West Midlands
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Wolverhampton & Dudley to raise bid for Marston Thompson & Evershed
Wolverhampton & Dudley, the regional brewer, is to increase the terms of its hostile takeover bid for rival brewer Marston Thompson & Evershed in a fresh twist to the fight…
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Birmingham to be placed on the retail map
Birmingham’s retail potential is discussed in an in-depth news report. The report analyses Land Securities’ £450m Martineau Galleries scheme which will include two department stores and 100 shops in a…
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City Inn plans hotel for Birmingham’s Brindleyplace
Edinburgh-based hotel group City Inn plans to build a property at Argent Group’s Brindleyplace development in Birmingham. The company has submitted plans for an eight-storey hotel of around 240 bedrooms.
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Victoria to sell Kidderminster property
Victoria is to sell its freehold property at Green Street, Kidderminster in Hereford & Worcester, for £3m cash. The buyer is Morbaine.
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Hostile bid could trigger development of Telford site
Quarrying business Natural Building Materials continues with its hostile bid for Blockleys, the brickmaker. NBM now has a potential stake of 45% in the firm.
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Regent Hotel closes as part of Leamington Spa modernisation
The Regent Hotel in Leamington Spa has closed. Its owners are seeking planning permission to convert it into a department store and multiplex cinema, although its listed exterior will remain…
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Pendragon launches £83.7m bid for Evan Halshaw
Pendragon has launched an agreed takeover bid for Evans Halshaw. The deal values the Birmingham-based car dealer at £83.7m. The takeover would create the UK’s largest motor retailer by turnover,…
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Longbridge plant future not known for another five months
BMW said it would be up to another five months until it was known whether £900m of investment for Rover’s Longbridge plant, Birmingham, would come through.
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MWB buys Star City for £80m
Marylebone Warwick Balfour has snapped up Richardson Developments’ Star City leisure scheme in Birmingham for £80m. MWB has bought the development, billed as Europe’s largest leisure scheme, on behalf of…
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MWB to buy Star City leisure scheme for up to £80m
Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group is to buy Star City leisure park in Birmingham for up to £80m. Star City, at 36,231 sq m (390,000 sq ft), will be the largest…
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Knight Frank’s Birmingham chief resigns
Charles Smith, head of Knight Frank’s first office in Birmingham, has left the firm only 14 months after joining from Lambert Smith Hampton.
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RE’s Birmingham head seconded to US parent New York office
Simon Robinson, director in charge of Richard Ellis’s Birmingham office, has been selected as the first secondee to the New York office of US parent Insignia Financial Group following the…