Channel 4 confirms Leeds as new national HQ
Channel 4 confirmed on Wednesday that Leeds will be the location of its new National HQ and that Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations…
Channel 4 confirmed on Wednesday that Leeds will be the location of its new National HQ and that Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations…
Deloitte’s latest North West Share Index shows the the value of the 65 listed companies in the North West slipped by almost £200 million to…
Vodafone said it has become the first company in the UK to carry full 5G over a commercial network. Live mobile data traffic is now…
Boeing on Thursday opened its new fabrication factory in Sheffield — the company’s first manufacturing site in Europe — to make “actuation system” components for…
Carlisle-based aviation, energy and transport firm Stobart Group — which has been consumed by a lengthy boardroom battle — said on Wednesday it made a loss after taxation of…
British Business Investments (BBI), the commercial subsidiary of Sheffield-based British Business Bank plc, the UK’s national economic development bank, has published its annual accounts for…
Liverpool-based B&M European Value Retail said its subsidiary EV Retail Limited acquired Paminvest SAS, a discount retailer operating under the trading name Babou in France…
Shopping center owner Intu Properties plc said on Friday it was considering a 215p per share preliminary takeover offer from a consortium led by its deputy…
Amazon has announced plans to open a new corporate office in Manchester in 2019 and increase the capacity of its Scotland Development Centre and Cambridge…
Manchester giant Peel Land and Property (Peel L&P) announced it has appointed Phil Wilson as chief executive of what will be its new housebuilding division,…
Swedish real estate group Pandox AB and the Fattal Hotel Group have acquired the prestigious Midland Manchester hotel for about £115 million. Pandox will take over…
Shares of York-based Gear4music, the online retailer of musical instruments and equipment, rose about 8% on Tuesday after it said its revenue rose 36% to £42.5 million…
Rotherham-based fishing tackle retailer Fishing Republic said on Tuesday its shares have been suspended on AIM “at the company’s request pending clarification of its financial…
Troubled Rochdale-based fashion retailer Footasylum said on Tuesday its revenue rose 19% to £98.6 million in the half year to August 25 but it made an adjusted…
Newcastle-based house building giant Bellway said its profit before tax rose 14.3% to £641.1 million and revenue increased 15.6% to £2.96 billion in the year ended July…
Selby, North Yorkshire-based power company Drax said it agreed to acquire Scottish Power’s portfolio of pumped storage, hydro and gas-fired generation for £702 million in…
Wakefield-based greeting cards retailer Card Factory said on Monday that Geoff Cooper will retire as chairman following its next scheduled board meeting on October 18…
Caledonia Investments plc said on Monday it acquired a majority stake in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire-based Deep Sea Electronics Ltd in a transaction that values the business…
The Manchester office of Leeds-based Endless, the mid-market private equity investor, has completed the acquisition of Europe’s largest golf retailer, American Golf. The deal includes…
The North West of England has seen a construction boom over the last year, according to new figures. According to the Office of National Statistics,…
Shares of Manchester-based fashion retailer N Brown Group fell more than 20% on Thursday after it said its first-half revenue rose 1% to £457.8 million but that…
Johnston Press — the debt-laden owner of The Yorkshire Post, The Scotsman, the i newspaper and about 200 local newspapers and websites — said on Thursday it has…
Shares of Greggs, the Newcastle-based bakery and “food-on-the-go” retailer, rose about 5% after it said its sales rose 7.3% in the 13 weeks to September…
Merseyside-based shipyard and engineering company Cammell Laird said it won two 10-year contracts worth an estimated £619 million to support the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)….
Manchester-based commercial property company Bruntwood and Legal & General Capital said they established a landmark 50:50 partnership to create the UK’s largest property platform dedicated…
A consortium including North of England billionaire John Whittaker, Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management and Saudi Arabia’s Olayan Group is considering a bid for Intu Properties, the shopping center…
Doncaster-based DFS Furniture said its revenue rose 14.1% to £870.5 million in the year to July 28 but reported profit before tax slumped 48.5% to £25.8 million amid…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to participate in the tender process for the concession to operate Sofia Airport in Bulgaria….
Manchester-based Revolution Bars Group said on Tuesday its revenue rose 8.7% to £141.9m in the year to June 30, 2018, but it made an operating loss of £3…
Sunderland-based furniture and floorings retailer ScS Group said its revenue rose 1.3% to £337.3 million and profit before tax rose 10.5% to £13.2 million in the 52 weeks ended…
Warrington-based healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) Assura plc on Monday issued a trading update for the first half of the year to September 30,…