Contents December 2019/January 2020
Business News 4 Editor’s View John Lamb reflects on the festive season
5 Review backs HS2 in full
6 How Birmingham’s retail sector is preparing for Christmas
10 President’s Focus James Blackman, Lichfield & Tamworth Chamber president
12 Prepare for Clean Air Zone with new toolkit 14 Expansion for documentation team
17 The Griffin Report Marketing expert Nicole Plowman
18 Productivity campaign to return 21 Economy is set to become ‘turbo-charged’
22 Chamber launches General Election Manifesto
25 Award-winning firm goes overseas 26 Funding boost for MAC 27 Theatre partnerships available
29 Where Do You Fancy? Chez Mal Brasserie
30 Marketing manager wins top award 31 Chamber reveals rebrand 32 Double success for marketing firm 35 Chamber chief invests in local businesses 36 Chairman steps down at Colmore BID 37 How Brexit is affecting music tourism 38 Career development programme is launched
Chamber Patrons 41 Action on bullying project launched
Features 41 17 58
1813 Club and Premier Members 42 Expansion planned for Hamad International Airport
International Trade 44 Translation team in search for interpreters
Chamber Group 45 Commonwealth: The benefits of Canada
46 Burton & District: Chamber welcomes new patrons
51 Cannock Chase: Amazon comes to Rugeley
52 Transatlantic: New vice-presidents appointed
53 Future Faces: Chamber receives stellar rating 54 Lichfield & Tamworth: Business group grows
55 Sutton Coldfield: Experts appointed to execute masterplan
56 Solihull: Strengthening ties with Germany 58 ABCC: Chamber team visits hospital
The Hub 47 Chamber network calendar of events
Sector Focus 70 Business Travel:
Jet2.com launch new flights
72 Finance: Crowe advises on reshoring project 75 Legal: LLP model is showing its age 79 Manufacturing: Family firm secures funding 81 Retail: Sector rallies ahead of Christmas 82 Property: New housing for Jewellery Quarter 85 Sport: £25m contribution for Games stadium
Executive Search
& Recruitment 61 How to win the battle for talent
Manufacturing
63 Getting a patent will protect your business ideas
67 What’s the worst that can happen?
Member Section 86 Competitions Win tickets to ‘The Bodyguard’ and an Indian banquet
87 Member Profile Steven Timberlake, ioSTUDIOS Ltd
88 New Members The Chamber welcomes new members
90 …any other business News from Chamber businesses
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