Fresh from winning its first ever contract to deliver internal audit services to a housing association in England, Wylie & Bisset, Accountants and Business Advisers has landed asecond contract for an English housing association just weeks later. Already a leading provider of internal audit services for housing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the firm recently […]
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The North East-born founder of a global production company has unveiled plans for a £450m film studio which could create one of Europe’s largest facilities as well as thousands of jobs. FulwellCain Studios, a joint venture between global entertainment company Fulwell 73 and Cain International, says its plans for Crown Works Studios in Sunderland would
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After months of anticipation and fierce competition, the winners of The English Hair and Beauty Awards 2023 Chapter 1. A celebration of the best hair and beauty professionals across the country, the awards ceremony took place on Sunday 26 th February at The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, with 150 guests in attendance. The winners of
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A record 151,603 businesses were founded by female entrepreneurs in 2022, according to the latest review by Alison Rose, NatWest Group Chief Executive. Despite economic uncertainty, the number of women founding businesses jumped up from 145,271 in 2021, and was over double the number of female-led start-ups in 2018, setting a new high for female
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Left to Right: Robert Bell from The AA, Jamie Baldridge, director of parks services at Quorum Business Park in Newcastle & Jon Ellis, head of property and facilities management Breakdown company The AA is investing in a new regional office for its 700 staff as part of plans to modernise its operations. The AA will
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Left to Right: Ingerop Group president Yves Metz, Rendel managing director Vardy Jones, Birmingham City Council leader Ian Ward and Ingerop international director Christophe Blanc An engineering consultancy has moved to a new permanent home in Birmingham after first setting up a base in the city in 2019. Rendel is now housed at Edmund Gardens,
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The Fowey Valley Hotel in Cornwall has been acquired for an undisclosed sum. The hotel in the town of Lostwithiel, located around six miles from visitor attraction The Eden Project, has been bought by an unnamed independent hotel group. The 38-bedroom accommodation hotel trades under the Best Western franchise and has been operated by independent
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A deal to join Newcastle and Manchester building societies has taken a step closer thanks to heads of terms being agreed. The two societies first raised the prospect of a merger last summer and such a move could save Manchester, which has not undertaken any new mortgage lending since 2013. The North West mutual, which
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Tyler Grange Team The North West companies who are sticking with their switch to a four-day working week as part of a national pilot have been named. A total of eight businesses with operations across the region confirmed they were part of the experiment which saw them give staff an extra day off for no
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Left to Right: Paul Secker, George Richardson and Ian Forde-Smith A Cheshire company behind an airport management platform has plans to double its headcount after raising $12.6m. The Series A funding round into Macclesfield-based AeroCloud was led by US fund Stage 2 Capital and supported by I2BF Global Ventures, Triple Point Ventures and Praetura Ventures.
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