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ORLD leading offshore wind developer Dong early £3-million has been Energy is looking to invested into making lead a new energy northern Lincolnshire a paradigm – from the Humber. central hub for the needs The Danish giant’s new UK ofmanaging some of the has UK’s biggest director outlined potato sellers. ambitious plans to be at the Elsham Wold has just forefront of storage andbecome the new headquarters for AKP distribution of clean, greenGroup, supplier to supermarket electricity as the criticalgiant mass of Morrisons major chip generationand keeps building. manufacturer McCain.

Huge academic projects are A state-of-the-art officeinnovation block, about to begin, honing temperature controlled potato from operations and maintenance storage facility and grading developed in Grimsby, whileline, together totable, as bringingwith newextensions skills to the existing areas have just it seekshandling to make renewables –a been hugecompleted, variable – with muchthe more of a 13-year-old constant. firm headed by Richard Arundel moving thehas whole Matthew Wright arrived administration back into the area from the ever-present utility of from York. water, taking over as the head of The son of Grimsby centre Dong in Britain fromtown Brent and Freeman Street Cheshire, who bids markets a fond goodbye grocer Davidinside.

Arundel, who also to Grimsby used to in actan asexclusive a potato merchant And interview to the area’s fish and chip shops, with Business Telegraph, he told joined forces withthe Suffolk how he believes business can businessman Bruce Kerr in 1999. grow on the back of generation.

The potato storage Mr former Wright,KP who welcomed facility which hasmilestone now beenpassing Grimsby ’s 1GW substantially developed, wasare this past month, said: “We acquired in 2007, when a project generating – from offshore wind – began grow skincent finished more to than 50 per of the time, potatoes onfar theoff Isle of Axholme. that’s not base load “We wantedbut to show we could generators, we need produce the required dispatchable energy, quality for when the locally that blowing supermarkets were wind isn’t and the sun buying in fromWe Herefordshire, isn’t shining. need to provide Scotland or even importing,” he some kind of storage technology said. and “Morrisons capitalise onbacked that us with it and we went to“The Yorkshire performance. rise ofForward electric (the scrapped vehicles and regional battery technology is development agency) putting going to go massive.” together plan. Weoff then tied thea AcrossaBritain, Liverpool, supply chain and got the is modest 2MWup storage system funding.” being introduced at Burbo Bank, That equated to £700,000. in what is another first forWith Dong, Morrisons’ rapid growth in the and it comes as major delivery retail world, the business has it been partner Siemens announced is propelled quickly, working to join forces withand AES Energy in with Eastoft-based L Harrison the US to launch Fluence, to & Co, the infrastructure allow for provide a “full suite oftoenergy

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further increases has now been put in place.

“We have taken two years to get to this,” said Mr Arundel. “We got the grant funding for storage and grading operations in 2009, and built the storage throughout 2010, to be open for that harvest. We have had potatoes in from 2010 and 2011, and the whole project has been finished with the offices just now.

“Our desire is to have more quality potato producers local to this site. It would cut down on transport costs. There is still a lot storage solutions”. of potential, it will help the Mr Wright “Where power environmentalsaid: footprint and this makes it onshore, that’s where to the part of the world has the ability battery is of going could in grow some the in, bestthat potatoes equally be the here,we but the country, thatcase is what are storage is going to be everywhere, majoring on.” we ’re envisaging millions of A total of 44 people are now

employed, handling 120,000 tonnes ofbatteries. potatoes aThat’s year. where Of that,the 35,000 National and the waya in tonnes are Grid, self-grown, with which we work this country, growing group inin this region andis going to have tosite change.

Small around another in Suffolk, scale generation, battery storage contributing the balance. everywhere, and the Grid needs to Recently 15 employees were respond to three that and get with it. added, with graduate trainees also part the company, “Technology is of changing and specialising inneed growing, logistics with that we to develop, we and elements, including cantechnical see where it is going.

We need agronomy . The remaining to be a leader in storage and investment has seen aand fleetinofthe six smarter generation, Mercedes rigs brought in to deliver whole system.

It is something I the potatoes to customers, with to the very, very much look forward primary Morrisons’ packing startingroute to spearhead in the UK. It operations nearlinking Harrogate. is something to the Keen to cultivate a prosperous Industrial Strategy, very much future fortoLincolnshire potato central that. How can you not farmers, 32,000sq ft storage leveragethe this position we now facility andare 4,000 sq ft two have? We leading the storey world in office development – which drewwe construction of offshore wind, inspiration from Genesis have seen growth in thatOffice sector

Park on Grimsby’s flagship and the supply chain to support Europarc development, will be that. How does the hold officially opened thisUK week byon to that position when the rest of the Agriculture and Horticulture world realises whatchairman a fantastic Development Board opportunity this is?

John Godfrey CBE, himself a North Lincolnshire farmer.

“It is part of my world now, not justArundel to build added: the operations Mr “We’re and maintenance – wh ere looking forwardbusiness to opening the thiscold is astore natural for it, new andhome grading facility where the resources are sitting – the uncharacteristic weather offshore here but howus wea also conditions have–brought make the Humber challenging year, butthe theEnergy opening Estuary at rewards the centre event is just forofeveryone’s innovation, hard work. the invention side of the offshore wind will and not work on “The new facility only greenus integrated energy systems. enable to meet the demand of doesn’t just become our“It biggest customers, butabout we’ve several hundreds of jobs which also successfully improved the are vitally importantoffor the quality and freshness our whole term of operations and potatoes by reducing maintenance, but it is about how transportation, handling and using the coldon store ● latest continued pagetechnologies.” five.

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Sir Roger Carr, president of the CBI and Gavin Esler, best known for his role as a presenter on BBC Newsnight, have been confirmed as the guest speakers at one of the region’s leading business gatherings later this year.

The CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner takes place at Leeds University on October 10.

It will be one of the first events with John Fitzgerald, port director for Grimsby and Immingham, as chairman of the region.

Mr Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist.

His latest book, due to hit the shelves next month, focuses on lessons that can be gleaned from leaders in how they tell stories, and will be the subject of his speech to the area’s business bosses, and their guests.

For more information about the dinner, which is frequently well represented by the South Bank and features a drinks reception within Parkinson Court, home to the famous Marks & Spencer archive and art gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com

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A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the region this last quarter has seen the total funds issued by Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million.

The money, available to firms in northern Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments – ranging from £15,000 to £2-million – forto the latest breaking is there help small and and medium sized businesses meet their growth and development requirements. business news around the The figure amounts to 224 investments in 183 small and medium sized enterprises since August Humber region 2010, leading to more than 4,600 jobs created and safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, the venture and loan fund completed 30 visit capital humberbusiness.com investments totalling more than £4.3 million.

Alex McWhirter, chief executive of Finance Yorkshire, said: “We are looking forward to building on these figures and helping more companies achieve growth in the coming months.

“We urge established and early stage companies to continue to speak to us to see if Finance Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into a reality.”

Supported by the European Union, it has attracted £30-million investment from the European Regional Development Fund, £15-million from Yorkshire Forward’s Single Programme, and £45-million match funding from the European Investment Bank.

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SHOULDN’T THAT BE A GREEN LIGHT, GENTS? Rob Waltham MBE, left, with Kishor Tailor and Richard Igguldent, at Scunthorpe Railway Station, welcoming the announcement.

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RINCIPAL beneficiaries of the £15.5 million funding package for rail enhancement on the South Humber Bank are delighted the green light has been given.

enhancements will unlock the potential for growth for our ports on the South Bank of the Humber.”

He continued: “It will allow for the movement of more rail freight which will not only reduce traffic on our roads but increase Associated British Ports has competitiveness. welcomed the gauge works that will “This announcement is ensure train freight is culmination of a lot of hard work future-proofed as loads get larger to by an number of people, including drive efficiencies. the Humber Local Enterprise Immingham is the UK’s biggest Partnership, and marks another port by tonnage of freight, and significant milestone in more than 20 per cent of all rail strengthening business across the cargo starts its journey there.

Humber.”

It has been a long campaign to By the end of the decade, more underline the need, and Humber than 50 per cent of rail containers port director Simon Bird has destined for UK ports will arrive on recognised contributions from ‘high cube’ containers. It is not many on the ‘jour ney’. currently possible to transport them to and from the South Mr Bird said: “Rail gauge

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Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce underlined the importance of an aligned campaign in bringing success.

Dave Hooper, external affairs manager, said: “This is excellent news for the South Humber ports – it’s a project which is a regular topic of discussion at the Chamber’s Shipping and Transport Committee, so it’s great to see the money being made available at last for some essential work which will ensure the continued growth and prosperity of some of the country’s leading port facilities.

“It just serves to prove once again what can be achieved when all local stakeholders are pulling in the same direction.”

Calling for a similar scheme on the North Bank to resolve issues between Hull and Gilberdyke, he added: “The more containers that can be transported by rail means less pressure on our increasingly busy road network – and that can only be a good thing.”

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Humber ports by train, where local rail infrastructure only supports standard containers, meaning an extra burden for the roads.

Gauge enhancement work is required on the route taking in Killingholme, Immingham and Doncaster, and it includes addressing bridge limitations for height, and width implications with existing platforms. Other structures will also be removed.

The announcement was made after the Humber LEP allocated £7.2 million from the Local Growth Fund for the scheme. Network Rail has already allocated £7.5 million, with North Lincolnshire Council providing a further £800,000.

At British Steel, where the dedicated terminal at Port of Immingham relies on rail to transport raw materials to the resurgent steelworks in Scunthorpe, the funding was given another huge thumbs-up.

The company is also seeing a stronger export market too, with a dedicated distribution hub opened in Germany as it builds on input into the automotive industry.

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ANNOUNCING the huge freight boost, key figures behind the deal had their say.

Rob Waltham MBE said: “This will deliver much-needed enhancements to gauge for the rail network throughout North Lincolnshire.

“By working with Network Rail and Humber LEP we have been able to secure funding to be able to deliver this fundamental project that will open up further business

opportunities for the area.

“The project supports North Lincolnshire’s Local Development Framework and will open up opportunities for the area. It is expected that 50 jobs will be created both this year and next year in the construction sector to help carry out the work needed.”

The vast majority of the works will take place during the no trains periods at weekends – late Saturday

night into Sunday morning – and during Christmas Day/Boxing Day, with completion expected by January 2019.

Lord Haskins, Humber LEP chairman, said: “This will help to secure the long term competitiveness of the South Humber ports and create opportunities for further development Securing infrastructure investment is an important priority for the LEP

because it is essential for supporting growth.”

Richard Iggulden, senior development manager for Network Rail, added: “North Lincolnshire is very important within the context of rail freight in the UK, as a large proportion of the country’s traffic is generated from the Port of Immingham and British Steel.

“This investment will result in further future growth.”

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N ambitious Scunthorpe-based modular building manufacturer is increasing its workforce as it prepares to launch an innovative new product to market.

A total of £200,000 is being invested to propel Fair Share Group Ltd forward, with the Donaldson family managing to attract funding of £70,000 from UK Steel Enterprise to support the private backing, in what is anticipated to be a defining year.

The money has allowed Fair Share to bring the manufacturing of the Cre8a Pod to market, with a new division trading as Cre8a from the town’s Hebden Road.

The hand-crafted outdoor buildings can be used as living, working or leisure environments, and are available in six different sizes.

Managing director Neil Donaldson, who founded Fair Share with wife Sue in 2012, said: “The £70,000 investment from UK Steel Enterprise will really help us to drive the business forward as we release the Cre8a product to the market, further increasing our regional and national scope.

“Our focus is to consistently provide a better quality service for our clients, driven by maintaining solid relationships with trade customers, installers and distributors. The additional funding will allow us to expand our team, which is crucial in light of the growing demand from regional and national clientele.”

Currently employing 21 people, the additional funding has allowed the firm, which also has a window division trading as Highseal Manufacturing Company, to add an additional three to the team, filling a build manager position, an installer position and an office sales and marketing role as the modular side is scaled up. Alongside this, the group is looking to create further job opportunities over the coming months.

Alan Stanley, regional executive at UK Steel Enterprise, a subsidiary of Tata Steel, said: “Fair Share has

Masterplan revealed to revitalise town centre CONSTRUCTION: A £60 million-plus investment masterplan to transform Scunthorpe’s town centre has been revealed.

North Lincolnshire Council said the proposals will create more than 200 jobs, and include: ● A £5.7 million Church Square House extension providing space for 600 workers and creating 45 construction jobs ● Around £15 million for a new university centre with around 1,500 student places ● £3.9 million to provide up to 60 one to two-bed homes on Lindum Street ● A £14.7 million new 200-unit facility for NHS employees ● A £1 million refurbishment of the Central Library ● £4 million of improvements to make the town look more attractive and road and pedestrian improvements to create better access.

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FAIR SHARE OF INVESTMENT: Neil Donaldson, centre, and UK Steel Enterprise regional executive Alan Stanley, with Holly Donaldson, left, the next generation in the Cre8a business.

Right, an example of a Cre8a Pod. demonstrated a real aptitude for innovation, providing a new product to the market with the creation of the Cre8a Pod. “We are pleased we could assist Neil and his team to expand the business, and delighted that in doing so there are further jobs being created in and around the Scunthorpe area.” ● UK Steel Enterprise provides equity and loan finance to growing companies up to £1 million. For more information call 0800 915 1188.

POWER: Centrica is to sell its South Humber Bank Power Station, in the latest – and last twist – in ownership strategy from British Gas’ parent company.

The huge plant at Stallingborough, put up for sale in 2015 then withdrawn earlier last year, is now to be offloaded along with Langage to EP UK Investments Ltd. The £318 million deal, will see it become part of the EPH group Europe’s seventh largest power generator.

It already own Eggborough and Lynemouth power stations.

1GW of offshore wind POWER: Grimsby is now controlling 1GW of offshore wind energy.

The milestone for the installed capacity served by the town was passed as Dong Energy added the latest turbines at the emerging Race Bank farm, off the Lincolnshire Coast.

With 893MW from the first five offshore wind farms operated from Grimsby, the latest batch of 6MW machines installed and ‘plugged in’ by the Danish giant has passed the magic 1,000 MW number.

And in a clear example of how the industry is scaling up, Dong’s next project – Hornsea Project One – will more than double that total in one project.

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“I am really fond of the area, I think there is a lot to be said for it.

We have been welcomed with open arms as Dong Energy, and we have done what we said we would do, we have invested.”

Brent Cheshire

THERE’S been a change of the guard when it comes to the leading figure in a company helping forge Grimsby’s destiny. This past month has seen Brent Cheshire retire from his role as country chairman of Dong Energy, with Matthew Wright taking the helm as managing director. David Laister met them both at the soon-to-be expanded Royal Dock base.

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AVING been employee number one in Britain for a then state-owned Danish oil and natural gas business, it is something of an understatement to say the past 13 years have seen quite a transformation under Brent Cheshire’s watch.

the city, despite a strong corporate career, that like Dong, began in oil. And there’s definitely a glint when Grimsby is mentioned.

“I am really fond of the area, I think there is a lot to be said for it,” Mr Cheshire said. “We have been welcomed with open arms as Dong Energy, and we have done what we said we would do, we have invested.” A staggering £6 billion is heading to the Humber, and while much will be The UK has emerged as a world leader in the hardware shooting up through the North offshore wind, and – thanks to a rare Sea, seismic changes have been seen on the geographic blessing, marine knowledge, quayside, filtering into the local supply chain maritime infrastructure and a clear “can-do” too. attitude – Grimsby is at the fore.

“I was lucky enough to make the Now home to 1GW of installed capacity thanks to the energising of the first 20 turbines at Dong announcement last year about Grimsby being the UK operations and maintenance hub HQ – it Energy’s Race Bank this past month, work is also ongoing on the early stages of construction is going to be the biggest one in Europe by far,” on Hornsea Project One, which will emerge over he said. “We have had superb support in making things happen from the council, from the next two years and become the world’s Ray Oxby (leader) and Rob Walsh (chief largest offshore wind farm. executive), from Melanie Onn (Grimsby MP) as Added to that, the “ong” of Dong will well, and very constructive support too. We have disappear within six years, making it a “pure had our ears clipped occasionally, but we have play renewables business”. While done what we said.” “game-changing not name-changing” is the The clipping came from Cleethorpes, and mantra, the intervening time has seen huge Martin Vickers not holding back in the House of private buy-in and then a share issue, notably Commons after Dong Energy canned the one of the biggest post recession.

Memorandum of Understanding to base But you sense the charismatic assembly operations at Able Marine Energy Derbyshire-born executive’s joy isn’t found in Park, North Killingholme – the last remaining deep water estuary space, and also a sizeable chunk of his constituency.

Assembly went to Hull, beside Siemens’ blade factory, which will soon be supplying Race Bank as nacelles (the engine rooms atop the towers) are imported from Esjberg.

It is now understood that if Dong had gone further up river on the South Bank, the Grimsby facilities that are now being massively expanded would have been there too.

“The combination too, with having operations So whether your company is involved in property and maintenance here, and the construction development, purchasing commercial property base on the fish docks for Westermost Rough or leasing commercial premises we have the and Race Bank has been fantastic,” Mr Cheshire expertise to help secure the deal within your said. “The area has had all the benefits, and timescales and budget. from what I have seen the whole thing is building nicely. There is real momentum and we • Business set up • Landlord & Tenant are here to move the whole thing forward.

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CHANGE AT THE HELM: Matthew Wright, managing director of Dong Energy UK, with retiring chairman Brent Cheshire, as he says a farewell to Grimsby. credit, there are other operations and maintenance teams, it is not just us here.”

Adding he has never been to Grimsby when the sun hasn’t shined, only for it to briefly disappear as the camera came out, he continued: “I have been lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

“I see everything that has happened and I’m

The way the industry has been perceived to this point is as a nascent, fledgling industry, which needs heavy subsidy to survive. It has now become the defacto choice, the obvious choice in growth in energy Matthew Wright really pleased with what we have done here, the total package. The community benefits, the fund, the TeachFirst, which I’m incredibly proud of, what we have done with apprentices and the university technical colleges as well.

“When we first started here there was a real

North Bank / South Bank division too, and that has got a lot better, and this concept of the Energy Estuary, working together, has been really good to see.

“There is a very good platform, but I think with Matthew, Dong has someone who will definitely continue that ethos, and what we have been trying to do, and I’m really pleased about that. For me, having spent 13 years living it, it is great to hand over to someone who will do that.

I know he will work differently, but in value and ethos, and what we are about, he is very similar, and I am really, really very pleased about that.

Mr Cheshire leaves with 901 employees having followed him onto the payroll, with more than 100 now in Grimsby – and a HR manager permanently in the Humber as it readies itself to ramp up to 500 in the next few years.

“I am proud to have been associated with an organisation that has fantastic people, that has been desperate to do the right thing and do it properly,” Mr Cheshire said. “There are really good people who go about their business and have a real enthusiasm about what they do.”

The company has also invested £12 billion in that tenure. While it was by no means the pioneer on the Humber, it is certainly bringing the critical mass. Westermost Rough was opened in 2013, 35 then world-leading 6MW turbines bringing 210MW to the National Grid.

Consultations are now being held for Hornsea Project Three, and that could be more than 10 times the size of Dong’s first foray from Grimsby, and there are two gigantic phases before that may emerge, as well as the part-built Race Bank too.

And such growth, innovation and dynamism

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A new energy paradigm... ● continued from page one. does it become the innovation centre for a new energy paradigm.

“If we can leverage this lead we now have in the UK that will further help this region, and it is in line with Industrial Strategy, growing emerging technology and by not being in he South East of England.

“It stems from the benefits we have in operations and maintenance, the leadership roles, the innovation roles, in the North East and North West, it is a good thing and a positive thing, I am sure.

“We can go from strength to strength and evolve, not just for operations and maintenance, our role is bigger as we get bigger. That is then a platform to take it global.

“The whole Energy Estuary should benefit from being a leader, being a cluster for a new energy paradigm.”

While the Danish giant is playing a leading role, along with turbine provider Siemens sponsoring major academic works across three universities, there is still a role required of Government too.

“There is a challenge around how electricity can be really, really cheap, but yet we still need a market to supply into.

“Investment of this scale needs to have guarantees around return. The decision will be less and less about subsidy and more about guarantees of capacity being paid for. Whether that is a different form to CfD (Contracts for Difference – the current auction-based subsidy rounds), whether it is a merger with capacity market deals (where contracts are issued to generators such as South Humber Bank at Stallingborough), there still does need some support to allow this.”

Despite now waving goodbye to the Humber bank for some relaxing fishing banks, Mr Cheshire remains completely enthused by the concept.

“I think this is absolutely the right time and the right place,” he said. “It is about seizing the opportunity, and something that has to be done quite quickly. I am sure we can make sure we capitalise in the UK and get the benefit.

“I am hugely encouraged with how this recent bid with Hull, Durham and Sheffield (universities) has been successful, for research and development. The main industry sponsors are Dong and Siemens.

“The University of Hull’s Project Aura embraces Grimsby, we have got that innovation hub, and we are going to see quite a lot with the university south of the river, through Catch, through all sorts of things. This whole region could really benefit, and that’s why I am so pleased how Grimsby is operating.” ● How North Killingholme’s £25 million substation is taking shape, see page six.

BEARER OF GOOD NEWS: Brent Cheshire across the front page of the Grimsby Telegraph, the Dong ‘footprint’ out of the Humber and in the community; the careers he has helped create and the pupils Dong Energy is inspiring.

was a major carrot to lure Mr Wright in.

“That was the attraction,” he said, visualising what is still to come. “I have worked in utilities for 30 years, largely in markets more stable and established, where a big part of the job has been about defending vested interests and the old paradigm. What I find really exciting about Dong Energy, is it is part of a new paradigm of energy, and more so than any other company in the sector. We are going to be coal free by 2023, we are in the process of selling our oil and gas businesses, and will be a pure-play renewable business on a scale that leads the world in offshore wind, with enormous potential for further growth.”

Attending the recent industry conference in London, he said: “There was one estimate where the North Sea can supply up to 180 per cent of Europe’s energy needs if we develop everything. With the costs falling precipitously the potential is enormous.

“I think the way the industry has been perceived to this point is as a nascent, fledgling industry, which needs heavy subsidy to survive.

It has now become the defacto choice, the obvious choice in growth in energy. Not only is it cost competitive and cheaper than most, it is sustainable, renewable and carbon free. It is the obvious choice, providing we can integrate it in to the grid and work with that.”

And here lies an interesting challenge, making a variable a constant, as much as possible.

“It is such an exciting time,” the former Southern Water chief executive enthused. “We announced a couple of weeks ago the first application of storage technology, battery technology, at Burbo Bank. It is 2MW, a modest

level, but we are starting to integrate that.

“There is a tremendous platform here on the doorstep. Globally it is the place, we have the place right, now we need to make use of this technology and not lose out. Hopefully we can use this as a stepping stone to even better things.”

In his first two months with Dong, working alongside Mr Cheshire, he has spent the vast majority of my time meeting people inside and outside of the company, starting to visit the sites and meet as many stakeholders as possible.

“Some have been distracted by the General Election,” he jokes of those in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy perhaps. “Overall, the sense I get is of a company growing quickly, one that is innovative well respected, and has incredibly high standards, has the utmost integrity and does things right.”

Looking around the Westermost Rough base, he said: “We are in an O&M facility and the quality is evident. Great working conditions, it is quite something. People at the coal face matter just as much as those in the corporate office in London. It is not the preserve of senior management, quality is everywhere. People in every role are important and must be treated equally.

“It speaks about the long term relationship with the region. If any of this was temporary we wouldn’t go to this effort. These assets we are placing offshore will last a minimum of 25 years, and we want to fully support them for at least that period. They may even re-power and carry on. It is investment for the very long term, the assets are for the long term.”

Month in Review Caparo clinch completes for Liberty House Group

STEEL: A new name will appear above the Caparo Merchant Bar Mill in Scunthorpe after 32 years.

The Liberty House Group, owned by Sajeev Gupta, has completed its long-expected takeover.

No financial details have been revealed but the final deal is subject to an agreement over a new pension scheme for 1,700 employees across the UK, as well as other key creditors.

In order to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of the business, Liberty House bought a 25 per cent holding from Tata Steel, the former owners of the Scunthorpe works.

It is the third time in a year Mr Gupta has come to the rescue of steel plants in the UK. Previously his Liberty Group has bought two plate mills in Scotland and a speciality steel business in South Yorkshire from Tata Steel.

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HERE’S a huge focus on achievements out at sea, especially with Grimsby ringing up 1GW of installed capacity in offshore wind this past month, but major steps are being taken on shore too.

Here are the latest development photographs of the £25 million new substation being created by Balfour Beatty for Dong Energy at North Killingholme.

The key piece of the jigsaw will bring in the electricity from Hornsea wind farm, converting it to feed into the National Grid, and from their our kettles, computers and, increasingly, cars. The progress is clear from December, when just the steel skeleton of part of the main building was up, on a site off Chase Hill Road.

The substation is the destination point for the cables that are currently being buried on a route skirting around North East Lincolnshire, from Tetney, across the A16, A46 Aylesby Road, beneath the A180, A160 and north to the location.

In total, 350,000m of cabling will be buried along 38km to plug in what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, at 1.2GW. The two-year campaign began late last year.

The works are being carried out by J Murphy & Sons Ltd, with key locations at Waltham Airfield, the base for the work, and Tetney Lock, where Scunthorpe firm AMS No-Dig is controlling the seawall breach to land the cables.

It is the third such development, and by far the biggest, from Balfour, having worked with Dong Energy on Westermost Rough and Burbo Bank.

LAND SIDE: Balfour Beatty’s North Killingholme substation is taking shape for Dong Energy, above, as work on the cable route, illustrated here, continues. Bottom left, the scale of the equipment involved is illustrated as a cable reel is carried away from the site near Tetney.

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The commitment sees the first defibrillator placed within LEW’s founding Gainsborough branch with additional defibrillator units to be placed in all other outlets going forward each month.

For every LEW location with a defibrillator unit there will also be at least one member of staff trained to operate it, should they ever be called into action.

Phil Clayton, systems manager and a health and safety officer at LEW, said: “The modern units are surprisingly easy to use, the unit actually talks you through the whole process including how to deliver CPR and any changes to make if you’re delivering it incorrectly. The units we have are

useable on both children and adults, due to the pads they use.”

The idea was championed by managing director Andy Johnson, who founded the business in his home town in 1993, making a first expansion to Grimsby in 2002. He said: “We are very clear about our corporate and social responsibilities. Should we ever have to use the defibrillators, the delay from a person collapsing to delivery of the first shock is the single most important determinant of survival. If delivered promptly alongside CPR survival rates as high as 70 to 74 per cent have been reported, whereas just providing CPR has a survival rate of about 8 per cent. We have a number of staff that have used defibrillators in first aid training, it seemed a natural step to include them at our branches and offer the facility to the wider community.”

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Callmac is now involved in some of the most important offshore wind farm construction developments in the UK and is able to undertake projects of any scale. Indeed, because we have excellent knowledge coupled with very experienced staff and a large number or offshore trained operatives, we are also able to carry out a substantial number of large scale projects simultaneously to a very high standard.

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ALL to wall pride!

That’s the feeling at Central Insulations as the double-award winning team reflect on receiving two mighty accolades at the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.

The cut glass recognition for phenomenal growth and the strategic development of the 30-year-old firm take centre stage in the new larger base on Humberston’s Wilton Road – one strand of a compelling story that formed the basis of the winning entries.

It was a first foray into the prestigious event by the specialist food-safe environment provider, which works with major retail and manufacturing clients nationwide.

Paul Walmsley, managing director, said: “To be nominated was one thing, but to come away with two awards was incredible. It was nice to take a step back, go there and reflect on what a year we had. We don’t tend to do that, we are a tight team and we are focused on trying to achieve and deliver all the time – so it was nice to enjoy it.”

Judges heard how growth of 30 per cent was recorded, while the bigger premises were taken on in a £1 million investment into the business.

“We had the move and had applied for European grant funding, with assistance from Tim Maddison (at E-Factor) to make it happen,” Mr Walmsley said. “The team had already done a lot of the work for the application through that, so it was decided if we put a bit more work in, we could put a good proposal forward.”

It was received by Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, and the heady night in May brought jubilation for Central.

“The team had a fantastic night, and it was a shame more people couldn’t have come,” reflected Mr Walmsley, with the sell-out event restricted to tables of ten. “To come out with two honours, we were over the moon. We were buzzing for a couple of weeks as it sank in.”

Now, two months on, and contacts around the country have heard of the success, while it also provided another benefit as well as a benchmarking of achievement.

The video shown at The Baths Hall on the night used footage of an ongoing project at a major supermarket distribution centre.

“People have been able to see the size of the composite panels we install,” Mr Walmsley said, enthusing about how a hidden industry can now be understood

WINNING FEELING: Central Insulations’ Paul Walmsley receives one of two awards at the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards 2017, flanked by, from left, compere Helen Fospero, North East Lincolnshire Council leader Ray Oxby and Kevin Hopper. Below, the distribution centre. much more easily. “The composite panels are so big, it can be hard to comprehend how much space we need to put them up, and what goes into it. People don’t appreciate the volume that goes up in a day too.”

Feedback from the judges was welcomed too, having been told how the categories – the ABP Business Growth Award and the North East Lincolnshire Business Development Award – were extremely difficult to assess because of the strength of nominations.

“There are some fantastic businesses in Grimsby and the surrounding area, and we have come across a lot of them working in the food sector,” Mr Walmsley said. “We know the town is renowned for food and all the ancillary services that come with it, and we work with companies up and down the country and come across people from Grimsby all the time, and it is always very encouraging.”

With sub-contractors alongside direct employees, often also drawn from the area, the company employs more than 100 people at peak times.

Gary Maddison is head of the pharmaceutical division at Central, having returned to the business he left in 2012 following a stint in renewables. He said: “Two or three things came together at once.

There was the growth of the business, aided by the increasing size of the projects taken on and delivered, and there was the move to the new premises. This

combination, together with being 30 years in business, was quite a story to put forward.

“Also, attending the evening, made people stop, look back and reflect. We are continually focused on the next job, where the next work is coming from, how many people we will need, and you don’t stop to reflect. It has been 30 years

Charlie and the food production campus UNDOUBTEDLY a future award winner for the client, Central Insulations has just delivered composite panels, interior fabrics and some external fittings for a highly anticipated “Food Production Campus” from up-market meal manufacturer Charlie Bigham’s.

The grand food brand, which has a chiller full of Great Taste Awards to its name, bought a former quarry in Dulcote, near Wells, Somerset, and within it has built a 132,500sq ft facility, where more than 300 people will be employed.

Set to launch later this year, it has a “Norther n Lights” industrial theme,

and – unusually – has people, rather than product, at the heart of the design.

Fish Pie and Chicken Tika Masala dishes found in major supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose will be produced there by the 21-year-old business, which focuses entirely on “creating really delicious, top quality dishes – putting in all the love and attention that you would if you were to cook them yourself ”.

Neil Parrott, senior project manager at Central Insulations, said: “The client didn’t want it to be a factory, he had an issue with staff turnover and came up with a food production campus concept,

to create a nice place to work, a nice environment, where turning up to work was a pleasurable experience.”

After the site was sourced, a London architect was appointed, and the result is a food-safe accreditation-ready development, with large windows looking out on the quarry, with natural light flooding in to production areas.

“The brief was to make sure it was still a modern food plant, while keeping the cost down, which we did, while producing a bespoke facility,” Mr Parrott said.

LET THERE BE LIGHT: Inside Charlie Bigham’s new facility. Below, the artist’s impression ahead of construction starting.

since Bob Kerr started the business, and then Paul took over and has grown it to where it is now.

It is not until you stop that you realise how much the business has achieved from humble beginnings.

It is still local, there are still a lot of local employees, and we frequently source locally.”

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News TOP TEAM: Phil Coles, managing director, front left, with Harry Hellam, general manager, right.

Rear from left are, Jo Howard, Simon Welburn, Chris Hudson, Peter Brassington, Carol Fawcett, and Maureen Hallett.

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£200,000 investment has increased testing capacity and capability at a vital Grimsby food facility, a year after it was bought out by the European market leader.

The Technical Centre is now part of Eurofins, having been sold by Exova in June 2016. It has served the fish processing industry and wider “Food Town” needs for more than a quarter of a century, having previously operated as Allied Labs before the first buy-out in 2008.

Cleethorpes man Phil Coles is managing director of the UK and Ireland Food and Water Testing business, having worked with the company through the last acquisition, joining the previous entity from the food industry.

He believes the purchase has put the business on a very positive footing.

The former Lindsey schoolboy, who read food science at Reading after taking physics, biology and chemistry at A-level, went away to work, returning with the business on visits from his Wolverhampton base. He said: “It has been great, being bought by the market leader for food, water and chemical testing globally, and it brings a whole new angle to the business in terms of investment. It has a much more longer term view.”

Chief executive Gilles Martin founded the business in Nantes, France, in 1987, and he remains the principal shareholder. It was established after he purchased the rights to SNIF-NMR technology, developed by his professor parents at the city’s university. It is that testing, reversed, that forms the basis to the name, and not a seafood connection as is often mistakenly assumed.

“He is a lab person, and having someone who really understands and is the chief executive, is a real positive,” said Mr Coles.

Turning his attention to the Wickham Road plant, Mr Coles said: “We employ more than 100 people here, and the business is growing consistently, 10 per cent a year, profitably.

“One of the limits to growth is attracting good people to the business, talented people who want to come in. The search is also on for the next person to take it to the next stage of growth and development.”

General manager Peter Brassington has retired, having overseen the last major investment there to double capacity in 2011, and Harry Hellam, who was brought in on a temporary role, is about to do the same.

With first steps being taken in New Zealand and Australia, as well as the established European network, Mr Coles said the potential was amazing, and by no means only open to scientists. “For people just growing up, just starting their careers, the opportunities we have got are huge,” he said.

Having turned over one million Euros in 1997, the last year was 2.9 million Euros, with a target of 4 billion Euros by 2020. “If it doesn’t fit the field of public health and safety, that’s his primary filter. Theatre is a very bold message here to improve and protect public health.

As will as chemistry and microbiological testing, there are also vast logistics, analysis and increasing IT roles.

The £200,000 has allowed investment in the fabric and infrastructure, as well as a couple of “new toy”. “We are forever innovating and the reality is we are now testing for authenticity of food, and food fraud. As industry has developed new technology has come along too”, Mr Coles added, underlining how the likes of Horsegate are not particularly a modern phenomena.

“Substitution is not a new thing, with arsenic once used as green colouring,” Mr Coles said.

“A lot of what we are seeing is just a modern day version of that.”

Focusing on what the town does best, he said: “We are in a global supply chain here, we are shipping and flying in fish species from around the world, every day, and it might not be haddock and cod. If people are charging a

premium it is important the consumer and the client knows about it.”

Increasing demands and quicker testing, from five day turnaround to 24 hours, has been a developing trend, with the vast majority of the work centred on what can be printed on the packaging in terms of nutritional content, shelf life and other claims the consumer will rely on. There are also water-testing facilities for all elements of the food chain production.

The Grimsby site operates ten collection routes, taking in Scotland and East Anglia, as one of several strategically located centres.

Such is the food cluster, there are two local collections and a drop-off service too, as new products are brought to market.

“It is not just about good safety, but food quality too,” he continued. “ So much work goes into getting something onto the shelves, then on to the plate before it is consumed. It is not just finished product either, it can be raw material too.”

Within the Grimsby site, 60,000 plates a week of culture media are also produced to facilitate the testing, be it jellies, broths or yeasts. These are then distributed across the Eurofins network and to third parties.

No conversation stopper when aiding shopper JOANNE Howard, head of chemistry, joined the team at 19, having just completed her A-levels.

“I started as a lab assistant on a YTS scheme, and worked in both microbiology and chemistry,” she said. “When I started there were ten people, now there are over 100.”

Backed by the business, she enrolled on a part-time degree, completing it over five years and gaining a First Class Honours in food science.

“That enabled me to progress and become lab manager. Since then I have worked in logistics, sample

CAREER NOW IN CHEMISTRY: Joanne Howard. reception and then, when bought out in 2008 by Exova, I became head of chemistry.

“The job is varied, you don’t know what

sample is coming in, from seafood to a packet of crisps. It is very rewarding knowing the importance of what we do, and we are

learning all the time, and looking to validate new methods.

It is also a challenging and pressurised environment, constantly getting called for results. We deal with suppliers, manufacturers, right through to retailers.

There is definitely an awareness now, it used to be a conversation stopper if I was asked what I did, and Grimsby is a great place to do it.

The fishing industry isn’t what it was, but we still have a huge manufacturing base.

We are doing fish speciation on a daily basis.”

RETAIL: Nisa Retail has entered due diligence with Sainsbury’s about a potential take-over, it is understood.

The company confirmed an approach by an unnamed company in its annual results, which detailed a near 18 per cent increase in profits – exceeding the £8.5 million target by £100,000 – despite sales of £1.2 billion coming in 2.6 per cent lower than 2016.

The Scunthorpe-headquartered delivered wholesaler and convenience retail specialist, also reported major double-digit lifts in own-label food sales, produced by third parties.

New members also increased to 515, up on 476 in the last financial year, which ended in April.

Results show an £8.1 million turnaround on 2016’s £5.4 million loss, and will be seized upon by the major multiple suitor, as the supermarket giants look to grab a major hold on convenience. It follows Tesco’s agreed buy-out of Booker.

£90k grant is a reality TRAINING: Virtual reality is coming to Grimsby’s food processing sector after a £90,000 grant was received to fund new advances in “simulated experiences”.

Grimsby Institute is working with Icelandic Seachill and Seafish, the industry authority, to use the digital technology to provide training for those working within food and drink manufacturing.

UFI Charitable Trust, a London-based grant-funding body which supports the delivery of adult vocational skills through digital technology, has provided the cash.

Flavours of Reality, the project brought forward, will pilot novel use of Microsoft HoloLens technology to create a “mixed reality” training environment.

George shows the way FARMING: Government minister George Eustice promised investment to ensure a “vibrant and profitable” agricultural industry, during his visit to the 2017 Lincolnshire Show.

A special briefing was held at the 133rd annual event, which was led by Mr Eustice, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

He fielded questions from farmers who were understandably interested in policies post-Brexit, after which he assured people that the industry was in safe hands.

But he steered clear of pledging a future that would be subsidy-driven, saying that he did not believe simply paying people for the areas of land they had was the way forward. Under EU policy, farmers are given subsidies, per hectare.

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Having now undergone this restructure to make it fit for a future in the wider Total group, the focus still remains on the talent pipeline.

While training to ensure those carrying out different daily roles is nearing the end of what has been a strategic transformation, keeping the new skills flowing is at the core of the refinery’s ethos.

Six graduate students are currently on the refinery from various universities around the country, while others return as employees having been part of previous programmes.

One of those is Ajay Parmar, who is 18 months on from graduating from Loughborough University, having come up to the Humber during his studies.

The process engineer enjoyed student places in 2012 and 2013, and was delighted to make the grade when it came to a permanent role.

“The oil industry employs a diverse range of people, and typically the more ambitious and technical skilled people,” he said. “I want to become as technically skilled as I can, so coming to Lindsey Oil Refinery makes sense.

It is an international company with good opportunities, where it is very easy to move around.”

Reflecting on his time so far, Ajay said: “It has been brilliant. The culture is really good, the people make this place, they are very, very friendly. When I was a student I was given a huge amount of responsibility and opportunity to do what I wanted and that has continued in my graduate role.

There is responsibility and flexibility.”

He is now focused on the smooth operations and optimisation of a number of process units on the site, and is enjoying seeing new placement students arriving at the site, albeit in greater numbers than when he first came up Eastfield Road.

Sophie Plater is one of those. She is on a one-year placement from her chemical engineering studies in Nottingham. The 23-year-old is also running the Learning Exchange, held every fortnight. Students as well as employees give presentations on what they do to give a rounded knowledge of the refinery, as the placements are designed to immerse them into a particular area, rather than just skimming the surface. Subjects

covered range from refining economics to corrosion awareness.

Sophie arrived in North Killingholme thanks to the strong links TLOR has with the university.

A presentation had been given to the year group highlighting the placement opportunities.

“I knew people from Nottingham who had previously done a placement here and they thoroughly enjoyed it,” Sophie said.

“With the oil industry being something I am very interested in, I applied.

“It has exceeded expectations. I have been given a lot more responsibility and opportunities than I ever thought I would as a student. I had the opportunity to identify a project I wanted to carry out, and I have been allowed to carry it through. I would look to come back, and I will see what opportunities there are. Even if it is not at Lindsey Oil Refinery I would like to stay in the oil industry.”

Cristina Ayala Rodriguez has the industry in her blood, with parents involved in it back home in Venezuela.

The Manchester undergraduate has made her 12 months at TLOR her third year at university, continuing her studies alongside the placement.

“It has been wonderful and surpassed my expectations completely,” the 21-year-old said.

“We have been given a lot of responsibility and support both technically and on the personal/social side too. I feel that Total really supported me through my studies, giving me all the support I have needed. There is trust too, with work on your project as a person and as an engineer. It has been really good for my

personal and technical development.”

She was also a winning member of Lindsey Oil Refinery’s touch rugby team that was victorious in an inter-refinery competition held in Normandy, France.

“I have loved it, added Cristina. “I come from an oil and gas background, both my parents work in the industry in South America, so I have grown up in this. I think it is the most interesting sector technically, and there is a lot of room for optimisation and innovation. Total also has a stake in solar, so it is looking at renewables as well.”

Another successful graduate at the refinery is Michael Dee who works as a process engineer for energy who joined the team with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Nottingham. He also completed a placement in 2013-2014 and won an award for “the most outstanding design project” at university.

He is playing an active role in that relationship between Nottingham and TLOR.

David Large, head of the department for Chemical Engineering at Nottingham University, said: “Since commencing our degree programmes with an industrial year, Total Lindsey Oil Refinery has been a leading partner in the provision of placements for Chemical and Environmental Engineering students at the University of Nottingham.

“Total provides our placement students with a supportive environment that enables them to realise their potential as professional engineers.

“During their placement our students typically grow in confidence, earn responsibilities and benefit Total in a substantive manner. The skilled staff at Total are able to see and cultivate the potential in each student.”

Total works with a number of universities across the UK and worldwide to help develop talent for the industry and their business.

TALENT PIPELINE: Graduate process engineer Ajay Parmar, centre, with graduate placements Cristina Ayala Rodriguez, left, and Sophie Plater.

● This article was first published in Innovation at Work, a Business Telegraph process sector special, now available as an eBook on www.humberbusiness.com

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You can also visit their website at www.wpeltd.co.uk for more information on their maintenance services and how you can book a survey with them.

From company to consultancy CHARTERED health, safety, quality and environmental professional Sharron Hind has launched her own consultancy company IMSYST Ltd. The North Kelsey woman has made the move to go alone at an exciting time, as a number of changes to the essential management system standards in her specialisms come in over the next year.

She said: “These standards are a prerequisite to tendering for a lot of contracts across all industries and if you haven’t got them the doors remain firmly closed.”

Sharron has worked extensively within manufacturing, power generation, construction and logistics environments, and she believes her practical and pragmatic application of the standards has helped her clients to win work in an ever demanding market place.

“From small contractors needing CHAS or SAFE Contractor approval to comprehensive ISO Management Systems, I have the skill set to deliver the right results and fast,” she said. “If you have the standards already you may need support for the transition.”

IMSYST also offers a comprehensive portfolio of training courses which include ECITB Safety Passport, IOSH Managing Safely, SHEA Gas Safety, together with occupational competence training for

VENTURE: Sharron Hind has launched consultancy Imsyst Ltd. manual handling, harness use, abrasive wheels and working at heights. “You name it, and we’ll look at it,” she said.

Support services include preparation of construction phase health and safety plans, risk assessments, site audits, accident investigation and training. She is also looking at hosting audits for clients and third parties, peak

loading and taking the pressure off internal resources. “Whatever a company might need I aims to deliver efficient, effective and reliable support and become a QHSE and training provider of choice.

“As they say, there is no job too small or too big that can’t be sorted.”

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Month in Review Messages go up for visitors touching down MARKETING: Tens of thousands of visitors travelling through Humberside International Airport are being greeted by new high-impact signage, showcasing the area as a great place to live, work and invest.

The Bondholders marketing organisation, which promotes the Humber region on a national and international stage, has worked in partnership with the airport and local authorities to complete the project.

Vibrant wall vinyls with dedicated seating area and hanging signs have been introduced at key points within the terminal for domestic and international flights.

Seafood’s Happy Easter FISH: Easter’s retail period experienced the highest sales of fresh fish in three years, with more than 6,000 tonnes of seafood sold during the fortnight.

It is up by almost 188 tonnes – or 3.2 per cent – since 2015.

Good value options such as warm water prawns, basa, haddock, cod, crabsticks, plaice, trout and whitebait all proved popular, increasing their volume sales from both the previous fortnight and Easter 2016.

The new market data is published by Grimsby-based Seafish, the UK industry authority on seafood, and follows on from Christmas, when the highest rate of sale in four years was recorded.

Both provide a huge boost to Grimsby’s proud merchants and processors.

Packaging redundancies MANUFACTURING: Job losses are expected at Mondi’s packaging plant in Scunthorpe as part of a downsizing exercise.

The Austrian owners have started talks with staff at the Foxhills Industrial Estate site, as well as those in Deeside and Nelson.

It forms part of a streamlining of operations.

The proposed restructure could result in a total of 80 redundancies across the three sites. Two years ago Mondi made savings in Scunthorpe by cutting 12-hour shifts to eight and reducing the number of temporary staff.

BOLSTERING THE TEAM: Sarah Brattan welcomes Ian Girdley to Investment Hub NEL, watched by, from left, Jane Cusse, Anthony Winn and Heidi Dodson.

Funding team sees £10m of enquiries in first term A

FIRST year of operation has The hub signposts businesses to been marked by Invest- funding, be it grants, commercial mentHub NEL, the free ser- lending, equity share, seedcorn or vice provided to businesses in mezzanine.

“We have even managed to find some the Grimsby area.

It has also seen Anthony Winn take a step up to hub director, a new role created as a strategic advisory position, with former HSBC employee Sarah Brattan taking on the day-to-day team management role.

Mr Winn, who enjoyed a career in banking with Barclays and Handelsbanken, said: “We have taken it through the first year and we are now expanding because we are busy.

“It is evolving, we have been busy people over the first year. We have just put our annual report in to the council and we are quite happy with it.

“The first four months were spent talking to the suppliers of funding, we only really went live in November and have effectively been on the ground since December.

“In that time we have seen 56 businesses and they have been looking for funding of £8 million, which in reality will be more like £10 million as many businesses couldn’t define what they needed.”

Ian Girdley has also joined the team in order to keep the numbers right.

He has worked for HSBC for 37 years, with quite some time spent in Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, and has known Mrs Brattan for more than 30 years.

business angels,” Mrs Brattan said, referring to the high street version of the televised dragons, who rarely seek publicity like their BBC counterparts.

So who has hit the ‘Hub’?

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Manufacturing

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£990k

Charity /Soc. Ent.

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£1.54m

Service Sector

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£145k

Leisure

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£1.49m

Retail

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£230k

Food

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£1.8m

Logistics

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£480k

Prof Services

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£67k

IT

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£20k

Property

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£920k

Education

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£350k

Of the quality coming through to grow and develop, Mr Winn said: “We haven’t really seen any stragglers, and the size of business we have seen are probably bigger than we expected to.

“We have had small businesses, but a good number of what we would consider medium sized businesses. We have also worked with Business Hive, Department for International Trade, accounting and banking professionals, and done a lot of introductory work. We have also got the name out there. In all I would say we have had a very, very successful first year.”

Receiving the report, Councillor Peter Wheatley, North East Lincolnshire Council’s cabinet member for regeneration, said there had been excellent progress with the investment hub so far.

“We were delighted to support the initiative when it was launched last year,” he added.

“We have an excellent working relationship with Anthony and his colleagues and the report shows both a buoyant local economy and the positive impact this work is having on growth within the area.

“Providing local business owners with easier access to funding and finance, along with offering free and impartial advice, is proving extremely valuable and acting as a further stimulus to both existing businesses in North East Lincolnshire and those looking to move here and take advantage of everything the area has to offer.”

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Barton boosts the books as AP Robinson expands O

NE of the area’s leading accountancy firms, A P Robinson & Co, has expanded with the acquisition of Cooke, Webster & Co. The Barton-based business has been established for nearly 20 years, operating from Priestgate in the town.

Andrew Robinson, managing partner at AP Robinson, said: “We believe there is great scope to build on Cooke, Webster & Co’s success with established businesses and start-up companies.

“With a wealth of business and industry expertise in a mix of sectors we believe we can help businesses in the area develop and fulfil their potential.”

Cooke, Webster & Co launched in 1998 when two local accountants, Andrew Cooke and Susan Webster, decided their skills complemented each other.

Mr Cooke will stay on for a further 18 months, with his original partner having left some time ago. The team of six will bolster AP Robinson, the name it has now taken on, to 30, with the Barton office retained.

Sarah Bainbridge, partner at AP Robinson & Co, said: “This acquisition means businesses throughout Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire will have access to a dedicated team of financial experts in the region to assist their development and ensure they are in the best possible position to grow.”

It forms part of an exciting 2017 for AP Robinson & Co, with an investment in a rebrand, new website and app marking a 23rd year in business.

Mr Robinson said “The rapid advances in technology and the Gover nment’s strategy of “Making Tax Digital” have meant that it is now more important than ever that our clients can manage their accounts on the go.

We wanted to make our services as flexible as possible and this was the

Key £1.5m regional skills boost from Dong Energy EDUCATION: Dong Energy has launched a new £1.5 million Skills Fund.

It forms part of the offshore wind giant’s East Coast Community Fund, and will be an annual commitment of £75,000.

A total of £55,000 will be available through an open application process to experienced organisations that can develop and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) related training or education courses, a one-off event, or a programme of targeted events.

The full £55,000 may be awarded to one organisation, or split between a number of groups that apply. The minimum grant organisations can apply for is £10,000, and the closing date for applications is September 14.

A further £20,000 will be used as a bursary to help finance local students .

Apprenticeships tie-up perfect way to do this. Clients can access everything they need all in one place, anywhere in the world.”

Reflecting on the expansion of the Riby Square-based business, Mr Robinson said: “Our growth is down to the tremendously loyal, dedicated and experienced staff, whom many companies around the UK would dream of having in their team.

“This has resulted in our ability to give our clients a very unique and bespoke service which focuses on increasing their profitability, increasing their efficiency an increasing their bank balance.”

Emma Brook, partner at AP Robinson & Co, recently celebrated 20 years’ service. She joined in 1997 as a trainee, working her way up to become a partner in 2012. She is responsible for managing the practice which brings in a multitude of skills including human resources, IT and mentoring.

She said: “The last 20 years have been a ball! I’ve met lots of great people along the way, many which have been influential to my progression in the business. I’ve built up some strong relationships and have an open and honest approach to all those I deal with.”

PowerON powers on with third office IT automation specialist PowerON has seen a surge in turnover to almost £2 million since its inception less than three years ago, and has grown staff numbers from just four people to 30 within that same time frame.

Founded in Grimsby, the home town of product development director Steve Beaumont, a third of the workforce is based at Europarc’s Innovation Centre, with an office in Surrey and a recent expansion completed to York.

It provides powerful, high quality IT management and cloud automation solutions to organisations of all sizes.

The firm’s turnover has grown from £128,000 in 2015, aided by notable contract wins in both the public and private sectors, with regional and national accounts.

Mr Beaumont, a Microsoft most valuable professional, said: “It has been a successful and fast paced three years since our launch, and we plan to continue our growth and development as we carry on removing the complexity and high costs often associated with the

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great hub for other employees on the east of England due to the excellent transport links.”

He and Phil Mercer, solutions and services director, have just signed a three year lease at a 1,290sq ft office at the recently refurbished Stanley Harrison House in York.

Mr Mercer, who specialises in developing solutions practices to deliver successful partnerships both globally and in the UK, said: “Steve and I spent a year researching and developing POWERING ON: Phil Mercer, left, and Steve Beaumont, directors the plan for our business of PowerOn. before launching with just two staff in 2015. We quickly management and winning work in the public won a number of public implementation of IT sector and also with sector accounts, including a well-known national and solutions. significant contract with the “We have established a firm international businesses.”

City of Wolverhampton PowerON chose the foothold in the market and a Innovation Centre because of Council and major projects solid reputation for the with the Sandwell and West quality and simplicity of our solid internet connectivity Birmingham Hospital NHS service, as well as offering an and affordable pricing.

Trust. Private sector work for “Grimsby provided a great assured outcome to our a number of leading customers. When this is base in the early stages and combined with our upcoming still remains the firm’s R&D corporate organisations such as Stena Group, Drax Group, and Innovation office,” Mr product launches, it puts us Tesco and food giant Princes Beaumont said. “It acts as a in a strong position to base for ten people and is a continue growing and followed.”

SHAKE ON IT: Andrew Robinson, second left, shakes hands with Andrew Cooke, flanked by Garry Stanley and Sarah Bainbridge, at the Barton office.

MARINE: An innovative partnership between Associated British Ports and Immingham-based training provider Modal will see marine apprentices practice on state-of-the-art simulators before they get their hands on the real thing.

It means those learning to be pilots on the Humber – the busiest trading gateway in the UK – get to sample it on screen before salt water.

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Month in Review Fishmonger’s Favourite scoops frozen food gong FOOD: Grimsby-based Northcoast Seafoods has won big with its own brand at the British Frozen Food Awards, little over a year after launching its Fishmonger’s Favourite range.

The Europarc business took Retail Product of the Year for its Two Salmon and King Prawn Stacks, having introduced it to the UK’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, last April.

It first won fish-based product before beating other winners from poultry, vegetable, meat, savouries and dessert categories, seeing off entries from Iceland and Aldi to take the crown.

Crane arrives at port PORTS: ABP has welcomed the first of two huge new cranes to Immingham’s Humber International Terminal.

At 34 metres high, the first installment of a £10 million addition now towers over the terminal, and is capable of lifting 100 tonnes.

The Gottwald 820 was delivered by vessel and discharged fully-assembled.

The cranes have been bought as part of an assets replacement scheme which had been set up by ABP to ensure the company continues to provide high and efficient productivity rates to customers.

Premier Inn’s Room 101?

LEISURE: Scunthorpe could soon boast its first-ever 100-plus bedroom hotel if plans for a £1.4 million extension by the Whitbread Group are given the nod.

The company is seeking approval from North Lincolnshire Council to add another 20 rooms to the Premier Inn on the town’s Lakeside Retail Park.

It would bring the number of bedrooms at the hotel to 101 and could create around five jobs.

The huge Forest Pines Hotel and Golf Resort is classed as Broughton.

LABAR LAUNCH: Linda Anderson-Smith, with Ron Ramsell, left, and Giles Barker.

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HREE northern Lincolnshire business leaders have joined forces to offer a complete service to clients on a global scale.

others, and thought, ‘let’s do it, we can do it better’.

“We are making a point on service. We are using organisations we can trust, and keeping work local.

“We all bring a lot of skills Labar Services Ltd has been together.” officially launched this month, He met Ms Anderson-Smith, with directors Linda who is also a director of Anderson-Smith, Giles Barker Ashby-cum-Fenby based Rapid and Ron Ramsell uniting their Accommodation, and a respective expertise. director of Grimsby The trio, together with Renewables Partnership, at a carefully selected partners, networking event. will bring site safety, site Mr Ramsell, who is facilities, refractory, welding originally from Kent, and is and fabrication, demolition assuming the role of and site clearance, engineering director for the groundworks and aggregates entity, has arrived having been and energy solutions forward. a consultant to Total Lindsey Jobs worth more than £17 Oil Refinery, among many million are already being other high profile clients. “For priced. most of my working life I have been a part of the Mr Barker, who heads up Scunthorpe-based Flixborough petrochemical, power generation and incineration Eco-Technologies, having business, mainly in worked in construction with management and Keepmoat prior to setting up supervision,” he said. in 2012, said: “We first had a chat about this two-and-a-half Registered at Normanby years ago. We could just see Gateway, a launch party with afternoon tea feel was held in the frailties in delivery from

the grounds of Grange Willows, Ms Anderson-Smith’s Howsham self-catering cottages and bed and breakfast operation.

Ms Anderson-Smith said: “We thrive on 97 years’ experience, through honesty, values and trust.

“Working internationally, our purpose is to ensure companies have access to the best of what is out there. We can offer services from consultancy to full turn-key solutions.”

Underlining the diversity, early enquiries being progressed are based Driffield, East Yorkshire and Russia.

Mr Barker, who is looking at battery storage as part of a portfolio of renewable technology options on a large commercial scale, added: “Our wide skills set enables us to take projects from conception to completion within specified time constraints.

“Overall, we are easy to work with, friendly and professional.”

Rural Euros are still available AN upcoming workshop is being held to help ensure businesses in the region don’t miss out on current EU funding opportunities.

On Tuesday, July 25, a workshop will take place at Forest Pines Hotel, showcasing EU funding opportunities for micro, small and medium-sized rural enterprises in the Humber and Greater Lincolnshire.

Among the funding programmes to be discussed is the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, which is making £3.7 million available for projects focused on food processing, business development and tourism.

There will also be a chance to learn more about the Leader programme, which is

designed to support national priorities, including: ● Increasing farm productivity ● Supporting micro and small businesses and farm diversification ● Boosting rural tourism ● Providing rural services ● Providing cultural and heritage activities ● Increasing forestry productivity So far this year, it has granted £1.2 million to 39 county-wide businesses, and there is still £6 million available.

The event runs from 10.30am to 12.30pm, with lunch following. Register online at www.eventbrite.co.uk, searching European funding in Brigg.

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3Q inflates its offshore offer with new facility G

RIMSBY-based 3Q Industrial Supplies has opened a dedicated Offshore Survival Service Centre as it further embraces the growing wind energy market.

Pete Rose, owner, identified a niche, transforming a former workshop within the distinctive Drawing Court building off Gilbey Road to deal with the requirements associated with life jackets and air suits, gaining Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) approval on the way.

He said: “This is to serve the growing offshore industry, the big investment, and a lot of people are interested.

“As a business we have invested in equipment and more importantly our people over the last three years, working with the renewable sector and original equipment manufacturers in ensuring our portfolio of services match their needs “It is a side of our business,

the engineering solutions side, that is continuing to grow.”

Steve Butterwood is heading it up, a calibration service technician, with apprentices being considered to join him.

“The service extends the services currently offered from portable and fixed gas detection service and repair through to our calibration workshop for temperature, pressure, electrical and mechanical control equipment,” Mr Rose said.

The new facility has a capacity for 40 jackets.

Mr Butterwood said: “No one offers a one-stop shop.

People send the equipment out of town, it can take days, we can improve on that dramatically.”

The company is also working on being able to service personal locator beacons, to add to the comprehensive service.

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Honour from princess for Britcon’s Lauren CONSTRUCTION: A special achievement in training has been marked with a palace visit and Princess Royal presentation for Britcon’s Lauren Hobbs.

The Worshipful Company of Paviors has recognised the managing engineer for her “outstanding accomplishments and strong work ethic through learning on the City & Guilds qualification in Streetworks, Excavation and Reinstatement” in a supervisory role.

The certificate was presented by Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, at St James’ Palace.

Foodies hit £300k target

BUOYANT: Pete Rose, left, and Steve Butterwood, in the recent addition.

FOOD: The duo behind Grimsby-area food brand The Dip Society have hit the £300,000 crowdfunding target, giving them the go-ahead to invest and take the tub-based treats to the next level.

Developed in Wold Newton by then new-found friends Helen Boyle and Claire Ollard, the cash was secured inside the two-month self set deadline, with strong Lincolnshire backing a feature.

A new machine for the third party Scunthorpe manufacturing facility is a priority.

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ORT of Immingham has been praised for outstanding achievements in safety and operations, winning big at this year’s ABP Chairman’s Awards.

A panel of six judges, including board members, recognised the outstanding accomplishments within the ABP Humber team, seeing the region take home two of the four shortlisted awards.

Immingham Container Terminal won the Operations Award, recognising employees continually improving the operations and services for the company.

The entry was based on an initiative implemented to improve customer satisfaction, which has also created a better working environment, and seen employees express how proud they now are of their workplace.

In addition to improving employee facilities, ABP engineers improved crane performance for the benefit of customers. Operators implemented a safe, permanent solution where crane software was updated, alarms were installed and vessel discharge sequences were changed. These improvement works reduced crane breakdowns by 85 per cent, which in turn achieved a staggering 100 per cent of vessels departing on-time.

The second team to win an award for the Humber were the Beyond Zero Traffic Safety Management team who placed first in the Health and Safety Award category.

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The campaign, which had been implemented in February, saw 90 volunteers from Grimsby and Immingham take to the port roads to improve driver safety behaviours.

In the first two months of running the programme, 220 traffic stops were made on the port, 130 of these vehicles were stopped for speeding and 50 per cent of stops were due to

drivers not wearing seatbelts.

Now having been in place for five months, with more than 500 traffic stops, traffic safety and driver behaviours on the port have noticeably improved.

As well as being pro-active on the port estate, using speed guns and speaking directly to drivers, the team also introduced haulage

workshops, whereby directors and senior leadership from local haulage companies were invited to the port to raise any issues they might have and for the port to work collaboratively with them on establishing a safer way forward.

The awards were held in Birmingham, with all 21 ports in the business

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Modal gains Nautical Institute accreditation MODAL Training, a specialist simulator training facility for the maritime and offshore sectors, has gained accreditation from The Nautical Institute for a hat-trick of key courses.

The state-of-the-art Immingham facility can now deliver Dynamic Positioning Induction, Simulator, Revalidation and Sea Time Reduction training.

Based on Middleplatt Road, backing on to the largest port by tonnage in the United Kingdom, the £7 million centre offers a comprehensive range of integrated Kongsberg ship, offshore vessel, engine and control room, high voltage, dynamic positioning, radar and vessel traffic service simulation suites alongside an impressive

suite of crane and road simulators.

Head of maritime training and simulation, Lee Tobin, said: “Modal Training’s location in the Humber, with its long maritime history and a growing offshore wind focus, means it’s well placed to support the skills of the sector. Personally, I have been delivering dynamic positioning and simulator-based training for a number of years in the UK and beyond and the investment in this facility is clear to see. We’re thrilled to now be able to offer Nautical Institute accredited training alongside our bespoke offer.”

Modal Training has availability on dynamic positioning courses throughout the summer, and the news comes on the back of it creating a partnership with Associated

British Ports to support the marine apprentices it takes on, as well as assisting Dong Energy with offshore wind turbine technician apprenticeship.

John Lloyd, chief executive of The Nautical Institute, said: “Properly qualified dynamic positioning operators remain in high demand globally and The Nautical Institute is proud to be the world leader in this qualification. Our accredited training centres have to undertake a rigorous audit and review process to ensure they meet exacting standards. We are delighted to welcome Modal Training to the dynamic positioning community and look forward to a long term relationship with the centre, the CENTRED ON IMMINGHAM: Dynamic positioning training at staff and their graduates.”

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#Whereitbegins has, erm, begun Anita Pace, chair of the Bondholders marketing organisation, writes for Business Telegraph

PME Group is the MAN for the job!

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NWARD investing PME Group has been appointed as sole MAN marine engine importer for the UK and Ireland.

“Now the celebrations are over, we need to get down to business.

Firstly we want to assure our clients that our dealer network will continue to grow and strengthen, giving excellent support The business, which launched its throughout the territory. first operational base away from “In addition, we believe that our the south coast in Stallingborough continued focus on the marine as it looks to capitalise on the large industry, and in particular the number of work boats in offshore commercial market, means that we wind, was granted the contract at have a tried and tested team who Seawork International. are available for all the technical Andrew Mellard, MAN’s general advice our customers require when manager for engines and considering their engine components, made the requirements.” announcement at the event in Southampton, where the PME team The head office is in Poole, Dorset, with a further branch in had a major presence.

Plymouth. The company came to PME Group has been a MAN North East Lincolnshire, with dealership for more than 20 years Grimsby MP Melanie Onn and the appointment is seen as officially welcoming them, in underlining expertise in the October last year, having commercial market.

Jade Chalk, commercial director, announced the intention in late spring. It had won work with said: “It was a delight to celebrate E.on’s crew transfer vessel supplier sole importer status at the show for Humber Gateway, North Sea with so many of our colleagues.

Services.

MAN’s commitment to the UK Mrs Chalk, who works alongside market is clear and with this husband Peter, added: “MAN important change in strategy we will move forward with them with engines are well established and have an excellent reputation. We a strong belief in continued have worked with wind farm growth.

SOLE ROLE: Jade and Peter Chalk, centre, with Eugen Maier, regional marine sales manager for MAN Nurenberg, left, and Andrew Mellard, at Seawork International. Top the stand, and above, Mr Mellard making the announcement. vessels for over seven years and have seen the market share grow steadily as the engines and follow up service and support has won more and more hearts and minds.”

Seawork also saw the launch of Iceni Legend, built by Alicat in the

UK and powered with MAN engines D2862 V12.

Along with its partner vessel Iceni Defender; these are the latest state of the art MAN powered 23 metre wind farm vessels built in the UK.

Huge Air1 growth sees first facilities replaced TEN years ago, Yara’s brand of emission-reducing diesel exhaust fluid AdBlue, Air1, joined forces with Junction 23 Lorry Park and established the first “on the road” facility in the East Midlands.

The facility, at Shepshed, Leicestershire – by the M1 – saw top-up introduced, having initially been rolled out at haulage depots.

The initial uptake was very positive and sales grew month by month.

A decade on and the lorry park is selling more than 20,000 litres of AdBlue a month, and the equipment originally installed has had

an upgrade. Having initially featured a 4,000 litre combi-tank, Junction 23 now boasts a 9,000 litre bulk storage tank that feeds two pumps, and is one of 200 sites now established nationwide.

Charlotte Friggieri, Yara’s Grimsby-based Air1 commercial support specialist, said: “We recognise the need to make AdBlue available on the road as well as in transport depots. This latest retail AdBlue facility upgrade at Junction 23 illustrates the latest step in this development.”

The solution is delivered

by vessel from the plant in Sluiskil, Holland, direct to terminal tanks in Immingham and Dagenham.

The past five years have seen a 134 per cent increase in volume.

A spokesperson for Junction 23, which provides 180 parking spaces in a fully fenced and CCTV-monitored compound, said: “We have been really happy working with Air1 and after ten years the site was in need of newer equipment so we were more than happy to continue the partnership with Air1.”

Campaigning to keep young talent in the Humber – #whereitbegins Phase One: Helping our young talent here to progress their career in the region Last month Bondholders launched our campaign to engage young talent, as I wrote.

This was in response to the challenge that our members continually face in attracting and retaining young talent.

Phase One of the campaign, aimed at 17 to 24-year-olds, communicates the wealth of opportunities available in the Humber for them to stay in our region to begin and progress their career here. It celebrates case studies of young talent who are already fulfilling their potential via study or work, and builds on the success of the My Life publication, showcasing the careers and lifestyle available to young professionals in this area.

We approached our Bondholder network and the wider business community to help us shape the early campaign, to help us tell the story of the Humber and the opportunities available for young people here and now.

And the responses have flooded in. We have had received numerous case studies of successful young professionals and rising stars who are prospering in our region. Some amazing career stories have been revealed from building wind turbine blades, to designing and creating food packaging, to training as a penguin curator! And the initiatives to train through apprenticeships, or pursue qualifications through further education to lead these amazing careers, are right here in our region.

We are collaborating with University of Hull, colleges and schools, to get the message out to the 17 to 24-year-old audience. The campaign film #whereitbegins has been shown at employability weeks, career fairs and skills networks, and this is just the start.

We are looking to reach out to the whole of the Humber and enable as many encounters as possible between students and our businesses, because we know that every encounter increases the chances of our young talent achieving their potential. We are asking everyone to host links to the Bondholder website on their own websites and intranets, to show this motivational film on as many big screens at as many events as possible, and join our social media campaign through 2017.

We are looking for the forward campaign to be shaped by a steering committee of 16 to 24-year-olds, active in either industry or education. They will have their say on what is needed to inform and connect them to our business community, what our member organisations can proactively do to address the challenge of building the skilled workforce, and how businesses can attract and retain the talent we have within the region, now and in the future.

If you’re interested in hearing more about the campaign and how you can get involved, or perhaps know of a rising star who would like to join the steering committee, please contact a member of the Bondholder team on 01482 485242 or email bondholders@marketinghumber.com

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USINESS leaders have embraced digital tips on dealing with “new” issues from employees’ use of social media to cyber security and cloud account-

“Are You Digitally Prepared, or Digitally Scared?” was a special seminar laid on by Grimsby’s leading professional services providers, Wilkin Chapman and Forrester Boyd.

They brought in the expertise of Simon J Green, a digital engineer and authorised ethical hacker, who has worked with the National Crime Agency.

While his tips were strictly Chatham House, as he exposed everyday cyber weaknesses in people’s activity, solicitor Katie Davies and accountant Alan Nesbitt touched on what can be controlled and what will have to be endured.

Mrs Davies, a partner with the Cartergate House-headquartered law firm, said: “The growth of social media has been massive, and we shouldn’t underestimate the impact it had on business and social life. We are trying to cram more in to our days, unfortunately days are not getting any longer, so we have to use different ways to communicate. Social media allows us to do that, to keep in touch with friends, to publicise and advertise. It is critical, it opens up a whole new audience and you can CYBER SKILLS: Alan Nesbitt, Katie Davies and Stuart J Green, who delivered the Digitally Scared or get messages out very quickly, 24/7. The Digitally Prepared? seminar at Grimsby Institute. problem is, because it is used 24/7, because people use it without thinking, they blur the personal, whether association is promoted or going to affect us all.” Winding back the clock lines between business and private life.” whether it is completely private and separate, to March 2015, Mr Nesbitt said: “George Explaining privacy settings are no defence as whether they are authorised to be friends with Osborne, in his Budget speech, announced the messages can be copied and shared, and that colleagues, customers and third parties.” death of the tax return. free speech will be balanced with harm to Also, breaches need to state it is potential “He was very triumphal about it, but didn’t companies, examples of criticising gross misconduct, not just misconduct, and she give quite the same publicity to what was management, customers and products were warned against knee-jerk reactions to any coming in its place. It went to consultation, our given, as well as inflicting personal views on Institute, and a number of bodies we are others when using accounts associated with the breaches. involved in made representations, they said it “Give examples of how you can use it organisation. wasn’t thought through properly, that the proactively, and make sure they have a copy of “People don’t know 15 per cent of Facebook the policy,” Mrs Davies said. “Hand it out to the timetable was wrong, there was no software friends. They may be decanting secrets to capability around, and they listened to all that staff, and give training.” people they don’t know, don’t trust and would and went ahead anyhow.”

“People now use smartphones, it is more pass in the street and not say ‘hello’. People difficult to monitor, unlike your own IT New Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget think it is different, it is not, you do not know equipment, so make sure it applies to announced a new timetable, but then the where it will end up. Social media is the same smartphones too.” as saying it to a room full of people, or even General Election was called and 80 per cent of worse. You don’t want to stop people using an what would make the Finance Act has dropped.

Mr Nesbitt, partner at Forrester Boyd, used effective tool, it is about creating awareness.” the event to introduce FB Digital, as it gears up “As we stand now we are not sure,” Mr Nesbitt to help businesses deal with Making Tax Mrs Davies said a well-drafted social media said, encouraging people to make plans. “The Digital. policy should be linked to other policies, such only sensible, safe option is to assume they are as disciplinary, and it should give clear still going to go ahead as envisaged in the He said: “It is the biggest thing to happen in instruction as to what happens to business sites tax in this country in 20 years and still wide Budget,” he said. “It is still the same if a person leaves, with log-in details and future spread ignorance mainly in government and Government, it is no good for people to ignore it use covered. and hope at the last minute everything comes HM Revenue and Customs about what is “People need to make clear if use is for happening, when it is happening and how it is right.”

£80k grant to help young people build careers GRIMSBY Institute of Further and Higher Education has been awarded almost £80,000 by the Edge Foundation for a project using business ambassadors to advise young people about careers and job opportunities.

Working with Lincolnshire College and around 100 local employers, it aims to encourage young people into careers in construction and increase the number of apprenticeships by 5 per cent. The county has a higher than average NEET – not in education, employment or training – figure, despite vacancies in the industry.

Grimsby Institute’s executive director of projects and partnerships, Andrew Goudie, pictured, said: “Construction is a key industry in Lincolnshire; it’s anticipated they’ll be 200,000 vacancies within the next decade, but we need the skilled workforce to fill them.

“This project will enable our business ambassadors to take the industry into schools and colleges

and show young people the range of opportunities there are.”

The grant is one of just 12 awarded this year by the independent education charity from a total fund of £1 million. Edge campaigns for young people to have equal access to different career pathways including apprenticeships, further education and higher education, and be better prepared for work via quality careers advice and employer engagement while at school.

Applications to the Grant Fund had to address at least two of the following five funding themes: ● Improve the design and delivery of engaging and relevant information, advice and guidance ● Support the development of profound employer engagement ● Support the development of truly blended learning opportunities as part of a 14-19 curriculum ● Support the development of high-quality apprenticeships, particularly at higher levels

● Address areas of skills shortages for the UK Edge chief executive Alice Barnard said: “The skills gap in the construction industry is particularly acute in Lincolnshire

and this initiative will not only help to advise young people about local employment opportunities and inform their career choices, but positively impact on the economy in the area.”

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BUSINESS IMPACT: How hackers, HMRC and social media will influence companies’ policies and procedures. Left, then Chancellor George Osborne, who was ‘triumphal’ about the death of tax returns.

His words came just two days before Thursday’s first indication on the new timetable from Mel Stride MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General. He announced that there would be a 2019 inclusion for all businesses above a VAT threshold of £85,000 brought online. The businesses will not be asked to keep digital records, or to update HMRC quarterly, for other

taxes until at least 2020. Mr Stride said: “Businesses agree that digitising the tax system is the right direction of travel. However, many have been worried about the scope and pace of refor ms.

“We have listened very carefully to their concerns and are making changes so that we can bring the tax system into the digital age in a way that is right for all businesses.”

Mr Nesbitt, who had told his audience that Forrester Boyd had been working to a belief that 2018 would the first stage, in response, said: “The Government’s extension to the timetable for Making Tax Digital represents a significant watering down of the proposals put forward in the March budget. Commonsense appears to have prevailed, increasing the chances of the ultimate success of the tax digitisation project.

The absence of compulsion for another year doesn’t mean that businesses shouldn’t be looking to reap the benefits of going digital.

“There is going to be an obligation to keep digital records,” he said, adding that purely a

spreadsheet will not suffice, as intermediary software will be required to upload what will be a minimum of quarterly updates, finalisation of accounts figures and final review of annual tax position. “Most people affected by this will now have six submissions – it is perhaps not quite the cause for celebration Mr Osborne may have envisaged!

“There will be penalties, provisionally a light touch at first, then they will start penalising and punishing. It is going to be the biggest culture shock for a lot of the people who have a couple of buy-to-let properties, who may well keep records in the back of an exercise book.

“People are going to be forced to keep up-to-date records. Most people nowadays are quite good at it, and people who aren’t are going to be forced to do it. That, at least, is a genuine positive. And there will be no need for big lever arch files, you can put your collections of antique tea pots up on the shelves instead!

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Coach delights at clients’ award-winning success NORTHERN Lincolnshire’s multi-award winning business coach John McHale is fast becoming a catalyst for phenomenal business successes, having enjoyed a sparkling spring.

First came a Best Marketing Campaign win for Cleethorpes-based Tilletts Clothing at the Action Coach European Business Excellence Awards in Harrogate, where he was proud to join the mum and daughters team on stage, and he the followed up with Grimsby digital design agency Laser Red, who took Best Website Design at the Lincolnshire Digital Awards.

Then came the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards, with Liam O’Leary, managing director of Laser Red, taking Young Person of the Year, going one better than his shortlisting in 2016, while Scunthorpe business GS Kelsey was

crowned with the Forrester Boyd Award for Business Excellence Brigg-based Mr McHale said: “This is fabulous recognition for all of my clients’ hard work and dedication. I do push them hard to achieve their plans, and to grow their businesses, but it’s them who do all the actions in between our sessions together.”

Clients Tilletts and Driver Hire were also runners-up at The Baths Hall, with Rapid Accommodation also having gone close in 2016.

Winner Mr O’Leary said: “We had a good business already but having John on board has made us realise that we could move towards being a great company.

John really takes the time to understand who you are and what you do, and then sets about a plan to improve every single aspect of the business.

John doesn’t let you coast –

once you have a plan, there’s an expectation that you will then deliver it, and John is relentless at pushing, cajoling and pointing you in the right direction. The growth over the last 18 months with John on board has been incredible – both personally and for the business. Every single business should have a business coach, and there’s none better than John.”

This was echoed by Mel Tillett, who started a successful 2017 for him. “The difference that having John on board as our business coach has made to the business is incredible,” the Sea View Street-based director said. “John brings a wealth of expertise alongside world class systems, implementation of which has seen our business grow phenomenally over the last 12 months.”

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As part of the organisation’s MakeGreat campaign its aim is to ensure improved productivity and business growth.

The EEF said the challenge for training and HR managers is how to find a way to demonstrate the real value of workforce development to the organisation and its positive future financial impact on the business.

Released this past month, the EEF white paper, Making a Successful Business Case for Training, shows that identifying the performance gap where new skills are needed within the company is crucial to funding success.

Defining the correct type of training required to plug that gap is the second step, avoiding new trends and fashionable options just because they are new.

Crucially, to secure management approval, it is important to identify that the topic for the proposed training sessions is a core part of the company’s growth strategy and that training is aligned to

business objectives to deliver value to the organisation.

Commenting, Neil Withey, EEF’s training division director, said: “Fashionable trends and methods are often not the answer when it comes to training. Just because it is a new way of doing something doesn’t mean it is the right way to go forward. However, it is also important not to stick with a tried and tested training method, just because it is how you have always done it as a company.

“Defining a performance gap needs careful analysis, but it is always a situation where there is something someone isn’t doing or it is not being done properly.

Defining what the training needs to achieve involves looking at absence of knowledge, absence of skill, attitude problems and problems with equipment, machinery of materials. Looking at these areas should help ensure the training meets the required needs.

“Demonstrating that the proposed training will have a positive effect on the business and that it is a key part of the company’s growth strategy is also key to securing funding, as is benchmarking staff performance before and after the training will further demonstrate effectiveness.”

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Experienced duo welcomed as hotel completes recovery from freak surge

NEW ‘HOME’ BY THE HUMBER: Allen Clapham, left, and Andrew Brennan, at Humber Bridge Country Hotel, Barton.

THIRTY years of combined experience in the hospitality and catering industry has seen a successful overhaul of The Humber Bridge Country Hotel at Barton in recent weeks.

New manager Andrew Brennan has already made a positive mark upon the former Reeds Hotel, which has been completely revamped after falling victim to the major tidal surge in 2013.

It reopened under director Richard Morgan and co-founders wife Daisa and Tom Hazeldine last autumn, and now the duo have been installed to run the venue, which boasts a large function suite.

The experienced businessman, who has worked at The Beeches in Scartho and Healing Manor Hotel, with a range of successful overhauls behind him, is now focused on guiding the latest venture in an exciting new direction.

He said: “I want to bring a complete level of traditional service and structure to the business, and make sure that every guest leaves with their expectations exceeded.”

Mr Brennan has already secured the recent addition of chef Allen Clapham.

With various fantastic restaurants under his belt, he is enthusiastic about driving the Humber Bridge Country Hotel forward.

Mr Clapham said: “The aim is to bring structure and consistency to the team and the business, creating a traditional menu that changes seasonally with modern twists, and always sourcing local ingredients where possible.”

They say they are both committed to bringing a consistent and professional service to the new restaurant, with new menus, wine lists, and “an unbeatable carvery”.

The hotel has just released its Christmas plans, and with recently refurbished accommodation and the stunning views that give it a unique selling point, the team are looking forward.

“We want to keep the traditional feel of the hotel, with a focus on our amazing lakeside setting, while offering a relaxed, friendly and professional service,” Mr Brennan said.

“We’re here, we’re open, come and visit us! ”

WELCOME: Steve Horton, right, with Myles Shaw.

Steve hits the floor running GRIMSBY Carpet Warehouse has appointed Steve Horton to lead its commercial flooring department.

The experienced manager has worked in the industry for 26 years, most recently for an established county operator.

Myles Shaw, managing director, said he spotted a niche in the area, and believes the addition of Mr Horton completes the package for the Freeman Street-based division of the business.

“We have the

products, we have the prices, we have the fitters, we have the knowledge, we have the service, we have the professionalism and we have the commitment to succeed at all costs,” he said. “We want to be the largest commercial flooring division in Lincolnshire. We are now one of the largest domestic flooring shops in Lincolnshire and now we are going to do the same in the commercial game.

“Steve has been with me now for just over two weeks and we

have already landed more than £60,000 worth of work.”

The division specialised in safety flooring and heavy contract carpets for schools, care homes, hospitals, offices and the like.

GCW has recently been accredited by CheckaTrade.com, while online business Carpet Runners UK is rolling towards 100 consecutive weeks of online growth, having expanded internationally, as reported.

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ULIE Brearley is the latest woman to take a leading role with Wilkin Chapman, joining the Cartergate House law firm as head of human resources.

The appointment, hot on the heels of operational change manager Liz Walmsley – as reported last month – and business development and marketing head Lindsay Rubie, earlier this year, has led to a feeling of a firm bucking the trend within its profession.

Despite half of all solicitors being female, law is still heavily-dominated by male partners. A third, 15, of the Grimsby-headquartered partners are female, including three departmental heads, against a national average of a quarter.

Julie’s appointment sees another talented individual move into Lincolnshire from outside the area, having

embrace diversity and ensure that there isn’t a culture of unconscious bias that is preventing women from getting promoted.”

Lindsay, who joined from HSBC, has a strong belief that the ‘open’ nature of the firm is why women she considers to be at the top of their profession are joining Wilkin Chapman.

“There is certainly an move, she said: “During previously been with open culture that is the interview process, Sheffield law firm reflective across the and now, several weeks Nabarro. whole of the firm here, in, it is clear that With more than 15 everyone is pulling in the meaning the best person years’ experience in HR, for the role will always be she is a qualified member same direction. It is also successful – a fact that is of the Chartered Institute an extremely friendly place to work, we all so important for of Personnel and spend a lot of time at businesses today.”

Development, and will work and that matters.” work across the firm’s Praising the diversity of For Julie it was the seven offices with the firm, Wilkin ‘openness’ of the firm that Chapman chief executive responsibility for was also a key factor. recruitment, talent Des Mannion, said: “I am management, “We are not working in extremely proud of what development and the silos here, instead we are we are achieving here fir m’s HR strategy. all able to help shape the with regards to diversity, which is reflected in our Reflecting on statistics, strategy of the firm as it moves forward with a senior operational team Julie was keen to make clear vision.” with four females, which I the point that “the right believe is unique in a person should get the Looking at the job”, regardless of gender. profession as a whole, she traditionally added: “Law firms need to male-dominated sector.” of the attraction of the

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BUCKING TREND: Julie Brearley, main picture, with Liz Walmsley, left, Des Mannion and Lindsay Rubie above left.

Bondholders build with new managing director THE Humber’s private sector-led marketing organisation, Bondholders, has made a new senior appointment.

Diana Taylor has been named as managing director, while the advisory board has been strengthened with four new appointments. They are: Kirsten Bolton, marketing director at Willerby Ltd; James Livermore, corporate account manager at Handelsbanken in Grimsby; Andy Parkinson, group director for strategy and innovation at Spencer Group and Yvonne Adam, marketing director at Young’s Seafood.

Diana joins the advisory board and leads the executive team at what she describes as a “time of unprecedented investment and opportunity across the estuary,” leading the strategic place marketing of the Humber to attract investment and talent.

She said: “I’ve been so impressed with the energy of the team and what they have achieved. It’s also clear we have a fantastic network of businesses and organisations that play such a significant part in our marketing of the Humber.

“I’m really looking forward to working collaboratively with the Bondholders members, and building upon our relationships and engagement with the whole region, to promote the Humber as a great place to invest.”

Diana, who founded her own consultancy in business transformation, developed her career at BP, working as a key part of the team that established Saltend Chemicals Park.

She is described as bringing strong analytical skills and a proven competence in business development, change management,

WELCOME ABOARD: Anita Pace, left, welcomes Diana Taylor to Bondholders, with – inset – South Bank based advisory board members Jim Livermore and Yvonne Adam. communications and organisational development.

Bondholders chair, Anita Pace, said the new role reflected the need for the 280-strong organisation to extend its influence and impact.

She said: “This is a fantastic time for the region and with Diana’s appointment we have taken the opportunity to enhance the senior role in the executive team. We are delighted that Diana has joined us and we look forward to Diana

working with Bondholders across the region to promote the Humber as a great place to live, work and invest.”

The changes to the advisory board reflects Bondholders’ Humber-wide membership and the estuary’s key growth sectors.

Anita said: “I’m thrilled that we have been able to assemble such a strong advisory board to shape and direct the work of the Bondholders.

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“It is very clear that what unites this new team is their desire and commitment to help to drive the region forward, working with Bondholder members. We are very fortunate to have such strong support and exceptional expertise around the table.”

ONE of northern Lincolnshire’s most successful accountancy practices has appointed a new local partner.

Alex Douglas has taken on the enhanced role at RNS Chartered Accountants, which has offices in Scunthorpe, Brigg and Barton.

He grew up in Burton-upon-Stather and attended Winterton Comprehensive and John Leggott before going to the University Of Hull.

Alex joined RNS in 2004 and obtained his chartered accountant qualification three years later.

Wife Hannah is from Messingham and a primary school teacher. They have a one-year-old daughter, Martha.

He was pleased to accept the new equity partner role at RNS. “I’ve enjoyed working for the firm since I joined and this is a new opportunity to work alongside some excellent colleagues and help it continue to grow,” he said.

He works on some of the firm’s audit clients and also specialises in social clubs.

His favourite part of the job is meeting clients, helping them get the most out of their business and grow.

Of the future, he said: “We see a large number of clients who are reliant on the steelworks in Scunthorpe so the purchase by Greybull and return to British Steel was a huge boost.

“I also deal with clients who work up and down the country and there seems to be a positive feel at the minute, order books are improving and clients are also busier tendering for new projects.

“Valuable lessons were learnt in the recession and businesses have come out the other side stronger and more able to deal with any unforeseen complications.”

Outside of work, much of his free time has disappeared since the arrival of Martha.

“I get to see Scunthorpe United very occasionally and like to get out on my bike when I can.

“Although I don’t do as much, I enjoy running.

I have done a few road half marathons, including the recent one in North Lincolnshire, but prefer to be in the countryside on the footpaths and rails.

“I completed a 30-mile run in the Peak District last summer. I also like to get away on holiday with Hannah and Martha whenever I can.”

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The Proace Verso signals a return to the large MPV sector for Toyota several years after it launched the Previa, one of the original large people carriers, which was discontinued in 2007.

Both van and MPV models are available in three body sizes – compact, medium and long – and the Verso can seat up to eight people which makes it suitable for families, taxi duty, airport runs and there’s a VIP version for luxury transport.

The Verso comes with a choice of three body and two wheelbase lengths while power is from three turbodiesel engines, all with stop-start technology. There's a 114bhp1.6-litre with six-speed manual transmission, a 148bhp 2.0-litre also with six-speed manual and a 172bhp 2.0-litre with a six-speed automatic gearbox.

Best economy figures are 54.3mpg for the 1.6 diesel.

According to our road-tester, all Proace versions come with good specification levels include user-friendly equipment such as rail-mounted sliding seats, opening rear tailgate glass, automatic

sliding side doors and a multifunction roof.

The MPV comes in three grades, Shuttle, Family and VIP and has been awarded five stars in the Euro NCAP crash test programme. It is available with Toyota Safety Sense advanced active safety and driver assistance gear.

Although based on the Proace van the Verso has an attractive interior with the dashboard design featuring clear, analogue dials and ergonomic switchgear. The driver gets good all-round visibility from the elevated, SUV-like driving position and use of a slick, short-throw gear lever mounted close to the flat-bottom steering wheel.

Versions equipped with automatic transmission have a stylish rotary

gear selector positioned on the centre console.

The cabin is light and spacious especially with the two-section multifunction roof available for Family and VIP models. There’s plenty of storage points around the cabin, including door boxes, dashboard and sliding door cubbies, and cup holders. Other standard equipment features include power windows, dark-tinted rear windows, dusk-sensing headlights, front fog lights, cornering lights, rain-sensing windscreen wipers, electrically adjustable, heated door mirrors and body colour-matched bumpers and door handles.

The tailgate has a heater and rear wiper system and in the cabin there are curtain airbags, a

multi-function roof and automatic dual-zone air conditioning.

Also included on all models is the useful Toyota Pro-Touch seven-inch touchscreen with smartphone connectivity. Satellite navigation is standard on the Family version.

If the eight seats are occupied there wouldn’t be much room for luggage, and the back row is only suitable for children but the back seats can be removed to give up to 1,242 litres of usable luggage space with five on board.

Our driver found the Proace Compact Family manual version very easy to handle with enough power for overtaking, and surprisingly quiet on the move with a minimum of engine, road or wind noise.

The gear shift is especially smooth which is something you don’t always find on MPVs based on a van. He also had a brief drive in the Proace Compact Van which has three front seats and a cargo bay measuring a 2,162mm long by 1,628mm wide, giving a load volume of 4.6 cubic metres.

It also features an opening bulkhead and lifting front passenger seat base to increase load length capacity by 1.16 metres and overall load volume by an extra half a cubic metre.

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Lifetime accolade for Mike as ‘ideal replacement’ wins too H

IGHLY respected Grimsby builder Mick Quickfall has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by a prominent organisation that he has served for decades.

The Yorkshire and Trent region of the Federation of Master Builders has bestowed the honour on its former president.

And the surprise accolade came as he makes plans to retire from the national council, and – he hopes – make way for Grimsby branch secretary Chris Carr, who regards him as a fine mentor.

Of the honour, presented at a join event with the North West region at Norton Grange Hotel and Spa in Rochdale, Mr Quickfall said: “The niceness was not knowing I was going to receive it! I now go in for a national award, and for that there are a lot of worthy people, but I’m in with a shout!

“I have been a member of the FMB for over 40 years and I have held various offices. I have been regional president and I am also on the managing board which is the national council, where I have been for some time. I am coming to my time, I will probably retire in 2018, and I would like Chris to take my place, certainly that’s the aim.

“He does a lot down there in Westminster, he is well suited to the job, and a lot younger than me, too.”

Mr Quickfall was a second generation at the helm of Quickfall Construction, which traded for more than 30 years in Grimsby, latterly from Ladysmith Road. Having been started by his parents Jack and Zelma, it was bought out by Scunthorpe-based Hanson in 2005.

More recently, Mr Quickfall has traded as MJ Quickfall Builders Ltd, which runs in conjunction with Ashby Hill Top Farm Ltd, better known as Willow Lakes, itself now in the midst of a sale process, with grand plans to develop the holiday accommodation offer and realise a cafe / tea room facility on the plot with an incredible view over North East Lincolnshire and the mouth of the Humber.

“The building company is still quite busy, we do a lot locally, and we have Willow Lakes, which we are hopefully on the verge of selling. It is an exciting time, possibly getting planning to make it a super place.

The people interested want to build the cafe that we have planing for, and put more lodges around the bottom lake.”

He has prided himself on taking a ‘hands on’ approach to business management, and with theFMB has been Grimsby branch president on three separate occasions, as well as social secretary, treasurer and branch secretary.”

Mr Carr, who is also chairman of the FMB’s national home builders’ group, said: “It was well deserved.

Mick has put decades of time and effort in to the FMB, not just on a local level but at a national level too,

ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNISED: Mick Quickfall at Willow Lakes, Ashby Cum Fenby.

Right, Blacksmiths Cottages, Waltham, with Chris Carr, bottom right, collecting the award from Brian Berry, chief executive of the FMB. where he is a director.

“He has been a great mentor for the branch as a whole, as well as me personally, he encouraged me to carry on my role with theFMB, to get to where I am, instilling self-belief.”

On the home front, Mr Carr also collected an award at the event.

When not representing the FMB he is joint managing director of Cleethorpes-based Carr & Carr Ltd. The company’s recent four-unit development at Waltham collected a second award. Blacksmiths Cottages has capitalised on a tight corner plot at the heart of the village, and was judged to be best in the ‘new homes’

category. Just like Mr Quickfall, it will now go on to represent the north in London in September.

And while the accolade, adding to recognition from South Yorkshire and Humber Local Authority Building Control, is pleasing, one of the biggest endorsements has come with the site now being included in an extended conservation zone by North East Lincolnshire Council.

Mr Carr said: “This is all about the quality and ability of the sub-contractors, and great leadership, too.

“It was a tight site, very challenging because of a lack of

space, and we were having to have materials ordered within a finite time as there was no storage, so it was exceptionally hard in that respect.

“The remit from the council was it had to replicate the opposite side of the road, and once the landscaping is complete, within a year or two it will do just that. The fact the conservation order now covers the new homes underlines it.”

The innovative development sits at the junction of Cheapside and Brigsley Road, opposite the village’s cenotaph.

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Clugston to deliver huge £5.7m ‘best-in-class’ logistics facility

MAJOR PROJECT: The huge development being brought forward by Clugston Construction in Lutterworth for Tungsten Properties Ltd.

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LUGSTON Construction has been appointed to deliver a £5.7 million new build, ‘best-in-class’ logistics facility.

The 128,600 sq ft unit is being built for Tungsten Properties Ltd on land adjacent to Junction 20 of the M1.

The building, in Lutterworth, features a 116,000 sq ft warehouse and 12,600 sq ft office space over three floors, and will benefit from a number of environmental features enabling a commitment to achieve BREEAM ‘Very Good’ accreditation.

External works include the construction of a 121-space customer car park and 13 HGV dock servicing yard. A new site access off Lutterworth Road will create safe access/egress provision for staff and deliveries. Up to 150 jobs will be created when complete.

Danny Dawson, Clugston Construction’s regional business manager, said: “We are very pleased to have secured this project and look forward to the scheme coming out of the ground. We will continue to work closely with our regional supply chain to ensure successful delivery of this high-quality facility for Tungsten Properties.”

The overall design and materials specified have been carefully considered to ensure that the scheme is both first-rate in its appearance and contextually appropriate to its ‘gateway’ entrance to the Leicestershire town. A mixture of flat panel and profiled cladding will form the elevations. Feature glazing will be incorporated into the office element of the scheme to provide a focal point to the facility.

The scheme is being funded by Aberdeen Asset Management.

Jeff Penman, managing director of Tungsten Properties Ltd, said: “We are delighted to be working with Clugston Construction on this high-quality scheme.

BREAKING NEW GROUND: Work begins on the project.

“It is in one of the best logistics locations in the UK and I’m sure will be a successful project archaeology department who – prior to the start scheme. The site is bound to the north by the for Tungsten and Aberdeen Asset of construction – carried out a detailed site River Swift, with that end of the site lying Management.” excavation. As a result, works have been within an existing flood plain, the scheme One interesting aspect of the site is the planned around existing known features. design therefore provides flood protection remains of a diverted watercourse, or leet, measures in line with Environment Agency New hard and soft landscaping installations which is evidence of an ancient mill. This was will ensure an excellent look and feel to the requirements. of interest to Leicestershire County Council’s

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Marketing the market: Council offers incentives to lure in stalls A

NEW scheme to attract new traders to Grimsby’s Top Town Market is being unveiled.

North East Lincolnshire Council, working in partnership with Engie, has pulled together an incentive package to support those who may be taking a first step into retail.

While high street giant Marks and Spencer began life as a stall, many food brands are also put through their paces in such a location.

Now maiden market traders can enjoy extra benefits, other than a softer entrance to the world of sales than a long-term lease on a shop.

The deal offers 100 per cent reduced rent for 12 weeks on new stalls selling new lines (six weeks for existing lines) then a further 50 per cent reduced rent for 12 weeks on all vacant stalls that have been vacant for six weeks or more.

Normal rent rates will be in place after this time.

Councillor Peter Wheatley, portfolio holder for regeneration, assets, skills and housing, said: “Top Town Market is a great resource for local people and businesses alike.

“The market recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and we’re looking forward to what the next 40 years will bring.

“The market is an ideal place to get your business off to a flying start.”

Incentives for existing traders and all traders who have traded for three years or more are also available, though all have qualifying conditions.

It comes as an event space is also created in an

MARKETING JOB: From left, Grimsby’s Top Town Market, Peter Wheatley, an immaculate Scunthorpe Market following a refurbishment in 1972, having opened in 1906, and below, an artist’s impression of how Ashby Market will look.

area of voids. It will be used for various activities including pop-up markets such as teenage, vintage and craft markets, as well as workshops and different health and wellbeing activities.

Customer feedback has also led to a seating area being installed there.

In North Lincolnshire, Ashby Market is on the move, with plans afoot for Scunthorpe too. The £800,000 works are underway to take the former to Ashby Broadway, while the former Woolworths and BHS store in the town centre is understood to be the desired location for the latter. Together they would represent a £5 million investment.

For more information on the incentive scheme, or market trading, contact the Market Office on market.hall@nelincs.gov.uk or 01472 325836.

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Large detached former office building approx. 239.40 sqm 2576 sq ft.

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Ideally suit Children's Nursery, Private Learning Centre, Vets, Dentists etc.

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Building on the ‘Bear necessities’ for a low carbon future for homes A

FLEDGLING business has been recognised on a regional level as it helps make homes more efficient.

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EARLY SUCCESS: Bear Build partners, husband and wife Rob and Liz Ramella, with the commended award at the Yorkshire Regional Energy Efficiency & Healthy Homes Awards 2017.

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Unit 20 Garden Street TO LET

Recently refurbished 2 storey retail premises Approx. 297 sqm/3000 sqft Ground floor sales approx. 176 sqm/1894 sqft Frontage approx. 16.9m/55.6 ft Wide window frontage Suits alternative uses EPC Rating TBA

Proposals on £25,000 p.a.x.

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wall installations.

“We have only been going since January, so when we were nominated for the regional award, we felt it was a little bit premature. We were told a week before we were in the top three, we went and got the commended prize.”

The company has four dedicated sub-contractors and is looking to grow as the work comes in.

“We are looking to expand now,” Liz said.

“We are procuring some big projects which will be out of the county, in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and it will be nice to do that and bring the funds back here.”

The products reduce energy costs, and with

a lot of Victorian and Georgian properties – as well as rural areas still using heating oil – opportunities in the area are strong, too.

And of the name?

“We have three sons, and it is our middle son’s nickname,” Liz said. “He – Luca – had a severe health problem, a blood disorder, and was treated at Grimsby hospital for two-and-a-half-years, so it is sentimental to us, as he went through the toughest of situations.”

Now eight, he had 15 blood transfusions before he had his spleen taken out, and having recovered well, is now monitored twice a year.

PROJECT COMPLETION: job done by Bear Build.

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* FOR SALE * Potential redevelopment/investment project * Comprising former butcher's shop, garage and detached bake house/ store * Enlarged 3 bedroomed living accommodation * Investment income from let fish & chip shop * Significant potential subject to planning consent * Site approx. acres * EPC: Butcher's shop – E, Accommodation – F, Fish & Chip shop - C

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53, Cambridge Street * Lock-up retail unit, Approx. 64.6 sqm/695 sqft * 2 bedroomed flat over, with superb roof bedroom, living room with balcony, first floor decked area, potentially self-contained or inter-connecting * Freehold, EPC Rating: Shop; D: Flat E

“We then looked at it as a business, and I left work in January and we joined partnership.

Since then we have got further accreditation in customer service and quality standards, and we are also Government Green Deal-approved installers of external

7B, East St. Marys Gate

Long established fish processing premises Processing area of approx. 1866 sq ft/173.4 sqm with roller shutter door to frontage and floor drainage Ancillaries approx. 178.3 sqft/16.57 sqm including staff room and WC First floor offices approx. 483 sqft/45 sqm Site approx. 0.13 acre with potential to expand EPC Rating TBC Freehold

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UNDERWAY: In the midst of a Bear Build project on a house.

* Niche retail/office use (stpc), Approx. 81.57sqm/878sqft, L shaped former sales area approx. 74 sqm/796 sqft * Suit alternative uses subject to app. consents and approvals * New lease available, EPC Rating TBA

Unit 26, Nottingham Court * Highly visual corner unit now available * Approx. 946 sqft/88 sqm * Eaves approx. 4.25/14ft * Suit factors, or similar, subject to consents

Grimsby’s Bear Build was a finalist in the Yorkshire Regional Energy Efficiency & Healthy Homes Awards 2017.

Husband and wife team Rob and Liz Ramella were nominated in the Insulation & Fabric Installer Of The Year category, having only launched in January.

Currently based from home in Weelsby Road, the business started after initial projects were completed in Louth, and a niche identified.

Liz said: “My husband had been working in the construction sector for quite some years as a sole trader. He was working on some eco-builds in Louth, five new-builds from the ground up, and became accredited in external wall installations.

• Two storey office buildings, constructed around a central courtyard. The offices have been finished to a high standard, and are set within pleasant landscaped grounds.

• Open plan accommodation with ancillary storage, kitchen and WC facilities, providing carpet flooring, a gas fired wet flow central heating system, double glazed windows and suspended ceilings with inset lighting.

• The offices are fully DDA compliant, and a lift could be installed if required.

For further information and viewing please contact: 01472 267513

DUNCAN WILLEY • PPH Commercial Email: duncan.willey@pph-commercial.co.uk LAWRENCE BROWN • Scotts Email: lawrence@scotts-property.co.uk

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Commercial Property Could Portlink 180 be the missing link in site search?

ONE of the largest strategic employment development sites currently available in the Humber region is now being marketed, as industrial occupancy runs at a record level.

Named Portlink 180 due to its position between Grimsby and Immingham docks, north of the A180, it was purchased by Rula Developments Ltd earlier this year after previous owner, Abengoa, decided not to progress plans for a biofuel plant.

The £290 million proposal had been brought forward in January 2007, with planning permission extended in 2011 for the Stallingborough site, where it is estimated up to 2,000 jobs could be created if opportunities are maximised.

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N ‘celling’ its credentials to the local sub-contracting construction industry, Willmott Dixon has underlined a strong commitment to apprenticeships and education, ahead of its first project in northern Lincolnshire.

The national company has been selected as principal contractor for Humberside Police’s new £14 million South Bank Custody Facility, set to be built on Grimsby’s Birchin Way, having delivered a dozen such buildings already, and worked with The Home Office on design.

A planning application is anticipated imminently for the 36-cell suite, offices and interview rooms, at the former Bass brewery site. It has a targeted opening date of March 2019.

It will replace custody facilities at Grimsby and Scunthorpe police stations.

Jayne Greaves, community engagement manager, addressed special supply chain event held in Grimsby this past month.

She said: “One of our core values is putting something back in to the community we work in.

“Apprentices are a big thing for us, and we are not into creating 20-week brickwork positions. We want to work with those who have a pipeline of work.

“We can help recruit apprentices, and there are shared apprenticeship schemes too where we can support a young person through.

“We will be engaging with local schools and colleges too, offering young people opportunities to come on site and experience it. It is not like learning about construction, brick laying within a building where it is all covered, this is the reality, and we want them to see the reality.”

Last year Willmott Dixon provided nearly 1,000 work experience opportunities, attended nearly 100 careers events, and more than 100 schools.

For this project, key

performance indicators cover: ● Local spend ● Local labour ● Employing apprentices ● Engaging with schools/colleges ● Working with local SMEs ● Work experience ● School activities Ray Oxby, leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, said: “I am very impressed with the ethos around skills and values. It resonates very strongly with what we want to do here in North East Lincolnshire.”

LOCATION: Where the South Bank Custody Facility will be situated, as seen looking south west from above the a180 Westgate Roundabout.

CELL MATES: The team from Willmott Dixon who presented at the supply chain event, held at The Innovation Centre, Europarc, Grimsby. Jayne Greaves is second left. Above, a charity lock-in at the Sheffield facility, and a school visit to a construction site.

Top, how it will look from Birchin Way.

Enjoying enterprise zone status, the 78.5-acre site also forms part of the South Humber Industrial Investment Programme from North East Lincolnshire Council, with the new proposed access road from Moody Lane linking up with Hobson Way, off which it sits.

Duncan Willey, divisional director of PPH Commercial, joint agent with JLL of Leeds, said: “Taking into account the excellent location of the site and the fact that industrial occupancy in North and North East Lincolnshire is currently running at the unprecedented level of 95 per cent, we are expecting a high level of interest.

“The site has been allocated for storage/distribution and light/general industrial uses, so it will appeal to a wide range of businesses. Rula Developments bought the site as a strategic acquisition and will split the land for sale, as well as offering bespoke warehouse or industrial facilities for lease or sale.”

Rula has been founded by Ben Ward, a former director with Henry Boot Developments.

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Business Hive Live will put a new spin on a Google Drive!

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MAN who is moulded to the driving seat of leadership will ensure this year’s Business Hive Live event is flat-out in the finest possible fashion.

Kevin Gaskell, former chief executive of iconic motor brands Porsche, BMW and Lamborghini, will be on stage at the Grimsby Auditorium on October 3, as the South Bank’s largest business-to-business exhibition returns.

Mr Gaskell is described as an “extraordinary leader” who drove the top end marques to unprecedented levels of success.

“A corporate trailblazer, serial entrepreneur and world class team builder, Kevin is a highly motivational and engaging speaker,” said Sam Burgess, Business Hive manager, who is looking forward to the fourth annual event.

“We are really excited about this year’s Business Hive Live,” she said. “We are bringing the best ever line-up of national and international business speakers, a brand new Tech Lounge and a host of exciting local businesses exhibiting throughout the day.

“We set out to bring inspiration and information to our local business community and I have no doubt we are going to deliver that in spades.”

Google has been the centre of all things digital for 20 years and the online technology giant is being

northern Lincolnshire and want to boost your career, or turbo-charge your business, please join us at Business Hive Live and talk to our expert.

“We can help you connect to new customers, help boost your productivity or improve your employability no matter what field you work in.”

Joining Google in speaking at the event will be Andrew Dixon from Barclays, making a return after last year, and Dan Riley of Spearhead Interactive, a leading emerging technology agency specialising in 3D data visualisation. Together, they

will be discussing ‘big data’ and what it can mean to your business.

Also taking to the stage is Geoff Burch, an international best-selling author, business guru and leading authority on sales, customers and leadership.

Within 48 hours of the 2017 event announcement, all available exhibition spaces were fully-booked, underlining a growing reputation.

It will be held between noon and 7.30pm. For more information call 01472 242667 or visit businesshive.net/ businesshivelive2017.

Northcoast and friends’ freezer first NORTHCOAST Seafoods, in collaboration with advanced packaging specialist Parkside, has developed a reclosable pack for frozen products.

It is seen as a first-to-market solution by the Grimsby business, as it pushes ahead with award-winning brand Fishmonger’s Favourite.

The pack has been developed with the West Yorkshire business using an in-house specially developed adhesive that allows the all-important re-close function in both ambient and freezer conditions.

The packs are initially being developed for frozen prawns and will soon be available across a range of Northcoast products, which are available through UK retailers.

Chloe Darwood, sales and procurement executive at Europarc-based Northcoast, said: “We were originally looking for a re-close pouch, but after hearing about Parkside’s reclose options, we were sold.

“We have been suitably impressed with Parkside’s solutions and the company’s expertise. The team worked closely with our co-packer to ensure the

new pack ran down existing packing lines, avoiding any extra costs in additional machines. At Northcoast Seafoods, we are excited to have developed the first reclosable pack developed for the freezer.”

The team in Normanton use laser scribe technology, and created the pack using a PET / PET laminate, which

LAISTER’S Last Word

BY DAVE LAISTER

Brent will be missed TODAY sees Business Telegraph carry what in all likelihood will be a final interview with Dong Energy UK chairman Brent Cheshire.

The retiring executive is swapping signing off investment on the Humber bank for casting off and river banks, and many a fine hour we wish him in his waders.

It has been an absolute privilege to have met him on several occasions, and the glint in his eye when he name-checks Grimsby, has grown increasingly obvious as the months and events have passed by.

He has led a business that is inwardly investing here on a level we have not seen for decades. It is one that is still unravelling, one we will see more of in the months and years to come, as the bigger wind farms arrive.

Just like those who do and have worked operationally in the town, he speaks positively, passionately, and delivers on those words.

He fully endorsed the Telegraph’s decision to award Danish consul Kurt Christensen with a lifetime achievement award when he was a

LEGACY LEFT: Brent Cheshire. guest of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce at the 2016 Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards, and delighted in making the big announcements that really mattered too.

Having now been introduced to his successor, Matthew Wright, I’m convinced he too understands the importance of leading from the front, embracing the community and pouncing on the positives.

Caps lock is no barrier to poetry as cricket capitalises on courtesy

LINE-UP: Kevin Gaskell, right, with Geoff Burch, Andy Dixon and Dan Riley. Who Google’s representative will be has yet to be confirmed. brought to North East Lincolnshire’s business community with a digital expert to present.

The representative will offer an insight from the world’s leading search engine, allowing delegates to find out what is needed to gain a competitive advantage in the ever-changing digital landscape.

Alice Mansergh, director of Google Marketing Solutions for UK and Ireland, said: “Google’s products and Digital Garage training are a growth engine for people and businesses up and down the country. So if you live in

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Paul Lenihan, business development manager at Parkside, said: “The growing urbanisation and fast-paced lifestyle of consumers in the UK means less time is available for cooking a traditional home cooked meal and an increase in convenience foods including frozen products.

“Frozen foods can be stored for longer periods and can be prepared easily. Our new pack provides consumers with a re-close feature allowing them to easily open the packaging time and time again, with no compromise on the function of the pack.”

He added that within the frozen food market segment, the continuous innovation and development of packaging continues to attract new customers.

“We are seeing further development of new features for existing products, such as hanging holes and single serve options. Parkside is focused on continuously developing strong market insight, with the consumer front of mind, to deliver innovative and relevant solutions to our customers.”

REGARDLESS of what the teams serve up on the pitch, when the sun is shining there is no such thing as a bad day at the test.

It was a fact perfectly illustrated on Sunday, as we watched South Africa deliver a lesson in attrition and discipline. It was harsh, but it was fair.

The ‘only attack the easy ball’ policy evidenced in the first two sessions perhaps also allowed us to take in a rather splendid message that may otherwise have been overlooked had it been a run-fest or epic collapse.

For hidden on the rear of the day’s ticket stub, was a message

of Shakespearean quality.

“Whilst imbibing the splendour of the day’s play, please behave courteously towards your fellow spectators”. Beautiful.

It could have been penned by Blo’ers himself. Has a more beautiful sentence ever been constructed as a crowd safety warning in capitals? I doubt it.

I’d say it trumped whatever direction was given at Wimbledon and Silverstone, though those with such tickets were somewhat more scintillated.

Staying with the cricket, and look out for viral campaign, wristbands and the like

for #runforjoseph, coming to an English summer soon. One of our convivial party was clocking up his sixth or seventh day at a test, and, until 6.14pm on Sunday, had yet to see England bat.

Oh how he high-fived when the first ‘run’, quickly signalled a leg bye, came somewhere around 6.28pm. Not off the bat, so not counted by our all fielded-out friend.

Alas, close of play came without Cook or Jennings troubling the scorers. “At least I’ve not seen us lose a wicket,” he offered positively. At least he wasn’t there on Saturday or Monday.

Washing dirty linen with one’s public I’M disgusting, my washing machine is in the kitchen!

Kirstie Alsopp’s random venting of anger over white goods placement seemed to cause something of a stir this past month, light-hearted or not.

A three-bed semi doesn’t really offer many alternatives, and as for the plumbing... well.

Upstairs seemed to be her take, nearer the clothes.

Great, until it comes to fitting, leaks, oh, and being nearer the washing line. So much for being in touch with her audience.

Personally, I just hope I don’t offend the real star of our television, Mr Tumble, by keeping him in the garage.