Blackburn-based petrol forecourt and retail giant EG Group — owned by brothers Zuber and Mohsin Issa and private equity group TDR Capital — announced it has…

Blackburn-based petrol forecourt and retail company EG Group announced it has agreed a deal to acquire Tesla’s latest ultra-fast charging units to boost its electric…

Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda announced it has completed the acquisition of EG Group’s UK business for an enterprise value of £2.07 billion. “Buying the EG…

Blackburn-based petrol forecourt and retail company EG Group, which last week sold its UK and Ireland operations to Asda, announced it is seeking to amend…

Blackburn-based petrol station, restaurant and convenience store giant EG Group announced it has agreed to the sale and leaseback on a portfolio of its sites on the…

Blackburn-based petrol station, restaurant and convenience store giant EG Group announced that its revenue increased 12.3% to $8 billion for the three months to September 30,…

Blackburn-based petrol station, restaurant and convenience store giant EG Group has announced plans to create more than 32,000 jobs globally over a five-year period — driven by a…

Leon, the “fresh fast food” restaurant chain bought by Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group in April, has unveiled a growth strategy centred on plans…

Blackburn-based billionaires the Issa brothers are considering merging their recently-acquired Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda with EG Group, their international chain of petrol stations and convenience stores,…

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group is exploring options including a possible sale or an IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported….

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group, owned by the billionaire Issa brothers, announced it has acquired the British fresh fast food restaurant chain Leon Restaurants Limited…

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group announced it has agreed to acquire a network of 285 petrol station forecourts in Southern Germany from OMV Deutschland…

Blackburn-based petrol station billionaires the Issa brothers have announced that their company, EG Group, is expanding further in the United States. The Issa brothers and…

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group has appointed accounting firm KPMG as its new auditor following the resignation of Deloitte. The Financial Times newspaper…

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group on Friday announced huge expansion plans in Australia by agreeing to buy Woolworths Group’s 540 site network (Woolworths Petrol)…

Blackburn-based petrol station and convenience store giant EG Group announced on Tuesday a further expansion in the United States with the acquisition of 225 Minit Mart branded convenience retail stores and gas stations and related assets from TravelCenters of…

Blackburn-based EG Group announced a major petrol forecourt convenience retail expansion in the United States by agreeing to buy a 762-site network from The Kroger Co….

Manchester-based cyber security and risk mitigation firm NCC Group said it sold the Open Registry group of companies for about €3.75 million. The Open Registry group of companies comprises…

SysGroup, the Manchester-based IT services, cloud hosting and cyber security firm, said it acquired the trade and assets of Crossword Consulting Limited (CCL), the consulting…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery and financial advisory firm, said it is looking at ways to lessen the impact of higher national…

Newcastle-based RMT Accountants & Business Advisors, part of the Sumer Group, said it will grow its presence in the business recovery and insolvency sector after completing…

Surrey firm Nurture Group has announced its 50th and largest acquisition to date with the purchase of Oldham-based grounds maintenance and landscaping firm Tivoli Group…

HW Group — an executive search firm which serves some of the world’s biggest brands — has launched a new Leeds-based finance division to meet…

Stevenage-based M Group Services said it completed the acquisition of Warrington-based BGEN Ltd, one of the UK’s largest independent technical engineering solutions businesses with a…

Liverpool-based online retail and financial services firm The Very Group, owned by the Barclay family, said its group revenue declined 1.% to £2.13 billion in…

Shares of Chester-based GB Group (GBG), which sells global identity fraud and location software, rose as much as 13% after it reported “strong progress achieved…

Manchester-based online retailer THG said it raised £95.4 million from equity investors, including £10 million from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, as it prepares to spin…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery and financial advisory firm, said it expected to hit market expectations for the full year, ahead of…

Pinnacle Holdings US, a subsidiary of Leeds-based PureGym Group, announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement (APA) with Blink Fitness which on…

Leeds-based PureGym Group has announced changes to its senior management team which include a change of role for CEO Humphrey Cobbold, who will become chair,…

SysGroup, the Manchester-based IT services, cloud hosting and cyber security firm, said its revenue grew 5% to £22.7 million in the year to March 31,…

Venture capital firm BGF said it has invested a further £5.5 million in Manchester-headquartered digital media business KOMI Group. BGF made an earlier investment in…

Sheffield-based FinLegal, which makes software for the legal industry, has raised £2 million in funding to accelerate the growth of its client base internationally. The…

Chester-based MONY Group plc, which runs the price comparison and consumer tip websites MoneySuperMarket and MoneySavingGroup, said sales for the last six months rose 5%,…

The number of British companies now in ‘critical’ financial distress rose by 1% to 40,613 in the last three months, according to Begbies Traynor Group…

LDC, the private equity investor which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, said it has exited its investment in Newcastle education company The Edwin Group to…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery and financial advisory firm, confirmed its revenue increased 12% to £136.7 million in the year ended April 30,…

Newton Aycliffe-based offshore energy services firm Tekmar Group has announced board and leadership changes in line with its succession planning. Richard Turner, 45, will join Tekmar…

Manchester-based online retailer THG said on Monday it agreed to sell its portfolio of luxury goods websites to Frasers Group for an undisclosed sum.  THG…

Private equity firms Searchlight Capital Partners and Ares Management Corporation are leading a consortium to make a £500 million preferred equity investment in Helsby, Cheshire-based…

SysGroup, the Manchester-based IT services, cloud hosting and cyber security firm, said it had raised £11 million selling new shares to investors.  The company said…

The group representing 24 of the UK’s top universities has published a manifesto aimed at the next government, calling for more investment to address a…

County Durham-headquartered energy, property and mining firm the Banks Group said it delivered a “robust performance” in 2023 across all of its business areas in…

Liverpool-based Princes Group said it agreed to be bought by Italian pasta, bread and dairy giant Newlat Food for £700 million, creating one of Europe’s…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery and financial advisory firm, said it expected full-year revenue to grow 12% to about £136 million in…

FirstGroup plc has submitted the first phase of an application for a new “open access” rail service between Rochdale and London to the Office of…

Newcastle-based Greggs said it performed well in the first 19 weeks of 2024, with like-for-like (LFL) sales in company-managed shops growing 7.4% “with delivery sales,…

Liverpool-based online retail and financial services firm The Very Group, owned by the Barclay family, said it has appointed former UK chancellor Nadhim Zahawi as…

Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda announced on Friday that it has refinanced more than £3.2 billion of its debt. Blackburn-based billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa…

Chester-based GB Group (GBG), experts in digital location, identity verification and identity fraud software, announced the appointment of Michelle Senecal de Fonseca as a new…

Shares of Chester-based GB Group (GBG), experts in global identity and location software, rose as much as 15% after it published an update on trading…

Liverpool-based online retail and financial services firm The Very Group, owned by the Barclay family, said it has promoted its retail managing director Robbie Feather to…

Shares of Greater Manchester-based Revolution Bars Group plc fell almost 40% after it announced it is “actively exploring all the strategic options available to it…

Bodycote, the Macclesfield-based heat treatment and thermal processing giant, said its 2023 revenue rose 8% to £802.5 million and profit before tax profit increased 17%…

Liverpool-based online retail and financial services firm The Very Group, owned by the Barclay family, announced it has agreed a new long-term partnership with investment firm…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery and financial advisory firm, has issued a trading update for its third quarter ended January 31, 2024, and announced…

Shares of York-based life sciences firm Aptamer Group plc rose about 11% after it announced the second phase of its ongoing partnership with Neuro-Bio, an Oxfordshire-based…

Liverpool-based delivery firm Yodel said it has been acquired by YDLGP Limited, a newly formed company connected to logistics firm Shift, for an undisclosed amount….

Shares of SysGroup plc, the IT services, cloud hosting and cyber security firm, rose more than 20% after it said it performed well during the third…

More than 47,000 UK businesses start 2024 on “the edge of collapse” after levels of “critical financial distress” again rose over 25%, according to the…

London’s Metropolitan Police said detectives investigating a plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange have arrested six people. Three people were arrested in Liverpool, two…

Aberdeen-based rail and bus giant FirstGroup plc has submitted the first phase of an application for a new open access rail service between London and…

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based business recovery, financial advisory and property services consultancy, said its revenue in the half year ended October 31, 2023, increased by…

Shares of Chester-based digital identity data company GB Group (GBG) fell as much as 6% after it said first-half revenue slipped 1.1% to £132.4 million…

SysGroup plc, the Liverpool-based IT services, cloud hosting and cyber security firm, said its revenue fell 3% to £10.96 million in the six months to…

Bradford-based window and door company Safestyle UK plc said on Friday it has requested that its shares are suspended from trading on AIM with effect from…

County Durham family firm the Banks Group announced that its renewable energy division Banks Renewables is being acquired by Brookfield, the Canadian asset manager with…

Newcastle-based Greggs reported that its third-quarter total sales rose 20.8% for the 13 weeks to September 30, 2023, with company-managed shop like-for-like sales up 14.2%….

Begbies Traynor Group plc, the Manchester-based professional services consultancy, said it is expanding its operations in South Wales following the acquisition of Jones Giles & Clay…

Almost 5,000 people across the Liverpool City Region are set to receive free tablets, internet access and on-line skills training as part of a partnership…