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...Or take HS2, a superfast train that will shave half an hour off the journey time from London to Birmingham — “not a place to promise much”, as England’s quintessential novelist, Jane Austen, wrote, never...
...But David Bailey, professor of business economics at the University of Birmingham’s business school, said the £23m was a “token gesture”....
...The group and the listed company have “put an emphasis on the great principle advocated by President Xi Jinping of ‘doing business together, making things together and sharing profits,’ in order for our...
...Before committing, investors need to know about who they will be doing business with — particularly if cities operate as political fiefdoms....
...Maggie Lieu, a 23-year-old PhD student with the Astrophysics and Space Research Group at the University of Birmingham, is also on the Mars One longlist. “Mankind hasn’t set foot on the Moon since 1972....
...In Birmingham’s Bullring the company has opened one of four “new generation” outlets. The revamp includes soft lighting, glass walls, booth seating and a prominent salad bar....
...These stores are doing so well that Google has recently opened two more, one in Bristol and one in Birmingham. There is also speculation that Google is going further into the hardware business....
...Craigslist, Twitter and Groupon, for example. all started out as side projects. Google famously encourages its employees to develop side projects as part of their day-to-day role....
...So there may be rare camaraderie on the terraces today [Saturday] as Derby County Football Club takes to the field against Birmingham City....
...For example, there is no middle management in his companies because “people are capable of supervising themselves and doing a darn good job”....
...Andy Jackson, Birmingham, UK DB: Certainly not! It’s all a question of keeping propriety trading on the bridle....
...Jerry Blackett, chief executive of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was more sanguine, saying: ”The Chamber will work closely with the local business community and local authorities to maximise economic growth...
...He turned it round by curbing costs, improving reliability, doing a deal with pay-TV giant Comcast in the US and mounting a bold reverse takeover of Philips’s set-top box division....
...It is easy to think of the region as being one big industrial conurbation, but there are vast swathes of beautiful and productive countryside surrounding the cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry...
...Bid discussions will inevitably distract Cadbury management, to the detriment of the business and to the advantage of competitors....
...But it will take years for city centres such as Birmingham’s to clear their glut of office space....
...Weak roots: hauliers say Severn bridge tolls are damaging the economy; business is already sore over cancellation of an M4 relief road. Northern Ireland....
...Tim Leunig of the London School of Economics, no fan of government intervention, says: “Mandelson is doing his best. I think he’s got the balance right as far as it’s politically possible....
...Larry Langford, the mayor of Birmingham, was charged by federal prosecutors last December with allegedly accepting $235,000 in bribes in exchange for steering county bond business to Blount Parrish, a broker-dealer...
...In 1998, two years after graduating from Birmingham University, he launched Firebox with Tom Boardman, whom he had met at college.The business became one of the vanguard of the UK dotcom boom – and among...
...Germany has more manufacturing and it is doing worse than us.” He believes London will soon resume its role as a magnet for talented people in finance and creative industries....
...Below £500,000, entrepreneurs typically raise money from friends, family or “business angels”, a sparse population of wealthy individuals who provide advice as well as cash....
...business of doing business in Britain’s premier cities and their regions....
...“No, I’m not doing it, just organising it.” Attached here too The Two Cities Conkers Cup will take place in London and Birmingham on October 5 to raise at least £50,000 for the NSPCC....
...While hardly a threat to Edinburgh, let alone London, the success of small Midlands advisers such as Arden helps balance a Birmingham financial scene that has long been dominated by lawyers and accountants...
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