The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Invest Black Country will be exhibiting at MIPIM 2016, a four day property expo taking place in Cannes, France from 15 to 18 March. MIPIM brings together representatives from all international property sectors – office, residential, retail, healthcare, sport, logistics and industrial. It offers access to a […]

The recently refurbished and renamed Red Mill Trading Estate in Wednesbury has secured its first five tenants. Nearly 60,000 square feet has now been taken at the site, formerly known as the Redmill Snack Foods site. The site was purchased for £1.79m in October 2015 by Goold Estates, a commercial property management, investment and development […]

Sandwell software firm, Chrysalis Solmotive, has secured £700,000 of new investment from Finance Birmingham. The funding will enable the company to more than double the number of its employees by creating 32 new jobs in the region.   Finance Birmingham is a public-private partnership funding programme that offers venture capital and loans to UK small […]

The managing director of a world leader in tool steel and specialist materials has thanked the Think Sandwell team for our role in helping his company secure thousands of pounds of grant funding to upgrade its facilities.   Böhler-Uddeholm (UK) has been operating from its Oldbury site since 1994 and is a subsidiary of one […]

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is set to change the way the construction sector delivers, procures, designs, constructs and maintains the whole-life costs of buildings, taking the industry out of the analogue age and into the digital. BIM has the potential to transform efficiency throughout the entire construction supply chain through closer collaboration, smarter ways of […]

The finance director of one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of Asian food has thanked the Think Sandwell team for our role in helping his company secure thousands of pounds of grant funding to expand its operations. AIB Foods Limited specialises in a wide variety of products, all produced from its factory in Wolverhampton. The ranges […]

An Oldbury-based business providing climate related products and services, has been sold to A-Plant, one of the UK’s largest plant, tool and equipment hire companies. Rapid Climate Control specialises in climate control solutions, including hiring and selling portable cooling, drying and heating equipment.

A developer has submitted plans with Sandwell Borough Council to transform a derelict site in Oldbury into a major new retail scheme. The proposed development could generate millions of pounds of investment and create hundreds of new jobs in the area.

Drive West Midlands is a new initiative hoping to provide a central hub for businesses in the automotive sector in the West Midlands. Its aim is to support the development of SMEs to safeguard the future of the automotive industry in the region.