The Contact Company, the Birkenhead-based call centre, is set to create 500 new job vacancies as part of what it calls an 18-month ‘phased expansion’ to boost the number of workers from 450 to just under 1,000. The Contact Company was set up in 2006 with just 15 staff. Recent awards of some major contracts,…
The first ‘Superdrug’ (it didn’t go under that name at the time) store was set up in London in 1964 by the Goldstein brothers. Ownership has since changed hands a number of times until most recently in 2002 when it was sold to Hong Kong conglomerate, Hutchison Whampoa. Superdrug has 16,000 employees and in 2009…
