A Cheshire-based business, which has developed a system to monitor tyre pressure, has secured a £250,000 investment from NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance, managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, as it looks to expand. Read More
Martin O’Rourke, commercial director at Birchwood Park, says wellness programs are more popular than ever before. Initially, they started as an employee perk for large corporations - but today’s wellness programs are regularly part of a company’s benefits package. Read More
Private equity-backed IT, cloud and digital transformation specialist BCN Group has expanded its offering in the healthcare sector with the acquisition of an application and analytics business. Read More
A plant hire and groundwork operations business has secured a funding package of £100m from HSBC, NatWest and Barclays to support its expansion strategy. RSM UK's debt advisory team helped secure the package. Read More
A pan European real estate consultancy business has taken an initial minority stake in a 200-strong management and property consultancy in prelude to a full merger. Read More
Jim Truscott, partner at Beyond Corporate Law, says the M&A market is busy across both the region and nationally, regardless of size and sector. Read More
Barbara Wainwright, workplace company trainer at AlphaBiolabs, looks at how workplace drug and alcohol testing can combat the detrimental effect of substance abuse on businesses. Read More
Helen Jude, director at Landwood Group - which specialises in all aspects of property, plant and machinery and business assets - offers insight on how businesses can navigate the impacts of the Ukraine crisis. Read More
Plans for a second consultation on Cadent's proposals for an underground hydrogen pipeline have been confirmed following completion of the first round of feedback. Read More
Crewe-headquartered Bentley Motors has posted a "record" financial performance in 2021, with profits and sales soaring despite what it described as a "continued backdrop of economic uncertainty". Read More
Winsford-headquartered specialist in tissue-healing technologies Advanced Medical Solutions (AMS) Group has posted rises in revenues and profits, saying it is "positioned for further growth". Read More
In this roundtable we assemble a panel of asset based lenders, intermediaries and introducers, to assess the market and predict where it will go next. Read More