A Northampton-based company has revealed plans to train and recruit up to 100 delivery drivers in the next 12 months, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.
AE Driver Training and Recruitment, set up by directors of Action Express, said it was responding to an industry shortage of drivers.
Up to 35,000 jobs could be created across the West Midlands should local companies decide to re-shore more of their production capabilities, a recent report by EY was able to reveal.
A Lutterworth-based logistics company is set to hire more staff following a major contract win, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal.
A well-known West Midlands automotive supplier has revealed plans to build a new internal training academy to help fill the engineering skills gap in the region, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal.
Coventry-based Brose UK has doubled its operations over the past 18 months and created 200 jobs and is now set to invest up to £3m in the new centre.
A West Midlands recruitment firm has managed to secure a major contract for supplying up to 200 temporary workers to Worcestershire timber manufacturer Forest Garden, a recent report in the local business media has been able to reveal.
Two of the largest cities in the East Midlands, Nottingham and Derby, have been listed among the best places for job creation across the UK, local business media has been able to reveal.
The Cities Outlook report by Centre for Cities placed Nottingham as number ten on a list of 64 UK cities for total job creation over the past decade, since, between 2004 and 2013, employers in the city created 21,400 jobs.
Construction work is set to begin on a new major speculative industrial scheme in Coventry after property group Goodman acquired nine acres of land in the city as part of a joint venture with LaSalle Investment Management, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal.
Businesses based in the Midlands are showing greater signs of recovery than any other region in Britain, according to the latest Business Distress Index from insolvency trade body R3.
More than half (51 per cent) of companies in the region are reporting an increase in sales, while similar growth is echoed by just over one in three (35 per cent) in both the north and south.
One of the UK’s best-known car manufacturers has revealed plans to cut more than 300 jobs across its Midlands operations as part of a worldwide cost optimization effort that will see over 2,600 total redundancies being made.
A Derbyshire-based food distribution service has managed to attain strong growth following continued investment in the business, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.
Sales at Holdsworth Foods increased by 15 per cent in the year to February 2014, with managers claiming that the group’s new depot in Essex and the acquisition of Anglia Woods Foodservice in Grimsby during the period had strengthened its buying skills and bolstered its range of products available to clients.