Food packaging innovators Woolcool are riding a new trend of online food buying in Germany. The Stone based company’s environmentally friendly packaging has become the product of choice for German online food retailers. Woolcool has taken on a German sales person as awareness of its packaging grows in mainland Europe. “While the online mail order food sector has been strong …

Ladies from the age of 20 to 65 are donning a feather bower and stockings to join Stafford’s first Burlesque dance workshop. There has been a huge response to the new classes at the Groove Academy with women using the dance classes to gain confidence. “We didn’t really know how people would react when we decided to teach burlesque dancing …

North Staffordshire based Rydale Roofing has revamped its head office to provide state of the art training facilities. The company has invested £43.000 on a refurbishment programme which included the installation of a mezzanine floor and the creation of a training suite at their base on the Silverdale Enterprise Park. Rydale Roofing has developed training programmes for all staff and …

Client: Stafford Industrial Supplies, Stafford. Mentor: Alan Wyatt Programme: Let’s Do Mentoring Taking time out may seem a pipe dream for many small business owners. But working with a mentor to achieve a better work-life balance has helped Paul Walters plot a clear path to success for Stafford Industrial Supplies. “I was running around continually fighting fires and my mentor …

Good design is helping to provide new homes and re-use and improve urban sites in North Staffordshire. Architect Carl Croft is working with developers on infill housing schemes in Kidsgrove, Stoke, Dresden and Silverdale. “The development of small, Infill sites are vital on several levels,” said Carl, founder and owner of Croft Architecture. “We have a national housing shortage but …

Business owners from Staffordshire and beyond learned more about pensions and auto-enrolment at an event held by Slaters Accountants and Richard Jacobs Pensions. Financial experts from the two Newcastle-under-Lyme companies are working in partnership to ensure businesses are fully briefed on their obligations to provide workplace pensions. Emily Jacobs, Director of Richard Jacobs Pensions and Trustee Services, gave advice to …

More than 100 schools have been made safer thanks to the expertise of Stoke-on-Trent company Security Services. Now a growth in the Academy school sector is opening up new contracts for the expanding Security Services team. Security Services has been supplying state-of-the-art security devices to schools across the Midlands since the 1980s. The experienced Security Services team are able to …

The old and new collide as award winning theatre company Periplum explore the 1842 Stoke-on-Trent pottery riots. Reading the Riot Act is an interactive performance where the audience use headphones, i-Pads and visual installations to travel through a portal back in time to an explosive moment in local history. This unique performance, which takes place at Fenton Library on Saturday …

British troops returning from Germany will benefit from superfast broadband after Media Force, part of specialist broadband group Keycom, fibre enabled the Beacon Barracks site at Stafford. Media Force won a competitive tender to provide broadband to the 10 new accommodation blocks and two diners on the Beacon Barracks site. A major redevelopment project has seen the development of new …

Volunteers from across Stoke-on-Trent are to be given a chance to help make this winter’s Christmas lights switch-on event among the most colourful ever. A host of technicolour LED-lit umbrellas will add a new twist to the traditional parade as Christmas kicks-off in City Centre Hanley on Thursday, November 19. This year’s lights switch-on will feature all the traditional elements …