Keep up to date with all the latest news stories from Invest In Yorkshire Barcelona is preparing to welcome a delegation of businesses from Leeds as part of an initiative to raise the city's international profile.

]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:29:25 GMT Professional services firm KPMG will be helping the Leeds City Region with its future plans after it was appointed to an advisory role.

]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:29:25 GMT Consult Group, a property and construction consultancy, has opened a base in Sheffield a month after opening one in York.

]]> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:11:24 GMT The main sponsor for the Leeds City Region at an international property conference in France is the UK's biggest property group.

]]> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:11:24 GMT Yorkshire firm Fivesquared, which provides industrial noise and vibration testing services, has won its biggest single international contract with US-based Schiller.

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:25:47 GMT Yorkshire-based Landmark Development Projects has been granted planning permission for 50 homes and six light industrial warehouses in Bradford.

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:25:47 GMT The Siemens VAI business will now have its UK headquarters in the Sheffield operation of Siemens, it has been announced.

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:25:47 GMT With improving trading conditions, York-based housebuilder Persimmon has announced plans to start work at 90 new sites.

]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:45:23 GMT A Yorkshire-based car retailer has expanded by acquiring three more Audi dealerships with 155 staff.

]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:45:23 GMT Sheffield engineering firm DavyMarkham has been bought by Indian group Hindustan Dorr Oliver (HDO) for an undisclosed sum, it has been reported.

]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:56 GMT Yorkshire software firm Cobent has been sold to an industry rival for £5.2 million.

]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:56 GMT Ed Milliband is to outline how offshore wind farms can benefit businesses in the region at an event in Doncaster.

]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:42:21 GMT Scottish Widows has bought Sheffield's Moor shopping centre for £26.5m.

]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:42:21 GMT A national high-speed network will benefit Yorkshire the most, a new study has said.

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:01:22 GMT Film and TV catering firm Chorley Bunce is shifting its national headquarters to Pannal Business Park in Harrogate.

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:01:22 GMT Bradford-based Barrett Steel Buildings has started a new business - Cougar Steel Stairs - where it will build metal staircases.

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:01:22 GMT Yorkshire Forward has provided £6 million of funding to help the Waterfront project in Huddersfield get underway.

]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:37:52 GMT A York-based building conservation firm is to refurbish the world's only remaining steel crucible workshop, it has been announced.

]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:37:52 GMT York railway station is to provide the main customer centre for the city's services and house council staff.

]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:42:43 GMT Engineering giant Siemens has invested in a Sheffield, bolstering the region's reputation as a hotbed of advanced engineering.

]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:42:43 GMT A greener alternative to cremation and burial by accelerating natural decomposition has been developed by a Leeds engineering firm.

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:15:27 GMT The waterfront could be made the focal point of a redeveloped Goole over the next 25 years, as part of ambitious plans for the East Riding of Yorkshire town.

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:15:27 GMT A Sheffield-based engineering maintenance company has been given £2 million as part of a Government-backed scheme to help small businesses through the recession.

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:24:56 GMT Leeds-based investor Endless has sold its stake in Excelsyn to a US firm in a multimillion-pound deal.

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:24:56 GMT Leeds Legal representatives are visiting Dublin to develop links with law firms, intermediaries and key businesses in the city.

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