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Skills from steel piece could Offices are final thrive in empire offshorepuzzle wind of potato by Dave Laister Business Editor
by Dave Laister
dave.laister@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk Business Editor dave.laister@gsmg.co.uk MERGING offshore training giant AIS has vowed to work with the steel early £3-million has been sector and wider invested intothe making community to ensure northern northern Lincolnshire a Lincolcentral nshire’shub work force is for the needs for of opportunities ofready some the UK’s blowing biggest this way. potato sellers.
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A £4 million investment in a the Elsham Wold has just become training village atfor HCF Catch is new headquarters AKP Group, rampingtoup, with the next 12 supplier supermarket giant months toand see major a transformative Morrisons chip expansion of the Stallingborough manufacturer McCain. base to incorporate vital sea A state-of-the-art office block, survival skills. temperature controlled potato Land facility alongside 10-year-old storage andthe grading line, facility is being purchased together with extensions to to enable world class award-winning existing handling areas have just facilities at North Shields been completed, with the to be replicated.firm headed by Richard 13-year-old David moving Bowyer,the director Arundel wholeof training and education AIS, is administration back intoatthe area excited by the prospects for the from York. area, andofitGrimsby is not just training to The son town centre be mirrored, but themarkets approach to a and Freeman Street beleagured industry too. grocer Davidexisting Arundel, who also Heto said: “It aispotato about merchant trying to to used act as raise awareness the shops, the area’s fish andinchip community, around the joined forces with Suffolk opportunities the energy sector businessman Bruce Kerr in 1999. can In wind, we’ve seen Theoffer. former KP potato storage Round One and Two, and the facility which has now been real potential of Round Three, and substantially developed, was there’s oil as well. It is acquired in and 2007,gas when a project something weskin need, and people began to grow finished need educating. potatoes on the Isle of Axholme. “There is a to need forwe people who “We wanted show could want tothe start to construct their produce required quality career,that so they are ready when locally supermarkets were the big boys in and create the buying in come from Herefordshire, jobs, andorwe are importing,” available forhe Scotland even companies and individuals. said. “Morrisons backed us with it in Redcar, Tata and“We we look wentat toSSI Yorkshire Forward Steel in Scunthorope, (the scrapped regional and these types of backgrounds, the development agency) putting experience theyWe hold, and this together a plan. then tied the type ofchain training can got have a really supply up and the positive impact. funding.” “Weequated went to to the£700,000. SSI careers That Withfair in Middlesborough, and in talked Morrisons’ rapid growth the to people aboutthe their skills sets. retail world, business has been They arequickly, exactly and the right type of propelled working people we want.” L Harrison & with Eastoft-based funding available for for Co,With the infrastructure to allow
SKILL SETS SUIT: David Bowyer, Paul Stonebanks and Chris Holden in the completed first phase of AIS’s Stallingborough training centre. Below, reading about the requirements at AIS’s North Shields HQ.
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 There is still a lot stricken costs. workers through local ofauthority potential,schemes it will help andthe private environmental footprintthe and this redundancy packages, part of the case worldishas theDemand ability to financial there. grow the best potatoes in will some followofsoon too, with the likes the that is what weInnogy are of country, Dong Energy and RWE majoring on.” requiring hundreds of permanent employees before the decade A total of 44 people are now is out
following a commitment to employed, handling tonnes offshore wind from120,000 Government ofthis potatoes a year. Of that, 35,000 past month. tonnes are self-grown, withAIS a 12 Mr Bowyer, who joined growing in this region and a monthsgroup ago, said: “We have had around another site for in Suffolk, fantastic response what we contributing have createdthe in balance. North Shields, and Recently 15 employees it is exactly the type of were thing we added, threein graduate are towith replicate Grimsby now. trainees also of the There is no part reason whycompany, we cannot specialising in growing, logistics work with Tata there and create a and technical elements, really positive story. including agronomy . The remaining “We will be able to offer the full investment has seen a fleet of six package, everything, and the real Mercedes rigs brought in toofdeliver strength of Catch is some its the potatoes to customers, with the partners. primary routewe Morrisons’ packing “We know can provide a operations near Harrogate. course and a service, equally as Keen tocertified cultivaterefreshers. a prosperous well as This future forprogramme Lincolnshire potato type of is for the local farmers, the 32,000sq storage to community, and it isftimportant get theand region us. storey If we can facility 4,000behind sq ft two support the successful office development – which drew employment into the energy inspiration from Genesis Office
sector, it releases that potential.” Launched in 2007, 2,000 people have found jobs after passing through theTRANSFORMATION doors of the £10 COMPLETE: Richard million training village that has Arundel, been built up in thatmanaging period. And director of potato that career ladder is as important processor AKP.doors to as being able to open the Picture: Jon Corken the blue chip operators. “The results of this industry emerging will be very tangible in places like Grimsby, where it is right on the doorstep. “We are fortunate that we have a cracking relationship with all partners. We hope in the next 12 months we will be providing the delegate accommodation and full survival experience, as well as the working at height and lifting facilities that are already in place.” AIS is a holder of the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, having received the honour just weeks before Grimsby MP Melanie Onn cut the ribbon at Kiln Lane. As Business Telegraph paid a visit to North Shields, managing director Paul Stonebanks was being honoured by the British Chambers of Commerce. “We have grown over the last seven years 100 per cent year-on-year,” said Mr Bowyer. “The 12 months has seen us Park onlast Grimsby’s flagship double the size of the workforce. Europarc development, will be We haveopened expanded to Aberdeen officially thisinweek by and Grimsby, there is a lot to Agriculture and Horticulture shout about. Development Board chairman “We pride ourselves on a John Godfrey CBE, himself recruiting and retaining North Lincolnshire farmer.great staffArundel and theadded: feedback we receive Mr “We’re is outstanding. Our goal isthe to looking forward to opening provide a world experience. new cold store andclass grading facility “We talk about training, we read – the uncharacteristic weather about it, but unless youus a conditions have brought experienceyear, it fully, know challenging butyou the don’t opening if you intofor a pool or event is can justjump rewards everyone’s climb a ladder,” Mr Bowyer hard work. added. “We openlywill encourage “The new facility not only people and have aof look enable ustotocome meetin the demand around, as that could be our biggest customers, butthe we’ve starting point.” improved the also successfully ● In at the deep end: quality and freshness of Our our man ‘enjoys’by the offshore survival potatoes reducing experience, seehandling pages six and transportation, and using seve n. cold store technologies.” the latest
SPEAKERS: Sir Roger Carr, left, and Gavin Esler.
Top table is set for CBI Tata Taskdinner Force:
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. TheTata CBITask Yorkshire Humber Annual Dinner to THE Forceand is offering help and support takes placelikely at Leeds onthe October 10. companies to beUniversity affected by upcoming It will be oneplate of the first events closure of the mill and coke with ovenJohn at Fitzgerald, port director for Grimsby and Scunthorpe’s steelworks. Immingham, as chairman of the region. Advice on accessing assistance, including Mr Eslerfinancial is an award-winning television and radio potential aid, is available to supply chain broadcaster,through novelistNorth and journalist. contributors Lincolnshire Council’s His latest book, due to hit the shelves next month, business team. focuses that cantobeensure gleaned Details on arelessons being finalised thatfrom the right leaders in how stories, and will be the help is there to they allowtell businesses to retain subject of his employees andspeech find to the area’s business bosses, and their new workguests. if contracts For been morelost information about the dinner, which is have or frequently re duced. well represented by the South Bank and features drinks reception within Parkinson Court, It couldabe through home to theaid famous Marks & Spencer archive and investment, art gallery, new e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or identifying market visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com opportunities or retraining staff. Councillor Liz Redfern, pictured, A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the leader of North region this last quarter has seen the total funds Lincolnshire Council issued by of Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million. and chair Tata Task The money, available to firms in northern Force, said: “We are Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked providing support for investmentswho – ranging employees work from £15,000 to £2-million – is there to help and medium sized businesses at Tata Steel as small well as meet their growth and development requirements. employees who work figure amounts forThe companies linked to 224 investments in 183 smallTata andSteel medium with that sized enterprises since August 2010,also leading to more than 4,600 jobs created and may be affected safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, by the upcoming cthe losventure ures. capital and loan fund completed 30 investments morefor than £4.3people million. “It is a very totalling difficult time many and we Alex chief executive of Finance aim to McWhirter, do all we can to help, whether that is Yorkshire, said: “We are looking forward to building signposting them to job vacancies or helping with on theseopportunities. figures and helping training Please more get incompanies touch with us if achieve growth in the coming months. you need any support or advice.” “Wemore urge information establishedcall and01724 early stage companies For 297330 or email touscontinue b inessinfoto @nspeak orthlinto csus .goto v.usee k. if Finance Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into a reality.” Individuals who may already be affected, can also Supported by the session European Union, has attracted attend an overview that givesitinformation £30-million from the European Regional on getting ainvestment new job, writing a CV, accessing Development Fund, £15-million fromand Yorkshire benefits and training, money advice Forward’s Single Programme, and £45-million match pre-retirement advice. funding from the European Investment Bank. For more information call 01724 404080. For information visit www.finance-yorkshire.com
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