Michael Taylor

1 week ago | thebusinessdesk.com | Michael Taylor

Home / North West / Deals / Praetura and Par Equity merge to create PXN – a £670m ‘Northern investment powerhouse’ Praetura and Par Equity are merging to create PXN Group – a new venture capital and investment firm with over £670 million in assets under management. The combined entity will be the fastest-growing venture and investment firm outside of London and the South East, with both Praetura Ventures and Par Equity more than tripling their assets under management since 2021. The merger,...

1 week ago | thebusinessdesk.com | Michael Taylor

Home / Yorkshire / Deals / Praetura and Par Equity merge to create PXN – a £670m ‘Northern investment powerhouse’ Praetura and Par Equity are merging to create PXN Group – a new venture capital and investment firm with over £670 million in assets under management. The combined entity will be the fastest-growing venture and investment firm outside of London and the South East, with both Praetura Ventures and Par Equity more than tripling their assets under management since 2021. The merger,...

1 week ago | thebusinessdesk.com | Michael Taylor

Home / North West / Markets / New boss at discount retailer B+M snaps up £500k of bargain price shares Tjeerd Jegen, the new CEO of discount retailer B&M, has bought over half a million pounds worth of shares in the business in the week before he started work. An update to the stock market this morning revealed that between Wednesday and Friday of last week (10th and 13th of June) he snapped up a total of 197,900 shares worth a total of £523,559.60 in The company hasn’t revealed details of...

1 week ago | thebusinessdesk.com | Michael Taylor

Home / North West / Markets / Altitude director to leave to ‘pursue other opportunities’ Altitude Group, the AIM listed branded merchandise business registered in Manchester has seen a 43% increase in orders over the last 3 months compared to the same period last year. Their Gear Shop service to universities, mainly in the US has won new contracts which will result in 45 live locations by August and has additional opportunities in the pipeline. However, Graham Feltham, Chief Financial...

1 week ago | thebusinessdesk.com | Michael Taylor

It was supposed to be a make-or-break meeting. Scott Marshall, nervous and sleep-deprived, had driven four hours to Cambridge to pitch his fledgling lending business to the building society’s chief executive. Then disaster struck. As he waxed lyrical about his vision, Marshall accidentally knocked his coffee cup, drenching the executive’s pristine desk and immaculate suit. Most would have considered the meeting a catastrophic failure.