Business Up North

Huddersfield-based strategic brand consultancy The Engine Room is midway through a £100,000 plus project to transform a 19th century mill and former piggery, into...

Strata, with developments throughout Yorkshire and the East Midlands, has added its support to a campaign that will fund the fit out of the new Centre for Creativity at the Theatre Royal Wakefield. The campaign asked businesses to purchase a star, with all contributions used to pay for the final fixtures and fittings needed for the much-anticipated building, which extends the Theatre experience and encourages performers and visitors to meet, eat, drink, entertain and enjoy.

Continuing to strengthen its infrastructure to support its ambitious growth plans, iSource Group, the IT, digital and change recruitment specialist based in Leeds, has expanded its workforce with two further appointments to the team.

Years of hard work paid off for two of Cooper & Hall’s bright young stars with an excellent industry qualification. Bradley Everitt and Joe Wright...

Manchester's Intellectual Property & Creative Industries team at Shoosmiths has advised leading video game development studio Firesprite Ltd on an exclusive license and distribution...

Crimson Bear, the Craven based company that is rapidly-expanding and supplies designer radiators and electrical heating products, is on track to turnover £2m thanks in part to the support that it received from ERDF funded business programme, AD:VENTURE. Securing a total of £6,754 in match-funded support, Crimson Bear used the cash to set the foundations for the future with investment made towards the purchase of equipment for the office such as desktop PC’s, furniture, IT kit, desks and storage.

It was Brexit for breakfast for Lancashire businesses with the head of trade policy at a national organisation giving advice on the issue during a time of uncertainty.

Manchester digital agency e3creative welcomes two new senior recruits to lead the technical and creative teams.

Bury-based customer service technology firm, Gnatta, has expanded its workforce to 30 people (from 16 in 2015) and expects to hire another 10 people by the end of 2018. Gnatta will be recruiting people from the Bury area, including a business analyst, a database administrator, and support team members, as well as increasing its technology team of software developers, dev-ops, and testers.

Thirty jobs are to be created through a new £1.5m ‘digital-Pharmacy’ opened in Liverpool, aimed at helping people living with chronic care conditions to manage their medicinal needs through artificial intelligent mobile app ‘Now Patient’.