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Watch: Insider's Business Briefing - 14th August
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14/08/2024
North West richest people in tech, developer selected for Wythenshawe scheme, fishing nets, PPE, and adventure travel - Robyn Hewson and Miri Thomas discuss the day's business news stories.
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NorthWest Richlist, developers selected for WithinShore scheme, fishing nets, PPE and
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adventure travel, all coming up in today's Daily Business Briefing.
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I'm Mary Thomas.
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And I'm Robin Hewson.
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And in this morning's news, Robin, I saw a few stories from my old patch in the South
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West.
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So, Cornwall, a company there that makes 3D printed filaments from end-of-life fishing
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nets.
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That surpassed its Crowdcube target.
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Originally, they were going for 150,000 pounds, but they revised that down to 100,000 pounds
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after the commercial success of one of their pilots.
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So those funds are going to be used to market fishy filaments range of virtually carbon-free
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marine nylon for use in advanced engineering and manufacturing.
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That's going to enable them to fast-track all their R&D, as well as meet their environmental
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and social targets.
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Also from Cornwall is a business called Revolution Zero.
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Now, that makes reusable medical textiles.
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So they received 250,000 pounds from asset finance provider Ignition, and that's going
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to help that business realize its ambition to make sustainable, reusable PPE.
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So they're going to try and make it lower cost, as well as more environmentally friendly.
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Oh, sounds great.
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What did you see this morning?
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Well, news in the property world in the Northwest today was about Muse being named as the delivery
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partner for Withenshaw.
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So Muse are all about long-term regeneration, and this is a scheme that's going to go on
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for the next 10 years.
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So there's quite a few exciting things being delivered from a new public square to 1,750
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new homes and community assets, things like that.
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So lots of good stuff there.
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And they're calling it a positive energy district.
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Yeah.
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So they want to be the UK's first positive energy district, which is all about connecting
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up the buildings and creating a whole area that's net zero, and it also improves the
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local biodiversity as well.
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Speaking of biodiversity, but on a bigger scale, so think Habitat.
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A company called Abercrombie & Kent, they're a travel company with its UK headquarters
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in Cheltenham.
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They've just secured a 500 million pound investment to support their expansion.
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So their products include expedition cruises, which they say take place across all seven
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continents, and they're launching two new cruises this year.
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They're also going to launch a new river boat in Peru later in the year as well, which joins
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their fleet of river boats in Egypt.
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And they've got three expedition yachts in the Galapagos Islands.
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Oh, wow.
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How do you fancy that one?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Sign me up.
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I think we'd probably need deeper pockets to afford a nice yacht in the Galapagos.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And speaking of people with deep pockets, we've just released the tech portion of our
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rich list this morning.
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So the rich list is sort of only about business people.
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It's not just kind of the richest celebrities in the region, but people who are wealthy
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from their businesses.
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And this year, we thought we'd do a bit of a deep dive into some of the trends that have
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come out of it.
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So one area in particular is about tech entrepreneurs, and we've revealed the top 10 in the Northwest
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today.
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So who would be your guests for the top one in the Northwest?
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Well, based on this year and the merger between or the acquisition of WaveNet by Daisy, I
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was thinking maybe Matthew Riley, because he now oversees a much bigger business.
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It's a good guess.
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He's coming at number two.
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So he is just pips the post by Simon Nixon of Money Supermarket, who's got 1.88 billion
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to his name.
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And Matthew Riley of Daisy has 825 million.
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So Simon Nixon, as well as being known for Money Supermarket, is also supporting the
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next generation of entrepreneurs and funding the next generation of tech through Seek Ventures.
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And as you mentioned, the acquisition sort of boosted Daisy.
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And then coming in at number three is Matt and Jodie Moulding from The Hook Group.
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So they're obviously well known for selling beauty and lifestyle projects.
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But something else that's really boosted their profits is the e-commerce platform, Ingenuity.
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So they've sold that to other brands like L'Oreal and Pepsi, and that's really boosted
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them as well.
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All right.
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So you can read the top 10 tech today.
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But for the full list of the 50 richest people in the Northwest, you need to sign up for
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our September edition of Northwest Business Insider, and that'll be on desks before the
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bank holiday.
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We'll be back tomorrow with your next daily business briefing.
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