Polypipe suffers fall in revenue due to 'unprecedented' impact of pandemic
Polypipe Group, which is a provider of sustainable water and climate management services for the built environment, has published its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2020.
‘Strong year’ for Savills investment team in Leeds but lower group profit
The property adviser and agent saw revenues for 2020 fall nine per cent to £1.74bn and underlying pre-tax profit fall a third to £96.6m. Savills’ transactional business was particularly hard hit, with underlying profits down 72 per cent to £19.4m. In a statement, the group said that transactional activity would remain suppressed in the first half of 2021
Suzanne Robinson: The North can’t get left behind
EY’s recent Regional Economic Forecast revealed that the region’s economy will be one of four not expected to return to its 2019 levels by 2023 (when measured by Gross Value Added), while employment in the region will be lower by 2023 than it was in 2019.
Meet the Leeds digital marketer looking to hire staff after launching her own firm
Rebecca Hopwood moved into an office in Morley in December and has taken on an apprentice, with plans to take on another member of staff in the next few months.
Cranswick donates more than 1,150 new laptops to primary school children in Hull
Cranswick operates six manufacturing sites and employs almost 5,000 people in Hull.A spokesman said: “As the shortfall of laptops hit the headlines a few weeks ago, Cranswick wanted to be able to make a real difference to local children.
The death of chain stores on our high streets gives an opportunity for a new dawn for independent retail – Mark Casci
Those stores, spanning the fields of fashion, hospitality, banking and betting shops, were part of a trend that has existed and been building for years but which were pushed along at a far higher speed by the Covid crisis.
Local government purchasing to change post-pandemic
When the pandemic hit, with all of its unique challenges, local authorities were faced with a huge procurement task. The sudden requirement for masses of PPE, a stark increase in the need for food parcels, the need to support the supply chain and pressing technological requirements as a result of working from home are all examples of where additional pressures were faced by procurement teams in local government.
MiNT music festival signs £5m deal to buy Leeds farm to give it a permanent home
The music festival, now in its 10th year, has invested £5m in a new 136-acre location at Newsam Green Farm, 10 minutes from Leeds city centre.
Jet2.com able to access Government-backed loans thanks following MP's intervention
The Leeds-based travel operator can now apply to draw on the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) which allows large firms to mitigate disruption to their cash flows through the purchase of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper .
WANdisco secures a partnership which opens up a distribution channel to thousands of customers
WANdisco has announced a partnership with Snowflake, the data cloud company, to automate, accelerate and simplify the migration of on-premises Hadoop analytics workloads to Snowflake’s data platform.
