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BAROMETER UP The Nelson-based Barnfield Group posted a second successive year
of growth, with turnover up double figures for the 12 months ending December 31, 2019. The family-run business, which specialises in construction, development and investment, saw turnover climb to £89.2m, with pre-tax profits up to £6.65m.
International engineering firm Assystem, whose UK operation is based in Blackburn, has completed the acquisition of Corporate Risk Associates. The move bolsters its risk and safety management consultancy in the nuclear sector, as well as supporting its work in the defence, transport and infrastructure markets, where CRA has significant UK-based experience.
Food supplement and health product manufacturer Nutrition
Group registered a dramatic rise in the demand for its immune system-boosting products during the coronavirus crisis. The extra workload saw 20 new jobs created as well as investment in faster machinery. Barclays Corporate Banking has also granted a £2m funding facility to finance continued growth.
Granite House moved its operations from Southport to Preston with the help of UCLan’s ERDF-funded Digitalplus programme. The firm produces granite and quartz work surfaces and employs 55. A team from
South Ribble-based sportswear manufacturer Kukri will design and supply the kit for Team England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham. The deal will see the firm clothe more than 600 athletes across 19 sports and eight parasports, and it is the third consecutive Commonwealth Games that Kukri has been named the country’s official supplier.
Chorley-based Alfa Leisureplex Group secured a £17m credit facility including a £5m Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme loan from Lloyds Bank. Alfa operates a fleet of 48 coaches and 22 seaside hotels and, without the lockdown, would have taken more than 115,000 people on holiday this year.
Queens Lodge Nursing Home in Blackburn, a family business for
more than 25 years, has been sold to Anthony Massouras, majority owner of Constantia Healthcare.
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the university created an exact digital replica of the floorspace in the new 40,000 sq ft premises and used 3D scans of the firm’s machinery to explore possible layouts, then used virtual reality headsets to test them out before the move.
Inspired Energy, the Kirkham-based, AIM-listed energy procurement consultant reported revenue growth of more than 50 per cent for the year ending 31 December 2019. Total income reached £49.3m, which resulted in a 13 per cent increase in pre-tax profits, up to £4.8m.
Boohoo, the AIM-listed online fashion retailer which operates a major distribution hub in Burnley, raised £197.7m by issuing new shares. Shortly afterwards, it purchased the remaining 34 per cent share of the Pretty Little Thing clothing brand for an initial £270m.
Following its best ever year of sales, What More UK is adding 26,000 sq ft of extra distribution space to its Altham site. The new development will link the plastic manufacturer’s existing 110,000 sq ft and 95,000 sq ft buildings in Altham. Between this site and its Shuttleworth Mead address, it now operates across more than 500,000 sq ft.
Skelmersdale-based Hawkins Construction has been appointed the principal contractor of what will become the UK’s largest carbon capture and utilisation plant. The £16.7m project will be delivered on behalf of Tata Chemicals Europe in Cheshire.
Burnley College’s Sixth Form Centre has been ranked as the best in the country by the government. The college’s results over the last 12 months include a 99.8 per cent A Level pass rate and a 100 per cent Advanced Vocational pass rate for the 16th consecutive year. Ofsted ranked the college as ‘outstanding’.
PHX Training was awarded a £25,000 grant to continue the delivery of its training services during the coronavirus lockdown. The funding was awarded by Ufi VocTech Trust, a charitable trust specialising in the adoption of digital tools for vocational learning, and was used to launch PHX Training’s remote learning Transform Project.
Ribchester-based Workhouse Marketing will create a digital
showroom for luxury bathroom specialist Sanipex. The Dubai-based group serves the retail, project and trade bathroom markets, with its BagnoDesign and Aquazone brands available in 35 showrooms across more than 20 countries.
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