Three friends from Manchester have designed a mobile phone app that allows revellers to jump the queue at their favourite pubs and clubs. The idea came after Craig Gidley, 31, Craig Davies, 31, and Stephen Powell, 31, were turned away from a bar in Spinningfields in the city centre. Viper […]
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Vernon team raises £2,000 for The Christie
A team from the Vernon Building Society in Stockport has raised more than £2,000 for The Christie. The group of 14 completed the 22km Cheshire Three Peaks in eight hours to raise funds following the fire at the Withington cancer hospital. The final total will include a £600 donation from […]
Pride Planning files £2.6m turnover in year two
A Stockport funeral planning company is looking to triple its turnover in the next 12 months. Pride Planning has seen its first-year revenues increase from £500,000 to £2.6m for 2016/17. Staff numbers have have also grown, from two to 28 in the past year, with plans to double the number […]
Vernon members happy to back Stockport building society
The Vernon Building Society has been backed by its members after a positive survey. Nine out of 10 Vernon customers say they would recommend the mutual to friends and family. Ian Keeling, Director of Sales and Marketing at the Vernon, says the results show the society’s customers value ‘a personal […]
£10,000 Vernon Jubilee Fund open for business
The Vernon Building Society has teamed up with the Stockport Express for the sixth year to give away £10,000 to good causes in the town. The Fund – set up by the mutual building society in the Queen’s Jubilee year – has handed out more than £50,000 to community groups […]
Vernon Building Society makes key appointments
The Vernon Building Society in Stockport has made two key appointments. Tom Gurrie is the mutual society’s new Intermediary Sales Manager, while Rosie Grant has taken up the position of Operations Manager. Tom has worked in the mortgage industry for more than 35 years, many of them as Intermediary Sales […]