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A £30 million development has been described as the “final piece of the jigsaw” in the regeneration of a prime city centre site.

London-based developer Square Bay has unveiled proposals to create housing, office, retail space and a hotel on the Block J site in Brighton’s New England Quarter.

It is thought the scheme will cost between £25 and £30 million and create hundreds of construction and commercial jobs.

The area, known as New England Square, has remained a derelict site since the collapse of plans to build a massive 42-storey tower block in 2007.

The news has been welcomed by the city’s leaders as a “terrific vote of confidence in the city”.

For full report see today’s Argus.

By the end of this post, you will be a more knowledgeable small business owner, all because you learned two very important words, and the specific reasons why those words are so vital.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Both words can impact you and your company in a variety of ways depending on how you structure, plan, and implement some key corporate strategies.

Whether you run a business from home or lease office space it’s inevitable that you will eventually need some type of small business financing. W

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Could you use some helpful tips to grow your business?

I’m sure you can, and what better way to help small business owners like you then to share some of my favorite tips from our country’s top industry experts in their respective fields.  

Below you will find a personal collection of some of my favorite golden nuggets from the country’s brightest minds in the areas of startups, small business, corporate finance, credit, internet marketing, social media marketing, blogging, working online, selling online, branding, and much more. Now, without further ado, here they are:

#1. Lisa Barone. “If you want people to talk about you, you got to listen to something nine-time Grammy-winner Bonnie Raitt told us way back in 1991. People wan

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Vectren Corp. saw year-over-year improvement in its third-quarter earnings, the Evansville-based utility company reported Tuesday.

Vectren’s third-quarter net income of $16.4 million (20 cents per share) beat its earnings from the same period last year, when the company reported net income of $12.4 million (15 cents per share).

Vectren’s business includes both a utility group and a nonutility group. The Read more…

There are a range of benefits to be gained from undertaking online degrees. For this reason, the number of students enrolled in courses leading to online degrees has increased significantly since the mid-1990s. The makeup of the student groups is as diverse as any online program of study you might want to choose.

Whereas traditional learning institutions, over two thirds of them are now offering online degrees, either undergraduate or master’s degree. Read more…

Property tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten has been having a “purge” on businesses which he says owe him more than £100,000 between them.

Mr Hoogstraten, 64, told The Argus about his decision to forfeit leases and repossess properties at various locations around Brighton and Hove in recent weeks.

They include a children’s nursery, hotels, a nightclub and an estate agents.

Earlier this week, MRH Trustees, a company owned by Mr Hoogstraten’s family, terminated the lease at the Eaton Centre GP practice in Eaton Gardens, Hove.

The centre, a branch surgery for the nearby Goodwood Court Medical Centre run by GP Nigel Higson, was closed immediately.

Patients were diverted to the Goodwood court practice instead although some had to have their appointments cancelled.

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While the all too familiar phrase ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ has been so widely used in our political culture in a recent survey conducted by TD Bank there’s a new phrase ringing true for CFOs.

It’s the cash flow, stupid.

With over 69% of CFOs and other cash flow managers that were surveyed at mid-sized businesses cash flow management was said to be the greatest contributor to their stress. What was surprising was that even though cash flow remained a top concern less than 8% said they plan to cut costs next year.

In fact 39% plan on investing in new technology from projected increases they will receive. Here are s

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EVANSVILLE — The Tri-State Manufacturers Alliance will hold a program Wednesday for those interested in learning more about the automotive industry.

The program takes place from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the auditorium at Ivy Tech Community College, 3501 N. First Ave.

Featured speakers include three automotive experts: Kim Hill and Bernard Swiecki of the Michigan-based Center for Automotive Research; and Ross McKenzie, managing director of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research in Ontario, Canada.

Hill and Swiecki will talk about the automotive industry and how companies can be involved with it.

McKenzie will talk about the latest in automotive technologies.

Cost is $35 for those who are not members of the alliance. M

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OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that it will be a featured speaker at the Cloud Computing Expo, which is being held November 1-4, 2010, in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference is the only enterprise IT event which covers the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum. OpSource will also exhibit at the show in Booth # 320.

OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource’s expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. O

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