Macfarlane Group

Macfarlane Group PLC Annual Group Meeting Statement

Dylan MacdonaldMacfarlane Group

At the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held in Glasgow today, Stuart Paterson, Chairman of Macfarlane Group PLC (“Macfarlane” or the “Company”) made the following statement. Trading As previously reported in our COVID-19 update on 30 March 2020, the first quarter of 2020 delivered a strong trading performance with Group sales growth of 2% and profitability well ahead of the same …

Reactec's 'Safedistance' proximity monitor

Reactec: Social distancing solution launched to protect employees returning to work

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Reactec repurposes tried and tested technology to protect workers from potential exposure to COVID-19 Edinburgh-based Reactec, has repurposed its proven system for monitoring workers’ exposure to health risk to create “Safedistance”, which enables employers to manage the social distancing of their workforce within construction, rail, manufacturing and other workplaces. Safedistance is based on an industrial grade wrist-worn device and it: …

Loch Duart Sales Director Andy Bing at BBC Scotland studios in December 2019

Loch Duart Salmon on BBC Radio Scotland

Dylan MacdonaldLoch Duart

Co-founder and Sales Director of Loch Duart Salmon, Andy Bing, spoke with BBC Radio Scotland this week about the company’s response to the Covid-19 crisis, discussing the approaches taken to ensure safe farming at sites in North West Scotland, and new routes to market through local fishmongers and home delivery companies across the UK. “There’s been an utterly fantastic response …

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Kyowa Kirin and MEI Pharma announce global licence, development and commercialisation agreement for ME-401

Dylan Macdonaldblog

SAN DIEGO, and TOKYO, April 14, 2020 – MEI Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEIP) and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin, TSE: 4151) today jointly announced that the companies have entered into a global license, development and commercialization agreement to further develop and commercialize MEI’s ME-401, an oral, once-daily, investigational drug-candidate, selective for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ), in clinical development for …

Archangels leads further investment in home-grown Scottish innovators

Dylan Macdonaldblog

Archangels, the Edinburgh-based business angel investment syndicate – believed to be the oldest in the world – has led investment of £6.2 million in Scottish early stage companies in the first quarter of 2020. Four tech and life sciences businesses – Blackford Analysis; Fios Genomics; Optoscribe; and Speech Graphics – were the recipients of the additional investment. £2.6 million came …

Port of Tilbury quay workers pay tribute to key workers and the NHS

Dylan MacdonaldPort of Tilbury

Last night (2 April) for the 8pm Clap for Carers event, the hard working team from the London Container Terminal at The Port of Tilbury, undertook a container shuffle of 137 containers to create a tribute to the NHS workers and all the other key workers keeping vital services going for us all. The container shuffle was carried out yesterday …