Furness Enterprise

windfarm construction puts Barrow at heart of energy coast

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:53:34 GMT

Dong Energy today started the Walney Windfarm project at the port of Barrow in NW England...
10/03/2010

Minister to address defence industry conference in Manchester

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:12:08 GMT

Government minister Quentin Davies is to address a conference for companies in the defence industry in Manchester next week. ...
23/02/2010

KOFAC Press Release - Defence Minister to address Defence Industry NW 2010 Conference

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:52:02 GMT

Quentin Davies MP, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support at the Ministry of Defence will be the main speaker at the Defence Industry NW 2010 Conference being held in Manchester at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport on 5th March 2010. ...
23/02/2010

Love Enterprise - Defence in the NW

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:46:18 GMT

The future of the defence industry in north west England is going to be a key issue over the next few months and years and its profile will be at the top of the political agenda in the north west in two weeks time. ...
23/02/2010

Recognition for Excellent Support to women

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Furness Enterprise get recognition for excellent support to women at the Women in Business Awards at Ribby Hall Village, January 2010...
17/02/2010

Love Enterprise - Energising the Energy Coast

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:29:55 GMT

The “energy coast” is being energised from Furness. Developments over the past two weeks show the crucial role that the area is playing in creating a brighter, more secure, energy future for Britain whilst “opening doors” for local firms. ...
15/02/2010

Love Enterprise - Women in Business

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:32:49 GMT

Women today have a vital role to play in businesses of all sizes, whether in their traditional roles of secretaries/receptionists or, as is increasingly becoming the norm, in roles as diverse as chemists, production machinists, painters, welders, PR specialists or as managers and accountants. ...
09/02/2010

Love Enterprise - Crucial Week for Defence

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:31:08 GMT

This is a crucial week for the future of our armed forces, for the UK defence industry and for the people who work in the defence sector in Barrow, Furness and northwest England’s companies that provide the equipment and services our armed forces need. ...
09/02/2010

'PR Tool Kit' for Barrow Businesses

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:00:12 GMT

Training course/workshop in 'How to do your own PR'...
05/02/2010

Barrow Boosting Marketing Event

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Marketing master class with speaker Geoff Ramm...
01/02/2010

AMEC Awarded FEED for £600m Gateway Underground Gas Storage Project

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:29:45 GMT

AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, along with Parsons Brinckerhoff and Senergy, has been appointed by Gateway Storage Company to undertake the front-end engineering design (FEED) for both the offshore and onshore elements of the £600 million Gateway offshore underground gas storage scheme....
26/01/2010

Love Enterprise - Data Input Jobs

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:23:07 GMT

Morecambe Bay NHS Trust’s Furness General Hospital is a market leader in the NHS in introducing electronic patient records as a way of dramatically improving patient care, and improving patient care administration. Lots of jobs are being made available now as use of electronic patient recording is broadened locally. There are 50 employment opportunities for local people available. These posts are to deliver data input tasks. ...
26/01/2010

Selling Skills training

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Selling Skills training workshop...
21/01/2010

Love Enterprise - Starting A Business

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:47:17 GMT

Anyone in Furness can aspire to and realise their ambition of starting up a new small business. Furness Enterprise has been privileged to work alongside hundreds of individuals each year to help them create new enterprises. A whole host of new activities have filled gaps in the market for services or products....
19/01/2010

Love Enterprise - 25 years of gas

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:19:47 GMT

9th January 2010 marked 25 years of gas flowing from the Irish Sea’s Morecambe Bay gasfields through Barrow into the UK gas grid. ...
11/01/2010

Centrica awarded Round Three offshore wind development zone

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:18:31 GMT

Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, today welcomed the news that it has been successful in The Crown Estate's Round Three offshore wind tendering process, having been awarded exclusive rights to develop the Irish Sea zone. The zone, which is located 15 kilometres off the coast of Anglesey, Wales, and 2,200km2, provides Centrica the potential to develop up to an additional 4.2 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy. It could provide enough power for over three million British Gas homes....
11/01/2010

Barrow undergoes multi-million pound regeneration

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:50:56 GMT

BARROW is undergoing a multi-million pound facelift with a number of regeneration projects ongoing or due to begin....
07/01/2010

Love Enterprise - British Manufacturing in 2010

Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:15:45 GMT

On 30 December The Times reported on an Engineering Employers Federation report that stated, “Manufacturers increasingly are moving production back to Britain as shoddy quality and higher energy and freight prices are undermining the cost advantage of producing goods overseas.” The new decade could bring a resurgence of manufacturing and processing activity driving wealth and job creation nationally and locally here in Furness....
04/01/2010

Love Enterprise - Innovation 2010

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:10:42 GMT

Think of innovation and many people will immediately think of people in white coats working in laboratories, in universities or research establishments, looking through microscopes or working on test rigs....
23/12/2009

Love Enterprise - HMS Walney

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:09:01 GMT

HMS Walney and its crew are great international ambassadors for Barrow and Furness. The ship’s affiliation is with the town of Barrow in Furness. ...
23/12/2009