Building materials supplier ARDEX Group UK has made a significant investment in skills and training by upgrading its Stoke-on-Trent academy. The company’s ARDEXacademy North has reopened following an extensive programme of renovation and redevelopment and is now expected to cater for 500 construction professionals across the UK each year. Previously operating as the Innovation & Technology Centre, which primarily supported
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Dr Colin Rigby, Reader and Director of Enterprise at Keele University, is an academic with long standing links to the Staffordshire ceramics sector, where he worked in manufacturing of sanitary ware and conducted a number of high-profile research projects in manufacturing innovation with the industry Research Technology Organisation. When the national
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Leek Building Society is celebrating a historic double victory at this year’s British Bank Awards, walking away with the headline title of UK’s Best Building Society 2026, alongside being named Best Specialist Mortgage Provider 2026 for the third year running. The awards, which are based on customer votes and reviews,
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Entrepreneurs from across Staffordshire pitched for investment at a Dragons’ Den-style panel on the historic grounds of Barlaston Hall yesterday. The MOmentum VC fund, launched earlier this year by businessman Mo Chaudry, aims to support ambitious businesses looking to start, scale and create jobs across the region. Following an application
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A Stoke-on-Trent party supplies business is expanding into the US after carving out a niche providing products for Ramadan, Eid and other cultural celebrations.
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Two new intensive bootcamps have been announced for adults looking to improve their digital skills or learn more about domestic retrofit and property maintenance.
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Discussions are continuing about how a newly announced £120 million support package for the UK ceramics industry will help businesses.
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A fitted kitchen and bedroom provider which had been trading for more than three decades has appointed liquidators.
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Six Staffordshire firms have been recognised as some of the UK’s Best Places to Work by The Sunday Times.
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A Stafford-based hair salon group has trained hundreds of apprentices and expanded its education team after securing a £75,000 business loan.
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