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Looking ahead
Welcome to the seventh edition of Fife Business Matters.
Cash backing boosts small firms
A new fund has been launched to help small businesses in Fife develop their full potential.
Making space for business
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hailed Kirkcaldy’s flagship business park as a powerhouse of prosperity. Gordon Brown declared that Fife had turned itself around since the jobless days of the 1980s.
Third dimension to prestige park
Kirkcaldy’s flagship business park is nearing its next major milestone.
New way forward for Fife
A new partnership body involving the private, public and academic sectors looks set to rise from the ashes of the disbanded Fife Economic Forum.
Get ready to do ‘the biz’
Businesses large and small should be making a date in their diaries for The Business Show - Fife, being held on September 11 at The Rothes Halls, Glenrothes.
Cash aid for green energy plan
Fife Energy Park’s portfolio of leading renewables suppliers has been further strengthened by the expansion of a Glenrothes-based firm.
Gateway goes from strength to strength
The business services and advice organisation also helped create more than 1200 new jobs and safeguard nearly 350 existing jobs.
Awards recognise brilliant businesses
New awards are set to recognise and encourage achievement in Fife’s business community.
Warship set for Rosyth makeover
HMS Monmouth is to be made shipshape and ready for action thanks to a £9 million overhaul by Babcock Marine at Rosyth.
Grab a chance to go for gold
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to generate 75,000 business opportunities.
Biomass makes energy saving ‘oat so simple’
Oat husks - a by-product from the oat milling process - will fuel a £6 million biomass combined heat and power(CHP) scheme at Quaker Oats’ Uthrogle Mills plant near Cupar.
Award-winning plans named
Mimac Rushes, a community-interest film, video and media access company won the newly-established social enterprise category in a competition funded by Communities Scotland and run by the Fife Social Economy Partnership to encourage social enterprises to review and update their business plans.
Get the low-down on the latest news
Business Gateway Fife has just issued its third monthly update, giving recipients a wealth of information at the click of a mouse.
Locals get wind of planning guidelines
‘Fife Supplementary Planning Guidance: Wind Energy’ gives prospective developers guidance on areas that could accommodate wind farm developments.
Biomass boiler brings benefits
Fife Council’s Development Services have completed the installation of the authority’s first biomass boiler in a commercial building at Dunfermline Business Centre.
‘Rainbow’ lasers a really bright idea
Fife-based scientists have created the next generation of low-cost light sources - lasers which can be tuned to every colour of the rainbow.
Consul’s visit is full of eastern promise
A Fife pottery hopes to forge fresh links with China after welcoming an extra-special guest recently.
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