New store openings and the growing popularity of Greggs in the evening have helped the high street bakery brand to generate sales of £1.5bn. A record 186 new shop openings during 2022 helped the Newcastle-based firm attract more customers close to pre-pandemic levels, it said in preliminary results published to the London Stock Exchange. Greggs […]
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Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that 15 new positions have been created at its Livingston facility in Scotland as part of a £2.6 million investment. The investment is a result of a request made to Merck’s Livingston facility to tender for the design, development and commercialisation of a novel diagnostic quality
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Airline operator Jet2 is creating around 60 new jobs at Newcastle International Airport after ramping up operations. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays is preparing for its biggest ever summer operation at the airport, where it now has eight aircraft based on site with plans to increase to nine during the peak summer season. The airline and tour
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Left to Right: Calum Crighton, Lesley McKnight and Richard Shepherd Gilson Gray, the full-service legal firm, has acquired The Law Practice in a move which will see the business expand its offering in Aberdeen. Owner of The Law Practice, Lesley McKnight, and her team will join Gilson Gray at its Blenheim Place offices, bringing further
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Stack & Still, the UK’s largest chain of pancake houses, has dished up a £10,000 donation to children’s charity Cash for Kids after generous diners at its six participating Scottish branches added an extra £2 topping when paying their bills on Pancake Day. The Glasgow-based Pancake Pioneers, who serve over a million pancakes every year
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Aurum Biosciences, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Scotland has been awarded an Innovation Passport for its breakthrough stroke technology. A 2015 spinout company of InnoScot Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and the University of Glasgow, Aurum Biosciences develops therapeutics and diagnostics in areas of unmet clinical need. Aurum Biosciences’ lead product ABL-101
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Around 3,300 bus drivers and engineers at National Express in the West Midlands are set to go on strike later this month. Almost the entire West Midlands bus network will be shut from March 16 as a result of all- out action which will continue indefinitely in the ongoing row over pay, after more than
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Aberdeen-based diversity and inclusion organisation AFBE-UK Scotland is calling on black and minority ethnic (BME) leaders to join the next cohort of its Transcend programme. Transcend is designed for BME professionals with more than 10 years’ experience in senior to lead engineering and technical roles to help them progress to high-level management and executive
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A rail group is now under UK ownership and sporting a new name following the completion of a management buyout from its Dutch parent company. Abellio UK is now called Transport UK Group and functioning as a standalone entity after the MBO deal was completed with its state-backed owner Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The buyout has received
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Commercial property firm UK Land Estates has re-acquired significant chunks of three North East industrial estates in a major multimillion-pound deal. The landlord and developer, which now has about 600 tenants across its properties, has bought parts of North Tyneside’s New York Industrial Estate, Cramlington Nelson Park and Boldon Industrial Estate in an undisclosed deal.
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