Banner Holdings, the Chesterfield-based construction company which recently completed a refurbishment of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, has gone into administration. Administrators told Insider that Banner had struggled to fund a legal battle with Colchester Borough Council, a dispute which arose after the council terminated a contract for Banner to build its Visual Arts Facility in April last year. Banner reported a return to profit for the year to 31 December 2009 after its pre-tax loss of £2.76m in 2008, but ceased to trade earlier this month.

Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber of Commerce has welcomed news that online fashion retailer ASOS will create up to 1,000 jobs in Barnsley when it moves its distribution centre to a 500,000 sq ft warehouse on Park Spring Road in early 2011. Andrew Denniff, policy manager at the Chamber, told Insider: “Traditionally there has been a huge reliance on the public sector in Barnsley. The move provides a buffer to the pressures on that sector expected in the Budget; at the end of the day jobs are jobs.”

Eco-technology business Martek Marine has secured 95 per cent of the global market for marine carbon emission monitoring systems. Using the Rotherham-based company’s MariNOx system, marine industry businesses can optimise the efficiency of their engines, reducing fuel consumption and their carbon footprint. Martek chief executive Paul Luen said: “The introduction of emissions control areas and the onset of carbon trading around the world will mean that shipping fleets will be taxed on their emissions.”

ITM Power, the Sheffield-based energy storage and clean fuel company, has secured its first product sale and field trial with the University of Birmingham. The company’s HPac10 unit will supply hydrogen to the university’s fuel cell laboratory, removing its dependency on bottled gas with excess electrolytic hydrogen used by the university’s fleet of fuel cell vehicles.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has said the manufacturing industry is “literally rusting away” and criticised “selfish” banks for their failure to extend credit to enable the replacement of vital equipment. Commenting on a report by Sheffield-based Lincoln Finance, Andrew Flower, South Yorkshire chairman of the FSB, said: “Ultimately the UK will find itself falling behind in the re-equipping of industry and in particular the use of new technology.”

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This year’s South Yorkshire Property Gala Dinner is approaching and ahead of the event there is still a chance to vote for the Personality of the Year award. We have drawn up a final shortlist of: Jon Bond, Bond Bryan Architects; David Newton, St Pauls Developments; Alex Pettifer, Sheffield Hallam University; and Andy Topley, Creative Sheffield. Please email your final nomination by close of play on Friday 18 June.

Sheffield-based financial adviser Campbell Harrison has appointed Julie Shaw as office manager. Shaw rejoins the company, after a five-year break, to run its Paradise Square office. She worked at the financial adviser for four years, dealing with the technical aspects of its pension schemes. Before returning to the business, she was a senior paraplanner at chartered accountancy Grant Thornton’s Sheffield branch.