ESSEX County Council is running ten free-of-charge roadshows across the county to help businesses access vital funding for business growth. The roadshows, which start this month, have been set up by the Essex County Council’s Essex Innovation Programme. They are being in run in partnership…

THE THIRD Harlow Jobs Fair was a great success. Harlow residents were queuing around the corner for the fair to open. Organised by Harlow MP, Robert Halfon and his team, dozens of Harlow businesses were on hand to give information about ways into the world…

THREE DARTHS has moved from Little Walk and into the Harvey Centre (just opposite Primark). To celebrate their move they invited, who else, but their friend, Darth Vader and a few other colleagues from Star Wars including Princess Leia, R2D2 and many others.

HUNDREDS of Harlow shoppers flocked to the opening of Aldi’s in The Stow. The queue of keen shoppers snaked around First Avenue and into Howard Way. A couple of shoppers had been there since 9pm on Thursday night and were rewarded with special prizes in…

HARLOW has proven to be a successful choice for many manufacturing and engineering businesses and has a long history in technological development. Today, Harlow is home to leading businesses including Pitney Bowes, Raytheon, SMS Technologies and Smiths (Harlow) Group. To help support the growth of…

IT IS only a few weeks since the Harlow Business Exhibiton was held. It was clearly, the biggest and best yet and a credit to the organisers and the Harlow business community. We will be giving further details of next years exhibition but in the…

ECONOMIC growth in Essex will be boosted by a £442.2m ‘Growth Deal’ for the South East announced by Government today, which will help deliver a number of key infrastructure projects across the county. Schemes in Essex to be allocated funding from the Government’s Local Growth…

THE VISIT of the Communities minister, Kris Hopkins to the Old Nortel building on the London Road in Harlow today (Wednesday) was deeply significant. From the building where fibre optic was invented, also the announcement regarding the £5 million injected into the Harlow Enterprise Zone.…

A £5m funding package, which paves the way for the start of construction work on a world class state-of-the-art data centre campus and business park in Harlow Enterprise Zone, has been agreed as part of a public-private sector partnership. The announcement was made today (Wednesday…

LABOUR Parliamentary candidate for Harlow, Suzy Stride has joined staff and residents in celebrating 10 years of local business SAMs Trade Centre. The cash and carry business started trading in June 2004 and Suzy joined them for their Open Day on Sunday 22nd June, receiving…

THE Council put on a Demystifying European Funding workshop in partnership with the Horizon 2020 office in Brussels. About 100 business people from Essex businesses attended the event last week. Speakers included the East of England European Partnership office which explained how companies can identify…

THE FIFTH Harlow Business Exhibition will take place at the Harlow Leisure Zone on Tuesday June 10th. This will be the fifth year that the expo has been running and is a symbol of the flourishing business culture that is thriving in Harlow. It is…

HARLOW BUSINESSES are encouraged to bid for €80 billion of European funding as Essex County Council marks European Supply Chain Day to boost the county’s logistics and supply chain sector. The logistics and supply chain sector in Essex is of major importance to the County’s…