Endless, Leeds private equity firm, buys KTC
Leeds-based private equity firm Endless LLP announced it acquired edible oil supplier K.T.C. (Edibles) Limited. The investment in KTC adds another British food business to Endless’…
Leeds-based private equity firm Endless LLP announced it acquired edible oil supplier K.T.C. (Edibles) Limited. The investment in KTC adds another British food business to Endless’…
Shares of Liverpool-based B&M European Value Retail fell as much as 15% on Tuesday after the firm warned its profit margins would take a hit this…
Shares of Manchester-based molecular diagnostics company Genedrive rose about 5% on Monday after the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency granted the firm a Coronavirus Test…
Shares of Speedy Hire plc, the Newton-le-Willows-based tools and equipment hire firm, rose about 4% on Monday after it said its revenue increased 16.4% to £386.8 million…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) announced on Friday it has completed a £590 million refinancing of its revolving credit and liquidity facilities. MAG operates Manchester, London…
Sheffield-based law firm Irwin Mitchell has expanded its wealth management team with the acquisition of Cheshire-based TWP Wealth. TWP Wealth is a chartered financial planning company…
Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda said its like-for-like sales fell 9.2% to £4.641 billion during the quarter to March 31 compared to the “exceptional” same period of…
Manchester-headquartered international law firm DWF Group plc published a trading update for its financial year ended April 30, 2022, saying it expects to report net revenue of…
Sheffield-based property investment and construction group Henry Boot said in an AGM trading update that it has made a strong start to the year and continues…
Shares of Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell rose about 7% on Thursday after it announced results for the six-month period ended March 31, 2022, showing its total…
Manchester-based FTSE 100 firm Auto Trader Group plc said its revenue rose 65% to £432.7 million in the year to March 31, 2022, and was…
Warrington-based water giant United Utilities has promised it will not increase average household bills in 2022-23 despite rapidly rising inflation. The vow came as United Utilities…
Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion plc announced on Wednesday that executive chairman Peter Cowgill will step down from his role with immediate effect…
Bodycote, the Macclesfield-based heat treatment and thermal processing giant, said in an AGM trading update its revenue rose 11% to £230 million in the four-month period from…
Shares of Wilmslow-based pet and vet retailer Pets at Home Group rose about 10% on Wednesday after it said its revenue grew 15.3% to £1.317…
Greater Manchester-based Freedom Fibre said it has secured £100 million of scale-up funding as the first step in its rollout in the North West of England….
Greater Manchester affordable housing firm Jigsaw Homes Group said it has secured a bond to help its ambitious plans to build thousands more new homes…
Shares of Manchester-based online holiday retailer On the Beach Group plc (OTB) fell about 13% on Tuesday after its CEO said the firm believes it is “yet…
Manchester-based online fashion giant Boohoo said on Tuesday it reached a final settlement over a US class action claim alleging Boohoo’s promotions in California misled shoppers….
Assura plc, the Warrington-based healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), said its profit before tax grew 44% to £155.8 million in the year to March…
Hull-based meat processing giant Cranswick said its revenue increased 5.8% to a record £2.008 billion in the year to March 26, 2022 and profit before tax…
The North East Fund announced it has helped 350 businesses raise about £220 million of funding in its first four years of operations. The Newcastle-based…
Shares of Manchester-based THG rose 25% to £1.45 on Friday after the e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant revealed late on Thursday it had rejected a £2.07…
Shares of Croda International, the Snaith, East Yorkshire-based FTSE 100 speciality chemicals giant, rose about 4% on Friday after the firm published a strong trading…
Northern Gritstone, the new investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, has announced a first close of £215 million. With plans…
THG plc, the Manchester e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant, confirmed late on Thursday that it “received a third unsolicited, highly preliminary and indicative non-binding” takeover proposal…
Alderley Park-based Redx Pharma, the drug development company focused on cancer and fibrosis, announced it conditionally raised £34.2 million via a placing sale of 58 million…
Shares of Manchester-based corporate rescue firm Begbies Traynor Group plc rose about 9% on Thursday after the firm published an update on trading for its financial year…
Shares of Sheffield-based aquaculture biotech firm Benchmark Holdings rose about 5% on Wednesday after it reported 33% growth in revenue to £79.2 million and a 100%…
Shares of Manchester-based online fashion and home goods retailer N Brown Group soared as much as 40% on Wednesday after it published results for the…
Leeds-based engineering services group Renew Holdings has announced record half year results for the six months ended March 31, 2022, in which revenue rose 13.1%…
Skelmersdale, Lancashire-based Victorian Plumbing Group has published half year results for the six months ended March 31, 2022, showing revenue was down 5% year-on-year to…
Shares of Blackburn-based toilet roll and tissue maker Accrol Group rose about 10% on Tuesday after it published a trading update saying it has “successfully navigated…
Shares of Huddersfield-based Fintel plc, a provider of compliance and business services to financial advisers and institutions, rose about 7% on Tuesday after it published…
Newcastle-based Greggs published a trading update on Monday saying its total sales in the 19 weeks to May 14, 2022, rose 31% to £495 million….
Manchester-based Bank North, the new regional business bank for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has announced the internal promotion of two senior team members to…
Shares of Sheffield-based Fulcrum Utility Services Limited fell 23% on Friday after it published a trading update today for its financial year ended March 31, 2022,…
Manchester-based commercial property giant Bruntwood announced it has purchased a 42.4% share in a new co-operative owned wind farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, becoming the first…
Sage Group, the Newcastle-based accounting software giant for SMEs, said on Friday its first-half statutory revenue held steady at £934 million as it reported strong…
The Abrdn-managed UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM) has acquired a hotel development in Leeds, from Marrico (Sovereign Square) Ltd, a joint venture between Marrico LLP…
Newcastle-headquartered Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, said its profit before tax for the six months ended March 31 soared 122% to £98.8 million as revenue…
Shares of Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion plc rose about 7% on Thursday after it published a positive trading update and said it…
Shares of Gateshead-based Vertu Motors plc rose about 9% on Wednesday after the firm reported that its revenue grew to £3.6 billion in the year ended February…
Shares of Marshalls plc, the Elland, West Yorkshire-based stone and landscaping firm, fell about 9% on Wednesday after it published an AGM trading update covering the…
Speedy Hire plc, the Newton-le-Willows-based tools and equipment hire firm, announced that CEO Russell Down intends to retire after seven years with the company. Down will…
Shares of Chesire-based NWF Group plc, the business that delivers fuel, food and agricultural feeds across the UK, rose about 5% after it published a…
FTSE 100 companies are poised to set a new all-time record for share buybacks in 2022, according to Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell. The firm’s investment…
Administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced on Monday that it completed a sale of McColl’s Retail Group plc to Alliance Property Holdings Limited, part of the Bradford-based Morrisons…
Manchester-based cyber security and risk mitigation firm NCC Group announced the appointment of EY executive Mike Maddison as its new CEO following Adam Palser’s decision to step down…
Manchester’s Glenbrook and Leeds-based Town Centre Securities PLC (TCS) have submitted full detailed planning applications as part of a joint venture for a £280 million…
Rotherham-based property and land regeneration firm Harworth Group is seeking an investor to forward fund its “Project Spur” plan, a single family Built to Rent (BTR)…
Manchester-based Co-op Bank on Thursday published a first quarter trading update for the three months ended March 31, saying it made profit before tax of £30.5 million, up…
The University of Hull announced it has secured £86 million of green funding to invest in sustainable facilities and infrastructure, accelerating its ambition of becoming…
Shares of Runcorn-based workwear and textile firm Johnson Service Group (JSG) rose about 8% on Wednesday after it published a positive trading statement for its AGM saying…
Sheffield-based property group Henry Boot plc announced its land promotion business, Hallam Land Management (HLM), completed the sale of 2,170 residential plots in Didcot, Oxfordshire…
Shares of Manchester-based online fashion giant Boohoo fell as much as 15% on Wednesday after it reported that profit before tax fell 94% to £7.8…
Shares of Wakefield-based greeting card and gift retailer Card Factory rose about 5% on Tuesday after it published results for the year to January 31, 2022,…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced it “proposes to accept” an offer from supermarket group Morrisons’ new private equity owner, Clayton, Dubilier…