Catch up with progress on Advantage West Midlands’ successful projects over the past decade.
A powerful guiding coalition led by business and local authorities is crucial if the new Local Enterprise Partnerships are to prosper and succeed in creating a stronger West Midlands economy.
An independent report published today gives Advantage West Midlands the maximum score for its performance - making it one of only two regional development agencies in the country to have achieved the maximum rating.
Nearly 1,000 jobs have been attracted to the West Midlands region and a further nearly 400 jobs safeguarded in the past year thanks to the work of the Advantage West Midlands inward investment team.
Whitbread PLC is set to invest approximately £4.5 million to develop a new Premier Inn and Table Table restaurant at Towers Business Park in Rugeley.
West Midlands output and new orders continued to grow in June but rate is slowing.
The building of a technology centre that will help put the Midlands in the forefront of global manufacturing research is on schedule to open next Summer.
A high tech US battery specialist is setting up its new UK and European base at Keele University Science Park, bringing high tech jobs and green industry to the West Midlands.
A new project aimed at improving rural broadband for 40,000 people and more than 2500 businesses in the rural West Midlands was launched last Friday.
The lives of millions of people with chronic lung diseases could be transformed by an invention that is being tested in Stoke-on-Trent as a result of a unique partnership and the regional sensors innovation programme.
A new £18m investment fund designed to kick start and support growing businesses in the West Midlands has been officially launched
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