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Manchester Angel is the star of North West property ‘Oscars’

Forty two of the region’s most impressive property schemes battled for top honours at the 2013 RICS North West Awards on Thursday 9 May, where Manchester’s, One Angel Square won three awards including the overall title of Project of the Year. Known as the region’s property ‘Oscars’, the prestigious contest held at The Point, Lancashire…

Greater Manchester health partnership signs MOU with Hitachi and Eagle Matrix

The NHS in Greater Manchester, the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and North West e-Health* have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Consulting Co., Ltd. and Eagle Matrix Consulting Co., Ltd. to explicitly work together towards planning and developing informatics technology to manage and improve patient care and population health. Masaya…

MIDAS projects bring over 3,000 jobs to Greater Manchester in 2012-13

Manchester’s inward investment agency, MIDAS, has exceeded targets and supported the creation of 3,038 jobs across 81 projects in Greater Manchester during 2012-13. In total the number of jobs created, safeguarded and relocated with support from MIDAS during the 2012-13 financial year was 4,143, with a GVA (Gross Value Added) impact of £189 million. Of these…

Clusters: the future of digital business?

CREATIVE England recently held an interactive workshop at MediaCity to identify emerging trends and opportunities in Manchester’s digital sector. The Creative England stake holder workshop was held on 24 April at The Greenhouse, a MediaCity business incubator, where cluster specialists worked with industry experts to create ideas which would help support established digital businesses and those industries…

George Osborne launches Manchester-China Forum

George Osborne officially launched the Manchester-China forum on Friday 26 April. The Manchester-China Forum is a new business-led initiative aimed at increasing Greater Manchester’s commercial connectivity, including trade and investment with China. With the third largest Chinese community in Europe, Manchester is in the unique position of already having a very strong relationship with what…

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