As part of a £4 million works programme, the Accord Group is looking for companies which started trading in the last year to tender for contracts taking place over the next three years. Tuesday, 13 May, 2014 at 8am – 10am or 4pm – 6pm Walsall Football Club, The Banks’s Stadium, Bescot Crescent, Walsall, WS1 […]

Sandwell Council is developing a scheme for Birchley island, the junction of the A4123 and A4034, which also has a short link road to M5 junction 2. The need for improvements at the island has been highlighted for a number of years and the scheme is identified as a key priority in the Black Country […]

    Black Country GOLD  is offering local small, medium and social enterprises the opportunity to receive a programme of tailored support to identify and realise their growth opportunities. All enterprises will have a 1-2-1 diagnostic to understand the issues preventing them from accessing growth opportunities and to identify solutions. They will then be directed to a […]

A draft version of the Black Country Strategic Economic Plan has been submitted to the Government by the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership and can be viewed or downloaded online right now. The programme proposed within the draft Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) is structured around three core areas of activity, which form the golden thread […]

Black Country House in Oldbury is now fully let after a radio station owner and a manufacturer took the last of the space in the building. Orion Media, owner of Free Radio, Gem106 and Free Radio80’s, has taken 1,500 sq ft of ground floor accommodation on a ten-year lease with a break at the fifth […]

Small to medium-sized companies in the Black Country are being urged to apply for funding to help them expand or create new business accommodation. Funding is being made available through the Black Country Business Property Investment Programme (BCBPIP), supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by the Department for Communities and Local Government. […]

Black Country manufacturer Repose Furniture has relocated to a 23,000 sq ft factory after boosting turnover by 21 per cent. The move is expected to double production and revenues at the business. Based in Cradley Heath, the seat maker has moved to Cokeland Place expanding its manufacturing facility and its showroom in a bid to […]

SANDWELL Inspires Partnership Services (SIPS) has taken 21,895 sq ft at , the former base of collapsed law firm Challinors. SIPS has taken the ground floor, part of the first floor and the second and fourth floors of the building. Property agent Bond Wolfe negotiated the deal, one of the largest single office lettings in […]

A new collaboration between the private sector and a local authority in the Black Country for a 22-acre industrial and distribution development could create up to 500 jobs in Wednesbury. Sandwell Council has joined forces with the private sector in a new collaboration that could bring 500 new jobs to the area. The Council and the […]