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Latest News | Wrights Food Group is lining up a number of new product developments in 2021, its chairman has told Insider, as the Crewe-headquartered manufacturer looks to move on from "one of the most difficult years in living history" for UK business.
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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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While few manufacturers will end 2020 in the position they envisaged, companies could soon be able to plan for future growth, a senior figure at Lloyds Bank has told Insider.
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A Rochdale-based fire door manufacturer is looking to continue its upward curve of sales growth and investment into 2021, its managing director has told Insider.
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BAE Systems has outlined plans to hire more than 1,250 trainees into its early careers programmes in 2021.
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The UK arm of a building materials manufacturing giant grew its turnover to almost £800m in the year before it completed a £178m deal with counterpart Breedon, new documents have revealed.
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Bolton-based Workforce People Solutions has reported a 20 per cent uplift in staff since the start of lockdown and launched a new technology division on the back of securing a £500,000 investment.
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Ducati Manchester has expanded with a pair of acquisitions in a deal backed by DF Capital.
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The group behind Sports Direct and House of Fraser has confirmed it will not seek to table a bid to take over luxury brand Mulberry.
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Shawbrook Bank has acquired RateSetter's peer-to-peer funded development finance business.
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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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Revenue has grown at professional services giant PwC UK but profits have fallen due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Shining stars from financial services, property, tech and the media are among those competing at Insider's North West Young Professionals Awards, and there is still time to enter.
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Manchester-headquartered technology services provider Pebble Group has acquired software assets from a US-based developer for $5.3m.
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The UK-wide furlough and Covid-19 business loan schemes have been extended. The extensions come ahead of the Budget, which the Chancellor has confirmed will take place on 3 March 2021.
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Bruce Jack Wines has struck a deal to become an official partner of Sale Sharks.
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Warrington-based peer-to-peer lending company Sourced Capital has raised more than £10m in P2P finance loans during 2020.
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Sophie Park, director of workforce skills at The City of Liverpool College, says sustainability and finding ways of becoming more environmentally friendly continues to be a focus for government and industry, and impressive steps are being taken across the country to meet the UK’s net-zero emissions target for 2050.
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Plans to develop a "world-class" train station in Liverpool city centre have been kickstarted.
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Stanley Green Trading Estate has been acquired, together with an adjoining development site in Cheadle, in a deal worth £17.25m.
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Liverpool-based Riverside Group has completed a £150m private bond issuance with Pricoa Private Capital.
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Manchester-headquartered Landwood Group's newest division has been instructed on a national portfolio of 62 commercial properties by Grant Thornton.
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Two construction industry suppliers have been fined a total of more than £15m by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after the regulator found that they broke competition law.
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When it comes to talking through the challenges you face in business, working with like-minded business leaders can be an effective way to share knowledge and find solutions.
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Member Exclusive News | A proposal which will see South Lakeland District Council contribute more than £500,000 towards the development of projects designed to boost Kendal has been agreed.
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Wigan-based Attain has been buoyed by a rapid increase in demand for its services.
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