with ambitious plans for the future.
For some management teams, the time may be right to initiate a move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Fixer</title>
		<link>http://www.bwmmag.co.uk/2010/06/lord-fixer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor, Baron, Director, Board Member – Kumar Bhattacharyya has many titles and even more connections. He is an international networker with links to the top of governments. But, as Mark Foster discovered, he prefers to cover some activities with a cloak of modesty.
Waiting in the reception area of the steel and glass headquarters of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design For Living</title>
		<link>http://www.bwmmag.co.uk/2010/06/design-for-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerry McGovern is one of the world’s most successful automotive designers. He is Design Director and Chief Creative Officer for Land Rover and Range Rover, leading the company&#8217;s Design Studio at Gaydon, Warwickshire, creating concepts and new models.
Form and shape are important to Gerry McGovern. They set the tone and feel for a car. And [...]]]></description>
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