Northern Financial Review

Shares of Bradford-based window and door company Safestyle UK rose about 6% after it said it expects to report full-year revenue growth of 26.6% compared…

Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds, has completed a £130 million investment in Wirral Waters One (WWO), the…

Essar Oil UK announced it has formed Vertex Hydrogen Limited, a new joint venture with Progressive Energy, to build the UK’s largest hydrogen hub at…

Wilmslow-based pet and vet retailer Pets at Home Group said on Wednesday it is on track to report a record year of sales and profit…

Sage Group, the Newcastle-based international software giant for SMEs, said on Wednesday its total group revenue increased by 5% to £458 million in the three months…

Interest payments on UK central government debt were £8.1 billion in December 2021, a December record and £5.4 billion more than in December 2020, according…

Shares of Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle-based Northcoders, the provider of training programmes for software coding, rose as much as 9% on Tuesday after it published…

Newcastle-headquartered bus and rail giant Go-Ahead Group has announced a further delay to the publishing of its results for the year ended July 3, 2021….

UK company share dividends soared 46.1% in 2021 to £94.1 billion on a headline basis, according to the latest Dividend Monitor report from Link Group….

Skipton Building Society said on Monday that after almost 30 years with the business, 13 of them as group chief executive, David Cutter and the board…

Manchester-headquartered international law firm DWF Group plc announced it has been appointed to the NHS Resolution Legal Services Panel. The appointment will see DWF provide legal…

Everton Football Club’s board of directors has confirmed that club owner Farhad Moshiri has increased his shareholding in Everton to 94.1%. by converting a £100…

Edinburgh-based investment group Abrdn and its 60%-owned property and logistics investment fund Tritax announced they will provide up to £2 billion of private funding for…

Greater Manchester-based Revolution Bars Group plc said on Thursday the UK Government’s response to Omicron “was overly cautious and caused a substantial loss of trade…

Manchester-based online fashion and home goods retailer N Brown Group said on Thursday its year to date revenue slipped 1.7% to £614.4 million as it “performed…

York-based online musical equipment retailer Gear4music plc said its sales in the three month to December 31, 2021, fell 10% to £47.2 million from an…

Stena Line and Associated British Ports (ABP) announced they have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a new freight terminal at the Port of…

Salford-based investment platform AJ Bell said on Thursday its total assets under administration (AUA) increased to £75.6 billion — up 21% over the last year…

Shares of Salford-based fashion firm In The Style fell about 3% on Wednesday as it published a positive update on Christmas trading for the eight…

Blackburn-based toilet roll and tissue maker Accrol Group on Tuesday reported revenue growth of 18.3% to £73.7 million for the six months ended October 31,…

Shares of Wetherby-based diagnostics company Avacta Group plc rose about 14% on Tuesday after it announced its next pre|CISION drug candidate, AVA3996, has been selected for…

Shares of Carlisle-based agriculture and engineering firm Carr’s Group rose about 3% on Tuesday after it announced a review of its strategic options across all…

Shares of Sheffield-based property investment and construction group Henry Boot plc rose about 5% on Tuesday after it published a trading update for the year ended…

Marshalls plc, the Elland, West Yorkshire-based stone and landscaping firm, said on Tuesday its revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021 was £589 million, which…

Manchester e-commerce, beauty and nutrition giant THG plc said on Tuesday its 2021 revenue rose 37.9% to £2.2 billion. However, the company’s shares fell as much…

Doncaster-based Clean Power Hydrogen plc (CPH2) said on Monday it plans to raise £50 million and float on London’s junior AIM stock market. The firm designs…

Growth investor BGF announced it invested £70 million in the North West of England in 2021 as it backed “some of the most exciting entrepreneurial…

Manchester-based molecular diagnostics firm Yourgene Health plc said on Monday it expects to report full year revenues of at least £37 million, significantly above current…

Newcastle-based house building giant Bellway said on Friday that former Redrow CEO John Tutte will join its board as non-executive chairman designate on March 1, 2022. …

The investment vehicle of the Arora family, which controls Liverpool-based B&M European Value Retail, announced on Thursday its intention to sell 40 million ordinary shares of B&M…

Manchester fashion firm Boohoo Group plc announced it granted a total of 15.44 million free ordinary shares to almost 5,000 employees as part of the company’s…

(Updates with results of share placing at end of story) Wakefield-based Team17 Group, the developer of video games and educational entertainment apps, announced on Thursday it agreed to…

Shares of Wakefield-based greeting card and gift retailer Card Factory fell about 16% on Thursday after the firm published a positive trading update for the…

York-based house building giant Persimmon plc said on Thursday its 2021 revenue rose 8.4% to £3.61 billion and new home legal completions rose 7% to 14,551….

JD Sports Fashion Plc, the Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer, said on Thursday its executive chairman Peter Cowgill has sold 10 million shares in the firm…

More than 1,000 jobs are available with Manchester Airports Group (MAG) – which owns and operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports – amid…

Merseyside-based Vimto and soft drinks firm Nichols plc said in a trading update on Wednesday its revenue rose 22% to £144.3m million in the 12…

Shares of Blackburn-based toilet roll and tissue maker Accrol Group fell almost 20% on Wednesday after it published a trading update for its current financial year…

Manchester-based commercial property giant Bruntwood has reported a return to profit in its latest financial year as the total value of its assets rose to more…

Shares of Doncaster-based DFS Furniture plc rose about 8% on Wednesday after it published a trading update for the 26-week financial reporting period to December 26, 2021,…

Bitcoin has trounced traditional investment strategies over one and 10 years “but it remains a speculative gamble” according to new research from Salford investment giant…

Bury-based FTSE 100 retailer JD Sports Fashion Plc on Wednesday raised its annual profit forecast for the second time in four months. JD Sports said it…

Liverpool-based online retail and financial services firm The Very Group said on Tuesday that its retail sales grew 21.9% for the seven weeks to December…

Shares of Sheffield-based affordable house builder MJ Gleeson plc fell about 5% on Tuesday despite the firm publishing a trading update saying it expects results for the…

Sheffield-based international building materials supplier SIG plc said on Tuesday it expects to report full-year 2021 revenues from underlying operations of £2.29 billion — a…

Chesire-based international veterinary drugs giant Dechra Pharmaceuticals said on Tuesday it agreed terms with Anivive Lifesciences Inc to acquire the worldwide rights to verdinexor, a novel…

Assura plc, the Warrington-based healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), said on Monday it completed nine acquisitions in its third quarter for £105 million and…

Shares of Wetherby-based diagnostics company Avacta Group plc fell about 30% on Monday after it announced it has paused sales of its Covid-19 AffiDX antigen lateral flow…

Altrincham-based car dealership Lookers plc said on Friday it expects “record underlying profit before tax ahead of company compiled market consensus of £82m.” Lookers also said…

Harrogate-based independent financial adviser (IFA) Prosperis Ltd has acquired AJ Hird Ltd, the Skipton-based IFA, for an undisclosed fee. The deal brings a further £40…

Wakefield-based Team17 Group, the developer of video games and educational entertainment apps, said on Thursday it continued to trade above management expectations through the second half of…

Manchester United has announced that Richard Arnold, formerly group managing director, will become its chief executive officer, effective from February 1, 2022. Ed Woodward will…

Leeds-based supermarket giant Asda has announced major changes to its executive leadership team. Ken Towle of Nisa will join Asda’s executive leadership team later in…

Newcastle-based food-to-go retailer Greggs said on Thursday it has appointed its retail and property director Roisin Currie to succeed Roger Whiteside as chief executive when he…

Northern Gritstone, the new university spin-out investment business based in the north of England and chaired by Jim O’Neill, has announced the appointment of Marion…

Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle-based Northcoders, the provider of training programmes for software coding, has appointed Angela Williams as its new non-executive group chair. Williams, 52,…

Newcastle-headquartered bus and rail giant Go-Ahead Group, recently stripped of the Southeastern rail franchise, has temporarily suspended trading in its shares and its 2.50% guaranteed bond due…

India-based Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd (RNESL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, has agreed to acquire Sheffield-based sodium-ion battery technology firm Faradion Limited for an…

By Mark McSherry The total capital raised by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in 2021 was £49.2 billion — £16.8bn in IPOs as 122 firms…

Shares of Barrow-in-Furness international marine engineering company James Fisher and Sons plc rose about 30% on Wednesday after it announced it has received all outstanding funds relating…

The UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has announced the sale of One Hardman Boulevard in Manchester’s Central Business District to NatWest Group for £292 million. The deal,…

MIDAS, Manchester’s inward investment agency, announced that Greater Manchester has recorded a strong year for inward investment, with the highest annual number of new jobs…

Peel L&P has submitted plans for the first phase of infrastructure work at Trafford Waters, a development in TraffordCity, Greater Manchester, which will see up…

Manchester-based molecular diagnostics firm Yourgene Health plc announced that Yourgene Genomic Services (YG) has been awarded a contract for the provision of laboratory capacity to support the Winter…

Shares of Alderley Park-based drug discovery Redx Pharma rose about 15% on Thursday after it announced a milestone payment from AstraZeneca has been triggered as a…

Shares of Manchester-based household products firm McBride plc rose about 5% on Wednesday after it said its banking group has waived December 2021 covenant tests. The…

Shares of Wetherby-based diagnostics company Avacta Group plc rose about 17% on Wednesday after it said its AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test has received a…

Shares of York-based life sciences firm Aptamer Group plc rose as much as 20% on Wednesday when the company’s stock started trading on the AIM…

Shares of Manchester-based molecular diagnostics company Genedrive rose as much as 20% on Wednesday after it announced that “expanded product validation requirements have now been completed ”…

Croda International, the Snaith, East Yorkshire-based FTSE 100 speciality chemicals giant, said on Wednesday it signed a definitive agreement to sell the majority of its Performance…