The Northwest is rolling out the red carpet to investors with a new ‘soft landing’ scheme offering free office space in serviced office accommodation for 12 months, across the region.
The new scheme, ‘Hello Northwest’, officially launched today, has been developed in partnership between the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), investment and development agencies for Manchester and the Liverpool City Region, MIDAS and The Mersey Partnership, and leading serviced office providers – Avanta, Bruntwood, Orega, Manchester Science Park, Liverpool Science Park and Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. Continue reading ‘North West Serviced Offices Free for 12 Months for Business Investors’
The recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake that has brought so much destruction to the Caribbean island of Haiti has moved millions of people across the globe to donate generously to the many appeals for aid sent out by charities and governments alike. Two weeks on and miraculously, survivors are still being pulled out the rubble alive – a sight which inspired Customer Service Co-Ordinator Karen Kernohan to take action. Continue reading ‘Glasgow Serviced Office Centre Fund Raises for Haiti’
Gatwick Serviced Offices: Two major new occupiers have signed for a total of 128 workstations at Orega’s Beehive business centre near Gatwick airport in West Sussex, taking the building to 80% occupancy within a year of its opening. Continue reading ‘Gatwick Serviced Offices 80 Per Cent Full Within 12 Months’
High-end serviced office provider Orega has made three new strategic appointments to support the continued expansion of its business centres across the UK.
Phil Perchard has joined as head of sales, Jean Eustace as director of operations and Jessica Cox as marketing manager. All three roles are newly created and reflect significantly increased activity by Orega in the last 12 months. Continue reading ‘Orega Serviced Offices Get Three New Staff Members’
The abrupt closure of a serviced office in Scotland, giving occupiers just 10 days’ notice, has been roundly criticised by the Business Centre Association, which states that companies will experience better standards of conduct at its member locations throughout the UK. Continue reading ‘BCA Criticises Abrubt Serviced Office Closure in Scotland’
Serviced Offices in London: Regus’ arch rival Servcorp, the world’s second largest serviced office operator, arrives in London!It is located at the highly sought after sparkling new Dashwood House Tower. The floor-to-ceiling glass building provides a spectacular vista across the city. Looking at the Dashwood House building from Liverpool Street station, just 50 yards away, you know a new landmark has been created on Old Broad Street in the centre of the city. Continue reading ‘Regus Arch Rival Servcorp Opens Serviced Offices in London’
The Business Centre Association (BCA) has called for local authorities to enter into public/private partnerships with its members to run flexible workspace or to sell off under-performing local authority-run business centres in line with the government’s pre-Budget aim to cut costs and raise money from its property estate. The BCA says such moves would encourage more private sector development of business centres in the UK to support the burgeoning SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) sector*, which would in turn create greater employment and regeneration opportunities. They could additionally attract more inward investment through the provision of flexible satellite office space for new or growing SMEs from overseas. Continue reading ‘BCA Suggests Workspace Partnership Solution to Meet Pre Budget Aim’
Serviced-Offices.com would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to all of our readers and a Happy New Year going into 2010!
Serviced-Offices is visited by clients looking for serviced office space every day. Let’s get them reading about YOUR business centre! Continue reading ‘Serviced-Offices.com Wishes Its Readers a Merry Christmas’
Leading Birmingham serviced office provider, the corporate pod® today announces a new range of services for the new year that have been specifically developed to support new start up businesses in the region. This will include signposting start up clients to potential available grants and launching a ‘virtual assistant’ platform on the website to enable businesses of all sizes to tap into business services normally only afforded by the big corporates.Recently we have seen an emergence of new business centre models in the industry that hone in on innovation, connections, and community. The corporate pod® has a wealth of ideas and experience and their focus is to provide the networking, resources, and excitement to create an environment for entrepreneurs in which to thrive. Continue reading ‘Start Up Businesses in Birmingham Supported by Serviced Office Provider’
Extensive lobbying by the BCA has paid off as the Chancellor announced in the pre-budget report that the empty property rate relief is to be extended until 2011, with the rateable value threshold raised from £15,000 to £18,000 rateable value (RV).BCA Lobbied Government to Rethink Empty Property Rates (EPR) Legislation. The decision from the Treasury follows last month’s BCA House of Commons reception where cross-party MPs were urged to extend the exemption into the next budget report as well as raise the EPR threshold from £15,000 RV to £18,000 RV. Continue reading ‘Empty Property Rates Extended Until 2011 and Threshold Raised’
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