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BUSINESS
TOP HR TEAM
The Belfry Hotel & Resort has been nominated for three prestigious HR accolades. The Caterer.com People Awards recognised the Belfry in the HR Team category for excellence in staff recruitment, retention and development. Meanwhile, in the HR in Hospitality Awards for Excellence, the resort was nominated for Excellence in Talent Attraction and HR Team of the Year. Belfry HR director Hazel O’Brien said: “The team works extremely hard to ensure the resort is an inspirational place to work.”
JEWELLERY SCHOOL HEAD HONOURED The head of Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery has been recognised for his services to education with an award to become a Freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Prof Stephen Bottomley will officially receive the honour at a special event at London Guildhall later this year. His academic career spans more than 25 years and includes delivering workshops in South Korea and America.
BIG PLANS BREWING
DIVISION WINNERS
Midlands-based MyPubGroup Ltd – one of the country’s leading companies specialising in helping the pub and hospitality trade to solve recruitment problems – has appointed a non-executive chairman to lead ambitious expansion plans. Paul Clarke, pictured, will be responsible for delivering the growth plans over the next three years through subsidiary brands FindMyPub.com, RecruitForMyPub.com, RunningMyPub.com and FindMyPubJobs.com.
A fast-growing Birmingham-based construction company is to develop two new divisions to the business. Housebuilding and Office Fit Out and Interiors will become part of the Colmore Tang Construction Group of companies, which is responsible for many of the newest apartment developments in the Midlands and North West. Launched in 2014 for a one-off build of the 253-bed Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham, Colmore Tang has gone on to complete more GROWING: Colmore Tang’s Neil Walters, Andy Robinson and Neil Martin than 1,000 residential units.
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