One of Europe's biggest manufacturers of high and low voltage distribution equipment has announced major expansion plans for 2014 After seeing business flourish over the past two years, British firm Bowers Electricals will not only ...
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Meat products firm Gilbert's Foods plans to invest millions in its supply chain after securing £2.4M worth of finance from HSBC. Gilbert's Foods supplies products designed for re-heating via microwave, oven, boil-in-the-bag, grill ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
An auction is set to be held for the equipment belonging to a bust Wigan company. Family firm HW Glass went into administration last month with more than 50 staff losing their jobs. Glass processing machinery along with cutting, ...
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Having to use the Groceries Code Adjudicator would be like going to the marriage guidance service Relate – by the time you get to that point the relationship has already broken down. That’s the view of Richard Clothier, md of ...
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Pig farmers turned sausage manufacturers Debbie and Andrew Keeble are set to launch their premium sausage brand Heck in Tesco on April 8, in direct competition with their former family brand Debbie & Andrew's sausages. What the Heck: ...
A Lancashire-based meat and poultry supplier has opened a division in Australia after enjoying a record year for sales. Gilberts Foods goes Down Under with a new venture based in Brisbane Gilbert’s Foods supplies the UK’s ...
Who: Aimia Foods Aim: The family-owned business needed to invest in its three sites in Haydock, North West England, and maintain its high standard of manufacturing products in the dry powder sector Spend: Undisclosed What: A new ...
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Supplier of flexible packaging solutions Schubert's owner Gerhard Schubert has appointed his two sons as the new chief executive officers (CEOs) of the company. They are Gerald Schubert, who headed the Schubert subsidiary IPS ...
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Walter Just, the founder of the Trodat stamp brand, has passed away at the age of 91. Austrian-born Just joined the family firm Franz Just – founded by his father in 1912 – after the Second World War and registered the Trodat ...
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One Derbyshire-based fashion house is proving that there is no place like home with sales of its Made in Britain knitwear up 20 per cent–one year on from a£0.5 million investment in a new knitwear division. In the run up to ...
Tags: David Nieper, Knitwear, investment, Growth