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Friday 18 September 2020

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Smart sensing company secures £1.1m NPIF funding

A Sheffield-based company which has developed smart sensing technology to help industry to reduce costs has raised £1.1m from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance to take on new staff and invest in product development.
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Ask the expert: Six reasons companies should invest in advertising post-Covid

Natalie Downie, managing director of Forward & Thinking, offers her advice on why companies should invest in advertising post-Covid.
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Deals

JLEN acquires hydropower business in £5m deal

Environmental infrastructure fund JLEN has acquired the business behind a hydropower and battery storage facility in Yorkshire for almost £5m.
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Surgical Innovations raises £2.2m

Leeds-based surgical equipment manufacturer Surgical Innovations has raised about £2.2m through a placing.
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Nimbus completes sale of snack bar maker

Leeds-based investment firm Nimbus has completed the sale of a snack bar manufacturer.
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British Business Investments in £30m Shawbrook subscription

British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has made a £30m subscription in specialist lender Shawbrook Group.
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Allica Bank launches £100m fundraise

Allica Bank has secured £26m from existing investors and launched a £100m fundraise.
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Seven-figure deal for crane hire firm

A national crane hire business has been bought by an entrepreneur in a seven-figure deal.
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TT Electronics agrees to acquire Torotel

TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, has agreed to acquire US business Torotel. TT has operations across the UK.
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Business Matters: Engage your employees by focusing on five themes

Amy Bell, managing director of Hey Me and PR, marketing and communications consultant, explores how communications can be successfully harnessed by organisations to engage their employees, and drive exciting new ways of working and collaboration.
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Business

Proposals for golf course at historic estate to be discussed

Proposals to invest £1.2m in a range of new leisure facilities at a historic Leeds estate are set to be discussed next week.
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New Bradford care home to create 150 jobs

About 150 jobs are set to be created at a new Bradford care home from specialist nursing provider Exemplar Health Care.
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Revenue down but WANdisco set to benefit from AWS partnership

Revenue has fallen in the interim results for WANdisco but the listed software group is set to benefit from a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Business Matters: Time to Tax?

Mike Brown, head of tax, West Midlands at Azets talks, about the possible reforms in tax and who will bear the burden of the circa £300bn missing from the treasure chest, which is the estimate of the overall public finance cost of COVID according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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Property

Hill Dickinson expands in Leeds with office move

Commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has expanded its Leeds-based practice with a move to larger premises.
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Integra Buildings reveals expansion plans

Modular construction business Integra Buildings has unveiled plans for a major expansion of its East Yorkshire base.
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Two tenants secured for Huddersfield estate

Carter Towler has secured two new tenants for a newly refurbished industrial estate in Huddersfield.
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Allenby Commercial snaps up Hull site

Hull-based developer Allenby Commercial has completed the acquisition of a site to the west of the city to support the expansion of its Trade Yard brand.
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New South Yorkshire service station opens

A new service station has opened off the M1 in South Yorkshire.
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Kier laments ‘difficult financial year’

Revenues have fallen at Kier in what the construction and property services group labelled a 'difficult year'. The business made a statutory pre-tax loss of £225.3m.
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Sheffield agency wins Paris business school contract

A Sheffield search marketing agency has won a contract with the Paris-based IPAG Business School.
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OptiBiotix Health signs Brazilian distribution agreement

York-headquartered life sciences company OptiBiotix Health haas signed an agreement for the distribution of its products in Brazil.
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