Business

120 traders sign up to Nantwich Food & Drink Festival 2013

120 traders sign up to Nantwich Food & Drink Festival 2013

Organisers of this year’s Nantwich Food & Drink Festival are urging more local businesses to come forward and join in the event. More than 120 different traders have already pledged to get involved during the three-day festival which brings £2 million into the town.

July 16, 2013
Malbank School pupils clock up YET success in Nantwich

Malbank School pupils clock up YET success in Nantwich

Nantwich pupils have clocked up another success – in an initiative to design timepieces for a local retailer. Youngsters at Malbank School and Sixth Form College ticked all the right boxes in YET ( Young Emerging Talent) initiative set up by teacher Claire Magee.

July 15, 2013
Nantwich butcher is cut above after winning top meat prize

Nantwich butcher is cut above after winning top meat prize

A Nantwich butcher sliced through the opposition to win at the Premier Meat Products Competition 2013. H Clewlow Butchers, of Pepper Street, was named top dog in three classes at the awards which recognise the best in the meat industry.

July 12, 2013
Nantwich auction to feature cutting edge designer works

Nantwich auction to feature cutting edge designer works

Cutting edge furniture, glass and ceramics by famous designers is to go under the hammer in Nantwich this week. Works by Piero Fornasetti, sculptor Danny Lane and industrial designer-maker Tom Dixon will at auction in Nantwich on July 10-11.

July 9, 2013
Castle mystery tour for South Cheshire Peugeot RCZ owners

Castle mystery tour for South Cheshire Peugeot RCZ owners

Fifteen Peugeot RCZ owners enjoyed a mystery tour of Cheshire castles thanks to a local dealership. Staff from Gateway Crewe, which arranged the event for the third year in a row, joined them on a scenic drive to Peckforton and Bolesworth.

July 4, 2013
Mountain Trike inventor from Nantwich earns engineering medal

Mountain Trike inventor from Nantwich earns engineering medal

A Nantwich businessman is to receive a coveted Silver Medal for inventing an all-terrain wheelchair! Tim Morgan is being honoured by the Royal Academy of Engineering after achieving success with his Mountain Trike idea.

July 3, 2013
Anger over Enterprise Inns bid to reopen Wilbraham Arms in Nantwich

Anger over Enterprise Inns bid to reopen Wilbraham Arms in Nantwich

Nantwich residents are angry at a pub company’s bid to re-open its Welsh Row venue with longer opening hours. Enterprise Inns plc has applied to change the licensing conditions in place at the currently closed Wilbraham Arms pub.

July 3, 2013
Brine Leas student, 17, expands her Nantwich web business

Brine Leas student, 17, expands her Nantwich web business

A teenage entrepreneur from Nantwich is taking the web world by storm by expanding her internet design company. Brine Leas Academy student Rachael Farrington launched “Rachael Design” from her bedroom in Cholmondeley when she was just 13.

July 3, 2013
Nantwich Pumas junior team wins Marks & Spencer kit competition

Nantwich Pumas junior team wins Marks & Spencer kit competition

A Nantwich junior football team is hoping its new team kit will be the recipe for success next season. Nantwich Pumas secured sponsorship of a new team kit from Marks & Spencer after one of their players won a competition.

July 2, 2013
Nantwich vet worker earns John Platt Scholarship at Cheshire Show

Nantwich vet worker earns John Platt Scholarship at Cheshire Show

A young farm vet from Nantwich is looking forward to global travel thanks to a Reaseheath College scholarship. Sara Pedersen, who works for Nantwich Veterinary Group, was awarded a £2,000 John Platt Travel Scholarship at The Cheshire Show.

July 1, 2013
Famed children’s book character Where’s Wally? is back in Nantwich

Famed children’s book character Where’s Wally? is back in Nantwich

Well-known book character Where’s Wally? is back in Nantwich – and youngsters can win prizes by finding him! Wearing a striped shirt and black-rimmed specs, Wally is helping to celebrate Independent Booksellers Week from June 29 to July 6.

June 30, 2013
Terraces Menswear store to open in Nantwich town centre

Terraces Menswear store to open in Nantwich town centre

A new Terraces Menswear store is set to open in Nantwich. It will be the first time owners have opened a new outlet outside of the company’s main store in Hanley.

June 27, 2013
Nantwich recruitment firm switches location in expansion plan

Nantwich recruitment firm switches location in expansion plan

A Nantwich recruitment firm has moved to bigger premises in the town as part of expansion plans by the company’s owners. Meadowbank Associates, based on Welsh Row for nearly 30 years, has expanding after being acquired by Crewe-based Absolute Group.

June 27, 2013