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24 Yorkshire companies listed among nation’s leading mid-market private companies
Twenty-four companies have been named in the 16th annual Sunday Times PwC Top Track 250 league table ranks Britain’s leading mid-market private companies with...Founder of Yorkshire-based Hatmill named regional Service Industries Entrepreneur at GB Entrepreneur Awards
The founder of Yorkshire-based Hatmill, Simon Dixon, has been named regional Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year for Yorkshire and the North West at...Sheffield Council working to ensure businesses are COVID-secure
Sheffield City Council is working with city businesses to ensure they are COVID-secure. This means that businesses need to put adjustments in place to manage...Cranswick achieve food waste reduction target a decade early
Cranswick has achieved a 61% reduction in food waste a decade earlier than planned, eclipsing the international reduction target. The Hull-headquartered food producer has surpassed...Researchers secure £100,000 for projects strengthening food and drink sector
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam’s National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering (NCEFE) have begun work on two projects that will help drive the food...
- Finance
Commissions calls for £4.2bn annual skills investment to combat COVID, reboot economy
The Future-Ready Skills Commission is calling for £4.2 billion of skills investment a year to reboot the economy and help the UK recover from...Period of ‘exciting progress’ for life sciences firm
The Chief Executive of OptiBiotix Health has welcomed “another period of exciting progress” with a rise in revenues and a reduction in pre-tax losses. For...Nimble Approach secures investment from tech consultancy heavyweight
Sheffield-based Nimble Approach has received a significant investment from tech consultancy heavyweight Mike Bates. Bates has extensive experience in helping to create and build two...Chancellor outlines Winter Economy Plan to protect jobs and support businesses
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has outlined additional government support to provide certainty to businesses and workers impacted by coronavirus across the UK. Delivering a speech...Zenith acquires counterpart’s assets out of administration
Zenith, a vehicle outsourcing company based in Leeds, has acquired the fleet services, rental and finance operations of the Cartwright Group from administrators. The acquisition,...
- Manufacturing
Manufacturing activity remains poor – CBI
Manufacturer output volumes in the three months to September fell at a slower pace than in August, according to the latest CBI monthly Industrial...Sheffield start-up launch software to boost manufacturing capacity
A Sheffield tech start-up has launched software that will help manufacturing businesses improve capacity. Dubbed the ‘Fitbit for manufacturing’, the new Manufacturing Execution System will...AMRC awarded £2m to open food, drink packaging sustainability centre
The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) will create a Food and Drink Packaging Sustainability Centre at AMRC Cymru after securing £2...Manufacturers slash investment to remain afloat post-COVID
In a fraught battle to stay afloat in the wake of COVID-19, manufacturers have slashed investment despite a rise in output and orders from...Structural steel specialists secures trio of contracts worth £21m
The structural steel division of the South Yorkshire-based Billington Holdings has secured three contractors worth £21 million. According to the AIM-listed company, one of these...
- Appointments
Sheffield’s MD Law retains first trainee solicitor and adds to team
MD Law has retained newly qualified solicitor David Scott and taken on another two trainees. David joined the Broomhall-based firm in August 2018 as the...Double director appointment for Town Centre Securities
Town Centre Securities (TCS) has made two key senior appointments in its property team. The Leeds-based property investor and car parking operator has promoted Helen...Bank appoints relationship director to support Yorkshire property clients
Lloyds Bank has appointed Oliver Shaw as Relationship Director in its real estate team, strengthening its support for property SMEs across Yorkshire. Mr Shaw has...Duo of director appointments at Eddisons’ Leeds office
Eddisons has promoted Joseph Fitzsimmons and Richard Temple, both based in the property consultant’s Leeds head office, to director. Joining Eddisons in 2015, Mr Fitzsimmons...Clarion add energy lawyer as it expands specialisms
Clarion has added an energy specialist to its commercial and IT law team as it expands its specialisms to include the energy sector. Specialising in...
- Out of office
Lincs businesses encouraged to access toolkit to ensure COVID compliance
Lincolnshire businesses are being encouraged to access a toolkit with all the information and guidance required to ensure they are COVID compliant. Put together by...Scarecrows stand up for food standards in Dewsbury
Scarecrows in the shape of a GB cyclist, a farmer and a local cook have mysteriously appeared across Dewsbury to 'Stand Up For British...Time Out: Spencer Coffin, director of Procure Direct
The weekend is just around the corner and that means another ‘Time Out’. This week Business Link talks to Spencer Coffin, director of Procure...Pudsey company helps supply 450 Google Chromebooks to inner-city Leeds school
Pudsey-based Next Generation IT has joined forces with Google Education to supply 450 pupils with Google Chromebooks at an inner-city school in Leeds. Little London...Streets Heaver national finalist in ‘Innovation in Health Tech’
Lincoln Based Software Company, Streets Heaver Healthcare Computing, Nationally Recognised In The LaingBuisson Awards In The ‘Innovation in Health Tech’ Category. The LaingBuisson Awards celebrate...
- Advice
Business Lincolnshire launches campaign to help businesses post-COVID-19
With lockdown restrictions continuing to ease, many businesses are preparing for life in the ‘new normal’. The impact of COVID-19 ranges by industry and...Prioritise jobs, training for young to drive UK-wide recovery – CBI
The CBI has laid out a health-first recovery plan that it said would help secure a jobs-rich, fair and sustainable future for the UK...Top vet asks Prime Minister to rethink plans to stop key workers accessing UK jobs
A Yorkshire vet has called on Boris Johnson not to proceed with plans to heavily restrict access to the UK labour market for so-called...Sheffield industrialist speaks out for region’s SMEs during crisis
A Sheffield industrialist has spoken out in support of the region's many SMEs which are struggling to keep going during the coronavirus pandemic. James Harding-Terry,...With 2021 looming, what’s in store for trade?
The end of January brought with it the end of the UK’s member ship in the European Union. Last month, the government began setting...
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