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Enoch Evans partner celebrates 25th year with Walsall firm
MBN 25 Feb 11
The managing partner of Walsall solicitors, Enoch Evans, has marked his 25th year within the firm by cycling 160 miles for charity…
Business PR
Midcounties to offer eco-friendly funerals
MBN 23 Feb 11
Midcounties Co-operative is to offer a green funeral service to its customers designed to help minimise the environmental impact of their funeral…
Business PR
New owners put Willenhall’s Autorite on the road ahead
MBN 7 Feb 11
Autorite (Willenhall) Limited, which was established in 1982, has been acquired by Darren Harris and his holding company Midlands Properties. Mr Harris is also a director of Autobits Scrap Metal which operates a mile away from Autorite on the Ashmore Lake Business Park in Willenhall…
Junior football
Businesses get behind Great Barr Harriers
MBN 3 Feb 11
Great Barr Harriers has received a kick start to 2011 thanks to the support of Nikal and McLaren Construction…
Business
Walsall castings company confident of success in 2011
MBN 3 Feb 11
Majorfax, the Walsall-based supplier of machined and finished castings to both a local and worldwide customer base, says that January orders are up 35% year on year…
News PR
Awards given to dozens of outstanding residents in Walsall
MBN 1 Feb 11
Some of Walsall’s most outstanding residents and communities have been recognised in an awards ceremony held to a backdrop of live entertainment…
Business PR
Willenhall’s Nightfreight avoids the snowball effect
MBN 24 Jan 11
National supply chain specialist Nightfreight helped its customers avoid the costly delays of the ‘big freeze’, with a 98.86 per cent on-time delivery record during December 2010…
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Cloud Net wraps up 2010 on a high note and plans expansion
MBN 21 Jan 11
Following the launch of several new services this year, Walsall business phone systems provider Cloudnet joins other UK telecoms companies celebrate a successful 2010…
Business
Highcross acquires Brownhills industrial estate for £6m
MBN 19 Jan 11
Highcross has acquired the Maybrook Road industrial estate in Brownhills, for £6.075 million…
Business PR
Walsall’s Hartshorne trucks get thoroughbred treatment
MBN 7 Jan 11
Walsall-based truck dealer Hartshorne has supplied two Volvo trucks to one of the country’s leading specialists in luxury horseboxes…
News
Blakenall men pass on life skills to youngsters
MBN 13 Dec 10
A group of men in Walsall are acting as role models to young people by passing on their own life experiences. The group, called The Gathering, has launched the Pass It On project to share their knowledge and skills with teenagers in Blakenall Heath who have been identified as vulnerable…
News
Tall stories for Little Bloxwich children
MBN 17 Nov 10
A team at Walsall Housing Group’s Skills Centre is producing wooden furniture for an outdoor classroom at Little Bloxwich C of E Primary School…
Business
New ‘common sense’ Snow Code welcomed by Walsall solicitors
MBN 29 Oct 10
A new Snow Code introduced by the government which allows homeowners and shopkeepers to clear away pavements without fear of litigation has been welcomed by Walsall solicitors firm Bradin Trubshaw…
Business PR
Walsall based Cloud Net reaches finals of two prestigious technology awards
MBN 26 Oct 10
Walsall-based Cloud Net Ltd has announced today that it has reached the final stages in two awards that recognise the best and brightest technology companies regionally and nationally.
Business
Walsall’s Enoch Evans wins dynamic award
MBN 13 Oct 10
Walsall law firm Enoch Evans has received a prestigious global award “Dynamic firm of the year award in England 2010″ from Corporate Intl Magazine…
Business PR
Walsall’s Cloud Net launches VoIP call bundles
MBN 30 Sep 10
Walsall-based business phone systems company Cloud Net, today launched new UK landline call bundles that will help business owners keep their telephony costs low and predictable…
Business PR
Greenhous launches new Vauxhall Van Centre in Willenhall
MBN 29 Sep 10
Greenhous Group has opened a new Vauxhall Van Centre in Willenhall. Located on the Greenhous DAF site on Neachells Road, this is the latest addition to Greenhous’ extensive portfolio of commercial dealerships in the region…
Business PR
Walsall’s Cloud Net offers free landline minutes
MBN 27 Sep 10
Business phone systems company Cloud Net, is starting its offer of the week programme with a massive 2,500 free UK landline minutes per handset ordered in September…
Golf
Walsall golf club bucks trend with 300% new membership
MBN 27 Sep 10
A raft of measures designed to bring in new members is helping Walsall Golf Club buck the industry and economic trends and record one of their best years ever…
Business
Midcounties Co-op recruits its first retail apprentices
MBN 23 Sep 10
The Midcounties Co-operative has launched its first Retail Apprenticeship Programme and given 13 young people the chance to start and develop their career with the community retailer…
Business
Addition to family law department of Enoch Evans
MBN 7 Sep 10
The Matrimonial and Family department at Walsall law firm Enoch Evans LLP have a new addition in the form of newly qualified solicitor Gemma Palmer…
Business PR
Cloud Net’s business VOIP leaves Aldridge firm on cloud nine
MBN 6 Sep 10
While some 52% of businesses stated that their customer communications had suffered over the last 12 months, savvy companies such as Aldridge-based independent security coding company Identidot have been enjoying upgraded communications for less by using Cloud Net’s cost effective business phone systems coupled with Cloud Net broadband…
Business
Wednesfield firm helps sculptor achieve national success
MBN 6 Sep 10
Wednesfield-based Edward Howell Galvanizers has offered a helping hand to an up-and-coming artist which has seen her reach the final stages of a national sculpture competition…
Business PR
Walsall’s Midcounties Co-op strikes gold investing in people
MBN 4 Aug 10
The Midcounties Co-operative has achieved the Investors in People Gold award…
Business
Walsall’s Breathing Space teams up with Cloud Net to get businesses connected
MBN 2 Aug 10
Walsall charity Breathing Space, which helps local people into self-employment, has teamed up with Walsall business phone systems company Cloud Net, to provide a service which will allow local start up and small businesses to make telephone calls within Walsall for free…
Business PR
Cloud Net celebrates first Accredit UK quality standard
MBN 29 Jul 10
Cloud Net, the Walsall business phone systems company, today announces that it has been awarded the Accredit UK certification and has become the first business/telecoms/VoIP company to achieve the recognition.
Business PR
Walsall’s Cloud Net launches free phonegrader service
MBN 13 Jul 10
Cloud Net, the business phone systems company, today launched www.phonegrader.co.uk, a free service that helps small businesses evaluate the way their phones are answered by their employees…
Business PR
New website launched for Enoch Evans law firm
MBN 1 Jul 10
Leading Walsall Law Firm Enoch Evans LLP has launched a brand new website to support their recent conversion to LLP status…
Business PR
Cloud Net says a third of small businesses don’t pick up the phone
MBN 24 Jun 10
A telephone survey conducted in May 2010, by Walsall-based business phone systems company, Cloud Net, found that almost a third of small businesses are not picking up the phone…
Business PR
BT strike contingency planning for small businesses with Walsall based Cloud Net
MBN 22 Jun 10
Cloud Net has announced a business phone package aimed to ensure that small businesses have working phone systems if a BT strike goes ahead…
Business
PTS Walsall’s golden couple celebrate 77 years of service
MBN 16 Jun 10
With a combined 77 years clocked at the trade counter serving the plumbers and heating installers of Walsall, Greg and Jean Booth are some of the longest serving employees on record…
Business PR
Cloud Net offers small business owners options in a BT strike
MBN 9 Jun 10
With BT looking likely to have its first strike in over quarter of a century if the latest offer isn’t accepted, thousands of businesses and homes could be left without phones or internet during the strike which could take place in August 2010…
Business PR
John Challinor brings internet phones to Midlands businesses
MBN 1 Jun 10
John Challinor from Newcastle, Staffordshire has expanded his telecoms business AudioTech by joining the Walsall company Cloud Net’s Associate Partner programme, to sell Cloud Net’s internet phone systems for small business users…
Business PR
Cloud Net launches the CLASS Live telephone answering service
MBN 25 May 10
Walsall’s Cloud Net today announced a further extension to its growing business telephone services portfolio: the Cloud Net Live Answering System (CLASS)…
Business PR
Chuckery saddler bucks recession in overseas markets
MBN 18 May 10
A Walsall saddler is beating the economic downturn by finding new markets overseas, with help from UK Trade & Investment. Master saddler Patrick Keane, owner of Patrick Saddlery, has just moved his business to a new, purpose-built factory in Box Street to deal with the increasing demand from international customers for his hand crafted saddles…
Business PR
Walsall hire company triumphs at industry awards
MBN 17 May 10
A Walsall event hire company is celebrating after scooping a top industry award. Ev-ent Hire, based on the Maple Leaf Industrial Estate, won the award for Event Hire Company of the Year Award (multiple outlets) at the 2010 Hire Awards of Excellence…
News
Walsall law firm Enoch Evans convert to LLP status
MBN 22 Apr 10
Enoch Evans Solicitors in Walsall have converted to limited liability partnership (LLP) status as of 1st April 2010…
Business PR
Midcounties Co-op brightens up Blakenall Community Centre
MBN 14 Apr 10
Managers and support staff from a number of Midcounties Co-operative stores turned decorators when they volunteered to give a popular community centre a makeover…
Business PR
Name change for Streetly marketing agency
MBN 13 Apr 10
DLH Visual Communications based in Streetly is changing its name and will be known as DLH. The change of name is a result of the range of projects the company has undertaken during the past twelve months…
Business PR
Bentley firm set for big lorry show
MBN 7 Apr 10
Bentley-based truck dealer the Hartshorne Group is to exhibit for the first time at the giant Commercial Vehicle Operator Show at the NEC. Hartshorne will be showing off the new 18 ton Volvo FL distribution vehicle…
Business PR
Willenhall lock manufacturers gets visit from Government minister
MBN 25 Mar 10
Willenhall manufacturer Assa Abloy UK hosted a visit from Ian Austin MP, Minister for the West Midlands this week to highlight the innovation and investment taking place in one of the lock making industry’s leading companies…
Business PR
Cloud Net finds small business has time for social media
MBN 24 Mar 10
With 72% of small businesses stating that new business generation is their top priority in 2010, they are turning to technologies they know will quickly and easily bring them new clients through the door. These technologies are still websites and telephones over newer methods such as social media…
Business PR
Midlands brewery is the toast of Hartshornes
MBN 24 Mar 10
Walsall-based truck dealer, the Hartshorne Group is toasting Marstons brewers after adding another three trucks to its 18-strong fleet…
Business PR
Hartshorne helps Midlands recycling efforts
MBN 17 Mar 10
Trucks supplied by the Bentley-based Hartshorne Group are helping one of the country’s biggest paper and card recycling efforts. Hartshorne has supplied three 40-tonne Volvo FM prime mover trucks to the Nottingham-based fleet provider Charthire, and they are now seeing service at Smurfit Kappa’s paper and card recycling collection sites…
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Walsall firm Hartshorne delivers giant truck
MBN 11 Mar 10
Volvo Trucks agent Hartshorne Group has delivered one of the largest Volvo recovery vehicles ever seen on British roads. Hartshorne – which has its headquarters in Bentley – has supplied a massive Volvo FH-520 8×4 recovery vehicle to Saunders Recovery of Hitchin, Hertfordshire…
Business News
Walsall’s Cloud Net launches internet telephone service
MBN 8 Mar 10
Walsall based business phone systems company, Cloud Net, launched its internet-based (VoIP) telephone system to the Birmingham and Solihull business community, to an enthusiastic response, at the Business Growth Show in Edgbaston on 4th March…
Business
Walsall telecom Cloud Net launches regional partner programme
MBN 2 Mar 10
Small business telephone provider Cloud Net have announced the launch of its partner programme, Cloud Net Direct, an initiative to support the recent launch of its VoIP (internet) telephone system for small businesses, Cloud Net Connect…
Business PR
Walsall based Hartshorne clinches major trailer contract
MBN 10 Feb 10
Darlaston-based truck dealer, the Hartshorne Group has clinched an agreement to supply trailers for one of the UK’s leading trailer manufacturers Lawrence David…