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…
Love Energy Savings, the B2B price comparison service based on Springfield Court, off Summerfield Road, Bolton, Lancashire, is to take on 40 apprentices in 2012. The 40 new job vacancies will see the number of staff employed by Love Energy Savings rise from 60 to 100. There will be an apprentice academy and anyone interested…
Santander, the Spanish banking group, is to expand its call centre at the old Alliance & Leicester premises on Bridle Road in Bootle. The site provides commercial banking services to small companies (SME’s) and currently employs 2,000 workers of which 300 are call-centre employees and around 100 deal with business banking. Under the expansion plans,…
Certus, the business which was begun to administer Bank of Scotland loans after the bank pulled out of Ireland, is to create 50 job vacancies at its premises on St Stephen’s Green,Dublin. The company already employs 800 people who are largely engaged in credit control services which it provides to other financial organisations however there…
Payzone, the payment processing company based at Davidson House, Gadbrook Park, Northwich in Cheshire, is set to expand its workforce. The news comes after a 6-month restructuring programme. Around 20 job vacancies are being created to take the total number of employees to 170 with 120 working at the Northwich facility. Payzone processes over 100m…
AXA, the insurance company, is to take over a 10-year lease on the recently refurbished Zetland Buildings in Exchange Square, Middlesbrough, Teesside. The new 3,700 square metre office which has cost £5m to renovate, will create 450 job vacancies when AXA move in during next week (week commencing 17th October, 2011. AXA will occupy around…
Allianz Worldwide Care, the health insurance company based in Park West, Dublin, is to hold a jobs fair at the Clarion Hotel in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin between 3 pm and 9 pm on Thursday, 13th October, 2011. Of the 150 job vacancies, 128 will be based in Dublin while the other…
Avaloq, the Swiss banking software company, will be setting up a new Development Centre in Edinburgh city centre with the projected creation of 500 job vacancies. Around 20 of those jobs will be filled before the end of 2011. Avaloq say that at least 75 of the jobs will be for Scottish university graduates. The…
MBNA, the credit card company owned by the Bank of America, has said that it is looking to shed 400 jobs at its European Credit Card HQ in Chester. The company say that they are hoping that all the redundancies can be voluntary since MBNA employ 3,500 people at the site. Behind the news, which…
Admiral, the insurance group, is about to open a new centre in Swansea Vale; the third in the city. The offices are being leased from the Welsh Government and are capable of housing 600 workers. Admiral, who have just declared a massive 27% increase in pre-tax profits, are only looking to fill 200 job vacancies…
