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)…

(Updates with Wednesday statement from THG and AJ Bell comment) Shares of Manchester-based online beauty and nutrition retail giant The Hut Group (THG) plunged another…

One key section of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) alone could deliver a £22 billion boost to the North of England’s economy by 2060 – nearly…

Shares of Carlisle-based agriculture and engineering firm Carr’s Group fell as much as 15% on Monday after it announced that Hugh Pelham has stepped down as…

Manchester-based Bank North announced it has grown its team further, including the addition of Neil Boycott as head of credit risk, as it continues to…

The UK’s Investment Association (IA) has reported that retail investors put £5.3 billion into funds in August – a record amount for that month. Salford…

Manchester-based online fashion and home goods retailer N Brown Group said on Friday its revenue was flat at £346.8 million in the six months to…

Shares of Skelmersdale, Lancashire-based Victorian Plumbing Group plc, the online retailer of bathroom products and accessories that went public in June, fell about 14% on…

Shares of Greater Manchester-based Revolution Bars Group plc rose about 12% on Thursday after it published a first-quarter trading update showing recent sales growth of 17%…

Newcastle United Football Club announced that an investment group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and including PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports…

NatWest said on Thursday it has pleaded guilty to three offences of money laundering between 2012 and 2016 “in relation to the accounts of a…

Adam Smith Institute head of research Matthew Lesh has dismissed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference as “bombastic but vacuous…

Shares of Altrincham-based car dealership Lookers plc rose about 6% on Wednesday after it published a trading update covering the three month period ended September 30,…

Shares of Manchester United Plc fell about 8% as the club’s owners offered to sell a stake worth about $186 million, the second disposal this…