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WEBBy City AM Uswitch reports significant sales growth in car and home insurance sectors The London-based business has reported a turnover of £79.8m for 2023, up from the £63.2m it achieved in 2022. Bookmark. Former Harrods executive claims Fenwick blocked him from starting CEO role. Retail.
Administrators called in at Hull construction firm after period of ...
WEBNov 9, 2023 · Administrators have been called into Hull off-site construction firm M-Ar, an award-winning business where successive years of stratospheric growth have previously played out.
How I Made It: Gymshark's Lewis Morgan on growing a brand and …
WEBJan 17, 2022 · In summer 2012, a young Lewis Morgan co-founded Gymshark with his school friend Ben Francis and embarked on a journey of rapid growth, taking the fitness clothing and equipment brand from their family homes …
JD Sports: Everything you need to know about the retail giant
WEBSep 9, 2021 · JD Sports is a nationwide retail giant with a history stretching back 40 years. The Bury-headquartered group employs around 54,000 people and its shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange. As well as shops across the UK, it also has sites in the US, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. READ …
Chris Dawson's The Range triples profit to £145m on back of Covid ...
WEBNov 2, 2021 · Retail magnate Chris Dawson’s The Range saw sales leap by £352m during the worst of the Covid pandemic after his stores remained open as “essential retailers”. The hike in earnings to £1.35bn in 2020 led to after-tax profits for the Plymouth-headquartered company jumping to £145m - more than three times the £47m profit made the ...
Seven of the biggest success stories of Dragons’ Den
WEBJan 3, 2023 · Dragons: Duncan Bannatyne and James Caan. Investment amount: £150,000 in return for a 36% stake in his business. Hertfordshire entrepreneur Peter Moule invented a plastic cable device as a way to store electrical wires safely. He pitched his idea to the Dragons’ in 2007 and secured the support of Duncan Bannatyne and …
Rapid revenue rise for seafood giant Marr as pre-pandemic …
WEBJan 6, 2023 · Hull seafood giant Andrew Marr International saw revenues storm back post-Covid, overtaking the year leading up to the global pandemic by some considerable margin. A turnover of £836.1 million has been recorded by the Hessle-headquartered vertically integrated operation, which has interests in catching, processing, storing and distribution.
West Midlands - Business news, local news, expert opinion
WEBWest Midlands. The latest business news from the West Midlands covering Birmingham, Black Country, Coventry, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Warwickshire. The region's biggest employers include Aston Martin, bet365, Birmingham Airport, Jaguar Land Rover, JCB, HS2, HSBC UK, NEC Group and Portmeirion.
Telecoms and technology giant Daisy Group confirms '£210m' …
WEBFeb 17, 2022 · By. Jon Robinson North West Business Editor. Daisy Group chairman Matthew Riley. Telecoms and technology giant Daisy Group has announced the acquisition of a rival reported to be worth more than £200m. Daisy Group, which is headquartered in Lancashire, has signed a deal to acquire XLN, with completion expected in early March.
Hudson Contract clocks up a quarter of a century - Business Live
WEBJan 29, 2021 · An idea brought forward in an East Yorkshire garden outbuilding to solve a construction headache has now become a £1.6 billion business as it prepares to mark 25 years of trading.