Business

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has strengthened its employment tax team with the appointment of Laurence Simms as director. At BDO, Laurence will be responsible for supporting clients across the North region to help them effectively manage their HMRC compliance requirements when employing and engaging a workforce. As

The award-winning York Handmade Brick Company has played a pivotal role in the construction of an attractive new-build housing development in Easingwold. York Handmade, based at Alne, near Easingwold, supplied tens of thousands of bricks for the Pastures in Stillington Road, a development of nine new quality houses. The development

Long-established packaging and stationery business, Duraweld, is expanding across the sector with the acquisition of Prima in Bradford which also provides creative packaging solutions. With over 20 years’ experience, Prima has established a reputation as a leading designer and manufacturer of quality folding card and PVC high frequency welded products.

One of the country’s leading restructuring advisors is urging mid-market business owners not to ‘bury their heads in the sand’ and seek early advice amid soaring company liquidations. The warning comes as latest monthly insolvency statistics for November 2022 reveal formal corporate insolvency appointments are 21% higher than the

Ambitious technology-orientated entrepreneurs in Bradford are being encouraged to sign up for a free accelerator programme to help them grow their businesses. Northern Max Accelerator, launching in early 2023, is an intensive ten-week programme for businesses that are pre-start or less than three years old with growth ambitions. It’s

Property group Eddisons, which is headquartered in Leeds, has project managed the £1.9m refurbishment of new dining areas, toilet blocks and classrooms at Millthorpe school, a 1,000-student York high school run by South Bank Academy Trust. The project has upgraded and modernised outdated areas of the school as

As economic headwinds continue to gather, businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber, along with those in the rest of the UK, are already starting to feel the impact of mounting financial pressures with a marked month-on-month rise in the number of businesses in the region experiencing insolvency-related activity. The latest