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Thursday 17 March 2022

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TOP STORY

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.
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INSIDER FEATURE

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.
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DEALS

US-headquartered SS&C has completed its £1.24bn acquisition of Warrington-based robotic process automation specialist Blue Prism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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INSIDER FEATURE

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.
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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.
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PROPERTY

A proposed "high quality" family homes scheme at the site of a former pub in Cheshire will once again go before planners.
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New office space for Wrexham Council has officially been opened at Crown Buildings.
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Cheshire East planners have given the green light to projects to build 325 homes and a solar farm.
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Two warehouses in Warrington and Nottingham have been brought to the market.
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INSIDER FEATURE

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.
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BUSINESS

Crewe has submitted a bid to become the home of the headquarters of a new public body in charge of Britain's train services.
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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.
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Work is due to start on the installation of a Denbighshire-wide electric vehicle public charging pilot.
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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".
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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".
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HSBC UK has announced that it will close 69 of its branches as more people switch to mobile and online banking.
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MANUFACTURING

A joint venture has commenced work on a major new facility in Cheshire for sweet confectioner Swizzels. 
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A prominent 62,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Deeside has been sold.
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INSIDER FEATURE

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.
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