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Watch: Insider's Business Briefing - 12th August
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12/08/2024
In today's Daily Business Briefing, Robyn and Simon discuss increasing turnover at a rugby club, deals and profits climbing in the retail world, and the North West rich list.
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Rhino's Retail and Rich List, that's what's coming up and more in today's
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Daily Business Briefing.
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Hi, I'm Simon Keegan. And I'm Robin Hewson. So Robin, I know as a proud
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Sheffield lass you've probably picked out a Yorkshire story for us today, haven't you?
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I have. Every time I do the briefing I try and pick out a Yorkshire story.
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You can set your watch by it. But it's not a Sheffield one today, it's about
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Leeds. So turnover is up at Leeds Rhino's Rugby Club. So the Leeds Rhino's Club and
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Headingley Stadium are both owned by Caddick Group, who viewers, readers might know from
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property construction in the North West and Yorkshire. So they also own the club
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and the turnover grew to £11.6 million, which was slightly up on 2022. However,
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it was a bit of a difficult season on the field. So the men's side finished eighth in the Super
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League. The women's team fared a bit better. But unfortunately, they lost to St Helens at Wembley.
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North West team, you say?
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That's it.
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Although I grew up in Wigan, so I've got to be careful with my allegiance to St Helens.
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Yeah, there you go.
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I'm not saying anything else.
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Cheering for Leeds. So the club was boosted by record catering revenue this year of more
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than a million, as well as increased rental income from some new tenants. And they also
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boosted their attendance numbers. So more people wanting to watch the rugby.
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Oh, that's nice. Well, I've picked out some retail stories today, the ones that caught my eye.
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One in the South East, Primark, because they're Dublin headquartered.
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They've moved into Tunbridge Wells for the first time. And they've taken over the former BHS,
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which you're probably too young to remember.
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Yeah, I'm not familiar.
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British Home Stores used to kind of dominate the high streets and kind of like, you know,
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Debenhams. We're seeing the buildings getting used for other things.
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In the South West, it's a deal story, but it's also got a retail flavor.
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As a consortium of private equity investors have bought Hargreaves Lansdown for 5.4 billion,
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which has got to be one of the biggest deals, I would say, of the year.
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And that's the UK's largest retail investment platform.
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So some of the retail stories that caught my eye. Turtle Bay, which we've got one near us,
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haven't we?
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I've been for Bottomless Brunch there.
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Bottomless Brunch. Well, that sounds good.
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They're experiencing record high sales for that. That's great.
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They've got new sites in Blackpool, Camden, Lincoln and Glasgow.
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So there you go, readers and viewers, if you're near there,
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the Bottomless Brunch comes highly recommended.
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So talking of Turtle Bay, do you want to hear about the time
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I went to get a book out of the library on turtles?
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Go on.
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The librarian said, hardback. And I said, yeah, with a little head.
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Gosh.
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No.
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That was a dad joke.
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It is a dad joke. Other retail stories I picked out.
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Iceland, pre-tax profit of 15.6 million, compared to a 16 million quid loss the previous year.
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So they've obviously read more about that story online.
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They've obviously done great at turning things around.
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So you can read about any of these stories on our website as well.
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But talking of the magazine, we're just finishing off the September issue today.
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I've already told the viewers about Bernstein's Manchester,
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which I've been working on, and about the 4242 update.
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Of course, the 4242 list we've got next month.
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I did an interview with Together Money.
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But I know you've also been working with Together Money,
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haven't you, for a new interview series.
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So tell us a bit about that.
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So we've partnered with Together to do a new interview series
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all about the property leaders of the Northwest.
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So we kicked things off last month with Stephen Ashworth from Hurstford Holdings,
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hearing about how he sort of built that business up, which was really interesting.
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This month, we interviewed Adam Higgins from Capital & Centric.
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So I'd say Capital & Centric are one of, if not the most sort of high profile
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property developers over this way, after TV appearances and things like that.
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So a lot of people know who they are.
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But we sort of got into the backstory of how they got started
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and how Adam and Tim met and things like that, which is quite interesting.
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Talked about some of Adam's favourite schemes over the years.
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And then we also looked to the future at some of the new things they're doing.
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They're working on delivering homes for Northstow,
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which is going to be the UK's largest new town.
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So obviously, a really key priority for the new Labour government
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is creating these new towns across the country.
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So whereabouts is that new town?
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It's Cambridgeshire.
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So they're going to be delivering 2,000 homes there.
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And Adam gave us a bit of an insight into the type of homes that we're going to be seeing.
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So yeah, really interesting stuff.
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Oh, fantastic.
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Well, also in the issue, we've got the annual rich list.
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But what we're going to do is we're going to tell you more about this in the next couple of days,
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because we've taken a different approach to it this year.
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And we're going to have some exclusive online content for you.
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So watch out for that.
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Well, Robin, I think that's all we've got time for today.
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No more jokes?
05:07
No more jokes, I'm sorry.
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Thank God.
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Maybe I'll have a few more next time.
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So it's goodbye from me.
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Goodbye.
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