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BID Plans underway at Stakehill

Businesses at Stakehill Industrial Estate are developing a Business Improvement District (BID) for the estate, to go to ballot in 2021. Business Improvement Districts are business led partnerships to deliver additional services to local businesses. They can be a

GM Mayor Burnham to speak at Rochdale business event

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will be the guest speaker at the next Rochdale Ambassadors event on October 14.

The virtual event – entitled ‘Why Rochdale businesses are critical to the growth of GM’ – will take place between

Russell WBHO set to deliver over 120,000sq ft temperature-controlled storage for logistics giant

Russell WBHO is set to deliver 126,000 sq ft of cold storage capacity for Lineage Logistics at two UK sites.

Work has commenced work on an 80,000 sq ft or 21,000 pallet cold storage unit at the firm’s

Rochdale wins funding for pioneering renewable energy project

Rochdale Council is one of five local authorities in Greater Manchester to have won funding for a pioneering clean energy project – that will develop 10 renewable schemes across the conurbation – and create a blueprint that can be replicated in

Homeworkers spark demand surge in self-storage space

A Rochdale self-storage and workspace facility has seen a surge in demand from homeworkers needing to rethink how and where they work. The pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home and the result has been

College pledges to support businesses and train 300 new apprentices

Hopwood Hall College has promised to train 300 new apprentices in the next 12 months – and has called on Rochdale companies to create jobs. The college, which has two campuses in Middleton and Rochdale, made the apprentice promise at the

Rochdale manufacturer beats Bank of England to green award

The boss of Rochdale manufacturer Crystal Doors said he nearly fainted after learning they’d beaten the Bank of England to a prestigious environmental award.

Managing director Richard Hagan was watching Friday’s virtual IEMA Sustainability

RDA adds £14 to the local economy for every £1 spent

Every £1 that is spent on the Rochdale Development Agency by Rochdale Council adds nearly £14 to the local economy. That is the main conclusion of an independent benchmarking exercise that measured the performance of the RDA.

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