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In our Publications section we want to give you access to the valuable intelligence that Coventry & Warwickshire businesses are sharing with us regularly and insights into the wider macroeconomic impact of the pandemic on our region. We have created the below reports to give us, our stakeholders and decision makers in local and central Government an insight on how local businesses and our economy have been impacted over the duration of the COVID19 pandemic. It has helped us build evidence to inform business support provisions and launch us into the restart phase. 

The reports form part of the CW Growth Hub’s SmartRegion initiative, a partnership project between the CW Growth Hub, Warwickshire County Council and Coventry City Council with valuable input from other local business support partner organisations including the Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce, the FSB, and the local universities. SmartRegion is a shared business and economy data resource for the region and enables us and our stakeholders to understand local businesses and continue to deliver smart services to help our region grow and prosper.

March 2024:

This month’s this report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council.

February 2024:

This month’s this report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council.

January 2024:

This month’s this report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council.

December 2023:

This month’s this report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council.

November 2023:

This month’s report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council.

October 2023:

This month’s report is based on intelligence from CW Growth Hub’s contacts with local businesses, alongside survey data, information, and other intelligence provided by Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council. 

September 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is the newly launched ‘Local Skills Improvement Plan’, highlighting latest trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities.

August 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is ‘Electrification Infrastructure’, highlighting latest trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities.

July 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is ‘Inward Investment’, highlighting latest trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities.

June 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is ‘Automotive & Future Mobility’, highlighting latest trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities. 

May 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is the ‘Hospitality Sector’, highlighting latest trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities. 

April 2023:

This month our spotlight theme is ‘International Trade’, highlighting recent trends, issues, challenges, and future opportunities.

March 2023:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the ‘Spring Budget Statement 2023’, highlighting how key announcements could impact on the Coventry & Warwickshire economy

February 2023:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the ‘High Growth Companies’, highlighting how these have, and will, impact on the economy of both Coventry & Warwickshire. We welcome contributions from Justine Chadwick & Jim Clark, High Growth and Scale-up Account Managers at CW Growth Hub.

January 2023:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the ‘Tourism and Hospitality Sectors’, highlighting how these have, and will, impact on the economy of both Coventry & Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands region.

December 2022:

This month our spotlight focusses on the key discussion points from a recent ‘Skills & Recruitment Roundtable Discussion’, convened by CW Growth Hub, and involving a range of employers from across northern Warwickshire.

November 2022:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the ‘Autumn Budget Statement 2022’ highlighting the headlines announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and how these will impact on the UK economy, with a response from CWRT’s Chief Executive, Sheridan Sulskis, on what this means for business locally.

October 2022:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the ''Labour Market Dynamics", highlighting how these have, and will, impact on the economy of both Coventry and Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands region

September 2022:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on the 'Autumn Fiscal Event', outlining the headlines announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his recent mini-Budget, with a response from CWLEP Growth Hub’s Managing Director, Craig Humphrey, on what this means for businesses locally. 

August 2022:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on ‘Building the Momentum of the Commonwealth Games’, highlighting how the recent Games have, and will, impact on the economy of bother Birmingham and the Wider West Midlands Region. 

July 2022:

This month our spotlight theme focusses on ‘Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation’, highlighting how funding of R&D and innovation has positively impacted on the economy of both Coventry & Warwickshire and wider

June 2022:

This month our spotlight theme is the ‘Coventry UK City of Culture – Impact and Legacy’, highlighting how Coventry’s year as City of Culture has impacted on the local economy, and what impacts on creative and culture sectors across the sub-region might be seen over the coming months and years.

May 2022:

This month our spotlight theme is 'Perfect Storm - Spring 2022', Highlighting the range of potentially severe economic issues that are currently aligning and likely to have impacts on businesses across the sub-region over the coming months. 

April 2022:

This month our spotlight theme is 'Made Smarter - Adoption Project', looking at how Made Smarter Programme has impacted businesses across Coventry & Warwickshire and the West Midlands. 

March 2022:

This month our spotlight theme is 'The Cost of Doing Business’, looking at how three factors - inflation, wages, and energy costs - are increasingly and negatively impacting on businesses in Coventry & Warwickshire.

February 2022:

This month our spotlight theme is the recently published and long-awaited ‘Levelling-up White Paper’, looking at the Government backed priorities and missions to deliver levelling-up across the country, as well as highlighting future funding support for local areas and communities.

January 2022:

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight theme of ‘Future of highstreets/town centres’, looking at the challenges that Covid-19 restrictions and the recovery has on highstreets/ town centres, as well as understanding available support and changes needed to ensure sustainable and prosperous town and city centres of the future.

December 2021:

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight theme of ‘Women in the Workforce’, looking at challenges and opportunities that women currently face in the workplace, and the specific local business support initiatives and programmes that are available.

  

November 2021:

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight theme is the 'Future of Business Support', looking at the challenges currently facing local businesses, the funding and support available, and areas where further support might be required. This month's report features the new recommendations layout, with the archived recommendations as a separate file below. 

  

October 2021:

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight theme is the ‘Green Sustainable Future’. We look at the varied range of issues currently facing local businesses, specifically around green innovation, and available funds to support them with green and sustainable growth.

September 2021:

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on ‘International Trade’, looking at the varied range of issues that are currently impacting businesses, but also the opportunities available to those already importing/exporting, and those looking to do so.

August 2021: 

Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on the ‘Perfect Storm’, highlighting the range of potentially severe economic issues that are currently aligning to have an impact on businesses across the sub-region over the coming weeks and months.

July 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a spotlight on Tourism & Hospitality sector, with a focus on the re-opening of more of the sector locally.

June 2021:

 Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on Health and Wellbeing, especially in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and it’s economic impact.

May 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on The Green, Sustainable Future Agenda.

April 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on The effects that Covid-19 has had on the so-called gig economy, with a specific focus on this way of working in the travel and delivery sectors.

March 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on The Economic Impact of Covid-19 Over The Last 12 Months.

February 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on Coventry & Warwickshire LEP’s Reset Strategy.

January 2021:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on Logistics & Transport Technologies Sector.

December 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on the EU Exit Transition.

November 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with a Spotlight on the UK Labour Market.

October 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Tourism Recovery.

4th - 17th August 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus on international Trade & EU Exit.

21st July - 3rd August 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus on Manufacturing Recovery.

7th - 20th July 2020:

COVID19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Property and Planning.  

23rd June - 6th July 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Third Sector.

9th -22nd June 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Rural Economy.

19th May - 8th June 2020: 

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Retail.

12th -18th May 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Digital & Creative.

28th April - 4th May 2020:

Covid19 Business Intelligence with Sector Focus Culture & Tourism.

 

 

Client testimonials

Without the Growth Hubs help and assistance, we would never have been able to increase our sales & output and also grow our local business. With this help in purchasing new equipment we have expanded our operations and gained a new and increased customer base.

Nuneaton Roof Truss,

Over the past few years, Armstrongs has built up a fantastic relationship with Gary Thyeson from the Growth Hub. His advice on grants and funding has been really valuable to both Armstrongs and some of our clients. His knowledge of local business support has been helpful in signposting us to relevant support agencies as required. We look forward to working with Laura Delahunty moving forwards.

Armstrongs Accountancy LTD,

In the short time since first engaging with the Warwickshire Growth Hub we feel that Laura has understood our vision and has been so very supportive in linking us to the specialist teams who are now supporting us with training, finance and recruitment. A great service that every growing organisation should connect with

MES Systems Limited,

I have had an excellent experience working with Laura from the Growth Hub, from day one, she was taking detailed attention to my concerns and ideas. She was able to put me in contact with different organisations and people to find out answers to my questions and help me to solve some inquiries I was having. I feel this support definitely had a positive impact in my plans. 

 

PALACIOS LTD,

It’s been a fantastic inaugural eight months for the TalentTech Recruitment team and, although the reality of setting up and running a company can be a somewhat daunting experience, we have been extremely grateful for the superb help, advice and guidance given to us along our journey by Gavin Barnett and the team at CW Growth Hub. Gavin’s introductions to both Warwick & Coventry Universities and his wider business network have been absolutely invaluable.

TalentTech Recruitment LTD,

For many individuals out there, it is very hard to figure out ways and know which direction to go when it comes to setting up a business. The challenges of taking your idea and bringing it to life and not knowing where to go and who to speak to for advice. it can get very frustrating..

King of Saffron LTD,

This grant [which we received with the help of the Growth Hub and Coventry City Council] will really help us get on track for business growth and succeed with our vision. Personally, I would also like to thank the team for supporting me through the grant application process. You have been very approachable and attentive throughout.

Exeter Analytical (UK) Limited,

Thank you for the comprehensive and professional guidance

Burbidge & Son Ltd,

Over the years since the Growth Hub was set up we have habitually gone to our Account Manager as a one-stop shop for all business-related information.  It has been a really convenient way of finding suppliers, advisors and, on one occasion, we even asked for assistance with finding customers.  We are invited to a wide range of business events including business development workshops, Brexit roundtable discussions, seminars on various topics and have also been asked to speak at some events.  When we have needed additional information, for example, finding finance sources or help with selecti

Marchantcain Design Limited,

Thanks to CW Growth hub getting us access to grant funding we have been able to invest in the latest computer monitoring system, which will enable us to compete with the national companies within our industry.

Comrie Leisure Limited,

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