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Loughborough's Brush Transformers to open Chinese factory

Loughborough's Brush Transformers to open Chinese factory

A well-known engineering firm is to set up a £1m factory in China as part of a bid to boost overseas sales.

Brush Transformers, of Loughborough, says the Beijing plant, which will supply electrical transformers to the country's mining industry, should open early next year.

It comes after the company has been hit by a lack of major new projects in the UK, where it...

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£6m deal kicks off sale of Chek Whyte's property portfolio

key site:  The building housing the Tesco Express store in Long Row.

THE first major chunk of the remnants of Chek Whyte's failed property empire has been sold off in a £6m deal. An investment management firm has snapped up prime sites on Long Row and Parliament Street...

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'We back Toyota's plan for future of plant'

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STAFF at Toyota's Burnaston plant have thanked the company for listening to their calls to reinstate full-time working. Yesterday, the Japanese car-maker announced all 3,800 workers at Burnaston would...

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Where is Government backing for exports, asks Chamber

GROWTH among Notts exporters could be hampered by problems getting finance. Derbys and Notts Chamber of Commerce said firms had encountered severe difficulties. A new report commissioned by the British Chambers of Commerce found one in eight businesses using...

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Leicestershire Xbox game maker opens Birmingham studio

Leicestershire Xbox game maker opens Birmingham studio

A multi-million-pound computer games business owned by Microsoft is set for major growth as it prepares to open a second office. Rare, which already employs some 200 people at its head office in Twycross,...

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Public sector pay freeze won't cut debt, Brown told

Insulting: Public sector staff reacted angily to pay freeze.

Gordon Brown was accused of 'gesture politics' last night after announcing a pay freeze for around 40,000 top-earning public sector workers.Comment on this story


Nish criticises Standard Life bureaucracy

Bureaucratic: New boss David Nish says staff are frustrated

Standard Life's new boss has taken a swipe at his predecessor, saying the insurer is far too bureaucratic and that staff have become frustrated as a result.

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BA union to set strike dates as talks collapse

Solidarity: 'We now have no alternative but to carry out industrial action', unions told staff.

British Airways is back on the brink of strike chaos by 12,000 cabin crew after talks to broker a deal broke down last night.

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Tullett Prebon takeover security risk

Tullett Prebon takeover security risk

A Chinese takeover of inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon could put sensitive economic data on European countries in the hands of a foreign power, investors were warned.

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Ten predictions for the Budget 2010

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Gordon Brown today announced that Chancellor Alistair Darling will present his pre-Election Budget on March 24. Accountant Grant Thornton's Head of Tax Francesca Langerberg gives her verdict on what will...

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