(IN BRIEF) Wood has secured a 16-month extension to its technical personnel and engineering support contract with Shell U.K. Limited, enabling it to continue providing specialist services across key Southern North Sea assets including the Leman and Sole Pit platforms, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged asset maintenance, Bacton Gas Plant, brownfield EPC, Darren Anderson, energy infrastructure, energy operations, energy transition, engineering, engineering procurement and construction, engineering support services, industrial services, Kroonborg walk-to-work vessel, Leman platform, National Transmission System, normally unattended installations, North Sea energy, NUIs, offshore engineering, offshore gas, offshore gas infrastructure, offshore operations, offshore platforms, oil and gas operations, Shell, Shell U K Limited, Sole Pit platform, Southern North Sea, technical personnel, technical personnel services, UK energy security, UK gas supply, UK offshore energy, UK Operations, W2W, W2W vessel, Wood, Wood Group, Wood Strengthens Long-Standing Partnership with Shell U.K. Limited Through Extended Engineering and Personnel Services Agreement
(IN BRIEF) RWE has successfully secured Contracts for Difference in the UK government’s Allocation Round 7 for five solar PV projects and three onshore wind developments, representing up to 290 megawatts of new renewable capacity capable of powering around 240,000 … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Allocation Round 7, clean power, Contracts for Difference, decarbonisation, Devon, green energy investment, inflation-indexed strike price, Katja Wünschel, Langford solar project, onshore wind, RWE, RWE Renewables, RWE Strengthens Its UK Renewables Portfolio with Major Success in Allocation Round 7, Solar PV, UK energy transition, UK renewable energy
(IN BRIEF) Vodafone Group has confirmed that its subsidiary Vodacom Group has announced Vodafone Egypt’s participation in a multi-year spectrum investment programme led by Egypt’s MCIT and NTRA, under which Vodafone Egypt has secured an additional 2 x 10MHz of … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Internet & Online, Investment, News, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged 1, 2, 3, 500MHz, 5G, 600MHz, 800MHz, 800MHz Spectrum Acquisition and Future 5G Allocations, Digital connectivity, Egypt telecommunications, financial services, intangible spectrum asset, IoT, MCIT, mobile connectivity, network capacity, NTRA, spectrum allocation, subsea cables, telecom investment programme, Vodacom Group, Vodafone Egypt, Vodafone Egypt Strengthens Network Capacity with New 1, Vodafone Group
(IN BRIEF) Schroders and Apollo have launched a strategic partnership to co-develop a new generation of hybrid wealth and retirement investment solutions that combine Schroders’ public market expertise and Schroders Capital’s private markets capabilities with Apollo’s large-scale private credit and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Apollo, asset management, Collective Investment Trust, defined contribution pensions, evergreen structures, Fixed Income, hybrid investing, LTAFs, Marc Rowan, multi-billion-dollar flows, private credit, private markets, public markets, retirement solutions, Richard Oldfield, Schroders, Schroders and Apollo Target Multi-Billion-Dollar Growth through New Hybrid Wealth and Retirement Investment Platform, Schroders Capital, UK wealth market, wealth management
(IN BRIEF) Experian and Reward have released new research showing that health and wellbeing spending in the UK has shifted from a seasonal January spike to a year-round budget priority, with growth driven by higher spend per person rather than … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Colin Grieves, Consumer Spending, customer behaviour, Experian, Experian Analysis Finds Wellness Is No Longer Just a January Trend, Experian Marketing Services, GDPR, gyms, health and wellbeing, marketing insights, retail analytics, Reward, Reward and Experian Highlight Structural Shift in UK Health and Wellbeing Spending, specialist grocery, sportswear, transactional data, UK Households
(IN BRIEF) BAE Systems’ 2026 Apprenticeship Barometer, based on a Censuswide survey of 1,000 young people and 1,000 parents, shows growing support for apprenticeships as an alternative to university, with 63% of parents and 62% of young people favouring them … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Defence, Education, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Apprenticeship Barometer 2026, Apprenticeships, Apprenticeships Increasingly Seen as Equal to Degrees According to BAE Systems Survey, BAE Systems, Censuswide, combat aircraft, cyber, defence industry, earning while learning, job security, National Apprenticeship Week, New Research Shows Apprenticeships Gaining Momentum as Preferred Career Pathway Across the UK, North of England, Richard Hamer, skills and education, space, student debt, submarines, UK skills investment, workforce development, Youth employment
(IN BRIEF) PATRIZIA has appointed Gus Wiseman as Director, UK Product, based in London, in a strategic move to support the firm’s expansion across real estate, impact investing, and infrastructure in the UK. Wiseman joins from the UK Government, where … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Real Estate, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged capital markets, Department for Business and Trade, Director UK Product, Gus Wiseman, Gus Wiseman to Lead UK Product Strategy at PATRIZIA in London, impact investing, infrastructure investment, institutional investors, London, Office for Investment, PATRIZIA, PATRIZIA Strengthens UK Platform with Strategic Hire from Government, pension capital mobilisation, Public-Private Partnerships, real estate investment, regeneration, Simon Redman, social housing, Sterling 20, Sustainable Finance, UK policy
(IN BRIEF) The Institute of Cancer Research, London has appointed Dr Michelle Harrison to its Board of Trustees, bringing extensive experience in global public policy, corporate leadership, and charity governance to the organisation’s governing body. A former Chief Executive and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Big Win Philanthropy, Board of Trustees, Campaign for Science and Engineering, cancer research, charity governance, corporate governance, Dr Michelle Harrison, Dr Michelle Harrison Joins Board of Trustees at The Institute of Cancer Research, ICR, ICR Brings Senior Public Policy and Business Expert onto Board of Trustees, INNOVATION, Involve, leadership, London, Nesta, Professor Dame Julia Buckingham, Public Affairs, public policy, Reykjavik Global Forum, Social Finance UK, STRATEGY, The Institute of Cancer Research London, Verian Group, WPP Group
(IN BRIEF) DNV has been appointed by Cadent as Owner’s Engineer for the Front-End Engineering Design of the H2East Pipeline from Humber to Nottinghamshire, a project intended to anchor the UK’s emerging hydrogen transmission network and support industrial decarbonisation, energy … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Norway, Security & Safety, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Cadent, Cadent Selects DNV to Provide Technical Assurance for H2East Hydrogen Transmission Project, DNV, DNV Appointed Owner’s Engineer for Cadent’s H2East Hydrogen Pipeline FEED Phase, energy security, FEED, H2East Pipeline, Hari Vamadevan, Humber to Nottinghamshire, hydrogen infrastructure, hydrogen transmission, industrial decarbonisation, low-carbon power, materials testing, Net Zero Pre-construction Work and Small Projects, NZASP, Ofgem, owner’s engineer, pipeline engineering, regulatory assurance, safety modelling, UK hydrogen strategy
(IN BRIEF) Cambridgeshire-based logistics provider Buffaload has secured a new five-year contract with Co-op, extending a partnership that has lasted over ten years and expanding its role to include the trunking of ambient goods from Co-op’s National Distribution Centre in … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Retail, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged ambient logistics, Barnardo’s, Bio-LNG, Buffaload, Buffaload and Co-op Deepen Collaboration with New Ambient Trunking Agreement, Buffaload Wins Expanded Co-op Contract as Retailer Advances Low-Carbon Logistics Strategy, carbon reduction, Co-op, food distribution, John Kerrigan, LNG vehicles, logistics partnership, National Distribution Centre Coventry, regional distribution centres, retail logistics, Stuart Rendall, sustainable transport, temperature-controlled logistics, trunking operations, UK supply chain
(IN BRIEF) GSK announced that the European Commission has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults in the EU with uncontrolled COPD characterised by raised blood eosinophils who are already receiving inhaled triple therapy, making it the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Security & Safety, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged American Thoracic Society, blood eosinophils, COPD, CRSwNP, EGPA, emergency department visits, eosinophilic phenotype, European Commission, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations, Exacerbations, GSK, GSK Expands Nucala’s European Indications with Landmark Approval for Uncontrolled COPD, GSK Strengthens Its Respiratory Portfolio as Nucala Receives EU Approval for Add-On COPD Treatment, HES, hospitalisations, IL-5, inhaled triple therapy, Kaivan Khavandi, MATINEE trial, mepolizumab, New England Journal of Medicine, Nucala, Phase III, respiratory medicine, Severe Asthma, Susanna Palkonen, type 2 inflammation
(IN BRIEF) Arriva has successfully retained operation of North London’s 102/N102 bus route following a competitive tender by Transport for London, securing a new seven-year contract from November 2026 to continue running the 24-hour service between Edmonton Green and Brent … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, Travel, United Kingdom
Tagged Arriva, Arriva Group, Arriva London, Arriva Strengthens London Operations as TfL Awards Seven-Year Contract for Route 102/N102, Brent Cross, bus electrification, Edmonton Green, electric buses, London buses, Mark Griffin, North London transport, Palmers Green garage, Route 102, Route N102, sustainable transport, TfL, Transport for London, zero-emission fleet
(IN BRIEF) SAS has signed a two-year Enterprise Agreement Lite with the UK Ministry of Defence, creating a consolidated commercial framework for existing and future engagements conducted in line with public procurement rules. The agreement allows the MOD to draw … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Defence, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Security & Safety, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged artificial intelligence, data analytics, Defence Digital Commercial, Defence Tech Scaler, digital transformation, Enterprise Agreement Lite, industry collaboration, MOD, Nicky Furlong, public procurement, public sector technology, SAS, SAS Joins Defence Tech Scaler Ecosystem Through New Two-Year Framework Agreement with the MOD, UK defence, UK Ministry of Defence
(IN BRIEF) The University of Liverpool has partnered with Boston-based BPGbio, Inc. to use artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new medicines through its Civic HealthTech Innovation Zone, analysing large-scale healthcare data to uncover causal links in disease and … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged artificial intelligence, BPGbio Inc, causal inference, CHI-Zone, Civic HealthTech Innovation Zone, Claire Eyers, drug discovery, Iain Buchan, Investment Zone Programme, Life Sciences Innovation Zone, Liverpool City Region, Mayor Steve Rotheram, multi-omics, NAi Bayesian AI, Niven Narain, Peter Green, precision medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool and BPGbio Launch Data-Driven Collaboration to Transform Mechanism-Based Drug Discovery
(IN BRIEF) Fugro is conducting detailed nearshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys to support SSEN Transmission’s Western Isles HVDC Link, a project that will transmit up to 1,800 MW of renewable electricity from Scotland’s islands to the UK mainland and strengthen … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged ARAN 250, Arnish Point, Dundonnell, energy transition, Fugro, Fugro Advances Nearshore Survey Work to Support SSEN Transmission’s Western Isles HVDC Renewable Energy Link, GB Transmission network, geophysical survey, geotechnical boreholes, Isle of Lewis, Matthew Chappell, Niall MacLeod, renewable energy, SSEN Transmission, Subsea Cable, underground cable, Wallingford laboratory, Western Isles HVDC Link
Pricing in Europe has moved from an operational task to a core strategic function RGM reframed growth from “selling more” to “earning more profitably” Specialist consultancies, especially Simon-Kucher, were foundational in shaping the field Data and analytics accelerated the professionalization … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Financial, Germany, Management, Netherlands, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI in pricing, B2B manufacturing, commercial excellence, consumer packaged goods, data analytics, Diana Coelho, dynamic pricing, EPP Pricing Platform BV, EuropaWire, Europe, European Pricing Platform, governance in pricing, growth and profitability, Management Consulting, Pedro Fernandes, Pol Vanaerde, Pricing, pricing software, professional communities, retail, revenue growth management, RGM, SaaS pricing, Simon-Kucher & Partners, trade promotion optimization, value-based pricing
(IN BRIEF) TotalEnergies and Airbus have signed two clean firm power agreements that will supply 3.3 TWh of baseload renewable electricity per year to Airbus’ major sites in Germany and the United Kingdom from 2027 onward, covering about half of … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, France, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, United Kingdom
Tagged Airbus, baseload power, battery storage, CCGT, clean firm power, corporate decarbonization, corporate PPAs, Florent Massou dit Labaquère, Germany, Offshore wind, onshore wind, Power Purchase Agreements, renewable electricity, Solar, Stéphane Michel, sustainable aviation fuel, TotalEnergies, TotalEnergies to Deliver 3.3 TWh of Low-Carbon Baseload Electricity to Airbus from New Renewable Assets, United Kingdom
(IN BRIEF) Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have uncovered how the DNA repair enzyme XPF-ERCC1 is recruited to sites of damage and activated inside cells, resolving a long-standing question in molecular biology and providing structural insights that … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI in science, AlphaFold, Basil Greber, cancer research, cryogenic electron microscopy, DNA damage, DNA repair, genome integrity, ICR, Institute of Cancer Research, Medical Research Council, Molecular Biology, Nature Communications, New Structural Insights into XPF-ERCC1 Could Help Refine Future Cancer Treatments, SLX4, structural biology, XPF-ERCC1
(IN BRIEF) The Institute of Cancer Research has welcomed Sutton Council’s approval of ambitious plans led by Aviva Capital Partners and Socius to create around one million square feet of new life-sciences research and laboratory space across a 12-acre site … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Insurance, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Aviva Capital Partners, cancer research, Daniel May, economic growth, high-skilled jobs, ICR, ICR Welcomes Approval of New One-Million-Square-Foot Life-Sciences Campus at The London Cancer Hub, Innovation Gateway, Institute of Cancer Research, Kristian Helin, laboratory space, life sciences, London Borough of Sutton, research and development, science infrastructure, Socius, Sophie White, Sutton, The London Cancer Hub, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
(IN BRIEF) RWE has signed a five-year Power Purchase Agreement with Lidl GB to supply 100 gigawatt hours of renewable electricity annually, covering just over 15 percent of the retailer’s national power demand in the United Kingdom, with the energy … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Retail, United Kingdom
Tagged corporate PPA, corporate sustainability, energy transition, Green Energy, Gwynt y Môr wind farm, Irish Sea, Kaskasi wind farm, Lidl GB, North Sea, Offshore wind, Power Purchase Agreement, renewable electricity, RWE, RWE to Deliver 100 GWh of Offshore Wind Power Annually to Lidl GB Through New Long-Term PPA, Schwarz Group, UK retail
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