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…
Za Za Bazaar is to open a 2,300 square metre, 600 cover banquet-style restaurant at the Squares Bar site in the Riverside Entertainment Centre, Norwich. The £2.5m development is expected to create 120 job vacancies when it opens Spring 2013. The restaurant will offer food from all around the world with a backdrop representing the…
Brook Leisure have received approval from Sheffield City Council planners to transform the old NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) HQ on Holly Street, Sheffield, into a 3,500 square metre casino along with a brace of restaurants and a rooftop bar. Work is expected to begin in Spring 2012 with a construction period of about a…
APC, the parcel delivery company, has been given planning permission to build a 1.4 hectare corporate headquarters at the Lakeside Business Park, Cannock, Staffordshire at a costs of £15m Work is scheduled to get underway early in the new year with a view to project completion on or before October 2012. Once built, the 250…
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…
Honda are to boost production of their new Civic at their plant in Swindon, Wiltshire through the creation of an additional 500 job vacancies. This will take the number of workers employed at the South Marston plant from 3,000 to 3,500 and production from 100,000 to 180,000 cars a year during 2012. There will also…
Vector Aerospace UK which is based on Imperial Way, Waddon, Croydon, is to move production to Gosport in Hampshire. The closure of the Croydon plant comes after a presence there of 75 years and means that the 129 workers now face redundancy. The reason behind the decision is that the factory’s primary function is the…
Specsavers are to re-open their newly-refurbished branch on Gold Street, Tiverton, Devon at the beginning of January, 2012. The revamped outlet will also see the creation of 8 new job vacancies including positions for specialist staff such as trained opticians and contact lens consultants. While some have already been recruited, there are still positions yet to…
HEROtsc, the call centre chain, is to set up a new facility in the premises formerly occupied by Egg at Pride Park in Derby. The expansion will create around 700 job vacancies over the period up to next summer although recruitment is to begin locally today, Saturday, 17th December, 2011. The company hopes to eventually…
Norgren, the engineering company based on Eastern Avenue in Lichfield, Staffordshire, have told their workers that they intend to relocate in the near future. An exact date has not been set for the move which will not take place until 2012 or even later however the news means that the company’s 181 workers now face…
