The Black Country Chamber is running a series of four workshops specifically aimed at new businesses.

Birchley Island retail park in Oldbury is now fully let after welcoming a prominent frozen food chain. Farmfoods has signed a ten-year lease on a 20,600 sq ft warehouse.

Sandwell Council has teamed up with Infosys to launch Springboard – an innovative website that provides local people with free digital training courses.

Congratulations to this Sandwell door company on the grand opening of its £2.5m warehouse and office. This occasion is hugely positive for the business – but also poignant because the new building is a tribute to a late, important member of the team.

On Wednesday 1 March, the Sandwell Business Growth Team hosted a fully booked ‘Meet the Buyer’ event at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich. The aim was to connect Black Country businesses with buyers to form new connections and get them working more closely together.

Sandwell Council is off to Cannes for MIPIM, an international property event running from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 17 March.

The University of Birmingham is offering a series of free masterclasses to help SMEs in the West Midlands calculate and reduce their carbon footprints.

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute is working in partnership with the Office for Product Safety and Standards to deliver a number of free safety standards training webinars throughout March and April.

We’re busy rebranding Think Sandwell to become Sandwell Business Growth. And with it will come a sleek new business support website from Sandwell Council.