A ‘taskforce’ of public and private sector partners has been created  in response to the news that Phones4u has gone into administration with the loss of hundreds of jobs in Newcastle and Stoke and thousands more nationally. The public and private sector partners have joined forces to offer direct and indirect help, focused initially through an […]
Investment from outside the UK in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire created or safeguarded over 1,000 jobs in the area over the last financial year, according to Government figures. Local enterprise partnership chairman David Frost said the figures demonstrated how attracting overseas investment and driving up exports was vital to the local economy. The figures released by […]
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire’s new business chief has urged Government minsters to back a multi-million pound bid that would unlock more jobs and growth across the area. The city and the county are on the cusp of even greater things as one of the most important economies outside London, says David Frost, the former director general […]
Innovative work to increase workplace skills across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire is already well underway and helping to address the issue nationally, the area’s LEP chairman said today. A report published this week by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills says skills shortages across the country are preventing businesses from taking advantage of the economic […]
Staffordshire’s position as a leading area for manufacturing and research has been strengthened by a new partnership between Jaguar Land Rover and a county company, the area’s local enterprise partnership chairman has said. Ron Dougan said the announcement that Lichfield-based Zytek Automotive has been selected as a partner to take forward Jaguar Land Rover’s Evoque_e […]
