West Midlands
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Walsall pub scoops rarely-won award
The Wharf pub in Walsall, West Midlands, has won the Campaign for Real Ale/English Heritage awards’ new pub prize. The prize has only been won once before in the awards-…
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Freeport profits climb to £3.03m
Freeport Leisure opens a new factory outlet shopping mall at Take, near Stoke-on-Trent, next month. Retail villages are due to open at Castleford and Braintree, later this year.
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St Modwen profits climb 15% to £15.6m
St Modwen Properties reported a 15% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £15.6m. The Birmingham-based company that specialises in brownfield developments produced rental income up £5.1m to £22m.
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Richardsons offers to buy Rover Longbridge
The Richardson brothers have offered to buy Rover’s Longbridge plant in Birmingham. The Merry Hill and Star City developer wants to develop the £35-£100m, 182.12 (450 acre) site for industrial…
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Workspace profits up 76% to £2.84m
Workspace Group reported a 76% boost in third-quarter pre-tax profits to £2.84m on turnover from continuing operations up 5% to £5.9m.
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Development Securities sells Birmingham site to Jaffa for £1.56m
Development Securities is selling a 2.02ha (five acre) site at Birmingham International Park to Jaffa (Birmingham) for £1.56m. The Daily Telegraph 15/02/99 page 27.
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Shared production option could save Longbridge
The future of Rover’s Longbridge plant could be assured when BMW decides this month whether to develop a new small car there.
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Hope emerges for Rover Longbridge
A deal started to take shape last night which could be key to saving Rover’s plant in Longbridge, Birmingham. It would involve more than £1bn being pumped into the plant…
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Hill Hire to develop 2.02ha Oldbury site
Hill Hire plans to buy and develop a 2ha (5 acre) site at Oldbury, in the West Midlands. The £2m cost will be partly funded by proceeds from a January…
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Johnson Controls looks for 140,000 sq ft
Johnson Controls is negotiating with joint developers Wrenbridge and AXA Sunlife to take a 13,000 sq m (140,000 sq ft) unit at their Southside scheme in south Birmingham.
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Rover crisis puts brakes on west midlands industrial demand
The crisis over the future of Rover’s Longbridge plant has triggered the postponement or cancellation of up to 35,302 sq m (380,000 sq ft) of component suppliers’ long-term requirements for…
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Marchioness withdraws from Worcester eco-village plan
The Marchioness of Worcester has pulled out of a plan to invite “eco-campaigners” to establish an alternative village on her husband’s 21,000ha (52,000 acre) Badminton estate.