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Capital Leisure Jobs – Walsall, Studio 45 – 40 Job Vacancies

December 31, 2011

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 [...]

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Fiesta World Buffet And Bar Jobs – Walsall – 50 Job Vacancies

December 30, 2011

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 [...]

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D2 Jeans Goes Into Administration – Hundreds Of Jobs In Jeopardy

December 29, 2011

D2 Jeans, the High Street jeans retailer based in Dundonald, Ayrshire, has gone into administration immediately after the Christmas period. So far, 19 of D2 Jeans 47 stores have been closed by specialist administrators, BDO LLP, with around 200 workers having already been made redundant. The other stores will be run as a going concern while [...]

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Albemarle & Bond Jobs – Living On Borrowed Time – Expansion To Create 300 Job Vacancies

December 28, 2011

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 [...]

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Pyramid International Jobs – Whetstone Company Asks Staff To Take 10 Percent Cut In Wages

December 24, 2011

Pyramid International, the poster-printing company in Whetstone, Leicestershire, has asked its staff to consider taking a 10 percent cut in wages in order to reduce job losses in early 2012. A consultation period is now underway with the firm’s 90 employees and this is due to end on Monday, 9th January, 2012. The decision to [...]

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Blacks Leisure – Chain Poised To Go Into Administration – 3,600 Redundancies On Cards

December 23, 2011

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 – [...]

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Black Horse Contractors – Cricklade – 190 Redundancies

December 23, 2011

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 [...]

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Coleman & Company Jobs – Birmingham, Shady Lane – 11 Job Vacancies

December 22, 2011

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 [...]

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Clipper Logistics Jobs – Stockton Distribution Centre – Over 400 Job Vacancies

December 22, 2011

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 [...]

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Marks and Spencer Jobs – Aberystwyth Store

December 21, 2011

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 [...]

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