Cambridge-based charitable business, CBM (UK) Ltd, is fighting an humanitarian crisis in Africa through an innovative cash transfer scheme that pumps lifeline funds into households and prevents them having to trade their livestock for food simply to survive.

US2U Consulting, the Norwich-based business consultancy, has extended a contract with KLM UK Engineering, the wholly owned subsidiary of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and is starting the next phase of a leadership development programme.

American industrialist Henry Ford said that a business absolutely devoted to service would have only one worry about profits – “they will be embarrassingly large.”

abbis education, a new recruitment agency, opened its doors in Cambridge UK today

A £20 million turnover recruitment company in Peterborough has been sold for an undsiclosed sum to facilitate the founder’s exit.

Cambridge based charitable business CBM (UK) Ltd has secured a grant of almost £100k from the Scottish Government to boost humanitarian efforts in Kenya.

Business is booming for a Cambridge UK planning consultancy whose plans for expansion see it take on new staff and move into bigger premises in September.

Airline pilot training provider Cabair International has expanded its presence in the Innovation Centre at Cranfield University Technology Park.

A busy summer that has already included the provision of security and stewarding at concerts, parades, race meetings, festivals and the Royal Norfolk Show, has created 80 new jobs at Norwich based security firm EventGuard.

Specialist energy recruitment firm R People Ltd has expanded its operations in East Anglia with the opening of a new office at OrbisEnergy in Lowestoft, the UK hi-tech innovation centre for offshore renewables.

Business Link is urging would-be entrepreneurs in the East of England to take the plunge and seek help with turning business dreams into reality.

Tech design consultancy TTP Group plc hosted the launch of the 2011 Cambridge Summer Music Festival (CSMF).

The engineering and project management company, AMEC, is making a $280m (£172.2m) cash acquisition in the US.

Martial of Cambridge used to evoke thoughts of the city’s major industrial employer (Marshall of Cambridge).

The Møller Centre, the only dedicated residential management training and conference centre in Cambridge was named Training Venue of the Year in the Institute of IT Training awards at The Dorchester Hotel in London.

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton hit the ethos of good service bang on the button. He said: “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.”