B&M to sell £250m of senior secured notes
B&M European Value Retail S.A. said on Monday said it intends to sell £250 million of sterling-denominated senior secured notes due 2028. FTSE 100 constituent B&M…
B&M European Value Retail S.A. said on Monday said it intends to sell £250 million of sterling-denominated senior secured notes due 2028. FTSE 100 constituent B&M…
Sheffield-based affordable housebuilder MJ Gleeson plc reported that Gleeson Homes has a land pipeline of 15,384 plots with a gross development value of £2.4 billion as it…
Salford-based fashion firm In The Style on Friday announced big changes to its leadership team with Sam Perkins hired from The Very Group as the company’s…
Flintshire-based house building giant Redrow plc said on Friday its total forward order book is a record £1.51 billion and it expects turnover for 2022 to be…
Assura plc, the Warrington-based healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), said on Thursday it raised around £182 million — below and expected £190 million — via a…
Shares of B&M European Value Retail fell almost 5% on Thursday as it reported that like-for-like sales at its core UK business were down 8.9%…
Shares of Manchester-based FTSE 100 firm Auto Trader Group plc rose about 14% on Thursday after it announced it achieved its highest ever six-monthly revenue…
Leeds-based transport data analytics firm Tracsis plc said on Wednesday its revenue rose 4.7% to £50.2 million in the year to July 31, 2021, and profit…
More than 3,000 civil servants are to be relocated to a new £100 million office development in Blackpool town centre. The Department for Work and…
Shares of Manchester industrial chain and power transmission firm Renold plc rose about 7% on Wednesday after it said its revenue rose 17% to £95.3…
International independent videogame firm Cloud Imperium Games — developer of Star Citizen and Squadron 42 — has announced it will open a new game development…
Rotherham-based property and land regeneration firm Harworth Group plc announced it has conditionally exchanged contracts for the sale of its Kellingley development site in Selby,…
York-based house building giant Persimmon plc said on Tuesday it has £1.15 billion of forward sales reserved beyond the current year (2019: £0.95bn) and that it expects…
By Mark McSherry Edinburgh-based investment giant Abrdn has confirmed it is in talks to buy Manchester-based online broker Interactive Investor, with analysts speculating the price…
Shares of Wakefield-based greeting card and gift retailer Card Factory rose about 11% on Monday after it published a strong trading update. “Further to the…
Matthew Moulding, founder and CEO of Manchester e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant THG plc, told GQ magazine in an interview he should have listed the company…
Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion Plc issued a stock exchange statement on Monday refuting any “corporate governance breaches” after newspaper reports of a…
Shares of Merseyside-based Vimto and soft drinks firm Nichols plc rose about 7% on Friday after it published a strong trading update for the first nine…
Shares of Gateshead-based Vertu Motors plc rose about 3% on Friday after it announced it plans to start a new £3 million stock buyback programme once the…
Sheffield-based international building materials supplier SIG plc said on Friday it has successfully priced its sale of €300 million of 5.25% fixed rate senior secured notes…
Salford-based investment giant AJ Bell plc has announced its chair-elect Helena Morrissey is to lead a campaign called AJ Bell Money Matters to help more…
Manchester-based Co-operative Bank — recently rebuffed by Spain’s Banco Sabadell in an audacious £1 billion approach for its TSB Bank subsidiary — on Friday posted a third…
Professional services firm Progeny has announced the acquisition of Guiseley, Yorkshire-based financial advisers J M Glendinning Financial Services. Glendinning was established in 1987 and specialises in…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Thursday it has instructed Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion Plc to sell Rochdale-based Footasylum…
Landsec announced on Wednesday it has acquired a majority stake in MediaCity, the 37-acre media, digital and tech hub in Salford, Greater Manchester previously owned…
Wilmslow-based pet and vet retailer Pets at Home Group said on Wednesday that its CEO Peter Pritchard has “agreed with the board that he intends to…
Barrow-in-Furness international marine engineering company James Fisher and Sons plc announced the sale of James Fisher Testing Services (JFTS) from its marine support division for…
Rolls-Royce and Qatar Foundation have announced they will enter into a long-term partnership to create a global centre for climate technology innovation — and construct…
Shares of Wetherby-based diagnostics company Avacta Group plc fell about 9% on Tuesday after it said it has suspended further sales of its AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 Lateral…
BlackRock, the second-largest shareholder in troubled Manchester e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant THG plc, is selling nearly half its stake in the company at a 10%…
Renewable infrastructure fund Greencoat UK Wind plc (UKW) has agreed to acquire a 25% stake in Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm near Liverpool from…
Funds managed by Blackrock are selling about 55 million shares in troubled Manchester-based e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant THG plc, Reuters reported, citing a bookrunner. Blackrock…
Sheffield-based international building materials supplier SIG plc said on Monday it has mandated bookrunners to carry out roadshows for a proposed debt offering of €300 million…
Alderley Park-based Redx Pharma, the drug discovery and development company focused on oncology and fibrosis, announced the appointment of Jane Griffiths as its non-executive chair,…
A US national security panel — the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) — is investigating the £919 million takeover of Sheffield-based video…
Manchester Airport said on Friday it will become the first airport in the UK to have a direct sustainable jet fuel supply through partnership with…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday it has opened an investigation into the £7 billion cash purchase of Bradford-based supermarket giant Morrisons by…
UK finance minister Rishi Sunak has announced £660 million of government funding for the second Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), to be delivered by the…
Harrogate-based IT firm Redcentric Plc said on Wednesday it continues to make progress on mergers and acquisitions prospecting “with several active conversations underway, a growing pipeline…
By Mark McSherry Wakefield-based Team17 Group, the developer of video games and educational entertainment apps, has announced that its subsidiary StoryToys has collaborated with Lego Group and Marvel…
California-based digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc. has announced plans to build a new £61 million International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in the Agecroft Commerce Park in Salford, Manchester….
Manchester-based online holiday retailer On the Beach Group plc (OTB) on Wednesday published an update on trading for the 12 months to September 30, 2021, saying it…
Manchester-based molecular diagnostics firm Yourgene Health plc said on Tuesday its first-half revenues more than doubled to £17.5 million, ahead of previous guidance of at…
Shares of THG, the Manchester-based e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant, fell another 21% on Tuesday despite the group publishing a third quarter trading statement showing…
UK dividends soared to £34.9 billion in the third quarter of 2021, up 89.2% year-on-year on a headline basis, boosted the mining boom and very large…
The UK Infrastructure Bank has confirmed it will invest £107 million in the South Bank Quay development at Teesworks in Teesside, supporting 800 direct jobs….
Shares of Barrow-in-Furness international marine engineering company James Fisher and Sons plc fell as much as 35% on Monday after it published a negative trading update…
(Updates with Monday statement from Co-operative Bank) Spain’s Banco Sabadell confirmed at the weekend that its board has rejected an audacious offer for its subsidiary TSB Bank…
Shares of Sheffield-based international building materials supplier SIG plc rose about 6% on Friday after it issued a trading update for the third quarter of its…
Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion Plc announced it acquired 80% of Crete-based Cosmos Sport S.A. “Based in Crete, Greece, Cosmos was founded in 1982…
Chester-based identity data company GB Group (GBG) has published a trading update for the six months to September 30, 2021, saying it expects revenue for the period to…
AJ Bell plc, the Salford-based investment platform, said on Thursday its assets under administration (AUA) increased by 29% to £72.8 billion in its financial year ended September 30,…
Shares of Blackburn-based toilet roll and tissue maker Accrol Group fell about 15% on Wednesday after the firm published a trading update for its current financial…
Chesire-based Tatton Asset Management plc announced its assets under management (AUM) increased 20% to £10.787 billion in the six months ended September 30, 2021. In a…
Liverpool-based online retail and financial services group The Very Group reported on Tuesday that its revenue rose 13% to a record £2.317 billion in the…
Shareholders of Bradford-based supermarket giant Morrisons on Tuesday approved a roughly £7 billion cash takeover offer from US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). Morrisons…
Manchester-based cleaning products firm McBride plc warned on Tuesday that its global supply chains have continued to tighten and that “raw material and packaging costs have…
Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda has stepped up its Christmas preparations by announcing plans to recruit 15,000 temporary staff and confirming the dates its festive home…
Chester-based price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has agreed to buy cashback business Quidco in a deal worth up to £101 million. Moneysupermarket said it will pay £87 million…
Newcastle-based house building giant Bellway said on Tuesday its revenue rose 40.3% to £3.12 billion in the year to July 31, 2021, only 2.8% below…
Shares of Manchester-based fast-moving consumer products wholesaler Supreme plc, which went public in February, rose as much as 8% on Monday after it published a positive…
Ford said on Monday it will invest up to £230 million to build electric car components at its Halewood factory on Merseyside. Halewood will become Ford’s…
Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda and EG Group have terminated a deal that would have seen EG buy Asda’s petrol forecourts for £750 million, the two…
Shares of Sheffield-based aquaculture biotech firm Benchmark Holdings rose about 12% on Monday after it said it expects full-year earnings to be significantly ahead of the…
Manchester-based online beauty and nutrition retail giant The Hut Group (THG) said on Monday its CEO Matthew Moulding “in furtherance of good corporate governance” has confirmed…
Sheffield-based energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power — a producer of electrolyser machines that make hydrogen from water — said on Friday it raised…
Newcastle-headquartered Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, said on Thursday it has exchanged conditional contracts to forward fund and acquire Merrick Place, a 401-home build-to-rent development…
Shares of Gateshead-based Vertu Motors plc rose about 8% on Wednesday after it announced interim results for the six months ended August 31, 2021, showing “record trading…
Shares of York-based Gear4music, the largest UK online retailer of musical equipment, rose about 13% on Wednesday after the firm announced a trading update for the…
Fast-growing AJ Bell plc, the Salford-based investment platform, said that AJ Bell Investments has formed a panel of external platforms to make its managed portfolio service (MPS)…