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Cloth Hall Street, The Calls, opposite Leeds’ Corn Exchange, has been sold to property investment company, Sanderling Estates LLP, Glasgow, for £4.86m, reflecting a yield of 8.42 per cent, by King Sturge’s Leeds-based Investment Team, acting for London-based property company, Wellfield Ltd.
One of England’s 2003 World-beating rugby team, utility back Mike Catt, is the latest sports hero to become a Yorkshire Bank ambassador.
The Yorkshire & Humber PMI® indicated a continued expansion of the region’s private sector during June, with both activity and new business rising at marked rates.
Leeds’ leading business leaders returned to Barcelona in March this year with the sole aim of obtaining immediate results from their trip. Their visit to the Catalan capital was more positive and led to debates and discussions on various synergies with Leeds.
Finance Yorkshire has officially opened their new headquarters in Barnsley.
Activity in UK financial services grew in the last three months at the fastest rate since September 2007. But this growth was much lower than expected and firms still considered levels of business to be well below normal, a new survey reveals today (Monday 28 June 2010).
Baker Tilly’s Yorkshire practice has announced that fee income reached £20m for the year to 31 March 2010.
A survey of owner managed and SME businesses by accountancy firm Haines Watts has revealed major disillusionment with the previous government whose initiatives during the recession failed to help them.
Walker Morris has advised Danish Group Dansk Supermarked A/S on the sale of its subsidiary Netto Foodstores Limited to Asda.
The overall value of buyouts in Yorkshire and Humber increased by 85% to £287.1m in this year’s first quarter compared with £155m in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to today's figures from the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CMBOR), sponsored by Barclays Private Equity.