Stewart Towe: "Black Country businesses need self-help, not handouts"

Date added: 31 January 2012

The leader of the Black Country LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) and Sandwell businessman Stewart Towe has said that local businesses must stop acting like "issue families stuck in a benefits cycle" and look to self-help rather than state aid.

"The days of grants are gone forever. We have to look at self-help," Towe told more than 100 business leaders at Insider's Black Country Economic Forum. He also talked about bigger businesses removing barriers that stop smaller companies winning contracts; an issue close to finditinsandwell's heart.

You can read the full story at Insider News for the Midlands [opens in a new window].