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Tyneside tech startup Swarm Energy opens its doors to first North East customers
Newcastle tech startup Swam Energy has launched its new home energy management app to customers. Entrepreneurs Dan Martin and Anthony Piggott sold Consett-based Elmtronics, a leading fleet electric vehicle (EV) charging point firm, to Norwegian EV charging giant Mer at the start of last year. In the months following the deal the pair originally focussed …
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Engineering pioneer Tharsus invests for future despite seeing dip in profits and sales
Engineering group Tharsus has told how it is continuing to invest despite seeing revenues and profits fall in the face of tough market conditions. The Blyth business – a specialist in complex metal work and UK robotics – manufactures products for the likes of DHL, Ocado and Small Robot Co from its three Northumberland factories, …
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Sky News
Like a hyper-efficient Santa workshop: Inside the UK’s biggest facility recycling phones
“When the time comes, disconnect the main flex cable.”Besides being a short guy named Tom, I never felt I had any sort of Mission: Impossible credentials until I donned safety goggles and got handed a screwdriver and plastic scalpel at what’s thought to be the UK’s biggest phone recycling factory. Fixing the screen on a …
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Evening Standard
Business interest in Labour conference soars, party says
Labour has attracted a surge of interest from business at its annual conference in October, as shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves ruled out any version of a wealth tax under a Labour government.The Opposition, which continues to ride high in the polls, said its latest figures show the number of attendees at its business forum has …
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HMV owner seeks £50m backing for Wilko rescue bid
The owner of HMV has approached a number of debt providers to back a last-gasp rescue bid for Wilko, the ailing high street retailer.Sky News understands that Doug Putman has sounded out firms including Gordon Brothers and Hilco – from which he bought HMV in 2018 – about helping to finance an offer for hundreds …
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Barclays line up Gulf firepower for fresh raid on Telegraph newspapers
The former owners of The Daily Telegraph have lined up hundreds of millions of pounds from Middle Eastern investors in a bid to wrest back control of the newspaper from Britain’s biggest high street bank.Sky News can exclusively reveal that the Barclay family lodged a proposal last week to buy back roughly £1bn of debt …
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Euro News
Business bankruptcy in EU surges to highest levels since 2015
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Evening Standard
London luxury gyms in crisis as Equinox plunges to £18 million loss
There are growing signs London’s luxury fitness market is in crisis after high-end gym club Equinox posted an £18 million loss and warned on its future in the UK.The firm, which has three sites in Kensington, Bishopsgate and St James’s and is popular with celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian, warned …
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Company founded by childhood friends to close ‘with a heavy heart’
A mentorship software start-up is to close after its co-founder said the firm has been taken as far as it could be.. Manchester-based My2be was established in 2018 by childhood friends Adam Mitcheson and Damien Shiells. The business has previously raised £180,000 including securing its most recent investment from NorthInvest in May. READ MORE: Click …
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Subway has just been sold for $9.6bn – and this is the extraordinary story of its humble beginnings
It was one of the most lucrative changes of career in business history.In 1964, Fred DeLuca was a 17-year-old medical student working in a hardware store to help pay his way through college. Realising he was not earning enough for his needs, he asked a family friend, Peter Buck, whether he had any bright money-making …
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Heineken sells Russian business for just 86p – at a loss of £256m
Heineken has sold its Russian business for just 86p – with the brewing giant set to face a total loss of £256m as a result.The Dutch brewing giant, which also makes Amstel and Birra Moretti beers, has been criticised for the slow pace of its exit following the war in Ukraine. Executives admitted the process …
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Euro News
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