Stoke-on-Trent City Council has approved plans from Norcros Estates to build a Morrisons superstore and retail park in Tunstall, with the creation of 600 jobs. 21-Feb-2013
Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership is seeking government funding to develop a cluster of 22 sites to attract companies involved in the research and production of advanced materials. 20-Feb-2013
Lister Trade Frames, the Stoke-based window manufacturer with 110 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms. 12-Feb-2013
Creative Support is to launch a new day care service in Stoke-on-Trent, with the creation of 15 jobs. 22-Jan-2013
Steelite International has acquired Royal Crown Derby, the Stoke-based tableware manufacturer with 200 staff, for undisclosed terms. 20-Dec-2012
Olympus Engineering is seeking permission to expand its Stoke-based components factory into adjacent warehouses, with the creation of 45 jobs. 05-Dec-2012
Rayne Engineering is to relocate its metal parts business and up to 70 jobs from two sites in the Staffordshire Moorlands to Stoke-on-Trent next year. 15-Nov-2012
Stoke City Football Club is to submit plans to expand the capacity of the Britannia Stadium to 30,000. 14-Nov-2012
KPMG is to close its office in Stoke, casting doubt on the future of about 18 jobs. 03-Oct-2012
HMK Automation has bought Jacksons Power Transmission, the Stoke-based engineering firm with ten staff, out of administration. 01-Oct-2012
Dains has acquired the Stoke-on-Trent accountancy office of RSM Tenon for undisclosed terms. 30-Aug-2012
Ceram is to build a kiln in Stoke-on-Trent to test new energy-saving technology, with the creation of ten jobs. 09-Aug-2012
Middleport Pottery has secured lottery funding of £1.5m to go towards the development of visitor facilities at its Stoke-based pottery, with the creation of 50 jobs. 18-Jul-2012
Wedgwood is to invest £25m in the expansion of its pottery manufacturing and visitor operations in Stoke-on-Trent, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 03-Jul-2012
Seddon Property Services is planning to build a new 12,500 sq ft national headquarters for 70 staff in Stoke by 2013. 02-Jul-2012
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is considering plans to take 160,000 sq ft of office space at the Genr8 Developments Central Business District scheme in Hanley from late 2014. 29-May-2012
Steelite is to build a new £12m pottery factory at its Middleport site in Stoke-on-Trent by 2013, with the creation of 230 jobs. 30-Apr-2012
Staffordshire Sentinel News & Media is to shed up to 14 editorial jobs in Stoke-on-Trent. 25-Apr-2012
Stoke City has unveiled plans to invest £6m in the expansion of its football training ground, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 05-Apr-2012
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is considering plans to invest up to £5m in improvements to its site in Stoke-on-Trent. 13-Mar-2012
Port Vale, the Stoke-based football club, has gone into administration through Begbies Traynor. 12-Mar-2012
Longton Avia is looking into the possibility of building a new truck assembly plant in Stoke-on-Trent by 2013, which could create hundreds of jobs. 29-Feb-2012
Autonet Insurance is looking to create about 100 new jobs at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent. 29-Dec-2011
GSH has submitted plans to extend its facilities management headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent with an energy monitoring and research centre, which could create up to 54 jobs. 29-Nov-2011
Steelite is planning to expand the 650-strong workforce at its ceramics manufacturing business in Stoke-on-Trent with 200 new jobs. 08-Nov-2011
Middleport Pottery has secured a Regional Growth Fund grant of £1.7m to go towards a £7m expansion programme that will create 100 jobs in Stoke-on-Trent. 31-Oct-2011
Ceramica, the pottery museum in Stoke-on-Trent, has gone into liquidation through Begbies Traynor. 19-Oct-2011
Fresh Finance Group is to expand the 40-strong workforce at its Stoke-based mortgage and insurance advice firm with 25 new jobs. 17-Oct-2011
Pinnacle Telecom Group has acquired RMS Managed ICT Security, the Stoke-based IT security software firm with 30 staff, for £0.6m. 11-Oct-2011
Advantis is to create 80 new jobs at its debt recovery call centre in Stoke. 10-Oct-2011
Davies Group, the Stoke-based insurance claims management firm, has been sold by LDC to private equity firm Electra Partners for £60m. 04-Oct-2011
Capital Shopping Centres is planning to invest £14m in the expansion of the Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent by 2013, including six restaurants and a cinema. 19-Sep-2011
Port Vale has secured £5m from US-based Blue Sky International to invest in new facilities for its Stoke-based football club. 14-Sep-2011
Kier is to create about 100 jobs in Stoke-on-Trent, having won a contract to install solar panels on 4,000 council properties. 30-Aug-2011
Intertek has acquired Food Analytical Laboratory, the Stoke-based laboratory with 73 staff, for £6m, as well as Farnborough-based fuel analysis firm OALTB for £0.5m and Recherche Developpement & Consulting of Belgium for £5m. 01-Aug-2011
Vodafone is to increase the 900-strong workforce at its call centre in Stoke-on-Trent with more than 250 new jobs. 14-Jul-2011
Unite is seeking permission to build a new three-storey office building at its site on Broad Street in Stoke-on-Trent, in order to accommodate 12 additional staff. 07-Jun-2011
Virgin Active is to close the Esporta Health Club at Festival Heights in Stoke-on-Trent, with the loss of up to 40 jobs. 02-Jun-2011
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £2m to Stoke-on-Trent City Council for the restoration of Burslem Park. 16-May-2011
Staffordshire Community Care is looking to create up to 30 jobs at its new private care agency in Stoke-on-Trent. 27-Apr-2011
DW Roberts Construction has gone into administration through Baker Tilly, with the loss of 50 jobs at its Stoke-based groundworks business. 13-Apr-2011
LG Harris is setting up a new 9,500 sq ft warehouse and office for its paintbrush manufacturing business at Stoke Prior near Bromsgrove. 30-Mar-2011
Kier Stoke is to shed up to 53 jobs at its housing maintenance business in Stoke-on-Trent, due to the end of the Decent Homes programme. 09-Mar-2011
Onesure Insurance is to relocate its Stoke-based insurance firm and 40 staff to a former supermarket site in Tunstall over the next few weeks, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 23-Feb-2011
GO Outdoors is planning to expand its chain of 27 stores with ten new sites this year, including Stoke, Manchester and York. 07-Feb-2011
Redstone has sold the security business of Redstone Managed Solutions to a management team for £1m, with the transfer of about 58 Stoke-based staff. 13-Dec-2010
Arriva has acquired Wardle Transport, the Stoke-based bus operator with 64 vehicles and 105 staff, for undisclosed terms. 13-Dec-2010
Food Analytical Laboratories has set up a water testing facility at its site in Stoke-on-Trent, which will create up to ten new jobs over the next few months. 23-Nov-2010
Begbies Traynor has acquired Walletts Chartered Certified Accountants of Stoke-on-Trent for undisclosed terms, as part of a strategy to expand its insolvency and restructuring business. 16-Nov-2010
Pallets 2 Parcels is to relocate its Stoke-based pallets business to a larger 12,000 sq ft site in Newcastle-under-Lyme early next year. 28-Oct-2010
Potteries Tyres, the Stoke-based supplier of tyres with 14 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms. 27-Oct-2010
Barlow Motors is to set up a new SEAT car dealership at Trentham Lakes in Stoke-on-Trent by spring 2011. 29-Sep-2010
Euroseal Windows is to relocate its Stoke-based windows business to Trinity Street in Hanley in November, and hopes to create up to 100 new sales jobs eventually. 07-Jun-2010
TEG Group is to acquire Simpro, the operator of six waste composting sites in Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry, Nottingham, Telford and Warwick, for up to £6m. 03-Jun-2010
Emma Bridgewater is planning to increase the 150-strong workforce at its pottery design business in Stoke-on-Trent by about 20%, and the visitors' centre will be expanded. 01-Jun-2010
Burleigh, the Stoke-based pottery, has been acquired by restructuring group Hilco for about £1m, and will be combined with Denby. 24-May-2010
The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke has gone into administration through Begbies Traynor. 26-Apr-2010
Waterworld is to invest a further £7m in improvements to its leisure attraction in Stoke-on-Trent by 2011, including new restaurants and fitness centres. 22-Apr-2010
Johnson Health Tech UK is planning to expand the workforce at its Stoke-based exercise equipment business from 63 to 90 by the end of 2011, and will relocate to a larger site in Trentham Lakes by next March. 20-Apr-2010
JF Longman has merged with Staffordshire Meat Packers to create a combined Stoke-based meat wholesaling business with annual turnover of more than £15m. 12-Apr-2010
Dunelm is planning to expand its chain of 90 home furnishings superstores to between 150 and 200, and capacity at its warehouse in Stoke-on-Trent will be doubled. 08-Mar-2010
Michelin has secured a £3.9m government grant to go towards the £20m modernisation of its tyre plant in Stoke-on-Trent over the next five years, including new equipment and extended premises. 25-Feb-2010
TG Holdcroft has won planning permission to set up a new vehicle storage site near its Leek Road dealership in Stoke-on-Trent by April 2011. 08-Feb-2010
Sutton Venture Group is consolidating its Staffordshire-based distribution operations at a new 10-acre site at Berry Hill in Stoke-on-Trent, and expects to create up to 30 new jobs this year. 26-Jan-2010
Dyson Group of Sheffield has sold its Stoke-based kiln furniture business to management for a nominal sum, with the transfer of 70 staff. 31-Dec-2009
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has reached agreement with Realis Estates on a proposed £275m shopping centre and bus station development in the city centre by 2014. 16-Dec-2009
Smart Timber Frame Company is planning to create more than 300 jobs at its timber house frames factory in Stoke-on-Trent over the next 15 months. 15-Dec-2009
Davies Managed Systems is to expand the 147-strong workforce at its Stoke-based insurance claims business with up to 100 new staff over the next year. 17-Nov-2009
Mr Lucky Bags, the Stoke-based supplier of novelty party bags with 68 staff, has gone into administration through PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Teepee division has been sold to Bon Bon Buddies. 28-Sep-2009
Marks & Spencer is to set up a 382,000 sq ft distribution centre at ProLogis Park in Stoke-on-Trent. 10-Sep-2009
Ideal Care Homes is creating 50 jobs at a new 60-bed care home due to open in Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, in December. 02-Sep-2009
The University Hospital of North Staffordshire Trust has secured £3.5m from the West Midlands North Comprehensive Clinical Research Network to fund research at its hospital in Stoke-on-Trent over the next three years. 01-Sep-2009
Fuchs Lubricants is planning to shed a further 20 jobs at its specialist oils manufacturing business in Stoke-on-Trent. 15-Jun-2009
Arcadia Group is creating 50 jobs at a new Outfit fashion store due to open at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent in August. 04-Jun-2009
NHS Stoke-on-Trent has unveiled plans to build a new £14m health centre in Cobridge by 2011, in order to take services away from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. 21-May-2009
Stoke City Football Club has won approval to build a new £5m training centre at Trent Vale. 18-May-2009
Royal Mail has confirmed plans to close its Leek Road sorting office in Stoke-on-Trent in July with the loss of up to 100 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Wolverhampton. 08-Apr-2009
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to consider plans from Phantom Developments to build an 80-bedroom hotel at the former Diamond Gimson Works in Fenton, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 01-Apr-2009
Steelite International is considering plans to shed up to 90 of the 600 jobs at its pottery manufacturing business in Stoke-on-Trent. 04-Mar-2009
Hudson & Middleton has sold the business and assets of its Stoke-based pottery out of administration to a new company called Hudsons Fine Bone China, securing the future of 22 jobs. 24-Feb-2009
Geko Direct is to create 40 sales and administration jobs at its mobile phones business in Stoke-on-Trent over the next two months. 12-Feb-2009
Priory Group is to create 60 jobs at a new 76-bed nursing home due to open at Bentilee in Stoke-on-Trent in April. 03-Feb-2009
Jesse Shirley & Son and sister company Hudson & Middleton have gone into administration through KPMG, with the loss of 55 jobs at their pottery operations in Stoke-on-Trent. 22-Jan-2009
PolymerLatex is to stop production at its latex plant in Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, with the loss of most of the 31 jobs. 16-Jan-2009
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to receive plans from Aynsley Mill to develop a new shopping centre at the former Aynsley China site in Longton, including 56,000 sq ft of retail space, a craft workshop and garden centre. 29-Dec-2008
Peugeot Citroen is to shed about 50 jobs from its 600-strong workforce in Coventry, affecting both the headquarters in Stoke Aldermoor and the parts operation in Tile Hill. 14-Nov-2008
Royal Worcester, the porcelain manufacturer with 388 staff in Stoke, Lymdale and Worcester, has gone into administration through PwC. 10-Nov-2008
Begbies Traynor is to be appointed administrator at the Heywoods chain of estate agents in Staffordshire, with the loss of 23 jobs at offices in Congleton, Hanley, Longton, Macclesfield, Stoke and Stone. 03-Nov-2008
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to consider plans from Realis Estates to build a £250m shopping centre in Hanley, including 70 stores, a cinema, a hotel and the creation of 2,000 jobs. 20-Oct-2008
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to create about 70 jobs through the reorganisation of its childcare services, with vacancies in cleaning, family support, management and administration. 19-Sep-2008
City Link is planning to open new express delivery depots in Coventry, Norwich, Stoke and Worcester over the next two months. 25-Aug-2008
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to consider plans from an unnamed international broadcasting company for the development of a £30m media centre in Fenton, including a TV studio and 200-seat auditorium. 12-Jun-2008
Vp has acquired Arcotherm, the supplier of air conditioners with branches in Stoke-on-Trent and Oxford, for £0.7m, as well as DJ Tool Hire of County Durham. 08-May-2008
Staffordshire Housing Association has awarded a £13m contract to GB Building Solutions to build a new headquarters and a 99-unit extra-care facility in Stoke-on-Trent by March 2010. 10-Mar-2008
Royal Mail is to close its delivery office at Leek Road in Stoke-on-Trent, in order to transfer up to 250 jobs to other sites. 06-Mar-2008
Thephonebook is creating 40 jobs at a new directory enquiries call centre opening at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent over the next few weeks. 20-Feb-2008
Recticel is to create 40 jobs at a new £14m insulation products factory due to open in Stoke-on-Trent in June. 10-Jan-2008
Southern Bear has acquired Phoenix Dynamics, the Stoke-based supplier of electronics equipment, for up to £1.5m, in order to expand its Towerinput Trading division. 08-Jan-2008
Vodafone is to set up an 80,000 sq ft call centre at the Etruria Valley business park in Stoke-on-Trent in 2009, with the relocation of about 1,200 staff from four existing offices. 04-Dec-2007
Tiscali is to outsource its internet call centres in Stoke, Manchester and Welwyn Garden City to Transcom Worldwide, with the transfer of 774 staff. 03-Dec-2007