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North East company signals growth ambitions with £100m acquisition plan
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Refugees are more likely to be self-employed in the UK. This scheme gives them business training
A pilot scheme which helped 112 refugees with business start-up training has been extended. Funded by the Home Office and the National Lottery Community Fund, the scheme supports refugees for a year, taking them from the idea stage to business launch. After its success, three of the four bodies who delivered the workshops have secured a …
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Morrisons rejects ‘significantly undervalued’ £5.5bn takeover bid
Morrisons has rejected a takeover bid from a private equity firm, saying the £5.5bn value “significantly undervalued” the supermarket chain.It came after Sky News earlier reported the approach from one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). In a statement, the supermarket chain said: “The board of Morrisons evaluated the conditional …
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Planning reforms are bulldozing Conservative support
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to abandon planning reforms after Conservatives at national and local level blamed them for the party’s shock defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election.Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Green overturned a 16,000 Conservative majority to win the seat by 8,000 votes in a contest triggered by the death of …
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Buyout giant considers £5.5bn bid for supermarket chain Morrisons
One of the world’s biggest buyout firms is weighing a spectacular £5.5bn takeover bid for Wm Morrison, Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket chain by market share.Sky News has learnt that Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is in the early stages of evaluating an offer for the grocer, a move that would send fresh shockwaves through the UK’s …
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Evening Standard
British Steel pension scandal adviser banned from being a director for 13 years
Darren Reynolds, boss of Active Wealth, the financial advice firm famed for its involvement in the British Steel pension transfer debacle, has been banned from acting as a director for 13 years after losing clients £24 million.Reynolds, 51, advised hundreds of clients on the best way to invest their pension funds and, following his advice, …
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Evening Standard
It’s both good and bad that activist investors are swarming into London
Talk to any M&A banker and they’ll tell you three things: private equity will keep buying up FTSE-250s, IPOs won’t be back till autumn and we ain’t seen nothing yet from activist investors.We’ve had ups and downs in the first two before, but the recent surge of activism in the UK is something new and …
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100 jobs created at Howdens as post-lockdown home renovation drives demand
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C4DI collaboration is music to the ears of Hull’s tech hub
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Dragons’ Den star signs up for ambassador role with charity
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HSBC finally offloads its French retail bank, but at a loss of $2.3bn
HSBC today said the long-awaited sale of its troubled French retail banking business to Cerberus, the US investment fund group, would see it make a loss of $2.3 billion on the sale.The bank has been looking to sell the French business for more than 18 months as part of its strategy to focus down on …
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Life sciences company backed by new Dragons’ Den star goes public

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