Provident Financial gets £1.3bn bid from ex-CEO
Shares of troubled Bradford-based subprime lender Provident Financial rose about 15% on Friday after it received an unsolicited £1.3 billion all-share offer from smaller rival…
Shares of troubled Bradford-based subprime lender Provident Financial rose about 15% on Friday after it received an unsolicited £1.3 billion all-share offer from smaller rival…
Liverpool Football Club boosted the Liverpool City Region economy by £497 million gross value added (GVA) during the 2017-18 season, according to a report compiled…
Selby, North Yorkshire-based power company Drax Group plc on Thursday announced that big changes will be taking place during 2019 on its board of directors. “The…
Shares of shopping center giant Intu Properties plc — which runs Manchester’s Trafford Centre, Newcastle’s Eldon Square, Gateshead’s Metrocentre and Glasgow’s Braehead — fell 8%…
UPDATE 3 — Shares of Sainsbury’s fell 15% on Wednesday after the UK’s competition regulator delivered a potentially fatal blow to its £7.3 billion proposed…
Shares of Greggs, the Newcastle-based bakery and “food-on-the-go” retailer, rose 11% on Tuesday after it reported an “exceptionally strong” start to 2019 boosted by publicity…
Walmart’s Leeds-based subsidiary Asda — currently preparing to be taken over by Sainsbury’s — on Tuesday reported a slowdown in the rate of underlying sales growth…
Associated British Ports (ABP) said it won a two-year contract with Belgium-based manufacturer VPK Packaging Group to handle 35,000 tonnes of paper per year at…
Shares of troubled Rochdale-based fashion retailer Footasylum soared about 80% on Monday after its close neighbour, Bury-based JD Sports Fashion, bought an 8.3% stake in Footasylum…
Carlisle-based aviation, energy and civil engineering firm Stobart Group on Friday claimed a High Court victory over its former CEO Andrew Tinkler, who had launched a…
Manchester United said on Thursday it posted record second-quarter revenue £208.6 million compared with £177.4 million a year earlier. The firm also said that for…
Shares of Chester-based price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com rose 6% on Thursday after it said 2018 revenue grew 8% to £355.6 million and pre-tax profit rose…
Shares of Sheffield-based affordable housebuilder MJ Gleeson plc rose 6% on Thursday after it said its revenue increased 19.4% to £88 million and profit before tax…
Shares of Leeds-based WYG, the international project management consultancy, plummeted 40% on Wednesday after it warned in a trading update its operating profit would not…
Turkish-born curator Fatos Üstek has been announced as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial. She will take up her position in May 2019. The 11th…
Chester-based identity data company GB Group (GBG) said it conditionally agreed to acquire IDology, a US-based provider of identity verification and fraud prevention services, for…
An expert panel chaired by Cambridge public policy professor Diane Coyle has unveiled the results of an independent prosperity review on the current state and future of…
An international Caribbean shipping service has started using multiple routes to the Port of Hull, handling thousands of tonnes of breakbulk and project cargo per…
Liverpool Football Club on Friday announced its annual financial results for the year to May 31, 2018, saying turnover increased £90 million to £455 million…
Newcastle-based house building giant Bellway on Thursday issued a trading update for the six months ended January 31, 2019, ahead of its interim results on…
Flintshire-based house builder Redrow said on Wednesday its revenue rose 9% to a first half record of £970 million and first half pre-tax profit rose 5% to a…
Shares of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank owner CYBG rose about 14% on Wednesday after it lifted its forecast for margin growth and reported a rise…
Nissan Motor Company announced on Sunday that its next-generation X-Trail for the European market will be produced in its Kyushu plant in Japan — not…
Salford-based broadband giant TalkTalk Telecom Group said on Friday it added 44,000 customers in its third quarter, taking its base to 4.29 million, while average…
Chesire-based NWF Group plc, the agricultural and distribution business that delivers feed, food and fuel across the UK, said on Tuesday half year revenue for…
Shares of Manchester-based soaps and consumer products company PZ Cussons fell 15% on Tuesday after it said it expects a decline in profit for the year ending May,…
Shares of Newcastle-based utility cost consultancy Utilitywise fell 65% after it announced a strategic review that will include a formal sale process of the company. “The strategic…
ScottishPower — a subsidiary of Basque energy giant Iberdrola — may compete against foreign infrastructure investment funds in the race to buy £2 billion Warrington-based electricity…
The world’s top 20 revenue-generating football clubs include four from the North West of England, according to the 22nd edition of the Deloitte Football Money…
Shares of Manchester-based cyber security company NCC Group fell about 30% on Thursday after it guided to lower full-year EBIT and said sales in the…
Chesire-based Pets At Home, the retailer of pet food, accessories and veterinary services, said on January 22 it may consider increasing its inventory holdings by up…
Warrington-based robotic process automation (RPA) software firm Blue Prism said on Thursday it raised £100 million in a share placing as it revealed its revenue…
Sheffield-based Benchmark Holdings, the aquaculture health, genetics and nutrition firm, said its revenue rose 8% to £151.5 million in the year ended September 30, 2018,…
The stock market value of Manchester-based investment firm AJ Bell has soared to around £1.1 billion since its IPO last month. AJ Bell went public in…
Salford City football club said on Wednesday that former Manchester United, Real Madrid and England star David Beckham is to take a 10% in the…
A day after it revealed it is being investigated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Blackburn-based tissue maker Accrol Group said on Tuesday its chief…
Manchester-based Co-op Group said on Friday it agreed to sell its insurance underwriting business, CIS General Insurance Limited, to Markerstudy for about £185 million. Co-op Group said…
Warrington-based Eddie Stobart Logistics plc said on Friday its revenues for the financial year grew 35% to approximately £843 million, ahead of market expectations. In a…
Shares of Manchester-based fashion retailer N Brown Group fell 8% on Thursday after it announced a trading update for the 18 weeks to January 5, 2019, amid…
Newcastle-based software giant Sage Group, the UK’s largest listed tech company, said on Thursday its group “organic” revenue increased 7.6% to £465 million for the first three months…
Newcastle-based software giant Sage Group, the UK’s largest listed tech company, said on Wednesday it agreed to sell its US-based business Sage Payroll Solutions (SPR)…
Shares of embattled Bradford-based subprime lender Provident Financial fell 20% on Tuesday after it said it expects to report profits for 2018 “towards the lower…
York-based housebuilding giant Persimmon said on Tuesday it expects its pre-tax profits for 2018 will be “modestly ahead of current market consensus.” In a trading update…
Manchester-based online fashion giant Boohoo.com plc said in a trading update on Tuesday its revenue growth for the financial year to February 28, 2019, is expected…
The former chief executive officer of Carlisle-based Stobart Group Ltd, Andrew Tinkler, has bought a stake of just over 12% in British airline Flybe Group…
Shares of Bury-based JD Sports Fashion rose about 8% on Monday after it said in a trading update that its headline group profit before tax…
Shares of Manchester-based Revolution Bars Group plc fell almost 20% on Monday after it said it expects adjusted EBITDA for its full year to fall…
Carlisle-based aviation, energy and transport firm Stobart Group has teamed up with Virgin Atlantic and Cyrus Capital to buy Flybe for a cut-price £2.2 million. A joint venture…
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…
Doncaster-based DFS Furniture on Thursday reported underlying gross sales growth of 10% in a trading update for the five months to December 30, 2018. However DFS warned…
Liverpool-based bargain retailer B&M European Value Retail said on Thursday its total sales revenue increased 12.1% to £1.087 billion in the 13 week period to December…
Shares of Wakefield-based greeting cards retailer Card Factory fell about 10% on Thursday after it said in a trading statement it expects “another difficult year”…
Shares of Greggs, the Newcastle-based bakery and “food-on-the-go” retailer, rose 6% on Wednesday after it said in a trading update that it expects to deliver underlying profit…
Shares of Merseyside-based Vimto and soft drinks firm Nichols plc rose 7% after it said it expects full year profit to be ahead of the…
Manchester United, in partnership with Chinese property developer Harves, announced that it will open a series of club themed “entertainment and experience centres” throughout China….
Bradford-based supermarket group Morrisons said on Tuesday group like-for-like (LFL) sales excluding fuel were up 3.6% for the nine weeks to January 6, comprising contributions from…
Shares of troubled Footasylum, the recently-floated Rochdale youth footwear and apparel retailer, fell more than 15% after it published an update on its trading performance for the…
Shares of Sheffield-based European building products supplier SIG plc fell about 6% after it published a trading update for the year ended December 31 that showed…
Shares of Sheffield-based affordable housebuilder MJ Gleeson plc rose 9% on Monday after it said it expects results for the half-year ended December 31, 2018, “to…
Shares of York-based Gear4music, the online retailer of musical instruments and equipment, fell about 50% on Friday after it said its full-year earnings would be hit…
Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business The Reed Boardall Group Limited said on Thursday its turnover rose 2.3% to £61.6 million in its last financial…
Investment manager APAM has acquired the landmark Leeds office building 1 City Square for £32 million on behalf of its client Britannia Invest. Aviva Investors put…
The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, said Colette Bowe and Jayne-Anne Gadhia have been appointed as external members of its Financial Policy Committee…
Selby, North Yorkshire-based power company Drax Group plc said on Wednesday it completed the acquisition of ScottishPower’s portfolio of pumped storage, hydro and gas-fired generation….
Around 360,000 salmon and 20,000 sea trout have been released into tributaries of the River Tyne this year as the UK Environment Agency’s Kielder Salmon…
Museums and galleries sponsored by the UK government in the Northern Powerhouse are having a record year in 2018 with visitor numbers topping five million…
Everton Football Club announced on Thursday it is proposing a capacity of 52,000 for its new stadium, with the potential for this to rise to 62,000 in…
ABP Humber said it signed a major trade deal for a new service at its Hull Container Terminal offering deep-sea connections to the rest of…
Engineering giant Wood plc said it won a contract to supply “programmable digital control technologies” to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria. Wood said the 10-year…
Newcastle-based Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, said it agreed to forward fund and acquire a 373-home private rented sector development at Exchange Square in Birmingham for…