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Thursday 19 May 2022

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TOP STORY

Plans for a major logistics project earmarked for a brownfield site in Northamptonshire have been recommended for approval ahead of a planning committee meeting next week.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Gareth Lewis, associate director for business development in Coventry University's subsidiary company PeoplesFuture Ltd, explains how the team at PeoplesFuture are helping businesses tackle the skills and workforce shortage.
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DEALS

Private equity firm Astorg has confirmed that it does not intend to make an offer for Ideagen.
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A Kettering-headquartered provider of foiling services to the fenestration and building materials markets – which was founded by a Scotland rugby great – has been acquired.
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Browne Jacobson's corporate dealmakers have advised on a Coniston Capital-backed management buyout of a designer, manufacturer and installer of bespoke kitchens with showrooms across the UK.
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Clarity, a tech marketing and communications agency, has secured funding from Leicestershire-based alternative lender ThinCats to support its fifth acquisition since 2019.
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Law firm Blake Morgan has supported chartered surveying practice Smithers Purslow throughout its acquisition by legal and professional services group Gateley.
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A proposed cash offer for HomeServe, which values the home repairs and improvements business at £4.07bn, is to be recommended to shareholders.
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The £91.5m acquisition of property search and conveyancing services provider TM Group could lead to a worse deal for homeowners, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found. The watchdog believes that the only effective way to address the issues it has identified would be for the company to be sold to a suitable buyer.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Fiona Holloway, associate partner at Claritas Tax, says it's no secret that millions of us are feeling the pinch at the moment. With sky high inflation rates, rising costs and interest rates and stellar energy bills, not to mention tax increases and the freezing of allowances which research predicts will bring over 1.2m people into higher rates of tax, surely we can rely on great trading conditions to steer us round from a now widely-predicted recession.
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Nic Ferrar from Adamson Jones says there are many benefits to expanding your business to overseas markets – capturing a greater market share, increasing profitability, and growth being the main ones. In the current economic climate, innovation is key if UK manufacturers are to add value to their products to avoid competing solely on cost with goods manufactured elsewhere in the world.
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PROPERTY

An application proposing the construction of more than 100 homes in a Lincolnshire village has been recommended for refusal.
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A new destination for food and drink producers to manufacture and sell their artisan products has launched in Melton Mowbray.
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Contractor G F Tomlinson has completed work on a new station for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.
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INSIDER FEATURE

Keith Rose, director, business development (Midlands and South West) at Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending, explores how businesses in the region can maximise their opportunities to drive growth through acquisitions this year.
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BUSINESS

Reach Separations, a Nottingham-based contract research organisation which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, has outlined plans for further expansion in Europe.
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Digital workflow company Intoware has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of a sales director.
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Effective Energy Group has recruited two managing directors to group companies as part of growth plans to boost sales past the £100m mark for the first time this year.
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MANUFACTURING

The UK's new bus and coach market grew by almost 50 per cent during the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest figures, but remained below pre-pandemic levels.
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OTHER NEWS

 

MEMBER NEWS

 

Nottingham-headquartered Focus has been appointed to the £8m restoration of the family home of prominent Victorian politican Joseph Chamberlain in Birmingham.
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