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Prime Minister David Cameron today announced plans to stimulate business in Leicester.

Mr Cameron has already promised to cut red tape and lower business taxes but he said his new Regional Growth Fund would “kick-start” enterprise in the city.

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Precision Recruitment, which recently relocated it’s office to York St in the city centre, has successfully won a valuable place in the Coaching for High Growth project, run by the East Midlands Development Agency (Emda) and funded by Emda and the European Regional Development Fund.

The programme, which is aimed at the bright stars of the East Midlands business community, provides 20 days of specialist coaching over a 12-month period along with a number of linked master classes. The total support package to each firm is worth £20,000.

Phil Walker, Precision’s Director commented:-

“After a tough 18 months in our industry we are seeing substantial growth within the majority of our market sectors. With the assistance of the programme we aim to grow our business organically, increasing our staff into verticals within our three specialist sectors of engineering, technical and sales recruitment, whilst continuing to invest in training and development. This year has seen the successful development of in-house specialist software, which reduces the time to hire and therefore costs for our clients. With the assistance of the programme it will add strength to our service levels to clients and create a strong growth plan to achieve the businesses ambitious plans.”

This press release was published in the Leicester Mercury on Wednesday 9th June 2010 click here to see the full article.

Employment in the manufacturing sector has risen for the second month in a row, according to the latest data from the Markit/CIPS index.

The rate of jobs growth was only slightly below April’s three-year high, while the headline seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was steady at 58.0, in line with April’s fifteen-and-a-half year high, consistent with a marked rate of expansion.

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