A flooring specialist, with around 40-years of experience in retail, has set up a new consultancy with a pledge to save families and commercial customers money. Huw Chapman is going it alone after a long and successful career in retail management. The Endon business owner says a combination of high-level knowledge and a lean business model are a winning formula …

Staffordshire Moorlands based Beta Commercial Finance is celebrating a double success in the prestigious national Commercial Broker Awards 2023.   Beta has been shortlisted in the SME Champion and Development Finance Broker of the Year categories in the awards by the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB).   The company, with offices in Alton, was able to demonstrate how …

A training and apprenticeship specialist has already placed 100 young people into companies, within nine months of launching his new enterprise, Training and Business Solutions, and says he’s determined to spread the word about the “life-changing power” of apprenticeships. Steve Rushton will be a familiar face to many in North Staffordshire, having previously been Director of Partnerships at Achieve Training. …

A Staffordshire-based Chef with years of experience of providing high quality cuisine to prestigious events, is now hoping to bring fine dining to homes across the Midlands. Gavin Evans has a new business plan which includes cooking in customers’ homes and providing “how to” demonstrations for dinner parties. A renowned Chef, Gavin of Stoke-on-Trent, has more than has 25-years of experience, …

A leading pharmacist is campaigning for new ways to ensure prescription medicines are taken correctly by patients. A lack of understanding of the need to take medication as prescribed, coupled with human failings such as patient forgetfulness, confusion, and fear, cost the NHS £300 million a year and is thought to be responsible for 13.6 % of all hospital emergency …

If my maths are correct, it’s almost exactly 40-years to the day since I began work as a newspaper reporter. I was planning to carry-out research and get together several photos and stories. This plan was scuppered by tragic events at home in recent months. But here’s a few thoughts. I wanted to be a journalist from the age of 13. …

A national law firm with headquarters in Cheshire is among the most trusted in the UK for employment law. Poole Alcock ranked fourth nationally out of almost 3,300 employment law providers and sixth out of 4,753 for all law firms providing company and commercial law, according to a review by trusted law site Review Solicitors. The firm, which has seven …

A husband and wife who combined a passion for helping people protect their home and business with a love for their adopted hometown of Leek is celebrating its fifth anniversary. GRN Financial Services was founded by Aga and Tom Gronkiewicz in 2018 and has an office on Bath Street, in Leek town centre. It’s a decade since the couple began …

Stoke-on-Trent headquartered accountancy group, DJH Mitten Clarke has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer Matthew Mellor to support its offices across the West-Midlands, North West and Yorkshire. Matthew joins DJH Mitten Clarke at a time of high growth. The company, which has headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent, has completed three mergers and three other acquisitions since 2021, including Manchester’s Lloyd Piggott, Baker’s …

Stoke-on-Trent based Central Glass and Windows has helped local charity Project Indi to transform a former social club into a base for local community and education projects. The company donated materials and work to the Indi Club, Sneyd Green, as part of an agreement with Unitas Stoke-on-Trent Ltd which provides repairs and maintenance services for the City Council. The Indi …