Productivity & Skills

An innovative manufacturer and wholesaler is expanding its UK headquarters in Coventry to continue its world-wide expansion after receiving help from a business support organisation.

Highways England has been given the go-ahead to build a congestion-busting road scheme in the West Midlands. 

Two large employers are contributing £375,000 to boost apprenticeships at small and medium-sized firms through the Apprenticeship Levy Transfer Fund set up by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

A community photography project which has recorded life in a Warwickshire town through the Coronavirus crisis could be set for an exhibition in the county.

Millions of pounds of extra tourism, trade and investment could be secured from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games under plans that would also bolster the region’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery.

A highly-experienced college director has been appointed as the new Principal and CEO of Coventry College.

Governors have confirmed the appointment of Carol Thomas as the new Principal and CEO of the College which has campuses in Coventry’s city centre and Henley in Bell Green.

A Warwickshire coach operator is helping to restart the local economy by devising a new service to get the region’s workforce safely back in operation. 

One of the world’s biggest car makers has driven in to answer Warwickshire County Council’s calls for more personal protection equipment to help the region’s care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Garden centres across Warwickshire are helping local people prepare to take holidays – in their own gardens!

A Coventry biotech business has raised £1.2m for a new hand-held device that allows paramedics and emergency doctors to quickly diagnose patients who are having a stroke.