Business

Finance Yorkshire has appointed two new board directors and two new members to its Investment Advisory Panel (IAP), which monitors the performance of its fund management teams. John Warner and Nigel Ward (pictured below) have joined as non-executive directors and Melanie Perkins and Peter Tait will provide support and advice

Cleckheaton-based creative design agency, ACD&B, is supporting the next generation of graphic designers by launching a competition for Kirklees College students. ACD&B, which specialises in providing clients with branding, artworking, creative and web design was founded by Chris Parkinson, a former graphic design student at Dewsbury

Leeds-based food and lifestyle collective, Chapter 81, has recently moved into a new city centre office where they now have the capacity to bring more services in-house, offering new and existing clients additional support. The move to Cross York Street comes after a successful few months where the collective won

Leeds City College, which is part of Luminate Education Group, is calling for donations to its student laptop initiative, following the reinstatement of remote learning due to the current lockdown. Last week, the government pledged to provide a further one million laptops to disadvantaged students across the country to support

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has announced the promotion of 20 new partners across the firm with Mark Thornton named partner in Yorkshire. The promotions, delayed from June 2020 as a result of COVID-19, are effective from 1st January 2021. Mark joined BDO in 2007 at manager level

Leeds-headquartered Widd Signs has completed a five-figure project to design and install external and internal signage at the impressive UNINN Parkside development in Coventry. The project has seen Widd Signs, which has bases in Leeds and St Helens, install eye-catching UNINN branding at the top of each of the developments’

Growing valuations and disposals firm Pantera Property, based in Harrogate, has appointed property expert Colin Fell as non-executive chairman. With over 40 years of building and developing property agency businesses, Mr Fell was responsible for growing King Sturge’s Leeds office from five to more than 100 people, before the