The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Limited has won Investors in People status.
The award recognises a set level of good practice for training and development of people to achieve business goals.
Regional human resources director Roy Grant said: "It demonstrates we are doing well and doing a lot right."

Newcastle Evening Chronicle journalist Julie Cush has been commended in the General Medical Consumer News category at the Norwich Union Healthcare Medical Journalism Awards 2002.
The health reporter won the accolade for her report on doctors at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who are using a pioneering £3 device to save hundreds of heart patients' lives.

The Skegness Standard has marked its 80th anniversary by adopting a local charity which supports disadvantaged young women.
The Girls' Friendly Society's Platform project aims to raise £30,000 for maintenance and other work at its centre at Townsend House in Skegness.
Money will be spent tackling damp, rotting windows and woodworm, and on floor and roof repairs.

Three new sponsors have joined the Cambridge Evening News Putting Schools First scheme, which turns newspapers into teaching aids.
Barclays Corporate Banking, Cambridge University Press and Slough Estates have all pledged their help for the initiative, designed to provide free copies of the newspaper to schools all over Mid-Anglia.
Teachers use the newspapers to highlight curriculum subjects like reading, writing, maths and history.

Readers of the Hull Daily Mail have raised £50,000 for the paper's charity of the year - KIDS - which provides services for children with special needs across East Yorkshire.
The appeal, launched in May, aims to raise £100,000, which will be used to develop the charity's services.

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