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Tuesday 10 November 2020

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Landmark Bath hotel acquired by Axcel

A grade II-listed hotel in Bath has been acquired by Axcel Hospitality after attracting a number of offers.
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Ask the expert: My first year with a private equity partner

Grant Mansfield, CEO and founder of Plimsoll Productions, looks back at his first year working with a private equity partner.
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Deals

Funding boost for pioneering aviation projects

Job-creating aviation projects in the South West are among pioneering schemes set to receive UK Government funding aimed at supporting the fight against Covid-19 and other challenges like climate change.
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Piper exits Mindful Chef

Piper, a specialist investor in consumer brands, has exited its investment in healthy recipe box and prepared frozen meals company Mindful Chef to Nestlé. Mindful Chef was founded in 2015 by three friends from Devon.
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OakNorth targets further lending during pandemic and beyond

OakNorth Bank is still "very active" when it comes to providing financial support to companies in the ongoing pandemic and beyond, a senior debt finance director has told Insider. It comes after government-backed initiatives such as the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) were extended as the second English lockdown gets underway.
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Pork pie producer snapped up by new backer

Savoury pastry producer Addo Food Group has been acquired by PAI Partners in a deal which provides an exit for private equity firm LDC.
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Ask the expert: Brexit – where are we now?

When we left the EU in January this year, a whole year for negotiators to agree how the UK and EU's relationship would look from 1 January 2021 seemed plenty of time. Now we are fast approaching the end of the year, there is still uncertainty as to what will happen when the transition period ends. Helen Howes, corporate and employment solicitor at Willans, answers some of the key questions
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Business

Link road project to move forward

A multimillion-pound road upgrade is set to get underway in North Devon after being allocated £60m of investment.
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North Devon expansion for hospitality firm

A hospitality business that operates across the UK in parks and leisure centres is expanding into the South West after received funding from Fresh Thinking Capital.
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Ask the expert: Is the future hybrid working?

Dr Nicola Millard, principal innovation partner at BT, shares her views on the future of work.
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Property

Urban Logistics acquires logistics units for £33.1m

Urban Logistics has acquired five logistics assets in Ripon, Braintree, Oxford, Exeter and Warrington for a total of £33.1m.
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Yate trade counter and warehouse letting for Toolstation

 Tool and lightside building materials supplier Toolstation has leased a trade counter and warehouse unit at an industrial estate in Yate, north Bristol.
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Persimmon continuing to “perform robustly”

Listed housebuilding giant Persimmon has said it "continues to perform robustly" despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and is on course to achieve a good result in 2020.
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Business Matters: Towards a more inclusive masterplan

Colin James from Atkins says the pandemic has unveiled many shortcomings of our modern world, but there are two – inclusivity and equality – that architects and designers can help to address.
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Manufacturing

Pfizer and BioNTech Covid vaccine ‘90 per cent effective’

Pfizer and BioNTech have announced positive efficacy results from the third phase, late-stage study of their potential Covid-19 vaccine, which was found to be more than 90 per cent effective.
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Non-executive directors to join Spirax-Sarco board

A pair of non-executive board appointments have been made at Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
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Credit unions to merge creating “significant force in the South West”

Bristol Credit Union is to merge with Wyvern Savings and Loans.
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