Business Roq appoints TBB for brand project which ‘packs a punch’ West Yorkshire-based integrated agency The Bigger Boat (TBB) is helping to facilitate rapid growth for Lancashire-based quality engineering company Roq —with a reimagined brand identity, tone of voice, and website. The project forms an integral part of Roq’s aim to quadruple in size over the next four to five By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Easy Bathrooms appoints experienced industry figure to drive trade sales Easy Bathrooms has appointed Iain Robertson, co-founder of leading tile adhesive brand, Rocatex, to drive trade sales across its 130 showrooms, in the newly created role of head of trade. Iain, who departed Rocatex in late-2022, has worked in the industry for over two decades, and is well-placed to help By The Editor • 2 min read
Business HENRY BOOT CONSTRUCTION WRAPS UP SHEFFIELD’S NEW CITY CENTRE PARK Henry Boot Construction has completed the main phase of work on Sheffield City Centre’s brand-new public space, Pound’s Park. The landmark park was handed over to Sheffield City Council and will officially open on 3 April – just in time for the public to start enjoying the space over By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Corporate finance boutique CEO wins Leeds City Regional Leader Award Poonam Kaur, CEO of fds Director Services, has been presented with the Leeds City Region Leader award by The Northern Leadership Awards which are hosted by TheBusinessDesk.com. Poonam received the Leeds City Region Leader on 30th March at a celebration event at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, in the company By The Editor • 1 min read
Business ACS Group launches new medical supplies website Baildon-based office services and supplies company ACS Group has announced the launch of a new online goods not for resale (GNFR) procurement portal dedicated to supporting high street pharmacy outlets. Called ACS Medical Supplies, the specialist portal has been set up to provide high street pharmacy branches with a single By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Speed Couriers, the Manchester courier company, is expanding into Yorkshire Speed Couriers is the largest independent same-day & medical courier company in the North West of the UK, providing flexible, reliable, cost-effective and technology-driven courier and logistics services. The company, which was founded 37 years ago, specialises in urgent same day transport for the medical sector across the UK, providing By The Editor • 3 min read
Business Acclaim launches a new App For Businesses - The Gateway The team at Acclaim Credit Management and Recovery are excited to announce the launch of ‘The Gateway’ - a bespoke new App designed to give business clients easy access to real time information about each of their cases. The award-winning team at Acclaim, based in Leeds, continue to invest in By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Jobs created and recycling facilities expanded at IT recycling firm with £150k loans £150,000 loans have allowed a Wetherby-based IT recycling firm to expand its recycling facilities, hire new people and safeguard jobs. Zixtel Ltd, founded over 26 years ago, received the loans from Business Enterprise Fund and NPIF – BEF & FFE Microfinance, which is managed by BEF (Business Enterprise Fund) and By The Editor • 2 min read
Business HMi Elements graduate heads to Houston in “opportunity of a lifetime” A Yorkshire Graduate Trainee is moving to the US to live and work stateside for two months in what she says is the “opportunity of a lifetime”. Shannen de’Vries has just celebrated her first anniversary working at HMi Elements, a specialist technology company manufacturing hazardous area computers for the By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Headstar appoints strategic advisor and finance director Leeds-headquartered finance recruitment consultancy, Headstar, has announced the appointment of Rob Walker as strategic advisor to its board of directors as it prepares for further growth in 2023 - with the company on track to achieve a 50% increase in net fee income this year. With a career spanning over By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Founding member rejoins heat recovery business A founding member of the UK's leading Heat Recovery business has rejoined the company after a decade. DK Heat Recovery's marketing director, Nigel Upson, has rejoined the East Yorkshire-based business on his retirement from poultry processor Soanes Poultry, where he was MD. Nigel founded DK Heat By The Editor • 1 min read
Business Morley and Outwood MP to open South Leeds Garden Centre Directors at a Yorkshire garden centre group have invited a local MP to open their new garden centre this month. Morley and Outwood MP Andrea Jenkyns will cut the ribbon to celebrate the official opening of Tingley Garden Centre, one of four owned by Yorkshire Garden Centres, at 12 pm By The Editor • 1 min read
