Today's South West business news from Insider |
Latest News | Revised plans have been lodged for the redevelopment of the Harlequin Centre site in Exeter. The proposals have been adapted from a previously consented application to reflect the challenges faced by the hospitality industry following the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ian Brokenshire, senior partner for KPMG in the South West, says the topic of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is increasingly under the spotlight for privately owned businesses in response to a wave of scrutiny from stakeholders. This could be customers, employees, banks and other finance providers, owners, regulators, or the public at large.
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TOR Drilling, a Somerset-based rotary drilling specialist, has been acquired by SOCOTEC UK, a provider of testing, inspection, and compliance services.
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Community pub group Hawthorne is being sold by NewRiver REIT for £222.3m.
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Private equity firm Palamon has agreed to sell Feelunique, an online retailer of prestige beauty products in the UK, to Sephora, the beauty retailer owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
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Mercedes-Benz has acquired YASA, a pioneer in next-generation electric drive technology.
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Insider talks to a business leader who turned a small family company into manufacturing firm about to break through the £100m turnover barrier.
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Revenues have surged past the £50m milestone at the company behind a group of independent music colleges - which count the likes of George Ezra and James Bay among its alumni - although losses widened in its latest financial year.
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AIM-listed finance provider Time Finance has launched its digital fleet funding finder.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out measures to ensure a national network of electric vehicle chargepoints is in place ahead of the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.
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The UK economy is growing at its fastest pace in 80 years with the country's prospects having been upgraded, according to the EY ITEM Club forecast.
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Robert Jones, head of messaging at BT, explains the benefits and possibilities that are available with BT’s new, all-encompassing communications solution.
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Law firm TLT has advised Town and Country Housing (TCH) on its partnership with Legal & General Modular Homes to acquire a site for the development of 153 modular homes.
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Member Exclusive News | The generator that will be at the heart of one of the most powerful hybrid-electric aero power and propulsion systems in aerospace has arrived for installation at Rolls-Royce's specialist testbed in Bristol.
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The administration of Cleveland Bridge is set to delay the the Redcliffe Bridge refurbishment project, Bristol City Council has said.
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