Latest News | Blackburn-headquartered EG Group has agreed a deal to acquire a network of 285 petrol station forecourts in southern Germany for €485m.
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Joe Keegan, team leader - skills broker at Growth Platform discusses what businesses should be asking themselves as they look to recover and grow.
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Electronics Arts (EA) has submitted a bid for Codemasters, one of the oldest names in Britain's video game industry, which values the listed company at £945m. As a result, the business has withdrawn its recommendation for a bid from Take-Two.
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The Competion and Markets Authority has referred the proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2 for an in-depth phase two investigation.
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Capita has agreed to sell its Education Software Solutions (ESS) business to a company established by Montagu Private Equity. The deal values ESS at up to £400m.
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Drax has agreed a deal to sell a company behind four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations for more than £190m
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Glyn Jones, service delivery director at BAE Systems and chair of the Made Smarter Pilot Steering Group at BAE Systems, says we’re at the forefront of digital manufacturing developments in support of Industry 4.0. We are creating smart factories of the future, exploiting AI and digital expertise and technologies to drive down costs and improve efficiencies across our manufacturing capabilities. These ambitions are shared by Made Smarter, which is why we have been firm supporters since its inception.
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Tourism to Britain is forecast to jump by more than 70 per cent in 2021, according to new figures. However, the total is expected to still be less than half of 2019's level.
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Pre-tax profits surged by more than £50m at a specialist builders' merchant, which has been earmarked to be demerged from its listed parent company, during its latest financial year.
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The North West is forecast to be one of the country’s strongest performing regions to 2023 as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report by EY.
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In an industrial landscape where even complex, engineered products and services are now bought in a completely different, more remote and independently researched style than years gone by, Alex Cairns argues that sales needs to align itself with marketing more than ever before.
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A new algorithm-led property asset management business has launched after securing £250m in seed funding.
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Business leaders operating in the manufacturing sector have told Insider about how they are rising to challenges presented by lockdown and Brexit, and their hopes for 2021.
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North West manufacturers, supported by Made Smarter, are expected to create more than 750 jobs from £12.6m in technology investment.
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