Sandwell Council is set to launch a new pilot scheme with HMRC to recover £3.5million of unpaid council tax. Sandwell is among 29 councils working with the HMRC to use debt information sharing powers to recoup unpaid bills. It means non-paying customers who are employed or have an income will be […]

Business journalism exists, so to speak, mainly to analyse, record, track, and interpret the economic, business, and financial activities, as well as changes, that take place in the world’s societies.  Usually, the topics that are discussed via business journalism cover the entirety of the commercial activities that are related to […]

A funding initiative that helps new Worcestershire businesses to grow and succeed has successfully awarded its 100th grant. Enterprising Worcestershire offers financial and operational support to a wide range of start-ups in the region, helping them to build their businesses through investment in new equipment, website and marketing services and […]

Sandwell Council is launching a text messaging service to help people keep on top of their council tax bills and get the welfare support they need. The service will also reduce the number of paper messages and reminders the council has to post out, helping to save money for frontline […]

Sandwell Council has once again landed a prize at the Federation of Small Businesses (Birmingham, Black Country and Staffordshire) Local Authority ‘Small Business Friendly’ Awards. This year’s award, for Best ‘Small Business Friendly’ Procurement Policy, recognises the work that Sandwell Council does to support SMEs to build procurement-driven supply chains. […]

Financing under the EBRD’s pioneering Women in Business programme has now topped the 500 million mark. Less than four year since its launch in 2015, the initiative has provided a total of 506 million in credit lines to more than 60,000 women-led small and medium-sized companies in 18 countries. The […]

For the fifth year running Sandwell Council has published details of the borough’s 50 fastest growing businesses. In the report four companies reveal how they grew their turnover, even through a time of political and economic uncertainty. The Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies Index 2019 was released (Thursday 13 July) […]

Eighty-two percent of companies plan to reduce their legal function costs over the next two years, with 42% of respondents planning on doing so by more than 10%, according to a new report released today by EY. Reimagining the Legal Function Report 2019 surveyed more than 1,000 senior legal practitioners […]

“Overall, employees from certain ethnic groups such as Indian and Chinese, have higher average earnings than their White British counterparts. However, all other ethnic groups have average wages lower than for White British employees, with employees from the Bangladeshi ethnic group having the largest pay gap. “However, once characteristics such […]