Megan Singleton Director
lcbsg.co.uk
leonard-curtis-business- solutions-group
MEETING CHALLENGES WITH PRACTICAL AND INNOVATIVE GUIDANCE
Blackburn with Darwen Council has begun the process of acquiring Imperial Mill
in a bid to secure jobs and the future of the building itself. The mill, built in the early 1900s, is currently owned by Lancashire Saw Company, which employs 35 staff based on the first floor. As part of the sale, the company will be offered a 15-year lease to remain in the Blackburn property, while the council will become responsible for its restoration.
Preston-based accountancy and business
advisory firm MHA Moore and Smalley has announced its 2023 trainee intake will be its largest ever. The firm will create 60 new trainee positions, consisting of a mix of university, college and sixth form graduates to positions within its tax, audit and advisory teams.
Demand for holiday lets in Lancashire has reached record levels, with 53 per cent more bookings in 2022 than in 2019. The data, published by Sykes Holiday Cottages, includes analysis of booking figures for its 20,000 properties across the UK, with Carnforth, Clitheroe, Blackpool, and Lytham proving to be Lancashire’s most popular travel spots.
James Hargreaves Plumbing Supplies has opened a new £500,000 centre to help train, upskill and support heating industry workers from across the UK. The purpose- built facility, located at the company’s headquarters in Burnley, focuses on low- carbon technology and is now available to all heating engineers, installers or plumbers, not only existing customers.
Lancaster-based EV charge point management platform Fuuse has secured a £200,000 grant to explore ways in which the increasing numbers of electric vehicle fleets can be charged with minimal
disruption to the National Grid. The funding, from the government’s V2X (vehicle-to- everything) innovation programme, will see the Lancaster company work in conjunction with charging hardware specialist Turbo Power Systems, fleet electrification specialists Gridicity and the Power Network Distribution centre based at the University of Strathclyde. Fuuse has also begun supplying its EV charge point management platform to customers in Ireland, appointing a representative to oversee expansion in the country.
Haslingden-based weighing and metering
expert Rospen has invested £100,000 in a new hi-tech laboratory. It accurately assesses powder flow behaviour to inform the design of Rospen’s processing equipment, meaning machinery can be made to precise specifications, whether built to handle coffee beans, building aggregates or hazardous chemicals.
Lancaster and Morecambe College has
launched a Sustainable Energy Hub to deliver a range of new courses and to help embed green thinking across the wider curriculum. The facility features a fully immersive virtual reality learning zone, a cybersecurity lab, computer aided design suite and a renewable energy demonstration centre.
DOWN The North West PMI Business
Activity Index, compiled by NatWest, showed a decline in business activity for January. The seasonally adjusted index measures the month-on-month change in the combined output of the region’s manufacturing and service sectors. January’s score of 47.2, where a score below 50 represents contraction, was the fourth month of decline in the last five and the sharpest fall in two years.
Developer BXB Thornton, a JV formed between Promenade Estates and BXB,
has had its planning permission to build 130 homes on 12 acres of land in Thornton Cleveleys rejected for a second time.
Story Homes has had its application
to build 70 homes near Hornby rejected by Lancaster City Council. The land sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the council said that the proposals failed to put forward a compelling argument for what would be a major development.
LANCASHIREBUSINESSVIEW.CO.UK
Brexit, Covid, Ukraine and, latterly, energy costs and inflationary pressures are continuing to challenge Lancashire businesses wherever they sit in the business lifecycle.
In the first of our series of columns for Lancashire Business View, I want to introduce myself and Leonard Curtis (LC), because it’s our job to help meet these challenges at the most critical times.
The many economic and financial hurdles we currently face are unprecedented in modern times and the demand for our services has never been higher in my time as a licensed Insolvency Practitioner in our Preston office.
Positive, strategic advice is what business leaders demand, backed by experience and service lines that deliver a true business solutions package to business owners. We’ll share some of that advice in our forthcoming columns.
In the meantime, we’ll continue to provide the practical, commercial solutions to clients which has resulted in LC becoming the largest independently owned restructuring firm in the UK.
Those solutions include: Recovery and Restructuring
Providing options and support to distressed business.
HMRC Time to Pay arrangements and informal negotiations. Finance Raising Invoice and stock financing Asset finance Property finance Funding acquisitions Loans
LC Legal Commercial and Corporate Real Estate Dispute resolution
Contact Megan Singleton at
Leonard Curtis on 01772 646 180 or
megan.singleton@
leonardcurtis.co.uk
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