Business

Businesses across the Leeds City Region are backing an employment and skills programme that helps people move or retrain into digital roles.

Richard Michie, who is the managing director of Leeds-based The Marketing Optimist, has spent over 25 years in the marketing industry.

One hundred new tech jobs are to be created in Halifax this year thanks to the opening of a new tech hub.

​T​he CMA's block on Sainsbury's "takeover" of Asda ​will reassure tens of thousands of Asda workers, said the ​GMB, the trade union for A​sda​ workers​.​

Consumer watchdog Which? has backed the CMA's decision to block Asda's £12bn merger with Sainsbury's.

​Asda's £12bn merger with Sainsbury's has been blocked by ​the Competition and Markets Authority on the grounds that it would result in higher prices for consumers.

Demand for offices, retail space and industrial property in Yorkshire fell during the first quarter of the year as a lack of movement on Brexit continues to deter investors and occupiers across the board, according to a new report.

Engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters International has posted an increase in profitability as it launches a transformation programme to diversify into new sectors.

The new head of property at law firm Raworths Solicitors has issued a strong warning to the legal profession as Brexit continues to slow down the market.

The UK’s largest wholesale tableware supplier, Utopia Tableware, has moved into a new industrial unit as part of a £15m expansion.

Trebor Developments has joined forces with Hillwood to acquire a 25 acre site and speculatively develop a 400,000 sq ft building for the logistics sector.

Yorkshire investors pondering whether they should follow the stock market adage to “Sell in May and go away until St Leger Day” should probably ignore it.

Iwas at the Fintech North event in Manchester last week, (there’s one in Leeds coming up if you fancy exploring the sector), and several companies stood out as particularly interesting, one of which, Suitebox, raised the question ‘Has Digital Depersonalisation gone to far?’ Has it indeed?

Duties, power of authority, board minutes and guardians – all words that should come to your mind as a company director. If some of those words don’t, maybe you should review your current position.

A Yorkshire company that helps universities to commercialise academic research by collaborating with industry has secured a £950,000 investment.

A new co-working and digital innovation space designed to help transform the delivery of health services is to launch at Platform in Leeds.

Technological innovations are often sold on the basis that they will help boost productivity and automate work flows.

More working class people need to be encouraged into the technology sector to prevent biased solutions from being developed, according to a manager at a tech entrepreneur network.