Business Services
New chair for Eden Search & Select
Recruitment agency Eden Search & Select, which specialises in global food supply chain positions, has appointed Richard Macdonald CBE as its non-executive chairman. Mr Macdonald was director general of the NFU from 1996 to 2009 and is currently deputy chair of the...
AgriBriefing sells UK farm titles and shows
AgriBriefing has sold its portfolio of UK farming titles and tradeshows to a new exhibitions company, so that it can focus on its global agricultural and food commodity data and analysis businesses. The package includes the Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable...
Agricultural law firms merge
The recent merger between UK legal firms Harrison Clark Rickerbys (HCR) and Hewitsons will strengthen the combined company’s specialist agricultural legal work, say the partners. The company, providing legal services across a wide range of business sectors, will trade...
Cawood expands into Europe and the US
Cawood Scientific has made its second acquisition within a month, in a move that both extends its contract research capability and its geographical presence to Europe and the United States. The Berkshire-based independent provider of laboratory analyses to the...
Cawood acquires contamination testing business
Cawood Scientific, the UK’s largest independent laboratory analyst for the land-based industries, has added to its specialist contaminated soil and water testing abilities. Berkshire-based Cawood has acquired The Environmental Laboratory (ELAB) from Sigma HSE. ELAB...
Graindex and ODA to partner
Online crop marketing platform Graindex and marketing consultancy ODA UK are to collaborate over a “joined up approach to marketing combinable crops in the UK and adding value to their outputs”. ODA, based in Peterborough, provides market information and risk...