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Croda appoints Danuta Gray as chair designate
Finland’s Metsä Tissue invests to create 400 Goole jobs
Barrow’s James Fisher ups H1 revenue 17% to £252m
DFS revenue slips to £1bn but profit hope lifts shares
JD Sports shares up 8% amid £1bn profit expectation
Co-op H1 revenue slips to £5.4bn amid slashing of debt
Ladbible parent LBG Media ups H1 revenue 10%
Henry Boot first-half revenue up 24% to £179m
Northcoders shares fall 25% on revenue, profit warning
Team17 first-half revenue up 31% to £69.7m
McBride up 31% to £889m as private label goods boom
Northern Gritstone invests in C-Capture of Leeds
Everton sold to Miaimi private equity firm 777
THG shares fall up to 20% amid revenue slip
Manchester pension appoints CBRE on £840m fund
Gleeson revenue -12% at £328m as home sales fall
On the Beach transaction value up 26% to £1.1bn
Henry Boot plans £140m Manchester office scheme
Manchester’s Genedrive announces big board changes
Gear4music shares up 30% amid margins focus
N Brown’s Simply Be in Sainsbury’s partnership
Jet2 on track ‘to exceed current market expectations’
NCC, Manchester cyber firm, delays results
DFS secures new £250m credit facilities
Everton shares in Asset Match quarterly auction
Severfield orders at £479m despite ‘challenging’ market
Johnson, Runcorn linen giant, lifts H1 profit 46%
Cussons plans to de-list Nigerian unit from stock market
Renold order book hits ‘historic’ high of £86m
Man Utd shares fall 20% as ‘Glazers call off sale’
B&M buys up to 51 Wilko properties for £13m
Begbies Traynor expands with South Wales acquisition
Jet2 board changes as Terrell becomes chairman
Select secures £128m for Manchester apartments
Manchester’s Renold buys Davidson Chain in Australia
Linen giant Johnson acquires Celtic Linen
196 Deansgate, Manchester, bought by German pension
Gritstone leads seed funding in AI dental firm Mimetrik
Beal gets OK to build another 600 Goole homes
Sourced, Network Rail in £110m Liverpool housing plan
Vertu Motors ahead despite used car shortage
£300m Northern Gritstone beefs up investment team
Grafenia raises £28m for acquisitions, bond repurchase
Takeover of DWF, Manchester law giant, to close in 2023
Drax hires ex-Duke Energy exec Bertone as chair
Cropper, Kendal paper firm, ups revenue 24% to £129m
Tracsis, Leeds transport data firm, ups revenue 19%
Gleeson Homes appoints McElroy as sales director
Salix, Salford housing association, in £120m refinancing
Lookers, takeover target, ups H1 revenue 8% to £2.4bn
Team17 hires ex-Codemasters CEO Sagnier as chair
Redx Pharma shares up 20% amid FDA drug news
Sheffield’s Fulcrum Utility plans to leave stock market
Sheffield’s Tan Delta joins London stock market
Leeds pension pool in £700m emerging markets bet
Asda second-quarter revenue rises 9.6% to £5.4bn
Marshalls profit falls 26% amid ‘weak’ first half
Co-op: young are turning away from higher education
Sheffield’s ITM Power to sell Motive Fuels
Northern Gritstone leads AssetCool funding round
Co-op Bank acquires £479m Sainsbury’s mortgages
CMA provisionally clears £1.2bn deal for EMIS of Leeds
Drax welcomes UK Government biomass support
Persimmon first-half profit plummets 65% to £151m
Liverpool City Region to give free tablets, internet
Liverpool City Region visitor economy tops £5bn
Bellway reservations fall 36% amid mortgage woes
JD Sports buys remaining 40% of Poland’s MIG
Sheffield’s SIG ups first-half revenue 5% to £1.4bn
Greater Manchester funds have now invested £1.2bn
Carr’s of Carlisle looks for new CEO
Card Factory shares up 16% amid strong trading
Carr’s of Carlisle sees agriculture hit by US drought
Team17 shares up on strong trading at Wakefield firm
Pets at Home Q1 revenue up 8% to £437m
Barrow’s James Fisher hires Hayzen-Smith as CFO
Altrincham’s CorpAcq to join NYSE in $1.6bn deal
Newcastle Building Society balances rise to £4.7bn
Skipton Building Society balances up 5.2% to £23bn
NWF in big board changes as revenue rises 20% to £1bn
C4XD, Manchester drug firm, sells rights to Indivior
Greggs first-half revenue grows 21% to £844m
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund tops £1bn
Man Utd in £900m kit deal with Adidas
Marshalls shares fall as it cuts jobs, warns of weakness
Co-op Bank first-half total income rose 16% to £266m
Leeds Building Society balances hit record £19bn
Lookers gets increased £504m takeover offer
Bodycote first-half revenue up 17.2% to £420m
Drax H1 earnings soar to £453m but BECCS paused
Persimmon CFO Jason Windsor poached by Abrdn
Yorkshire Building Society balances top £45bn
Newcastle’s Sage ups 9-month revenue to £1.6bn
Tracsis, Leeds transport data firm, appoints new chair
Revolution Bars down 9% on pre-Covid levels
Co-founder quits Ladbible parent LBG Media
Sheffield’s ITM Power in Gore strategic collaboration
Vimto firm Nichols ups H1 revenue 7% to £85m
Manchester’s Yourgene in Illumina contract extension
Severfield COO Cochrane leaves, will not be replaced
Moulding’s THG agrees to buy City AM free newspaper
Croda first-half sales slip to £881m, but divi protected
Northcoders wins contract but faces ‘challenges’
Moneysupermarket H1 revenue up 11% to £214m
Hull’s Cranswick ups revenue 15% amid pig shortage
Durham’s Atom Bank doubles savings deposits to £6.6bn
DWF, Manchester law giant, agrees to £342m takeover
THG sells businesses to ‘simplify and streamline’
Harrogate’s Vp fights slowdown in housebuilding
GB Group shareholders reject directors’ remuneration
Lookers shareholders to vote against £465m takeover
AJ Bell assets hit record high of £70bn
NWF, fuel and feeds firm, buys Geoff Boorman
Wakefield’s Team17 announces more board changes
ITM Power shares up 10% amid Germany contract
Revolution CEO, chair to exit in deal with Boohoo
Humber Freeport launches with plans for 7,000 jobs
Northern Bear revenue up 14% to £70m; pays dividend
DFS Furniture reports ‘record market share of 38%’
Barrow’s James Fisher searches for new CFO
Optalysys, Leeds encryption firm, in Series A funding
Northumbrian Water in £49m loss, warns bills will rise
South Yorkshire Investment Zone brings 8,000 jobs
Johnson, Runcorn linen giant, ups H1 revenue 22%
Port of Tyne secures £100m refinancing package
McBride shares up 20% as it flags return to profit
musicMagpie shares fall 20% amid loss, revenue hit
AJ Bell appoints ex-chair as ‘non-independent director’
Co-op appoints Debbie White as chair designate
Renold ups profit 40% but will not pay dividend
Sosandar, Wilmslow fashion firm, makes first profit
Begbies boosted by insolvencies as profits rise
Yorkshire Building Society hires Durbin as chair
DWF, Manchester law giant, in £342m takeover talks
JD Sports €500m deal gets full control of Iberian Sports
Gleeson home sales fall as interest rates bite
Aptamer seeks urgent funding as contracts boost shares
Jet2 soars to £5bn but shares fall amid Meeson exit
Supreme shares up amid vaping deal, revenue rise
SIG shares fall 13% amid ‘weak and uncertain demand’
Manchester Airports Group revenue up 123% to £1bn
AO World returns to profit; revenue falls 17% to £1.1bn
Yorkshire’s Croda completes £232m Korea acquisition
Sunderland’s ScS hires new chief financial officer
Greater Manchester, United Utilities extend water plan
Investor sought to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport
JD Sports in franchise deal with GMG of Dubai
Manchester’s Yourgene bought by Novacyt of France
Together Financial prices £425m securitisation deal
On the Beach says new executive team now in place
Gleeson sells 288 homes to Carlyle, Gatehouse
PwC and KPMG fined over Eddie Stobart audit
B&M first quarter revenue up 13.5% to £1.3bn
Unite seals 17% pay deal at Manchester Airport
JD Sports expects profit to exceed £1bn
Cussons shares fall amid Nigeria currency volatility
Man Utd raises its revenue guidance to £640m
Wood, Centrica plan East Yorkshire low-carbon hub
Yorkshire Water parent’s shareholders invest £500m
AJ Bell head of investment research Kosava leaves
SysGroup, Liverpool IT firm, grows revenue 47%
Speedy Hire underlying revenues up 14% to £434m
Morrisons second quarter sales rise 3.1% to £3.7bn
THG CEO Matthew Moulding gives up ‘golden share’
Manchester plans £1.7bn city centre innovation district
Church of England to build 1,000 homes in Lincoln
Gear4music ups revenue to £152m but reports loss
C4XD, Manchester drug firm, in leadership changes
Lookers to be bought for £465m by Canada’s Alpha
£660m Northern Powerhouse Fund II to launch
Trafford Council go-ahead for 639-home plan
Boohoo makes big move on Revolution Beauty board
Surface Transforms hires chief financial officer
GBG, Chester ID firm, falls 10% amid ‘deep corrections’
N Brown quarterly revenue falls 10% to £149m
Praetura launches listed fund to invest in Northern firms
Aptamer shares up 100% amid Alzheimer’s test news
Severfield revenue up 22% to record £492m
James Cropper CFO resigns ‘with immediate effect’
Manchester Airports Group appoints new CEO
Asda, Sainsbury’s ordered to stop blocking rival stores
Manchester’s Yourgene to sell Taiwanese business
Bellway reservations fall 25% as orders slump to £1.7bn
Texere Publishing of Cheshire bought by BroadcastMed
Tuffnells Parcels in administration; 2,000 jobs lost
San Francisco 49ers owner completes Leeds Utd buy
Frasers buys 18.9% stake in AO World for £75m
UK Cabinet Office plans Sheffield ‘policy campus’
NWF, fuel and feeds firm, reports strong trading
Croda shares hit 13% amid falling sales, profit forecast
Manchester University hit by ‘cyber incident’
EG Group seeks to amend and extend banking loans
NY-based Stellex acquires Manchester’s MSS Group
Harrogate’s Vp ups revenue 6% to £371m
Cumberland balance sheet £3bn amid ‘strategic options’
PRA confirms Newcastle, Manchester societies merger
Manchester University plans big student digs expansion
Assura, Warrington health REIT, moves to Altrincham
N Brown shares hit amid 83% profit fall, CEO warning
Wakefield’s Team17 appoints new CEO
Kromek, Durham radiation detection firm, wins contract
Manchester to lead UK real estate growth says CBRE
Powerhouse backs Manchester underground link
Manchester Airports’ CAVU buys ParkVia
Dechra agrees to £4.46bn takeover by Sweden’s EQT
Avacta buys Coris Bioconcept SRL of Belgium
Auto Trader tops £500m despite low vehicle supply
Ofgem investigates Drax on biomass reporting rules
Bodycote looks for new CEO amid good start to year
Liverpool’s B&M ups revenue to almost £5bn
Peel Ports invests £28m in new Liverpool warehouse
Surface Transforms hires chief operating officer
DWF, Manchester law giant, flags £380m net revenue
Asda to buy EG UK&I to create £30bn-revenue firm
UK Biobank gets £127m funding to move to Manchester
SysGroup, Liverpool IT firm, in big board changes
Pets at Home revenue tops £1.4bn; launches buyback
Henry Boot targets £150m investment portfolio
AJ Bell platform assets rise to £68.6bn; profit up 61%
United Utilities pays £310m dividend despite loss
Durham’s Atom bank hires Lee Rochford as chairman
Sheffield’s Benchmark ups H1 revenue 25% to £99m
Victorian Plumbing H1 revenue up 10% to £147m
Assura, Warrington health REIT, in £119m loss
Cranswick revenue rises 16% to record £2.32bn
Begbies expects revenue up 11% to £122m
Dechra shares fall 10% as it reports ‘volatile’ trading
Nanoco rejects shareholder request to change board
Vanquis chair Snowball to quit as new CEO arrives
Genedrive shares rise amid testing kit news
Speedy probe finds accounting problem, but no fraud
Genuit shares rise amid AGM trading update
Newcastle’s Grainger welcomes Renters Reform Bill
Chesire’s Redx Pharma sees revenue plummet
Newcastle’s Sage ups first-half revenue to £1bn
JD Sports revenue tops £10bn as profit rises to £991m
Accrol, Blackburn tissue firm, ups revenue to £242m
Renew, Leeds engineering firm, reports £890m orders
On the Beach first-half revenue rises 38% to £73m
Boohoo shares rise despite 11% revenue fall to £1.7bn

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