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Bombardier wins £188 million Southern trains contract
Derby trainmaker Bombardier has won a £188 million contract to build 130 carriages for rail company Southern.The Department for Transport had been criticised for choosing German rival Siemens over Bombardier as preferred bidder for the £1.4 billion Thameslink rail contract. It is hoped the new contract will help secure the Canadian owned company’s future in [...]
Big Society projects get £3.1 million boost
Four Big Society projects are to get £3.1 milion in funding from dormant bank accounts, the government has announced.The cash will be used to help the long term unemployed set up business, vulnerable youngsters find jobs, a community energy project and fund the first social business stock exchange. In total, about £400 million in unused [...]
JCB creates new 350 jobs
JCB is creating more than 350 jobs as part of a new £31 million engine development project.The firm said it would recruit more than 300 people across its Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham factories between 2016 and 2021. The company said it was also currently recruiting for 50 jobs at JCB Power Systems in Foston. JCB [...]
UK service sector improves a new survey finds
The UK’s service sector activity picked up in November after falling in the previous month a closely-watched survey finds.The Markit/Cips services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 52.1 in the month, up from 51.3 in October. Any figure above 50 indicates growth. The service sector accounts for about two thirds of UK economic activity. The [...]
Starbucks coffee chain will create 5,000 UK jobs
The coffee giant Starbucks plans to expand further in the UK, creating 5,000 UK jobs over the next five years.The company intends to increase the number of drive through coffee outlets, typically found at motorway service stations, from nine to 200. It also plans to open another 100 High Street coffee shops. The announcement comes [...]
Marston’s pubs to create 1,000 jobs in 2012
The pubs chain and brewer Marston’s says its continuing expansion means it will need to recruit another 1,000 employees next year.The company said it had build 19 new pubs this year and planned to build 25 a year from 2012. Marston’s, which has more than 2,000 pubs across the country, brews Pedigree and Banks’s ales. [...]
Businesses to get £40 billion credit help in Autumn Statement
A series of measures aimed at helping UK businesses and the wider economy have been announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement.The biggest new policy is a £40 billion “credit easing” scheme to make it simpler to underwrite bank loans to small firms. Small businesses with an annual turnover of less than will [...]
Airbus announces 200 engineering jobs at Filton, Bristol
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has announced 200 new jobs at its base in Filton, near Bristol.The company says the new engineering jobs are due to demand for its A350 passenger plane and government investment in the plant. The lightweight composite aircraft was due to come into service in 2013 but will now enter service in the [...]
Nestle creates 300 new jobs at coffee plant
Nestle is to invest £110 million in its Nescafe Dolce Gusto coffee manufacturing facility.The extension to the plant, in Hatton, south Derbyshire, will treble production and create 300 new jobs. Twelve new high speed production lines will be introduced to make coffee pods, for sale in the UK and 38 other countries. The number of [...]
Jaguar Land Rover creates more than 1,000 UK jobs
More than 1,000 new jobs are to be created by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in the West Midlands.The new posts are being created at the company’s Land Rover plant in Solihull, where nearly 5,000 people currently work, the firm said. They are in support of the company’s ambition to deliver “40 significant product actions over [...]