Profits have risen at consumer products giant Unilever in a "year of significant activity". The listed group also reported progress on the demerger of its Ice Cream business.

A major infrastructure company has been appointed to create what is said to be the first bridge built in Nottingham since the 1950s in a contract worth £12.6m. It is expected that ...

A Newcastle-based digital product consultancy, which works with clients including AJ Bell and Tesco, is expanding its operations into Leeds following a period of significant growth.

A Manchester-based medtech company has secured funding from the GMC Life Sciences Fund By Praetura, and through NPIF II – Praetura Equity Finance, to continue scaling its ...

Manchester United are reportedly weighing up further redundancies as the club seeks to reduce costs. A report in the BBC says the Premier League side are considering making between 100 and 200 ...

Listed engineering giant Renishaw has hailed "steady progress in mixed trading conditions" in its first results since the death of co-founder Sir David McMurty.

Wavensmere Homes has started work to create the £150m Canalside South regeneration scheme in Wolverhampton. The project features hundreds of homes and a range of commercial amenities ...

Work on a host of new towns will begin across the country before the next election – with British workers leading construction, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The UK economy grew by a modest 0.1 per cent in the final quarter of last year, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

Barclays has revealed its profits jumped by a quarter last year as the banking giant benefited from a rebound in global investment and deal-making.

A Bank of England rate setter has called recent UK growth figures “uncomfortable”, and argued that policymakers should be cautious when cutting interest rates.

Plans for the redevelopment of part of a former retail park in Manchester to pave the way for a new low carbon office destination have been recommended for approval.