North East hospitality company Cairn Group has posted record results with turnover topping £100m for the first time – beating pre-pandemic levels. The Newcastle based leisure property owner and developer, which owns the Station Hotel in Newcastle has toasted a rapid return to profitability, after a successful year of trading saw turnover jump from £34.1m […]
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Proposals for a world-leading wellbeing destination have been backed by a hat-trick of local organisations in advance of determination by the Planning Committee of East Ayrshire Council, to be held on today. In joint letter to councillors (highlighted below), Auchinleck Community Council, a statutory consultee in the planning process, Auchinleck Community Development Initiative and Ayrshire
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Wylie & Bisset, Accountants and Business Advisers, has won its first contract to deliver internal audit services to a housing association in England. Already a leading provider of internal audit services for housing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the contract win makes Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the UK’s first tenant and employee co-owned mutual housing society,
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Accountancy watchdog the Financial Reporting Council has launched an investigation into big four firm PwC’s auditing of shopping centre and leisure group Intu Properties plc. The audit and accountancy regulator will look at PwC’s handling of Intu’s 2017 and 2018 accounts, a period before the firm’s collapse into administration. Following a drop in rents brought
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A fast-growing Wiltshire furniture business has set its sights on global growth after its sales grew to almost £17m in seven years. Furniturebox, founded by Monty George and Dan Beckles after they left school in Salisbury, said it was expecting global sales to grow from 5% to up to 50% of its total business over
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Top wedding specialists gathered yesterday, at The Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel & Spa to celebrate the champions of The 5 th Welsh Wedding Awards 2023. The 2023 Awards recognised exceptional specialists and suppliers that go above and beyond to ensure the uniqueness of every wedding. These suppliers are from a variety of industries and
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Profits at Leicestershire headquartered homewares giant Dunelm dropped by a sixth in the second half of last year, partly due to inflationary pressures. The business reported pre-tax profits of £117.4 million for the half year, down from £140.8 million a year before. That came despite its sales rising 5 per cent to £835 for the
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Dr Ollie Folayan MBE (L) and Dr Roy Bitrus (R), co-chairs of AFBE-UK Scotland Diversity and inclusion organisation AFBE-UK has appointed two new co-chairs. Dr Awai Collins-Harrison becomes AFBE-UK England’s co-chair alongside national chair, Dr Nike Folayan, while Dr Roy Bitrus becomes AFBE-UK Scotland’s co-chair alongside chair, Dr Ollie Folayan. AFBE-UK supports young people, particularly
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Norman Soutar (L) and Jane Stewart (R) Leading figures from the world of food and business have joined one of the UK’s biggest ingredients firms to help it achieve the next stage of its growth plans. Norman Soutar and Jane Stewart join the team at Macphie Ltd as Non-Executive Directors, bringing with them a wealth
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E-bike and e-scooter firm Beryl has secured £2m to develop a new factory in Dorset. The firm, which operates hire schemes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, is looking to begin work on the manufacturing hub in Poole later this year. It added that its plans, which have received the boost from Midlands-based finance firm Frontier
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