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2 NEWS<br />
What’s News<br />
FROM PAGE 1<br />
has been given the green light by<br />
Manchester City Council to transform<br />
Hardman Square, part of Allied<br />
London’s Spinningfields development,<br />
into an urban beach. The square will<br />
include sandpits, boardwalk, decking,<br />
bar and stage until September 14,<br />
20<strong>08</strong>. Live music events are also<br />
planned for Hardman Square<br />
throughout the summer.<br />
■ Professional indemnity lawyer<br />
Elisabeth Taylor is leaving Halliwells in<br />
Manchester to join Mills & Reeve. She<br />
starts on September 1 and will be joined<br />
by a team including an associate, a<br />
senior lawyer and a paralegal. Taylor<br />
was managing partner and head of<br />
professional indemnity at James<br />
Chapman & Co before it merged with<br />
Halliwells in 2006. Guy Hichley<br />
managing partner of Mills & Reeve,<br />
which opened in Manchester six<br />
months ago, said: “Insurance is a major<br />
strand in our strategy and a key driver<br />
to our business. We are delighted to<br />
have attracted an individual of Taylor’s<br />
quality and profile and look forward to<br />
expanding the team further in the near<br />
future.<br />
■ Mandata Contracts,the Manchesterbased<br />
storage and transport company,<br />
has been appointed by Endsleigh<br />
Insurance Services to work on its<br />
branch closure programme in the<br />
North West and Yorkshire. The<br />
specialist student insurance broker is<br />
closing all 90 of its UK branches this<br />
summer as it moves to a web-call<br />
centre-based business model.<br />
■ Gorton Monastery has won a<br />
£10,000 grant from Barclays Wealth for<br />
a course designed to support<br />
marginalised and hard to reach young<br />
people to build their self-esteem and<br />
address the emotional and behavioural<br />
issues that can block their route to<br />
training, education and employment.<br />
Andrew Houston, regional director at<br />
Barclays Wealth in Manchester, said:<br />
“We are strongly committed to<br />
supporting local communities where<br />
we have a Barclays Wealth presence.<br />
Our community investment<br />
programme aims to help people break<br />
out of the cycle of poverty and give<br />
them a better future by realising their<br />
own potential.” The new project aims to<br />
reach up to 70 people over the next<br />
few months,<br />
■ Two car hire companies have won<br />
business from Greater Manchester<br />
Police Authority. Watford-based<br />
INDEX<br />
Taking Stock Page 6<br />
Opinion/Editorial Pages 8, 9<br />
Focus: Sport Pages 11-15<br />
Crain’s List Page 14<br />
The Business of Culture Page 16<br />
For the Record Pages 18-19<br />
Business Lives Page 16<br />
Events, People, Gossip Page 23<br />
National Car Rental has been awarded<br />
a contract worth £2.04m and a<br />
£412,000 deal has gone to Ember<br />
Lathom Vehicle Rental of Lostock,<br />
near Bolton. Both agreements are<br />
over four years and cover saloons,<br />
estates, vans and mini-buses, including<br />
unmarked cars and vehicles with<br />
blacked-out windows.<br />
■ Manchester Airport says the trial of<br />
a small-scale wind turbine on the roof<br />
of Terminal Two has “proved<br />
successful” with no impact on<br />
operations. A feasibility study is being<br />
prepared to examine the benefits of<br />
erecting a number of these turbines<br />
on Terminal Two to reduce the<br />
airport’s reliance on supply from the<br />
grid. From the beginning of April<br />
20<strong>08</strong>, 30 per cent of the airport’s<br />
electricity supply came from<br />
renewable resources the airport said.<br />
■ Accountancy firm Saffery<br />
Champness is urging all North<br />
West business owners that saw their<br />
profits fall last year to make sure they<br />
reduce their tax payments. Mike<br />
Harrison, head of the firm’s<br />
Manchester office, said that payments<br />
on account are based on the previous<br />
year’s income and therefore could be<br />
too high if profits have fallen in the<br />
Our coverage at-a-glance<br />
BOLTON<br />
Charles Topham joins<br />
P7 firms cutting jobs<br />
BURY<br />
Muckers directors<br />
P3 fined for dumping<br />
controlled waste<br />
CHESHIRE<br />
Bodycote shares<br />
P6 continue to climb<br />
<strong>MAN</strong>CHESTER<br />
Developer plans<br />
P5 £40m scheme for<br />
canalside<br />
OLDHAM<br />
Industrial park<br />
P1 plans scrapped<br />
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS PLAN INTERNET TV STATION FOR OLDHAM<br />
A new internet television station will start broadcasting in<br />
Oldham from January 2009. Channel O, based at Earl Mill<br />
in Hathershaw, will show music videos, short dramas and<br />
factual programmes. Content will be decided by the 16 to<br />
19 year-olds involved, none of whom are in training, jobs or<br />
education. Two of the three directors are involved in social<br />
enterprise businesses based at the mill but say the channel<br />
will be run as a commercial venture. Keith Lucas is the<br />
founder of Street College, a media production and training<br />
company, and Bob Bell is a director at Enterprise Factory,<br />
which helps new businesses. The directors have invested<br />
their own money in the venture, although they would not<br />
ROCHDALE<br />
Land around River Roch<br />
P2 to be redeveloped<br />
SALFORD<br />
Salford City Red promoted<br />
P3 to Super League<br />
STOCKPORT<br />
P6 ServicePower<br />
Technologies<br />
shares up 25 percent<br />
TAMESIDE<br />
Buyer found for<br />
P23 failed firm’s<br />
90,000 handbags<br />
TRAFFORD<br />
Procter & Gamble<br />
P4 fined £40,000 after<br />
warehouse accident<br />
Keith Lucas, left, Esther Shepley and Bob Bell with two of the trainees<br />
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current year. He said a reduced<br />
payment could help with cashflow for<br />
a business owner who has suffered a<br />
downturn and is feeling the heat in<br />
the current economic climate.<br />
Payments must be made by July 31<br />
and forms to reduce the amount owed<br />
are available on the HMRC website or<br />
at your local tax office.<br />
■ Richard Harvey, who quit last<br />
year as chief executive of insurance<br />
group Aviva in order to do charitable<br />
work in Africa, is this year’s recipient<br />
of The University of Manchester<br />
Alumni Association’s Outstanding<br />
Alumnus Award. He graduated in<br />
1971 with a degree in mathematics<br />
and went into insurance when his<br />
sponsors, the Atomic Energy<br />
Authority, cut back on its recruitment<br />
plans.<br />
CORRECTIONS<br />
WIGAN<br />
New owner brings<br />
P11 struggling club back<br />
into play<br />
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say how much. The company’s social agenda means it will<br />
initially make money through public sector sponsorship<br />
and by larger companies fulfilling their corporate social<br />
responsibility agendas, according to the directors. The plan<br />
is to grow the channel’s audience virally as Oldham’s youth<br />
spread the word through other online social sites. It will<br />
then start placing adverts that target the youth market.<br />
Earl Mill is getting £1.3m redevelopment funding as part of<br />
the Hathershaw and Fitton Hill New Deal for the<br />
Community. A planning application is in to turn part of the<br />
mill into a video and audio recording studio for Channel O,<br />
utilising some of that cash.<br />
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■ Manchester-based freight forwarder<br />
Cardinal Maritime has signed a new<br />
agency agreement in the US with<br />
Troy Container Lines. Troy and Cardinal<br />
will work together on an exclusive<br />
basis for all for their weekly US<br />
consolidation containers, both east and<br />
westbound. “This is another<br />
progression for us in establishing<br />
ourselves as a major player in the US<br />
trade,” said managing director Andrew<br />
Smithurst.<br />
■ Land around the east bank of<br />
Rochdale’s River Roch will be<br />
redeveloped to make way for a new<br />
transport interchange and civic offices<br />
in the town. A new restaurant and café<br />
area is planned for the west bank. Work<br />
finished last week on clearing and<br />
remediating the site to prepare it for<br />
construction work.<br />
Tony Rafferty, founder of Printing.com, attended Sheffield University not Manchester<br />
Business School, as stated in the story headed “University graduate start-up<br />
numbers don’t add up” in the July 21 issue.<br />
A story in the July 21 issue should have said that Energos has submitted plans for<br />
an energy from waste plant in Knowsley, Merseyside.<br />
● Crain’s Manchester Business has a policy of correcting errors in the next available<br />
issue. To bring them to our attention, email manchesternews@crain.com or<br />
call 0161 209 5804<br />
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Mentioned in this Issue...<br />
Company/Organisation Page<br />
AB World Foods<br />
Academy Music Group<br />
AGMA<br />
AGP Architects<br />
All Saints<br />
Armani Collezioni, Emporio Armani<br />
Associated British Foods<br />
Baker Tilly<br />
Begbies Traynor<br />
Begbies Traynor<br />
Blue Bell<br />
Bodycote<br />
Bolton University<br />
Boodles<br />
Braemar Estates<br />
British Land<br />
Bury FC<br />
Caledonia Motor Holdings<br />
Candu Entertainment Ltd<br />
Cardinal Maritime<br />
Charles Topham Group<br />
Cityco<br />
Clough & Willis Solicitors<br />
CMS Group<br />
Colliers CRE<br />
Comfy Quilts<br />
Company Time<br />
Contact Theatre<br />
Co-operative Group<br />
Cranford Communications<br />
Creative Suit<br />
Cushman & Wakefield<br />
Dandara<br />
Davis Blank Furniss<br />
Debenhams<br />
Deloitte<br />
Destinology<br />
Diesel<br />
DKNY<br />
Dorothy Perkins<br />
Driver Jonas<br />
Droylsden FC<br />
Ember Lathom Vehicle Rental<br />
Enegi Oil<br />
Expansys<br />
Flannels<br />
Formation Group<br />
GL Hearn<br />
Gorton Monastery<br />
GVA Grimley<br />
Halliwells<br />
Holidaybreak<br />
Horners Motor Group<br />
Individual Restaurant Company<br />
Introbuild<br />
James West<br />
JJB Sports<br />
JMW Solicitors<br />
Karpelle<br />
Keoghs<br />
Laxmi Enterprises<br />
Le Mange Tout<br />
Leigh Genesis<br />
Leigh RMI<br />
Leonard Curtis<br />
Live Nation<br />
Lookers<br />
Made in Manchester<br />
Manchester Airport<br />
Manchester Enterprises<br />
Manchester United FC<br />
Mandata Contracts<br />
McEwen Transport<br />
Mills & Reeve<br />
MMU Business School<br />
Muckers<br />
Mulberry<br />
N Brown<br />
New Car Discount.com Ltd<br />
Nicholls, Lindsell & Harris<br />
NWDA<br />
Oracle Trading Co<br />
Oriel<br />
Patak Food India Pvt<br />
Patak’s Chilled Foods Ltd<br />
Patak’s Foods Ltd<br />
Patak’s Frozen Foods Ltd<br />
Peel Holdings<br />
Premium Bars & Restaurants<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers<br />
Proctor and Gamble Product Supply (UK) Ltd<br />
PSD Group<br />
Redcity Developments<br />
Reflec<br />
Rider Levett Bucknall<br />
RMS PR<br />
Rochdale Development Agency<br />
Royal Bank of Scotland<br />
Royal Mutual Insurance Society<br />
Saffery Champness<br />
Salford Business School<br />
Salford City Reds<br />
Salford University<br />
Sankey’s<br />
Seddon Kings Reach<br />
ServicePower Technologies<br />
Shore Capital<br />
Shree Balaji Gums & Spice Stuff Pvt Ltd<br />
Sleep Active Ltd<br />
Speedwell Tool Company<br />
Stockport County FC<br />
Thistle Hotels<br />
Timerbland<br />
Tommy Hilfiger<br />
Trafford Community Leisure<br />
Travel Counsellors<br />
Travelodge<br />
U of Manchester Students’ Union<br />
UKFast.net<br />
Unitown Hire Ltd<br />
Velvet<br />
Vermont Developments<br />
WH Ireland<br />
Wilkinson Corporation Ltd<br />
Worldwing Investments Ltd<br />
WSP<br />
WWB<br />
Yorkshire Bank<br />
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EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
Christopher Crain ccrain@crain.com<br />
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Arthur Porter aporter@crain.com<br />
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Steve Brauner sbrauner@crain.com<br />
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