
Guy Watson, the BBC Farmer of the Year and founder of Riverford Organic Farms, was guest speaker at a major business lunch in Harrogate. Addressing guests at the Cicada Spring Lunch, Guy talked about how he started the Riverford veg box delivery company 25 years ago and developed it into the £44 million turnover business [...]
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Harrogate-based event specialist Joe Manby Limited is saying goodbye to two of its longest serving employees, Eileen Land and Geoff Lowe. Between the pair they’ve clocked up nearly 65 years’ service at the Harrogate firm. Eileen joined the Company in 1984 as a receptionist before moving to the electrical division in 1992. Over the years she has [...]
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Acceleris Marketing Communications in Harrogate has cemented its reputation as one of the leading motor sector communications agencies with a series of five new appointments set to add close to £130k in annual fees to the agency’s burgeoning specialist motor sector division. Marketing leading fuel card Allstar, Toyota, Kia and Hyundai dealership network Vantage Motor [...]
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The perils of renting a property through unregulated letting agents have been exposed again on national TV – after actor Nigel Havers revealed he had been conned out of £1,300. The Coronation Street star was left out of pocket after the agent who rented him a property in Manchester during his filming schedule vanished without [...]
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Small and medium sized businesses across the Harrogate district now have access to their own ‘HR Manager’ that offers flexible payment schemes for services. Human Resources professional, Nancy Prest, has launched Doodle HR to provide local SME’s with affordable access to the level of advice that larger businesses benefit from in-house. Nancy said: Smaller businesses [...]
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McCarthy’s announces growth in sales and square footage for storage business. A Yorkshire firm is celebrating two years operating in Harrogate with the announcement of an expansion following a growth in sales. McCarthy’s Removals and Storage is celebrating a 40 per cent increase in sales in six months, and to meet the extra demand the [...]
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Harrogate-based used car business Trusted Dealers is entering into what they are calling a ‘game changing’ partnership with the National Franchised Dealer Association (NFDA), which will see the business become the consumer facing website for the sector’s most influential trade body. Announced this week, the deal will see the NDFA take a majority stake in the [...]
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York based Skelwith Leisure is developing the 300-room hotel and leisure development on the existing 27-hole Flaxby Park Golf course and it will be one of the biggest hotels in the North of England when completed in 2015. Skelwith Leisure has announced that work will begin on the £100 million Flaxby Country Resort, located between [...]
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Harrogate law firm, Raworths, has appointed John Carter as a solicitor working in the Corporate/Commercial and Commercial Property departments. He will be advising businesses and individuals on a broad range of legal matters including commercial contracts, share transactions, leases and compliance with company law and Land Registry requirements. In addition to John’s corporate and commercial [...]
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