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Jul 2022
Last Updated: 27/07/2022
Business Breakfast: Ripon company renews junior football sponsorship
In this morning's business briefing, a Ripon company has renewed a sponsorship of a junior football club and Bettys and Taylors has reported increased turnover.
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
A Ripon engineering company has renewed its sponsorship of a junior football team in the city.
Last year Econ Engineering, which is responsible for producing more than eight out of ten of the UK’s winter maintenance vehicles, sponsored Ripon City Panthers U11s Red squad.
And now, with the 2022/23 season just around the corner, the company will be following the fortunes of the team, who compete in the Harrogate and District Junior Football League, as they move up a year and become the U12s.
The firm’s links with the City Panthers, which plays its home games at Mallory Park, stretches back to shortly after the club’s founding in 1984, when David Lupton, the late brother of the director, Jonathan, played for them.
Econ Engineering Director Jonathan Lupton said:
“We really enjoyed our relationship with Ripon City Panthers last season, and we are looking forward to continuing it this season.”
Ripon City Panthers’ U12 Reds Team Manager, Gareth Bainbridge, added:
“I’d like to thank Econ Engineering for their continued sponsorship of our football team, which means a great deal to us."
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Bettys and Taylors Group reports increase in turnover
Harrogate-based Bettys and Taylors Group reported a rise in turnover, according to accounts dated the year ending October 2021.
The company reported an increase in turnover up to £252 million compared with £232.1 million the previous year.
The recently published accounts also show a pre-tax profit of £10.3 million compared with £14.1 million in 2020.
Paul Cogan, group finance and resource direction, said in the report that a combination of the pandemic and "stop-start nature" of the lockdowns throughout 2021 made for "another challenging year".
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