Indian Investors Eyeing up Takeover Targets

WEALTHY investors from India have created an acquisition vehicle to buy medium-sized manufacturers in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and the North of England with the aim of building a £75m-turnover group...read more

A THAI restaurant chain is planning a £500,000 investment programme and is aiming to expand into other UK cities.

Martin Stead, who opened his first Chaophraya restaurant in Leeds in 2004, has since branched out into Manchester and Liverpool and is now planning half a million pound of refurbishment to Chaophraya in Leeds.

Work on the extension in Leeds, which will increase the restaurant’s covers from 130 to...read more

Free workshops to aid new companies

A series of free workshops in York to help new businesses make money and be successful have been organised by chartered accountants Garbutt & Elliott.

The award-winning accountants have secured Government funding for the workshops...read more

Curtain firms on track

A North Yorkshire textiles and interiors business has acquired its former sister company to take greater control of its brand as the economy starts to grow.

RE Grafton Ltd, Hookstone Park, Harrogate, which trades as James Brindley, has acquired James Brindley (Furnishings) Ltd, Wetherby – a totally separate business - for “a significant but undisclosed sum... read more

Guaranteed solution to finance for small firms

Smaller businesses in York and North East Yorkshire are being urged to take advantage of the Government’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee.

Experts at York chartered accountancy firm Garbutt & Elliott believe the guarantee, which has been extended for a further 12 months, could prove the answer for the region’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) facing problems getting finance...read more

Advisor’s Role Vital for Funding

This column is the third of a series aimed at providing businesses with an awareness of sources of funding and financial support and how to access it...read more

Access to Finance

Last month I outlined the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, a £1.3 billion loan guarantee scheme being delivered through the banks, which provides a...read more

Garbutt & Elliott have advised in both the sale and acquisition of a leading distributor of specialist hoses and pneumatic control systems by its founders and sole shareholders....read more

Print Entrepreneurs Acquire Printing Firm in Seven-figure Deal
Two successful print entrepreneurs have bought a £4.5m turnover South Yorkshire printer Wright Printing Services (WPS) Ltd...read more

Glass Manufacturing Specialist in MBO
A York manufacturing company that makes hot glass handling machinery for the bottling industry has been acquired in a seven-figure MBO backed by Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland Invoice Finance...read more

Family Business sold to the Next Generation
NEW owners are in the frame at a North Yorkshire joinery company, which has been sold to three of its staff...read more