The UK Knack Group Reviews Today’s
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Dartington
Crystal contract means potential new jobs for Devon
Devon-based Dartington Crystal has secured a
licensing agreement to make crystal and glassware for York-based homeware
label Julie Dodsworth. The new range will be launched later in 2013. Jobs
could be created at Dartington Crystal if the range is successful.
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Amore
Care creating 80 jobs across Northern Ireland
Amore Care, part of the Priory Group, is expanding
its portfolio of care services and creating 80 jobs across Northern Ireland
including nursing roles. As part of the expansion 10 new jobs will be created
at Banview Care Home in Banbridge, with further opportunities available in
Newtownabbey, Coleraine, Belfast, Warrenpoint, Newtownards and Armagh.
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Funding
secured for Train Locksmiths with Manchester potential new jobs
Train Locksmiths has secured £200,000 from Yorkshire
Bank to support its acquisition of new premises in Atherton, Manchester. Three existing sites will be consolidated at
the new building, bringing together its training, security centre and lock
import business. The expansion could lead to employment opportunities.
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Dawnus
wins regeneration contract so new jobs for Swansea
Dawnus Construction has won a contract for a regeneration
project worth almost £8m in its home city of Swansea. The business has been appointed to build 26
new affordable homes and a further four properties for private sale on a
brownfield site near Swansea Castle by Coastal Housing Group, who will work
in partnership with Dawnus to create jobs.
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£70K
North East base brings new jobs to Scotland
Aberdeen-based oil and gas specialist Grampian
Continental has invested £70K in a new North East Base and is set to create
jobs. The move is part of Grampian
Continental's aim to grow turnover from £15m to £20m over the next five
years.
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Breeze Volkswagen opening Portsmouth dealership, creating new jobs
Breeze Volkswagen is opening a used Volkswagen van
dealership and service centre in Portsmouth, creating six jobs. It is taking
7,000sq ft. of space on the Portfield Industrial Estate and will open the new
premises at the end of March 2013. 200 employees.
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Sunnycroft
Residential Care Home expansion creates new jobs
Sunnycroft Residential Care Home has secured an
£850,000 finance package with Santander Corporate & Commercial, to expand
its premises onto adjoining land. The
number of beds will increase from 19 to 32 and 5 jobs will be created. Work
is due to start in March 2013, for completion in the autumn.
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Rugby
retail park expansion spells potential new jobs
Developer Hammerson is planning a £35m expansion of
the Elliots Field Retail Park, near Rugby, in Warwickshire. The plans include
additional stores and a new restaurant.
The proposed development could create employment and business
opportunities. Turnover £344.1m, 130 employees.
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Lanarkshire-based
Traveltek international expansion creates 40 jobs
Lanarkshire-based Traveltek, a travel technology
specialist, is recruiting 40 more employees, including sales and account
management, content and translation staff, as part of its international
expansion strategy. Sales and Marketing Director Peter Whittle becomes
director, global sales, while Asia Pacific regional director, Tim Poulter,
will leave immediately. It is
expanding in Russia and North America.
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Carmarthenshire
wind power development creates150 construction jobs
Developer RWE Npower has been given permission for a
28-turbine wind power development in Carmarthenshire by the Department of
Energy and Climate Change. The project
is expected to power the equivalent of up to 39,700 homes and to support up
to 150 jobs during its construction phase.
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New
jobs in Seacat Services
Offshore wind farm vessel transfer operator Seacat
Services will have invested more than £15m in manufacturing and jobs by 2013
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Merging
of Daily and Sunday Telegraph brings good and bad news on jobs
The Telegraph Media Group is merging the Daily and
Sunday Telegraph newspapers into a seven-day operation with the loss of 80
jobs, as it restructures into a digital business. 14% of editorial jobs will
be lost from a team of 550. However 50
digital content roles will be created as part of an £8m investment.
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20
new jobs for Corpach as
new vessels added
Ferguson Transport and Shipping based in Corpach has
signed a deal to deliver fish feed to Marine Harvest salmon farms. 20 New Jobs and two more vessels will be
added to the fleet as a result of the new contract, with further insulated
fish tanks, vehicles and vessels planned as salmon production expands.
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Management
Moves: Executive appointments in Derbyshire software supplier Ideagen
Derbyshire software supplier Ideagen has secured
£700,000 of new NHS contracts under the Scottish Framework Agreement within
healthcare business Plumtree Group, which it acquired in December 2012.
Ideagen has appointed two Plumtree executives to Group non-board roles: Ben
Dorks as Group Sales and Marketing Director, and Barnaby Kent as Group
Operations Director.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: Wulvern secures funding to building 100 homes
Wulvern, the Cheshire-based housing association,
plans to build 105 extra homes for its customers by March 2015. The Homes and
Communities Agency has invited Wulvern to extend its development programme
and is providing additional grant funding of £3.8m. Wulvern has secured a
further £18m from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: Aqua Express acquisition in on-going growth strategy
Angel Springs, a West Midlands water cooler
supplier, is acquiring Scotland-based Aqua Express with support from private
equity provider LDC. It is the fifth
acquisition for Angel Springs in the 18-months to March 2013 and will help
Angel Springs expand its customer base in Scotland. LDC continues to work
with Angel Springs to identify further acquisitions.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: Loan secured by Safety Technology
Monmouthshire-based safety training and equipment
provider Safety Technology has secured a six-figure loan to support its European
expansion from Finance Wales. The loan
will help set up an offshore training facility in the North East as well as
other locations in Europe.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: £23m funding received for National Graphene Institute
creating 100 New Jobs
The University of Manchester has received £23m in
funding from the European Regional Development Fund. The capital will go towards the £61m
National Graphene Institute. It is hoped
the centre will initially create around 100 jobs, with the long-term
expectation of many thousands more in the North West and more widely in the
UK.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: Sunnycroft Residential Care Home secures investment for
expansion
Sunnycroft Residential Care Home has secured an
£850,000 finance package with Santander Corporate & Commercial, to expand
its premises onto adjoining land. The
number of beds will increase from 19 to 32 and 5 jobs will be created. Work
is due to start in March 2013, for completion in the autumn.
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Private
Equity / Bank Funding: £8m funding for Doosan Power Systems, sees 790 recruited to the sector
Doosan Power Systems, a company that builds,
maintains and extends the life of power plants has welcomed an £8m funding
boost designed to increase the number of new trainees entering its sector.
The funding would see 790 people recruited into the engineering construction
sector. The Government and the Engineering Construction Industry Training
Board have supplied the funding.
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Penny Winter
– The UK Knack Group
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