A series of successful bids to hold events in Cambridge UK over the next few years, collectively worth £1.2 million and a further £5 million to the local economy, will bring over 2,800 delegates to the city.

IoD director general Simon Walker warned a Cambridge trade summit that the UK faces a potential economic backlash if it slams the doors on cultural diversity.

Indiana – one of the States presenting to the Transatlantic Business Forum in Cambridge UK on Thursday March 8 – has slashed its taxes in a bid to attract relocating companies from around the world.

The global engineering brilliance of Cosworth could help generate 10,000 jobs in Northampton.

A Cambridge ‘coaching for growth’ programme that catapulted local ventures into global markets in 2011 has won the UK Government’s backing to continue next year, Business Weekly has been told.

Exports from companies in Cambridge and the East of England have yet again topped the £25bn mark in the last year, with the region accounting for almost one pound in every 10 of what the UK sells to the rest of the world, according to new figures from HM Revenue & Customs.

Up to 1,000 new jobs could be created in Haverhill as a result of planning permission  being given for a 450,000 sq ft research park, 150 homes and a 60-bed hotel, says Paul Sutton, head of planning at Cheffins, who has nursed the scheme through the planning process.

Imagine a media interview in which a politician, in under eight minutes, managed to not only answer two questions by an interviewer but appeared to be without the yolk of partisanship in clearly setting out how a country could, step-by-step, find its way out of recession through central government policy.

Eleven companies from the East of England have earned a place on the latest Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250, the league table of Britain’s leading mid-market private companies published this weekend.

Anglian Water has awarded a multi-million pound improvements contract to UK maintenance and repair group Deritend Industries.

Exports from companies in the East of England of the UK have hit a new high, topping the £25 billion mark in the last year.

Will Mooney, Carter Jonas partner and joint head of its commercial agency and professional services in the eastern region, is back from his holiday and is ‘in the zone’ straightaway following the Government’s recent announcement of new enterprise zones.

The inclusion of part of Alconbury Airfield in the new wave of Enterprise Zones will help export its business profile to an international audience, according to the developer and agent Savills.

Transatlantic entrepreneur Doug Richard has warned that the aftermath of recession could wipe out a whole generation of young talent with a bitter backlash for the UK economy.

It is the easiest place in the UK to find a job according to new research.

The East of England Development Agency has had a lively final year for a dead man walking – creating or safeguarding 8,800 jobs in the ideas region of the UK and Europe.