Cyber firm NCC hires EY’s Mike Maddison as CEO
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-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…
Shares of Sheffield-based international building materials supplier SIG plc rose about 12% on Friday after it published a trading update saying it expects to deliver full…
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…
Salford-based fashion firm In The Style announced that it expects, subject to audit, to report full-year revenue of £57.3 million, which equates to 28% growth…
Shares of Manchester-based tool and equipment rental firm HSS Hire Group plc rose 6% on Thursday after it published results for the 53 week period…
Harrogate-based equipment rental group Vp plc said on Thursday it is launching a formal sale process for the company after an investment firm connected to Vp…
Merseyside-based Vimto and soft drinks firm Nichols plc said its first quarter revenue rose 28.9% year-on-year to £39.6 million — as it announced that chairman John Nichols…
Sheffield-based affordable house builder MJ Gleeson plc has announced that Graham Prothero, currently chief operating officer of Vistry Group, will succeed James Thomson as CEO of…
Warrington-based water giant United Utilities said on Wednesday that CEO Steve Mogford will step down and retire from the board early next year and that Louise…
York-based house building giant Persimmon plc said on Wednesday its current forward sales position is £2.8 billion and the average selling price in the forward…
Barnsley-based structural steel and construction firm Billington Holdings Plc said its revenue increased by 25.3% to £82.7 million in the year ended December 31, 2021, “as activity…
Rotherham-based property and land regeneration firm Harworth Group has appointed Peter Henry to the newly created role of Director of Sustainability. Henry will report to…
Manchester-based molecular diagnostics firm Yourgene Health plc said its revenue for the year to March 31 were £37.6 million, up 105% on the previous year and…
Shares of Northcoders Group plc rose as much as 20% on Tuesday after the provider of training programmes for software coding published its first set…
Leeds-based Asda and Bradford-based Morrisons said on Monday that they would cut the prices of essential items amid soaring inflation and slumping UK consumer confidence….
Shares of Stockport-based musicMagpie — which allows consumers to buy, rent and sell refurbished consumer technology — rose more than 10% on Monday after it announced…
Shares of Liverpool-based FTSE 100 firm B&M European Value Retail fell as much as 7% on Friday after it announced that CEO Simon Arora intends to retire…
Bradford-based window and door company Safestyle UK on Thursday announced its first return to full year profitability since 2017 as its 2021 revenue increased to…
Shares of Chester-based digital identity verification company GB Group (GBG) rose about 13% on Thursday after it published a trading update for the year to March…
LBG Media plc, the Manchester-based digital media and youth content publisher of Ladbible and other news brands including Sportbible and Tyla, said its 2021 revenue…
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…
Shares of Wakefield-based greeting card and gift retailer Card Factory rose as much as 30% on Thursday after it announced it agreed terms on a…
Shares of York-based online musical equipment retailer Gear4music plc fell as much as 30% on Thursday after it published a year-end trading update covering the…
Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell said on Thursday its total assets under administration (AUA) in the three months ended March 31 closed at £74.1 billion, up…
Shares of Manchester e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant THG plc rose about 20% on Thursday after it revealed it has received “indicative proposals” on a potential…
Shares of Severfield plc, the Thirsk, North Yorkshire-based steel group, rose about 12% on Wednesday after it published a trading update for the year ended March…
Carlisle-based agriculture and engineering firm Carr’s Group said on Wednesday its first-half revenue rose 10.6% to £222.7 million in the 26 weeks ended February 26 and profit…
Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell has launched its new investment app called Dodl which aims to “make investing easier and accessible to everyone” via a…
Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle-based Northcoders, the provider of training programmes for software coding, is to expand further by opening a new training hub in Birmingham…
Silsden, West Yorkshire-based Ecology Building Society has appointed Gareth Griffiths as chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval. Griffiths is currently head of retail banking at…
Shares of Manchester industrial chain and power transmission firm Renold plc rose about 32% on Thursday after it published a trading update covering the year ended…
Everton Football Club said it has signed an agreement with Laing O’Rourke which will see the contractor deliver the next and final phase of development…
Cheadle, Chesire-based Together Financial Services Limited, a specialist mortgage and secured loans provider with a loan book of £4.4 billion, announced it refinanced its revolving Lakeside securitisation…
Shares of Manchester-based consumer products company PZ Cussons rose about 4% on Wednesday after it said its revenue for the three months to February 28 rose…
Shares of Manchester-based fast-moving consumer products wholesaler Supreme plc fell 18% on Tuesday after it published a trading update for the 12 months ended March 31,…
By Mark McSherry The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said on Tuesday it has commenced an investigation into Deloitte’s auditing of Newcastle-headquartered international bus and rail giant…
Chester-based price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com said on Tuesday that its first-quarter revenue rose 8% to £92.3 million — with growth in its money and travel segments…
Property and land regeneration firm Harworth Group announced it has secured planning consent for the direct development of 93,000 sq. ft of employment space at…
Shares of Wetherby-based diagnostics company Avacta Group plc rose 12% on Friday after it announced that AffyXell Therapeutic, a joint venture between Avacta and Daewoong Pharmaceutical, entered into…
The owners of broadband giant TalkTalk Group have asked investment bank Lazard to review its options after several groups including Vodafone approached the Salford-based company…
Shares of Leeds-based Jet2 plc rose as much as 5% on Friday as the firm published a trading update showing that relaxation of UK travel restrictions in…
Newcastle-based house building giant Bellway said on Thursday it has agreed a voluntary pledge with the UK’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)…
Yorkshire Water announced that after nearly 12 years with the company, nine as CFO and close to three years as CEO, Liz Barber is to…
Manchester-based Co-op Group said on Thursday its 2021 revenue was up £300 million against pre-pandemic levels to £11.2 billion but down slightly year-on-year from £11.5 billion in…
Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell said the FTSE 100’s total dividend pay-out is expected to reach £81.2 billion in 2022, compared to £78.5 billion in…
Marshalls plc, the Elland, West Yorkshire-based stone and landscaping firm, announced it entered into a conditional agreement to acquire pitched roof system manufacturer Marley Group plc…
Altrincham-based car dealership Lookers plc reported that its 2021 revenue rose 9% to £4.05 billion and underlying profit before tax soared to £90.1 million from…
Redrow plc, the Flintshire-based house building giant, announced it will make an additional provision of £164 million to fix fire safety issues. This provision will…
Newcastle-headquartered international bus and rail giant Go-Ahead Group announced it will reinstate its pre-Covid policy of paying a dividend to shareholders equivalent to between 50%…
York-based house building giant Persimmon plc announced it has signed the DLUHC’s Developer Pledge which “sets out the industry’s commitments to removing cladding and remediating…
Salford-based broadband giant TalkTalk Group announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Virtual1, one of the UK’s primary wholesalers of high bandwidth services….
Therme Group has unveiled an updated design for the £250 million Therme Manchester Wellbeing Resort it is working on with Peel L&P. Therme is a Vienna-based…
Bradford-based supermarket giant Morrisons has warned that its sales and core profit for the year could be hit by the war in Ukraine and rising…
Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of Ian Cornelius as interim group chief executive from April 26. Currently the mutual’s commercial and strategy director,…
The latest UK Tech Talent Tracker from Accenture has revealed that the number of professionals with technology skills is expanding at a faster pace in…
Swiss Life Asset Managers and its subsidiary Mayfair Capital have acquired their first residential investment in the United Kingdom by purchasing the Duet development in Salford Quays…
Chesire-based NWF Group plc, the business that delivers fuel, food and agricultural feeds across the UK, announced that it “now anticipates full year results will be…
Shares of Rotherham-based Xeros Technology Group plc fell about 35% on Thursday after it published a trading update saying it is no longer likely to reach…
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…
Manchester-based Co-operative Bank Finance announced it priced its issue of green MREL-eligible £250 million fixed rate reset callable notes due 2027. MREL stands for “Minimum Requirement for…
Shares of Wakefield-based Team17 Group, the developer of video games and educational entertainment apps, fell as much as 7% on Wednesday as it warned that the Russia-Ukraine…