Colas Rail has maintained its margin and slightly improved its performance in all business areas. The UK rail arm of the French multinational increased revenue to £425.8m in the year to 31 December 2024, newly published accounts show, delivering a pre-tax margin of 6.9 per cent for the second consecutive year. Turnover increased from the
An East Midlands plant hire business has entered administration after 36 years of trading. Leedale, based in the Derbyshire town of Alfreton, was founded in 1989 by Lee Walkup and continued to operate as a family business leasing diggers, tip trucks, grab trucks, cranes, crushers and road sweepers. The firm’s website says it operated nationally
Kelly L. Faloon is a contributing editor and writer to Contractor, Contracting Business magazine and HPAC Engineering and principal of Faloon Editorial Services. The former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Faloon has more than 26 years of experience in the plumbing and heating industry and more than 35 years in B2B publishing. She started a freelance writing and editing business in
A 60,000-pound wheel loader suddenly came barreling down a busy street recently in Milford, Massachusetts, hitting a car and toppling roads signs. (Watch the video of the incident at the end of this article.) The Milford Police Department received multiple 911 calls about the loader’s crash at 1:38 p.m. August 15. When officers arrived, they
Elon Musk-founded The Boring Company plans to build an underground transit system in Nashville, Tennessee. Billed as the “Music City Loop,” the all-electric system will consist of an initial 10-mile phase of two tunnels to connect the Nashville Convention Center with the Nashville International Airport. This would mark the second public underground transit system built
Photo Credit: Kilian Seiler Major law firms are once again pushing for class certification in a high-stakes lawsuit centering on the alleged anticompetitive business practices of Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary. Attorneys with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as well as Keller Postman just recently asked the court for class certification in the complaint
Grey Gordon, A2IM’s communications and digital marketing manager. Photo Credit: A2IM Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of August 22nd, 2025. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just
HONG KONG, Aug 22, 2025 – (ACN Newswire) – Everbright Grand China Assets Limited (“Everbright Grand China” or the “Group”; HKEX stock code: 03699.HK), a subsidiary of China Everbright Group, principally engaged in the businesses of property leasing, property management and the sales of properties held for sale, announced its interim results for the six months
Sacramento, CA, August 23, 2025 –(PR.com)– Huisman Auctions, Inc., a trusted name in professional auctions since 1964, is pleased to announce the upcoming online fleet liquidation auction of 2008–2011 Ford E-450 Step Vans. This special event offers buyers, entrepreneurs, and fleet operators the opportunity to acquire versatile step vans ideal for delivery, food truck conversions, mobile
Aug. 22 (UPI) — At least five people, including a child, died when a chartered tour bus crashed and rolled in upstate New York while returning from Niagara Falls on Friday. The bus was carrying 52 people, including the driver, when it crashed about 25 miles east of Buffalo on Interstate-90 between exits 49 and
