This
Month's
Business
Round-Up
RPC Containers is shedding 85 jobs with the transfer of a plastic packaging manufacturing operation from Raunds to nearby Rushden in Northamptonshire.
RPC Containers, Lakeside House, Higham Ferrers, Northants, NN10 8RP
Tel: 01933 410064
www.rpc-group.com
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Discount retailer 99p Stores is planning to expand its chain of 128 outlets to 350 by 2016, and will set up a new £3m 370,000 sq ft distribution centre and headquarters in Northampton this year.
99p Stores, Unit 3, Apex Park, Nasmyth Rd, Daventry, NN11 8NF
Tel: 01327 315900
www.99pstoresltd.com
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Advance Tapes International is looking to relocate its Leicester-based adhesive tapes manufacturing business to a larger 100,000 sq ft site within two years.
Advance Tapes, PO Box 122, Abbey Meadows, Leicester, LE4 5RA
Tel: 0116 2510191
www.advancetapes.com
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H Beesley is to go into administration, with the loss of 24 of the 120 jobs at its Leicester-based precision components business.
H Beesley, Commercial Square, Freemens Common, Leicester, LE2 7SR
Tel: 0116 2554233
www.hbeesley.co.uk
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CitySprint has acquired Goldstar Couriers of Coventry for undisclosed terms, and it will be operated from CitySprint's Warwick depot
CitySprint, 60 High Street, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1SH
Tel: 020 86361200
www.citysprint.co.uk
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Jaguar Land Rover is looking to recruit an additional 50 engineers this year, and is particularly interested in those with experience in hybrid engines, software and electrical technology.
Jaguar Land Rover, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwick, CV35 ORR
Tel: 0800 110110
www.landrover.com
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Ocean Power Technologies has secured £2m of European funding to expand its Warwickshire-based wave power business.
Ocean Power Technologies, Gallows Hill, Warwick, CV34 6UW
Tel: 01926 623370
www.oceanpower
technologies.com
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Carlsberg UK is to transfer production of Tetley's cask ale to the Marston's brewery in Wolverhampton after its Leeds site closes in mid-2011
Carlsberg UK, Jacobsen House, 140 Bridge St, Northampton, NN1 1PZ
Tel: 0845 7820820
www.carlsberg.co.uk
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Deb Group, the skincare and cleaning products manufacturer with 220 staff in Derbyshire, has undergone a £325m management buy-out backed by Charterhouse Capital.
Deb, Denby Hall Way, Denby, Derbyshire, DE5 8JZ
Tel: 01773 855100
www.deb.co.uk
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Balfour Beatty is to close its rail switches factory in Sheffield in May with the loss of up to 90 jobs, in order to transfer production to Nottingham and Edinburgh.
Balfour Beatty, 130 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LQ
Tel: 020 72166800
www.balfourbeatty.co.uk
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Daniels Group is to invest £8.5m in the development of a chilled ready meals and soups factory at the former Mariner Foods site on Grimsby's Europarc, with the creation of 200 jobs.
S Daniels, 4 Acorn Business Park, York Road, Leeds, LS14 6UF
Tel: 0113 2480770
www.sdaniels.co.uk
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Northern Foods is considering plans to shed up to 268 jobs at its Fox's Biscuits factory in Batley, in order to change shift patterns and transfer some production to Lancashire.
Northern Foods, 2180 Century Way, Thorpe Park, Leeds, LS15 8ZB
Tel: 0113 3900110
www.northern-foods.co.uk
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Greencore is considering plans to shed up to 100 of the 1,000 jobs at its cakes and desserts factory in Hull.
Greencore, 2 Northwood Avenue, Santry, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 16051000
www.greencore.ie
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Kettle Foods, the crisps manufacturer with more than 700 staff at factories in Norwich and the US, has been sold by Lion Capital to Diamond Foods of the US for £400m.
Kettle Foods, Barnard Road, Bowthorpe, Norwich, NR5 9JP
Tel: 0800 616996
www.kettlefoods.co.uk
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Halal Industries is considering plans to set up a £150m business park specialising in halal produce on a 100-acre site near Swansea.
Halal Industries, Unit 2, 77 Greenfield Road, London, E1 1EJ
Tel: 020 73776454
www.halalindustries.com
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Pork Farms is planning to shed up to 90 of the 150 jobs at its meat processing plant in Shaftesbury, Dorset
Pork Farms, Unit 6, Longmead, Shaftesbury, SP7 8PL
Tel: 01747 851511
www.pork-farms.co.uk
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