Gardeners will spend more time adding a splash of exotic colour or relaxing in their garden during 2009 if they manage to stick to their New Year Resolutions.
Quizzed by Mower Magic, over 1,000 visitors to the online garden machinery superstore, said they had made a gardening-related New Year’s Resolution.
The most common commitment for 2009 was […]

Branston Ltd, the UK’s leading supplier of potatoes, is celebrating being named Vegetable Supplier of the Year 2008 in the first ever Tesco Produce Supplier Awards.
The company, which has a sites in Lincolnshire, Perth and Somerset received the accolade at a prestigious gala dinner last month at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.
Jo Parish, Tesco Account […]

Lincoln’s Innovation Centre – the Think Tank – moved one step closer to opening today (22nd December.)
Councillor Hilton Spratt, Economy, Tourism & Culture Portfolio Holder at the City of Lincoln Council, received the keys to the new building from main contractors Marriott Construction at a ceremony to mark completion of the new building.
Designed specifically to […]

Northamptonshire entrepreneur Camille Ortega McClean has received funding to enable her to launch her luxury food business, The Pickled Village.
Camille received finance from EnterpriseLoans East Midlands, which has helped her to start a small production facility in Bulwick near Corby. In addition, she is developing a retail website and exhibiting and sampling her range of […]

Cost conscious consumers are increasingly looking to more traditional forms of heating this winter.
According to figures released today sales of woodcutting machinery such as chainsaws, hatchets and axes have shot through the roof following rises in gas and electricity prices over the last year.
The figures, released by online garden machinery supermarket Mower Magic.co.uk, show that […]

The East Midlands Development Agency (emda) has continued to demonstrate its commitment to helping the region’s businesses in the current economic climate, with the launch of Route to Market.
The new programme, which was first presented at emda’s Survive and Thrive events earlier this month, is free and centres on five workshops designed to hone skills […]

Vidyanath Gururajan, Chair of the Environmental Forum at Branston Ltd, is to address a national conference on the importance of measuring corporate water footprints. He is among a number of industry experts and practitioners who will address delegates at the Water Footprint Summit, which is being held at Olympia, London on 16th and 17th December.
Branston […]

A new project estimator at Stormsaver, the leading designer and manufacturer of rainwater harvesting systems, has secured her first order after recently being promoted.
The company is to supply a £16,000 system, which features Stormsaver’s latest innovation, the COMBI-system, to Sainsbury’s in Otley, Leeds.
Rainfall will be diverted from the building’s 3618m2 roof to a 15,000 litre […]

Stormsaver, the UK’s leading supplier of rainwater harvesting systems, has been selected as a finalist for the Innovation Category in the Midlands Excellence Awards 2009.
The Innovation category is one of three new Special Awards. Shortlisted companies will be judged on how their organisation best exploits new ideas.
“We’re delighted to have […]

The UK’s leading supplier of potatoes has become the first food producer in the country to receive the Carbon Trust Standard.
Branston Ltd., which supplies over 400,000 tonnes of fresh potatoes every year, was awarded the accolade in recognition of its success in reducing its carbon emissions by 6% over the last […]