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Day: 13 September 2021

Marketing move

Intuit acquires Mailchimp in $12bn cash and shares deal

Intuit-Mailchimp
Small business accounting firm Intuit, whose product suite includes payment management system Quickbooks, is acquiring the email marketing company Mailchimp in a cash-and-shares deal worth about $12 billion. California-based IntuitRead More

Company denies claim

Government cancels Valneva’s £1.3bn Covid contract

Valneva-Livingston
The company denies claim that it is in breach of contract Drugs developer Valneva has been told a deal to supply Covid vaccines has been terminated by the UK governmentRead More

Broadcaster leaves

Neil quits as chairman and presenter of GB News

Andrew-Neil-GB-News
Neil will no longer have his own show Andrew Neil has quit as chairman of the fledgling GB News television channel.  The former Sunday Times editor and BBC political presenter,Read More

Company finance

Don’t let your working capital run low

James Fennessey
Businesses need to take steps to protect themselves from failure resulting from a lack of working capital, writes JAMES FENNESSEY

Office opens

Borders accountancy firm targets capital for growth

Alan-Drummond-Sheryl-Macaulay-and-MD-Darren-Thomson
Alan Drummond, Sheryl Macaulay and MD Darren Thomson A Borders accountancy firm believes the time is right to step up its expansion in Edinburgh, fuelled by the number of firmsRead More

Creative

Donnelly and Fraser join new agency Go Forth

John Donnelly
John Donnelly: new role (pic: Terry Murden) Creative agency Go Forth, which launched in the middle of the Covid pandemic, has appointed two experienced industry figures. Former Marketing Edinburgh CEORead More

Brewing hire

BrewDog hires Leighton to counter ‘culture of fear’

Allan Leighton
Allan Leighton: revived Asda BrewDog has hired former Asda chief executive Allan Leighton as non-executive chairman three months after former staff accused the company of creating a “toxic” culture. MrRead More

Acquisition

Gilson Gray adds GCR Financial to portfolio

Graham Robinson
Gilson Gray Financial Management (GGFM) has acquired Dunblane-based holistic financial planning firm, GCR Financial, for a seven-figure sum. As part of the merger, Graham Robinson, pictured, the former owner ofRead More

Market report

Primark lower | SMS in £175m placing | Henry Boot surges

Primark
REFRESH PAGE FOR UPDATES 5pm: Oil higher – but Primark hit by pingdemic Stocks in London ended manly higher, with oil majors helping push the FTSE 100 up by 40.57Read More

Interview

Interview: Joe Di Rollo, helping bankers sleep at night

Joe Di Rollo
The risk manager talks to TERRY MURDEN about the changing regulatory regime