Small and medium-sized businesses in Yorkshire are neglecting the burgeoning export market, according to a report by Lloyds TSB Commercial. Lloyds said that only one third of the companies it surveyed currently exported, and contrasted this with the growth in foreign markets experienced by 88 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses which did export. Concerns about a lack of demand overseas and worries about late payment were the primary reasons cited for not exporting.

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Dormer Tools, the engineering company based in Waverley, is exhibiting its aerospace tooling services at next month’s Farnborough International Airshow (FIA). The last FIA in 2008 was responsible for creating more than $88.7bn worth of orders for business delegates and Dormer intends to showcase its tools designed for cutting composite material in the aerospace sector.

Portable football goal manufacturer Quick Play Sport has signed marketing deals with two local football associations. Under the terms of the deals, the Sheffield-based manufacturer will work with Sheffield & Hallamshire FA and Birmingham FA on promotional and marketing opportunities, and also support grassroots football by donating a percentage of the price of its Kickster goals purchased online to the two FAs.

Sheffield law firm Irwin Sheffield is supporting the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Buy Quiet campaign aimed at reducing the number of workers suffering from industrial deafness. The HSE’s initiative encourages manufacturers and businesses to adopt quieter workplaces, and Irwin Mitchell said that if simple, cheap measures had been implemented by businesses in hundreds of the cases of industrial deafness which they have handled then injury could have been restricted or eliminated.

Russell Jones & Walker, the Sheffield solicitors firm, has launched a new road traffic accident claims unit. The unit will utilise a new fast-track system designed to process clients’ claims in under three months, rather than the usual nine to 12 months. Underpinning the system is new IT case management software, which deals with all claims electronically.

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Commercial property company Ediston Opportunity Fund has purchased Sheffield office building 2 Cutlers Gate for £14.3m. The 61,600 sq ft building, which was sold by a private UK investor, is let to Capita which occupies the premises under a 15-year lease at a base rent of £17 per sq ft. The Leeds office of Knight Frank advised the Jersey-based buyer on the deal.