Josiah Wedgwood has been announced as the keynote speaker at the first event staged by a group of creative businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent.
An independent family-run hotel and pub group has welcomed plans announced to help tourism businesses offer better deals and value-for-money packages. The Government is looking at measures which could remove barriers that currently prevent small businesses including B&Bs and restaurants from working together to create tailored UK holiday experiences. Measures
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A manufacturer of specialist flooring adhesives has doubled the amount of energy it generates from renewable sources following further investments in solar panels at its Staffordshire Moorlands headquarters. F. Ball and Co now has over 1,700 solar panels generating over a 500kw peak across its main building and powder plant
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Hospitality businesses and Daily Focus readers are being urged to pin their colours to the mast by backing the UK ceramics industry as part of a rescue package which goes straight to Westminster.
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Business tenants have moved in to the latest multi-million pound regeneration chapter at Stoke-on-Trent’s landmark Spode site. Historic building 4L, in the Bottle Kiln Courtyard, becomes home to more businesses included in the city’s fast growing and influential Createch Cluster. The £3m project was privately funded by developer Dog &
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Supporters have just a day and a half left to see donations to the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) doubled up by a national funding pot.
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Senior leaders from the UK ceramics industry joined MPs, Ceramics UK and trade unions to launch a wide-ranging rescue plan to support and sustain the sector.
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Global bathroom manufacturers brought together by their Stoke-on-Trent-based trade association have signed a landmark agreement aimed at reducing billions of litres of waste water from toilets, taps and showers around the world. At the same time they pledged to innovate and design new products to reduce the risk of potentially
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South Staffordshire-based Keon Homes is starting work on a prestigious regeneration project to build 124 dwellings in the next phases of a major Birmingham initiative. It’s starting works on phases 3A, B and C of the prestigious Icknield Port Loop Development in partnership with sister company Cameron Homes and housing association Midland Heart. This
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More road and transport changes have been announced as the next phase of improvements begin around Stoke Station. Work is starting to upgrade the area around Winton Square, outside the North Stafford Hotel, as the project enters its second phase. While this work is being carried out, the railway station’s
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Halloween fans in the county still have time to win a £50 restaurant voucher by repurposing those pumpkins and reducing waste. Staffordshire-based Willshee’s Waste & Recycling has joined forces with Burton restaurant Isabel’s to challenge the local community to show off the ways they are cutting pumpkin waste. The social
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