Capital Leisure are spending £1½m refurbishing the old Studio 45 nightclub on Bridge Street, Walsall, West Midlands. The new nightclub, which will have taken 2 years to create, will be spread over two floors and three rooms and is scheduled to open at Easter, 2012. The club is, as yet, un-named but an estimate of…
The Fiesta World Buffet is to open at the site of the former Chicago Rock Cafe on Lichfield Street, Walsall, West Midlands which closed just over a year ago. The new 300-cover buffet-style restaurant will offer British, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Japanese and Thai food. There will be about 50 job vacancies created by the new…
Albemarle & Bond, the UK-wide chain of pawnbrokers, have announced that they intend to open 25 new outlets during 2012, taking advantage of reduced High Street rent and lease charges. The news follows record profits for the twentieth year running, having risen £1m to £21m for the year just ending. Albemarle & Bond say that…
No, I’m not talking about half-priced sofas or heavily-discounted plasma tellies, but I admit that they aren’t very far from my line of thinking. It seems that the British public are out in force once again; all of them in search of that mythical creature that’s rumoured to make its presence known at this time of…
Blacks Leisure is set to go into administration after racking up £36m of debt and a £16m loss in the first half of 2011, with the second half unlikely to be any better. The unseasonably warm weather has meant that the chain of stores which sell outdoor clothing has suffered from lack of custom –…
Black Horse Contractors, the Cricklade-based civil engineering contractors, has gone into administration with the loss of 190 jobs. The company had a head office in Cricklade, Wiltshire and depots in Wellington, Somerset and Rogiet, Monmouthshire. All workers will be made redundant by the end of 2011. Specialist administrators, KPMG, are now in charge of disposing…
Coleman & Company, the specialist demolition company based on Shady Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham, is about to invest £½m in new concrete-cutting plant. The news follows the decision not to award the concrete-cutting element on their Birmingham New Street project as a subcontract to a specialist subcontractor. The new concrete-cutting division will create 11 job…
Clipper Logistics, the retail and distribution company based in Leeds, is to spend £15m on a new warehouse at Wynyard Business Park, Stockton, Teesside. The warehouse will be specially aimed at the meeting the needs of Asda’s for the distribution of their George brand of clothing. Between 400 and 500 job vacancies will be created…
Marks and Spencer are getting ready to start work on a 5,000 square metre store on Mill Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. The store will retail clothing, food and homeware and create a host of job vacancies when it opens. The project will result in the demolition of the dwellings in Glyndwr Road, the Drill Hall and…
Houseman & Falshaw, the building and civil engineering contractor based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, has gone into administration with the potential loss of 70 jobs. The redundancies are made up of 55 site workers and 15 office staff. Specialist administrators, KPMG, are now handling the disposal of the company and its assets. Houseman & Falshaw…
