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Latest News | The Hut Group has outlined details of a £10m aid package to support vulnerable communities, key workers and emergency services across Manchester, the UK and its international markets. The company has also handed both of its city centre hotels over to the NHS and GM Police for the coming months.
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Sara Barrett, a partner at Mills & Reeve, looks into the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
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Quantuma has acquired a Manchester-based specialist insolvency and advisory firm on the back of strong North West growth.
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The multimillion-pound takeover of a financial services technology company by an Australian business has completed for a discount on the original purchase price.
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Auto Trader has completed a placing, with the company set to raise about £186m.
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Further details on the takeover of a Lancashire engineering company have been revealed, with the deal saving 21 jobs.
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Professional services giant EY has acquired an R&D independent tax consultancy which specialises in supporting companies accessing R&D tax relief through the small to medium size enterprises (SME) scheme.
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Economic uncertainty can have a significant impact on the fortunes of many firms. Fiona Wood, partner at McAlister Family Law, examines the issues around divorce and businesses in challenging times.
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Business secretary Alok Sharma has said it is 'completely unacceptable' if banks are 'unfairly refusing funds to good companies in financial difficulties' amid criticism of the industry and concern about the ability of firms to survive the current shutdown in place to tackle the coronavirus. The Chancellor is set to come forward with additional measures to help small businesses trying to access support.
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A new initiative designed to help businesses respond to the unprecedented shift in the jobs market as a result of coronavirus has been launched by the Growth Company in partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
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Liverpool City Council has opened applications for the city's businesses to apply for a Covid-19 support grant.
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A holiday company has vowed to come back stronger than ever – with assistance from Lloyds Bank – after cancelling its upcoming trips.
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B&M is to temporarily close almost 50 stores amid the ongoing pandemic.
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Compassionate Care is creating more than 50 roles to meet the urgent need for in-home services across Trafford.
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Liverpool recruitment consultancy Advocate Group has expanded into Manchester and is going international, but director Chris Dickenson is wary of overstretching.
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Plans to build the UK's largest arena at Manchester's Etihad Campus, in a move which would support 4,500 jobs, have been submitted.
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Regeneration developer U+I has exchanged on the sale of its holding in Harwell Campus – a science and technology campus in Oxfordshire – in a deal worth more than £40m.
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Members of the JV North consortium have built the equivalent of almost four homes every working day over the past year.
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Brabners has moved to further strengthen its real estate offering with the appointment of a new sector lead for the North West.
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Altin Homes has submitted plans for the redevelopment of a former garden centre on the A50 at Allostock.
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Member Exclusive News | Davis Blank Furniss has grown its private client team.
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Manchester-based Pixel Kicks has secured a brief with the Nanomedicine Lab.
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