Brompton Bicyle and Bremont Watch Company have scooped top prize in an HSBC competition to find Britain's most innovative and globally ambitious businesses.
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Britain's manufacturers are calling on the government to convene a summit of employers and medics to tackle sickness.
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The Somerset-based garage door manufacturer Garador is boasting an employee service record that it reckons to be second to none, with the average employee working for the company for 18 years.
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The achievements of young apprentices and adult learners in the West Midlands were in the spotlight this week at the finale of the In-Comm Training Annual Awards.
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Employers are being urged to help shape the future of engineering and advanced manufacturing by ensuring qualifications and training meet industry needs.
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Have your say on skills shortages, absenteeism and employment law and help WM's Great Productivity Debate establish why UK labour productivity lags behind the rest of Europe.
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HSE (Health and Safety Executive) chair Judith Hackitt CBE is the 73rd president of the IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers).
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Students from 13 Glasgow schools have put their design and build skills to the test in the BAE Systems Schools Engineering Challenge 2013.
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The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) has today (Monday 13 May 2013) named Peter Walsh as its next chief executive.
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Airbus apprenticeships have been bolstered by official accreditation from the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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Durham-based engineering firm Gestamp Tallent Automotive is offering local youngsters who measure up to a series of challenges a genuine job at its Newton Aycliffe plant.
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MP Mary Glindon has swapped the backbenches for the workbenches of a local engineering firm - Fabricom Offshore Services - as part of National Apprenticeships Week.
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The UK automotive industry is "defying gravity" Deloitte chief David Raistrick has warned as latest figures show a 12th successive month of car sales growth in February.
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Ahead of its 2012 results published today, Britain's blue chip aerospace and defence contractor Rolls-Royce announced a new 10-year contract with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that the company says will sustain up to 2,000 UK jobs.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched a campaign to stimulate entrepreneurship alongside a report that highlights the £481bn contribution the sector contributes to the UK economy.
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The metrology to medical products group Renishaw has confirmed that it is continuing to invest for growth, despite global economic uncertainties and short-term fluctuations in its business activity levels.
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A mother from Vienna has brought her son to Birmingham to join in the 150th anniversary celebrations of her great-great-grandfather's engineering firm – 98 years after the British Government branded her family as 'enemy aliens'.
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Jaguar Land Rover has launched a campaign to recruit more than 150 apprentices to join its 2013 training programme.
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The Best Factory Awards (BFAs) will launch a new export category and an easy to use online entry form for 2013.
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Allison Transmission – the world's largest manufacturer of fully-automatic commercial, bus and military vehicle transmissions – has appointed James Coleman (pictured) to manage its UK and Irish operations.
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The Department for Business has announced that the minimum period for collective consultations on large-scale redundancies will halve from 90 to 45 days, with effect from April 2013.
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Food and drink manufacturers have trebled the number of apprenticeships across the sector, beating an original target to double to 3,400 by the end of 2012.
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A factory manager with over 40 years' on the shop floor is among those being honoured for a combined 750 years service at the window and door manufacturing firm Anglian.
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Young would-be engineers need "space age inspiration" to stop them being discouraged by the idea that industry is dull and stifled by rules.
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An additional £2m contract haul and growth in three key sectors are the targets for the incoming chairman of the Midlands Assembly Network (MAN) Tony Hague, who will now head up the eight-strong collaboration of engineering businesses as it enters its seventh year.
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