Aon plc said it has agreed to acquire Liverpool-based insurance broker Griffiths & Armour. Griffiths & Armour will become wholly-owned by Aon UK Limited. “The combination…

Kao Data has started work on a £350 million data centre in Stockport, one of the largest in the region. The 40MW, 25,900 sq m…

Bolton-based electrical retailer AO World plc has agreed to buy Stockport second-hand media seller musicMagpie for about  £10 million in cash.  “With complementary business models…

Bolton-based electrical retailer AO World plc reported a dip in annual sales as the cost-of-living crisis ate into consumers’ spending, but its profit rose due…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose as much as 12% after it published a strong trading update for the 12 months to March…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc is upgrading its full-year guidance after it swung to a profit of £13 million in the six months ended September…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc returned to profit in the year to March 31, 2023, with statutory profit before tax of £7.6 million compared to…

Frasers Group plc announced it has acquired a strategic stake of 18.9% in Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc. Frasers, formerly called Sports Direct, is…

Kao Data announced it has secured an extensive, industrial-scale site for redevelopment at Kenwood Point, Manchester, with the aim of establishing a new 40MW data…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 11% on Friday after it published a trading update for the 12 months to March 31,…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 30% on Tuesday after it issued a trading update and increased its profit guidance for the…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 11% on Tuesday after it published an unscheduled trading update for its third quarter, the three…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 16% on Tuesday after it said the six months to September 2022 represented “solid progress…

UK prime minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday — and scrapped parts of their economic package that led to turmoil…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 13% on Thursday after it announced results for the year to March 31, 2022 — but…

Shares of embattled Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc fell another 9% on Wednesday after it said it plans to raise £40 million through a…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc fell another 12% on Monday as the firm confirmed news reports that one of the third-party credit…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc announced it will close its German business “based on the continuing deterioration in the outlook for the German business,…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc fell as much as 20% on Friday after it said it remains “cautious” about its revenue and…

New analysis from exchange-traded products provider GraniteShares reveals that Manchester-based fashion giant Boohoo and Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc were among the most shorted UK stocks…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc has announced a strategic review of its German business and a third quarter trading update for the period ended December…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc fell another 17% on Tuesday after it cut its profit outlook and warned about “meaningful supply chain…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc slumped 22% on Friday after it warned that its growth has been “impacted by the nationwide shortage…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Thursday its group adjusted EBITDA increased 191% to £64 million in the year to March 31 as…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Thursday its revenue increased 62% to £1.66 billion in the year to March 31, 2021, and it expects adjusted…

Shares of Manchester-based tool and equipment rental firm HSS Hire Group plc rose about 4% on Wednesday after it said it agreed to sell Laois Hire…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc fell about 5% on Tuesday after it issued a trading update for its third quarter to December 31,…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Tuesday its revenue soared 53.2% to £717 million in the six months to September 30 and it…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc rose about 30% on Thursday after it issued a trading update for the six months ended September 30,…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Friday it is creating 650 new jobs across the UK in its retail, mobile, tech, financial services…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Thursday it recorded strong year-on-year revenue growth of 58.9% to £401.3 million in the UK and of…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World on Tuesday announced a bonus scheme for its 3,000 staff — but the plan would only be triggered if the…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World said on Tuesday its revenue for the year ended March 31, 2020, rose 15.9% to £1.04 billion — but its…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World rose about 6% on Tuesday after it said in a trading update it “has grown market share and seen…

Sajid Javid has resigned as the UK Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s first big cabinet reshuffle went spectacularly wrong. Bloomberg…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World rose about 13% on Tuesday after it said its revenue rose 16.3% to £470.1 million in the six months…

Shares in Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct fell by as much as 27% on Monday morning following the chaos that surrounded the retailer’s delayed annual results…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World fell about 7% on Tuesday after it said problems in its European business have been overshadowing growth in…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World fell 6% on Thursday after it said its revenue is expected to rise around 13% to £900 million…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World said on Friday its revenue rose 8.2% in its third quarter, the three months to December 31, 2018. In a…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World fell about 6% on Tuesday after it said its revenue grew 9.9% to £404.2 million in the six months to…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World plc said on Friday it agreed to acquire Mobile Phones Direct Limited for about £32.5 million in cash and shares….

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World rose about 5% after it said its revenue for the year ended March 31, 2018, rose 13.6% to £796.8 million. AO…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World rose roughly 10% after it said its revenue for the year to March 31 is expected to be about…

Bolton-based European online electrical retailer AO World said its group revenue was up 16.6% for the three months to December 31, 2017, year on year. In a trading update for…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World said its revenue rose 13.3% to £368 million in the six months ended September 30, 2017. However, group operating loss was £12 million compared…

Aon plc said it will acquire Leeds-based Henderson Insurance Broking Group. Terms have been agreed and Aon anticipates to complete the acquisition in December. Financial…

Shares of Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World fell about 11% after it reported an operating loss of £12 million for the year to March 31 and warned of a “challenging…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World said it raised £50 million in a placing of 37.73 million shares at 132.5p — representing about 9% of the firm’s share capital. Further, in…

Bolton-based online electrical retailer AO World said chief operating officer Steve Caunce would succeed company founder John Roberts as its CEO, effective immediately. Roberts, 43, who founded AO World in 2000 and…

Croda International, the Snaith, East Yorkshire-based FTSE 100 specialty chemicals giant, has made a board and committee succession planning announcement. “John Ramsay, having served as…

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…

Bilbao-based green energy giant Iberdrola said it has closed the acquisition of 88% of Warrington-based Electricity North West (ENW). Iberdrola said on August 2 it signed…

Mindtech Global, the Sheffield-based company that is developing synthetic data to train AI vision systems, has secured £4.4 million in a funding round led by…

Troubled Revolution Bars Group plc said entrepreneur and investor Luke Johnson has been appointed to the company‘s board as non-executive chairman following the retirement of…

Runcorn-based workwear and textile firm Johnson Service Group (JSG) said its profit before tax rose 38.5% to £18.7 million in the six months to June 30 as…

Manchester-based PRS REIT plc has pushed back on an attempt to call a general meeting to oust two directors from its board, calling the move…

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,…

Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is to invest £120 million into Legal & General’s Affordable Housing Fund, as it continues to invest to increase much-needed…

Bilbao-based green energy giant Iberdrola said on Friday it signed an agreement to acquire 88% of Warrington-based Electricity North West (ENW) in the UK for an…

Wilmslow-based fashion firm Sosandar plc — run by former magazine publishers Ali Hall and Julie Lavington — has announced that the locations for its first two stores…

Financial firms in the North of England have responded to the Labour Party’s emphatic win in the UK general election and what it means for…

Manchester-based Co-op Bank published a first-quarter trading update on Thursday saying that discussions regarding the potential acquisition of the bank by mutually-owned Coventry Building Society…

Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell announce that Julie Chakraverty has been appointed to its board of directors as an independent non-executive director with effect from…

Mutually-owned Coventry Building Society and Manchester-based Co-operative Bank announced on Thursday afternoon that “non-binding heads of terms have been agreed for a potential acquisition of…

Shares of Severfield, the Thirsk, North Yorkshire-based steel group, rose as much as 14% as the firm published a strong trading update for the year ended…

Liverpool-based TJ Morris, the family firm behind discount chain Home Bargains, reported an increase in turnover from £3.4 billion to £3.7 billion in the year to…

Manchester-based Co-op Group said its 2023 profit before tax fell almost 90% to £28 million as the mutual’s group revenue fell £200 million to £11.3…

British Steel said it has been granted planning permission to build an Electric Arc Furnace at its Teesside plant – a key milestone in its…

The City of Doncaster Council and Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd have agreed to locate the production programme for Airlander 10 — “the world’s most efficient…