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News: First services launched on BRT route
Late, over budget, and not exactly rapid, but this week the first services begin on the £30m Sheffield to Rotherham Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme.The Northern route of the scheme aims to improve the...
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News: Steel pension problems remain
Proposals from Tata Steel to amend pension scheme benefits in order to avoid entering the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) now appear as if they would be difficult to deliver.Earlier this year, the...
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News: Extra strong demand sees Mynt open new Rotherham office
Mynt Recruitment, a recruitment business headquartered in York, has opened a new office in Rotherham having agreed a £750,000 combined invoice finance facility from Aldermore, the specialist lender and...
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News: Tata bidders in due diligence
The two shortlisted bidders for the speciality steel business are being given access to due diligence and management meetings, Tata Steel confirms.At the end of March, the Indian-owned steelmaker...
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News: Crawshaw confident of restoring momentum after dip in sales
Having delivered record sales growth in the last financial year, Rotherham-based fresh meat and food to go retailer, Crawshaw Group PLC has reported a further reduction in like for like sales since...
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News: Esco vacates Rotherham site
Esco Corporation, a US manufacturer in the mining, construction and industrial sectors, has vacated the Rotherham premises it acquired in 2011.At the time of acquisition, Hydra Mining Tools...
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News: Plasflow owner in MBO
SWP, the AIM-listed group that operates the Plasflow business in Rotherham, is to go back into private ownership after the board accepted an offer worth £18.3m from the management team.Based in...
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News: Fishing Republic to invest for growth
Rotherham-based retailer, Fishing Republic has increased revenues and profit margins, prompting the board to accelerate investment in future growth.The placing of ten million new shares at 15p per...
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News: Crawshaw's sales growth restoration plan
Rotherham-based fresh meat and food to go retailer, Crawshaw Group PLC has confirmed a reduction in like for like sales but expansion will continue.The AIM-listed Hellaby firm is undergoing growth...
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News: Maplin rises in sales league table
Rotherham-based retailer, Maplin has again been named in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table that ranks the UK's private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales.The...
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News: Marble specialists cease to trade
The Original Marble & Granite Co. has ceased to trade resulting in the closure of its Rotherham site and the loss of a number of jobs.The firm was established in 2010 to supply stone surfaces for...
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News: Survey shows mixed impact of Brexit on regional business
The impact of the UK's vote to leave the European Union has had a mixed impact on regional business with manufacturing firms showing a more positive outlook than services according to the Sheffield...
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News: First set to close Rotherham depot
The large bus depot operated by First in Rotherham will close under new proposals, with staff relocating within South Yorkshire and 20 jobs now "at risk."In August engineers in Rotherham were awarded a...
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News: Tata joins with steelmakers to challenge EU governments
Tata Steel Europe is one of 58 companies in the European steel industry that have addressed EU leaders with a clear message: "Make the right choices to ensure that our sector and its value chains...
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News: Survey highlights business survival
Yorkshire and the Humber has the longest running small businesses in Britain according to a poll conducted by Rotherham-based online printer instantprint. The region's small business owners have on...
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News: Engineering firm in administration
Whiteley Read, a Rotherham-based engineering firm has called in the administrators following a global downturn in the oil and gas market.Based at a custom built facility on the Gateway Industrial...
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News: Harworth Group acquires business park
Rotherham-based developer Harworth Group plc, one of the largest property and regeneration companies across the North of England and the Midlands, has acquired a business park for £4.5m as part of its...
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News: Kenny on life after Pyronix
PwC Private Businesswoman of the Year 2014, Julie Kenny CBE DL has been speaking about her "four careers" as the multinational professional services network highlights fantastic examples of Yorkshire...
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News: New Rotherham bar marks positive future and recognises past
Passionate Rotherham businessman, Mark McGrail, talks about how his new bar and bistro venture in the town centre comes at a time when Rotherham is on the cusp of something great.Rothbiz revealed in...
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News: Government publishes Northern Powerhouse strategy
The Government has given a clear indication that the Northern Powerhouse idea will continue to have importance in the future of the UK economy by setting out a strategy to raise productivity across the...
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