Veuve Clicquot is looking for the next business leaders and founders to follow in the footsteps of the trailblazing Madame Clicquot as nominations open for the 2027 Bold Woman Awards. Celebrating its 55th year, the prestigious awards are the longest-running international accolades of their kind, continuing a legacy that began over 200 years ago with a woman who dared to defy expectations.

Today, the British Business Bank announces it will commit up to £150m capital to support a fund aimed at high-growth businesses across the North of England. The proposed Northern scale-up fund will provide larger scale investment to innovative scale-up businesses seeking capital to accelerate their growth and expansion.

BGF-backed Opus Safety has completed the acquisition of Preston-based Suresite Health & Safety Ltd, the latest in an ambitious buy-and-build growth strategy. The tech-enabled health and safety, HR and occupational health solutions provider has acquired the health and safety function of Suresite for an undisclosed sum.

If you ask someone what makes their neighbourhood special, they won’t list the square footage of the local buildings. They will tell you about the independent shop where the barista knows their order, the park where they walk their dog, or the square where the weekend markets come alive.

A Yorkshire social housing consortium has helped shape new guidance for housing associations and local authorities on using retrofit procurement to create local jobs, tackle green skills shortages, strengthen supply chains and diversify the workforce.

ANWYL Homes has earned its 14th consecutive award for health and safety. The homebuilder, with offices in Ewloe, Flintshire, and Buckshaw Village, Lancashire, scooped the President’s Award at the annual RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, reserved for companies who have won more than 10 consecutive Gold Awards. The most recent award was bestowed for Anwyl’s health and safety performance in 2025.

A 1,050-feet long tunnel is being driven under Sheffield’s Brightside Lane as Sheffield Forgemasters’ flood alleviation works reach a pivotal point.

Tunley Environmental has launched its new Guide to Sustainable Pharmaceuticals, providing pharmaceutical and medical device organisations with a practical roadmap for navigating carbon, compliance, product lifecycle assessment, supply chains and environmental risk. The pharmaceutical sector faces a particularly complicated sustainability challenge.

One of the world’s largest pipelay vessels, Saipem’s Castorone, has arrived in the Southern North Sea, marking the opening of an exciting chapter for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), bringing one of the UK’s first carbon capture and storage networks closer to reality.

A three-pronged sustainability strategy focusing on fleet, buildings and waste is being launched by Ipsum Group, as the business ramps up its journey to net zero.

Castings Technology has installed a multi-million-pound vacuum arc remelting (VAR) furnace at its new £18m facility in Sheffield, marking a significant milestone for the South Yorkshire engineering sector. The installation is the largest of its type in commercial use in the UK and ranks among the largest globally.

Firms across the private sector expect momentum to remain weak in the run up to the new Chancellor’s first Budget in October – but businesses’ overall outlook is the least pessimistic in almost two years, according to the CBI’s latest Growth Indicator report.

The introduction of new technology in the business world often brings both excitement and apprehension. While some are enthusiastic about change, others meet it with resistance, a reaction that is frequently mistaken for a modern phenomenon. In truth, resistance to innovation has existed throughout human history.

More than two thirds of SME business leaders are grappling with finding time to step back and work on the business due to being stuck in the day-to-day, according to new research. This was cited as the biggest challenge facing SMEs (68%), followed by the rising cost of doing business (51%) and balancing investment in growth with day-to-day operations (48%).

Regeneration specialist Compendium Living has appointed Lisa Johnson as its new project manager to support large-scale housing schemes across the UK, including major developments in Yorkshire and the East Midlands.

Business confidence in the North West rose 10 points during August to 59%, according to the latest Business Barometer from Lloyds, taking confidence levels above the UK average. Companies in the North West reported stable confidence in their own trading outlook month-on-month, unchanged at 58%.

SPG Resourcing is expanding into the UK’s £146.9bn life sciences sector with the launch of a new specialist recruitment division. The Leeds-based technology talent business has appointed experienced life sciences recruiter Nathan Sharpe as head of practice, Life Sciences, to establish and grow the new operation.