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SPEAKERS: Sir Roger Carr, left, and Gavin Esler.

TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE: Richard Arundel, managing director of potato processor AKP. Picture: Jon Corken

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IVE years from now nearly 4,000 £3-million people has willbeen be early employed into in Grimsby’s invested making rapidly emerging offshore northern Lincolnshire a wind central industry in hub –for purely the needs ofoperations some ofand themaintenance.

UK’s biggest That sellers. is the belief of a Danish potato sector organisation, working Elsham Wold has just become the together with the for turbine new headquarters AKP Group, manufacturers and farmgiant supplier to supermarket developersand to ensure the support Morrisons major chip network is in McCain. place onshore. manufacturer supply chain event in AAstate-of-the-art officeheld block, North East Lincolnshire this past temperature controlled potato month facility heard how final stages storage andthe grading line, of formalising a specific to together with extensions partnership are coming together, existing handling areas have just bridging the North been completed, withSea thefor expertise and 13-year-old firmaccess. headed by Richard When moving taken inthe context Arundel wholewith the manufacturingback might offered by administration into the area AbleYork.

Marine Energy Park and from Green Port Hull, thentown the golden The son of Grimsby centre 10,000 jobs vision in touching and Freeman Streetismarkets distanDavid ce. grocer Arundel, who also And comes at a crucial time,to used to it act as a potato merchant with 250 jobs be lost in the the area’s fish set andtochip shops, traditional Bank process joined forcesSouth with Suffolk industry, with mitigating businessman Bruce Kerr insteps 1999. even being taken to train up those The former KP potato storage affected in skills facility which has required now beenby the area’s renewable revolution. substantially developed, was Looking the when current position, acquired inat 2007, a project with Centrica’s Lynn, Inner began to grow skin finished Dowsingonand potatoes theLincs Isle ofallAxholme. operational, Energy’s “We wanted Dong to show we could Westermost Rough and E.on’s produce the required quality Humber Gateway both under locally that supermarkets were construction of Grimsby, Hans buying in fromout Herefordshire, Pedersen, Offshoreenergy Scotland orof even importing,” he Denmark, said: “There said.

“Morrisons backedare us with it already 195 direct jobs inForward Grimsby. and we went to Yorkshire When we look at the further two (the scrapped regional wind farms under construction, development agency) putting that is another 120.then Thentied there together a plan. We theare the others. are a further supply chainThere up and got the 3,400 jobs in total to come, which funding.” makes 3,700 jobs in the Grimsby That equated to £700,000.

With area by 2020.

Morrisons’ rapid growth in the “There is huge potential forbeen this retail world, the business has area, butquickly, also a need a lot of propelled and for working skills and companies to employ with Eastoft-based L Harrison & these so itto isallow quite for a Co, theemployees, infrastructure

Top table is set for CBIKnoll dinner Triton stake bought

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 OFFSHORE WIND: energy giant gatherings later this Norwegian year.

The CBIhas Yorkshire Humber AnnualinDinner Statkraft taken aand 50 per cent stake TritonKnoll takes place at Leeds Offshore Wind Farm. University on October 10.

It willpartnership be one of the first secures events with John The further a potential Fitzgerald, port director and coast, with £4 billion investment off for theGrimsby Lincolnshire Immingham, chairman region. and long the potential as of 1,900 jobsof in the construction Mr Esler is an award-winning television and radio term maintenance of the 900MW project. broadcaster, novelist and journalist.

Welcoming the new Energy Secretary His latest book, due partnership, to hit the shelves next month, Ed Daveyonsaid: “Thisthat is another of confidence focuses lessons can be vote gleaned from in the world’s number one offshore wind market leaders in how they tell stories, and will be the which isofcontinuing to to attract investors from all over subject his speech the area’s business bosses, the world, creating thousands of green jobs in the and their guests.

For pro cemore ss. information about the dinner, which is frequently represented the SouthinBank andfor “We havewell created the rightby conditions the UK features a drinks within Parkinson Court, the offshore windreception industry to flourish and have home to the famous Marksworth & Spencer archive and attracted around £7 billion of offshore wind art gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or investment since 2010.” visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com Triton Knoll received a Development Consent Order for the offshore turbine array from Mr Davey in July 2013 and an application for consent for the electrical system is currently being prepared.

A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the region quarter has seen the total funds Oncethis the last project is constructed, it could provide issued Finance to Yorkshire to £23-million. enoughby electricity meet theclimb energy needs of up to The money, available to firms in northern 800,000 homes.

Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked ● Turn to page five. investments – ranging from £15,000 to £2-million – is there to help small and medium sized businesses meet their growth and development requirements.

The figure amounts to 224 investments in 183 small and medium sized enterprises since August 2010, leadingNew to more than 4,600 jobs created SEAFOOD: standards underpinning the and safeguarded in the region.

In Scheme the last quarter alone, Seafish Responsible Fishing (RFS) have the venture capital signed and loan fund completed 30 been unanimously off. investments totallingthe more thanof£4.3 million. to The move widens scope the scheme Alex McWhirter, chief executive of Finance include social responsibility requirements.

Yorkshire, said: “We are looking RFS, which was developed by forward to building on these figures and helping more Grimsby-headquartered Seafish in companies 2006, has been achieve growth the coming months. fully updated toin improve its ability to meet the “We urge established and early stage increasing need for the seafood supply companies chain to to continue to speakpractice to us toand seetraceability if Finance from ensure responsible Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into a reality.” sea to plate.

Supported the European it five has core attracted The revisedby scheme will nowUnion, include £30-million investment European Regional principles: safety, healthfrom andthe welfare; training and Development Fund, £15-million from Yorkshire professional development; the vessel and its Forward’s Single Programme, andcare £45-million mission; treating fish as food and for the match funding from environm ent. the European Investment Bank. information visit www.finance-yorkshire.com ●For Turn to page nine.

£20m milestone passed FILL YER BOATS: Wind farm maintenance engineer for Centrica Energy, Roy Ford, used as a case study for trade body Renewable UK, at North Quay, Grimsby. Danish firms will play a key part in creating hundreds of these jobs in the comingincreases years.

Jon Corken flagship further has now been put employed, handling 120,000 tonnes Park on Grimsby’sPicture: inbig place. development, of will be potatoes a year.

Of that, plan 35,000we Europarc bit of business we are heading ofwas part of a “three-step with a circumference 125km, tonnes are self-grown, with a the officially opened this week by “We fo r.” have taken two years to get have developed together with with the centre in Grimsby, Agriculture and Horticulture and group in this region and to this,” said Mr Arundel. “We got growing big suppliers, Dong Energy, look at how Board many turbines are

by Teamfor Humber Development chairman around another site in Suffolk, theHosted grant funding storageMarine and Siemens, E.on, Alliance and supported byand installed in this area, and how John Godfrey CBE, himself a contributing the Vattenfall balance. etc,” grading operations in 2009, with the other elements skills and North Grimsby Renewables Partnership manyLincolnshire more are to come, it is huge. farmer. built the storage throughout 2010, Recently products 15 or employees services. were Worldfor Trade Hull “We have identified the toand be open that Centre harvest.

We & Mr Arundel added: “We’re added, with three graduate Humber, the North Offshore Explaining whyofthe and looking Grimsby-area hub for have had potatoes in Sea from 2010 and trainees forwardas to the opening thethe also part theHumber, company, Services Group, Offshoreenergy specificallyin Grimsby, helogistics said: “We new 2011, and the whole project has North Weand have established a coldSea. store grading facility specialising growing, Denmark and the Danish Wind have investigated where in the been finished with the offices just – the uncharacteristic weather and technical elements, including contact and are identifying Industry Association, visited Able agronomy UK, and .found, together with UK conditions now. haveservices. brought We us aare in The remaining products and Marine Energy of Trade andhas Investment, where to challenging but the opening investment seen a fleet of six “Our desire is toPark, havePort more the middleyear, of identifying local Grimsby Eastproducers and the Catch go. We talked to Dong,in Vestas and event is just rewards for everyone’s Mercedes rigs brought to deliver quality potato local to suppliers and stakeholders, and training Siemens, when they go to the work. the potatoesand to customers, with the hard this site. Itfacility would at cut down on that’s why we are here.”

Stallingborough, where confined Humberroute area,Morrisons’ then it is natural primary packing transport costs. There is still a lot “The new facility willcompanies) not only “They (the tier one training as well that all the sub-contractors operations near Harrogate. follow. enable ofspace potential, it will help as thea mock us to meet demand of have asked us tothe do this to make tower are nowfootprint part of the offer, T hat’s why we are here. environmental and this our biggest customers, but we’ve Keen to cultivate a prosperous sure the right companies and ahead of a match-making event for “It is the right place to service part of the world has the ability to future for Lincolnshire potato also successfully improved the right skills are here, of that Humber-area businesses and in the North Thereft is a really grow some of the best potatoes quality and freshness our farmers, theSea. 32,000sq storage everything is ready for when they Danish counterparts at Oaklands the country, that is what we are huge amount of sq existing potatoes by reducing facility and 4,000 ft two and storey need it.”

Hall Hotel, Laceby . majoring on.” planned projects, a– huge transportation, handling and using office development whichamount drew Pedersen told how the visit of turbines.

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ORE than half a million pounds of investment is being channelled into the northern Lincolnshire plants of LKAB as it seeks to produce greener minerals while finding new uses for them.

Having spent 27 years with Saint-Gobain, Mr Wilson is relishing the new, global challenge from his Flixborough office.

He said: “We process minerals in China, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, and have distribution in Germany, the US and we’re looking at South Africa. I The Swedish-owned giant, am used to grinding rocks formerly known as Minelco, into powder, but not on a has vast sites at scale so varied as we have Flixborough and Bagmoor, in the group! to the north and west of “There are massive Scunthorpe. opportunities in working in And major strides are more areas globally, not all being taken to work on as individual entities doing reclamation and innovation, their own thing.” with intensive users from Looking at the ‘home the steel, cement and oil patch’, he said: “The UK is a industries. really important part of the Darren Wilson, UK whole minerals business managing director and and there is a lot going on group chief operating here. There are exciting officer, is just completing a opportunities in terms of year at the helm, having volume, we have very taken over from Bob ambitious growth plans, Boulton, who oversaw a we’re hoping to increase dramatic increase in sales by 80 per cent in the processing capacity, thanks next few years. A lot of that in part to the Regional expansion is on North Growth Fund.

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NEW PLANT: The £2.8 million production and storage facility was opened by LKAB, then known as Minelco on the Flixborough Industrial Estate , back in October 2012. Here, the first bags are taken off the production line. Below, Darren Wilson. but we do export a lot of our minerals.”

Phase two of the site expansion at Flixborough completed in February last year, and all gone very well, according to Mr Wilson.

He is enthused about the works with the heat intensive operators, such as the steel and cement works, where LKAB supplies linings.

“An exciting period in the refractory business is with reclaim, finding a sustainable sourcing position is one of our biggest opportunities,” he said.

“In the UK business we have seen pleasing signs in manufacturing, but it is not going to double, it is a fairly mature market. There remain opportunities here, with potential of reclaim refractory product.

“We have invested heavily in plant and equipment to scale up.”

Teams are sent on to the steel plants to reclaim materials from the linings, which are regularly replaced. It is sorted at a plant in Sheffield, then brought back to Bagmoor for processing.

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conducted with electro-magnetic equipment to eliminate wood and paper.

“We end up with a near-virgin material. It has a cost benefit, then there is the benefit to customers, avoiding landfill, and the green credentials the new material offers. We are reducing the dependency on new product. Recycling is something that has grown in all areas in the past 20 years, and one of the things that we are looking to do is be more sophisticated around it. It offers great credentials for end customers and for what we do. We are adding lots of value all the way through,” With 30 different minerals in the portfolio, core sales include magnatide for offshore foundations, a growth industry the Humber is well aware of – with Grimsby the port handling the imports – as well as huntite, a flame-retardant mineral that turns to water and Co2 when heated, used to protect cable.

“They are the core products we are looking to invest in and grow,” said Mr Wilson.

Bagmoor is also being used as a knowledge base for a replica plant in the Netherlands.

“LKAB is built on great values. There is lots of ambition and lots of potential. It is a good business, a profitable business, but there is so much more that can be done.”

This includes a further £300,000 on a plant to process shells – a calcium carbonate – to be used as a layering to plug drill holes in the sea-bed that can be re-opened with a chemical application. It is in early stages, but hopes are high in LKAB, with a team of 70 working in North Lincolnshire.

Of the name change, Mr Wilson said: “We can associate ourselves more with the professionalism, and LKAB also gets a better name. Unless you are in the steel industry it may not mean much.”

With a background in lean and world-class manufacturing, he is impressed with the logistics expertise in the business, and the process knowledge.

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Month in Review

Legal challenge dropped into marine energy park PORTS: Associated British Ports has withdrawn its legal challenge over the Government’s granting of a Development Consent Order for the £450 million Able Marine Energy Park.

It followed a High Court judge’s decision to refuse an application for a judicial review into the process.

Environmental commitments mean work cannot start on the quay until next summer, but Able UK expects to be in a position to welcome vessels in 2018, creating the first of an estimated 4,000 jobs on the way.

ACQUISITION: Seal Sands biodiesel plant, on Teesside, bought by Greenergy. Inset, founder and chief executive, Andrew Owens.

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XPERTISE honed in Immingham is to be put to good use in the North East after refinery operator Greenergy acquired a further biodiesel manufacturing facility.

The Harvest Biofuels plant at Seal Sands, Teesside, has been taken on, bringing additional production capacity to the company as it seeks to meet biofuel blending obligations under the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.

Market growth means the huge plant at West Riverside on Port of Immingham cannot cover the UK’s requirements, with imports having to be relied upon.

Seal Sands being added to the portfolio, as another waste oil to biodiesel producer, will see the reliance on imports fall.

Andrew Owens, Greenergy’s chief executive, said: “The acquisition of the Harvest biodiesel plant will help bring our own production and blend requirements into balance. Most of

the biodiesel that we blend into diesel in the UK will now be manufactured and quality assured in our own facilities.”

As part of the undisclosed deal, Greenergy has taken on Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel storage contract at Dordrecht in the Netherlands, with Harvest Energy becoming a customer of Greenergy for petrol and diesel for its customers in the South East of England, Teesside and in Scotland.

Looking at the implications for the team at Immingham, which last year underwent a huge recovery operation following the devastating tidal surge of December 2013, Mr Owens added: “Our Immingham biodiesel manufacturing site is already world class, delivering unique production efficiencies and the highest standards of product quality.

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As reported in Business Telegraph last summer, Greenergy used the down time caused by the flooding to make further investment to drive even greater efficiencies. Yields of up to 98 per cent are now being recorded at the eight-year-old site, where 200,000

tonnes of used cooking oil can be refined annually, ready for blending. December’s tidal surge wiped out the controls at the plant, where more than £60 million has been spent since it was initially brought forward in 2005.

Originally built to refine rape seed, it switched to cooking oils in 2009.

Hilton for Humberside LEISURE: Hilton Worldwide has reached an agreement with Nightel Ltd to bring the mid-market Hampton by Hilton brand to Humberside Airport.

Operating under a franchise agreement, the 103-room hotel is expected to open in mid-2016.

It was recently granted planning permission and is being developed in conjunction with North Lincolnshire Council, which is supporting the £7 million project with a Regional Growth Fund grant. Nightel already operates a contractor-focused modular hotel at the Kirmington site.

70 jobs at risk at Cristal

EXPERTISE: The team working on the Greenergy plant at Immingham.

CHEMICALS: A major restructure is underway at a South Bank industrial giant as it faces up to weakened demand for its product.

Cristal, the Saudi Arabian-owned titanium dioxide manufacturer, is in talks to reduce the head count at the sprawling Stallingborough plant by around 70, with compulsory redundancies looking inevitable.

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Industry-leading safety is being developed with expertise in town

HOW DID THEY MISS IT? Opened in 2012, ultra-modern in design, yet Channel Four’s Skint failed to show Centrica Energy’s Grimsby operations and maintenance base, despite extensive shots of selected dock sites. Inset, the control room, housed within the orange section.

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AFETY out at sea on offshore installations is a major new project, christened Boy Scout, and being worked on by Centrica Energy, together with HFR Solutions.

The latter is the community interest company set up by Humberside Fire and Rescue, using the expertise harnessed the emergency service for the good of the private sector.

Jeremy Gilmour said: “It is a massive project and industry leading. We are looking at how do you rescue people and how you make sure everyone is safe.

One of the problems if you are out there and have a serious accident, is what happens then.

“There is no ambulance out there, no fire service, no way of getting straight to hospital. We are looking at the whole ting, about how we work out there.

“We are looking at something industry-leading, and I think the rest of the industry will follow us once we have completed it.”

Stuart Axcell is seconded from HFR to the Centrica site at North Quay.

He said: “Centrica is clearly a large company in the wind farm industry, and they have looked at the emergency response and believe improvements can be

All the talk this month may have been of the welcome path being cleared for Able Marine Energy Park to finally be built out, but members of Grimsby Renewables Partnership heard a tale built on seven years of experience already clocked up.

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RIMSBY’S workforce defies the Skint image, a key benefactor at Centrica Energy’s offshore wind energy operations base has told.

Jeremy Gilmour, offshore logistics manager for the town team, has also revealed how industry-leading safety techniques are being developed in the Humber.

Centrica was the first of the blue chip businesses to settle in Grimsby, with the distinctive blue, silver and orange base a £3 million early commitment to Port of Grimsby East.

And it is the orange control room that is the responsibility of Mr Gilmour.

From there, with colleagues, he manages the amount of electricity

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produced from the turbines for the grid, as well as the safety of the turbines, and the movements of the marine craft.

Together with the offshore crew, and the facilities team, those managing the building, the stores and the quayside, they are part of a 70-strong team that brought reality to the green dream harboured by those passionate about the place.

And it was the legacy of a lost industry, fishing, that has made it happen, with the port and transport links the basis for location decision-making.

“Why Grimsby? The dock facilities were already established, and have been since 1847, and it is emerging as the best location for maintenance of wind turbines,” Mr Gilmour said.

“The dream was to have Skegness for some reason, but there was no particular way we could work it, so the next best place after that was Grimsby. The turbines are only five miles from Skegness but they don’t have proper docks and there was no way it was practical – even with landing craft as with the surf it could have been very dangerous – so Grimsby was the ideal place.

“It takes 90 minutes to sail, so that is three hours a day where we don’t get any work from technicians, but it is still a good amount of time, it is a good return. We also have good transport links around the country, and despite what Skint said, good local workers. The fishing industry has provided great boat skippers, there are real transferrable skills from running fishing boats to driving crew transfer vessels. Deck hands tend to be from the fishing industry, too.”

Plans were first unveiled in spring 2011, and the base was completed in summer 2012, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Energy Secretary Ed Davey visiting a year later to officially open Centrica’s third wind farm off the Lincolnshire coast, Lincs, adding to Lynn and Inner Dowsing.

First mooted in February 2002, then a partnership between Renewable

Energy System (RES) and British Energy, Lynn and Inner Dowsing were consented in late 2003, and in 2007 a special pontoon, and modular building, was unveiled on Grimsby Fish Docks, the start of the offshore operations and maintenance industry as we now know it, first power was

The fishing industry has provided great boat skippers, there are real transferrable skills from running fishing boats to driving crew transfer vessels Jeremy Gilmour achieved in late 2008.

Since then Dong Energy and E.on have followed, with RES, the early stage pioneer, also planning a new build. RWE could be next as Triton Knoll takes shape.

Centrica has 75 turbines at Lincs, with 250MW capacity, then 54 at Lynn

and Inner Dowsing, with 180MW. Altogether that’s 129 turbines. The Lincs farm is 8.6 miles by 2.3 miles, with Lynn and Inner Dowsing covering 7.5 miles by 2 miles.

The Siemens turbines have a 100m rotor diameter. “That’s the same as the London Eye – imagine the London Eye on a tower, that’s what they look like,” Mr Gilmour said.

He explained how a lot of project planning takes place within the building, for both scheduled to reactive maintenance, as well as health and safety, procurement, documentation control and joint venture liaison.

“We are sat on the North Wall where we have the capability to berth around eight wind turbine vessels on our pontoon, side by side,” he said.

“We have eight boats, but tend to need 14 in the summer, and we are down to five in the winter period.

“During the winter period we are reaping the wind, while in the summer we are doing more of the maintenance, that’s because we have the dichotomy where we want to put wind turbines where there is wind, but can’t work on them when windy because the sea is too rough.

“There is no point planning projects in the winter, they tend to get planned around March/April time, that’s why sometimes we will have 14 boats,

ADDRESS: Jeremy Gilmour, left, with Roger Smith, Grimsby Renewables Partnership chairman, following his presentation on life with Centrica in Grimsby, at the monthly gathering at Humber Cruising Association, and a busy Port of Grimsby East. Left, Lincs offshore wind farm being serviced from Grimsby.

which can become a bit of a headache with our beloved partners Dong Energy and E.on during the summer.”

So why the concentration around the southern North Sea? It is a concentration that is seeing North East Lincolnshire transform from being the end of a 50-mile cul-de-sac to the entrance to up to 10 huge power stations.

“This is a very shallow patch of sea.

If you have shallow sea it is easier to get the monopiles in. That’s why Dogger Bank is looking to be a big future wind farm, and Hornsea project, too, all the Round Three stuff, with Norfolk as well.

“The last thing about Grimsby, is that a lot of wind is westerly, which is good for getting the turbines turning and still getting people out there as well.

“The mean wind speed is perfect, as you get enough time to go and maintain them, too, and it would be horrendous if it was windy all the time.

“At the moment we are talking about 129 turbines, but we are looking at thousands. 7,000 to 9,000 turbines coming to this area in the future.”

Touching on the local supply chain, Mr Gilmour was happy to illustrate, from Harris and Garrod, who “do a lot of engineering, they are superb,” to Peter Hogarth and Son for personal protection equipment, and Green Pastures for milk.

Other firms mentioned included Survitec, Dyas Electrical, Taylor’s Fruit, Simply Delicious, Complete Office Solutions, Deli-licious, 3Q Industrial Supplies, Amvale, Print & Copy Centre, Fabricom and Blackrow.

made to support the guys working on the wind farms. They have created a project, Boy Scout, and that is to look at all elements of emergency response and how it can be improved.

“We are running a collaboration with Centrica, acting as a training and safety division to support hem, with a number of work streams, from a dedicated response team, to working at height and breathing apparatus training.”

Looking at the wider picture,

Mr Axcell said: “It is quite an infant industry with great acceleration. A lot of industries are far more mature, and have added emergency response procedures over a long period of time. The wind industry is so young, it is still finding its feet, even from a regulatory point of view with the likes of Renewable UK and the Health and Safety Executive. There is a big move forward to improve emergency response and emergency provision. It is an exciting project.”

Danish mission accomplished

Statkraft’s Triton share with RWE confirmed continued from page one.

Jon Brandsar, executive vice president of Statkraft, said: “This is an important step for Statkraft in delivering on our strategy for offshore wind. Strong partnerships between experienced offshore wind players are crucial for a successful industry. This transaction establishes RWE and Statkraft as strong, long-term and complementary partners in delivering offshore wind in the UK”.

The development and construction phases will be delivered by a joint RWE/Statkraft project team, managed by Statkraft and, drawing upon the competencies of both companies.

Hans Bunting, chief executive of RWE Innogy, said: “Securing partners for projects such as Triton Knoll has been a key objective in our renewables strategy, and this latest successful partnership with Statkraft highlights the attractiveness of our developments and RWE’s continued commitment to offshore wind.

Statkraft is a very experienced and reliable partner and we are delighted to be working with them to successfully realise the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm together.”

Financial close for the project is anticipated to take place in 2017, with onshore construction also expected to commence in the same year.

Olav Hetland, Statkraft’s head of offshore wind, said: “The project itself is blessed with ideal characteristics for an offshore wind farm, including shallow waters, strong wind resource, and excellent ground conditions. In addition, it is in an area of seabed which Statkraft knows very well from its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind projects.”

It is hoped Grimsby will once again be the centre of engineering and operations and maintenance work, with the wider Humber offering manufacturing support.

RWE Innogy’s head of offshore wind projects, Richard Sandford, added: “This partnership is excellent news for the future of Triton Knoll. It underlines our commitment to this project and our intention to deliver the investment and job opportunities which should flow from the construction and operation of the wind farm. This partnership will not alter our existing commitments or previous arrangements around development of the site and we look forward to continuing our close working relationships with all local partners and stakeholders.”

Economic benefits have already begun to flow from the project with over £20 million already invested in the UK during the development process.

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen is calling

NORTH SEA UNITY: The delegation leaders, from left, Hans Pedersen, Kurt Christensen, Susanne Odgaard, offshore wind branding manager for the Danish Wind Association, Mark O'Reilly and Ian Archibald, World Trade Centre Hull and Humber. Picture: Jon Corken.

● Continued from page one.

A local network co-ordinator role is to be established as the organisations finalise the network collaboration, underlining the level of commitment.

Mark O’Reilly, director of Team Humber Marine Alliance, said: “This whole process is starting to ramp up. It is going to take a

few years to happen but the numbers Hans talks about are very sizeable.”

Kurt Christensen is managing director of Windpower Support, a Grimsby-based ships’ agency and logistics provider to the industry. He is also Honorary Danish Consul for the South Bank of the Humber, and was approached about the

opportunity for further collaborative working at international shows.

Delighted with the turnout, with more than 60 people attending, he said: “Companies coming over here as part of this are serious about investment and joint ventures, and both mean job creation in this area.”

GRIMSBY Renewables Partnership and Team Humber Marine Alliance will be mainstays of the Humber Renewables presence at the European Wind Energy Association Offshore 2015 exhibition next month.

It takes place in the Danish capital between March 10 and March 14.

The event is the world’s largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition, uniting the whole of the wind energy value chain under one roof.

Denmark is home to the world’s first ever commercial offshore wind farm and the second largest offshore wind market, behind Britain.

Within the Bella Center, Humber Renewables has stand C1-A9.

Five companies are currently joining the organisations, keen to benefit from the attendance of thousands of offshore wind energy professionals from Europe and beyond from manufacturers, developers, operations and maintenance, and logistics and installation backgrounds.

For more information contact Mary Green in the Team Humber Marine Alliance office on 01482 485271, or email marygreen@thma.co.uk

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Industry-leading safety is being developed with expertise in town

HOW DID THEY MISS IT? Opened in 2012, ultra-modern in design, yet Channel Four’s Skint failed to show Centrica Energy’s Grimsby operations and maintenance base, despite extensive shots of selected dock sites. Inset, the control room, housed within the orange section.

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AFETY out at sea on offshore installations is a major new project, christened Boy Scout, and being worked on by Centrica Energy, together with HFR Solutions.

The latter is the community interest company set up by Humberside Fire and Rescue, using the expertise harnessed the emergency service for the good of the private sector.

Jeremy Gilmour said: “It is a massive project and industry leading. We are looking at how do you rescue people and how you make sure everyone is safe.

One of the problems if you are out there and have a serious accident, is what happens then.

“There is no ambulance out there, no fire service, no way of getting straight to hospital. We are looking at the whole ting, about how we work out there.

“We are looking at something industry-leading, and I think the rest of the industry will follow us once we have completed it.”

Stuart Axcell is seconded from HFR to the Centrica site at North Quay.

He said: “Centrica is clearly a large company in the wind farm industry, and they have looked at the emergency response and believe improvements can be

All the talk this month may have been of the welcome path being cleared for Able Marine Energy Park to finally be built out, but members of Grimsby Renewables Partnership heard a tale built on seven years of experience already clocked up.

Business editor David Laister reports.

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RIMSBY’S workforce defies the Skint image, a key benefactor at Centrica Energy’s offshore wind energy operations base has told.

Jeremy Gilmour, offshore logistics manager for the town team, has also revealed how industry-leading safety techniques are being developed in the Humber.

Centrica was the first of the blue chip businesses to settle in Grimsby, with the distinctive blue, silver and orange base a £3 million early commitment to Port of Grimsby East.

And it is the orange control room that is the responsibility of Mr Gilmour.

From there, with colleagues, he manages the amount of electricity

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produced from the turbines for the grid, as well as the safety of the turbines, and the movements of the marine craft.

Together with the offshore crew, and the facilities team, those managing the building, the stores and the quayside, they are part of a 70-strong team that brought reality to the green dream harboured by those passionate about the place.

And it was the legacy of a lost industry, fishing, that has made it happen, with the port and transport links the basis for location decision-making.

“Why Grimsby? The dock facilities were already established, and have been since 1847, and it is emerging as the best location for maintenance of wind turbines,” Mr Gilmour said.

“The dream was to have Skegness for some reason, but there was no particular way we could work it, so the next best place after that was Grimsby. The turbines are only five miles from Skegness but they don’t have proper docks and there was no way it was practical – even with landing craft as with the surf it could have been very dangerous – so Grimsby was the ideal place.

“It takes 90 minutes to sail, so that is three hours a day where we don’t get any work from technicians, but it is still a good amount of time, it is a good return. We also have good transport links around the country, and despite what Skint said, good local workers. The fishing industry has provided great boat skippers, there are real transferrable skills from running fishing boats to driving crew transfer vessels. Deck hands tend to be from the fishing industry, too.”

Plans were first unveiled in spring 2011, and the base was completed in summer 2012, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Energy Secretary Ed Davey visiting a year later to officially open Centrica’s third wind farm off the Lincolnshire coast, Lincs, adding to Lynn and Inner Dowsing.

First mooted in February 2002, then a partnership between Renewable

Energy System (RES) and British Energy, Lynn and Inner Dowsing were consented in late 2003, and in 2007 a special pontoon, and modular building, was unveiled on Grimsby Fish Docks, the start of the offshore operations and maintenance industry as we now know it, first power was

The fishing industry has provided great boat skippers, there are real transferrable skills from running fishing boats to driving crew transfer vessels Jeremy Gilmour achieved in late 2008.

Since then Dong Energy and E.on have followed, with RES, the early stage pioneer, also planning a new build. RWE could be next as Triton Knoll takes shape.

Centrica has 75 turbines at Lincs, with 250MW capacity, then 54 at Lynn

and Inner Dowsing, with 180MW. Altogether that’s 129 turbines. The Lincs farm is 8.6 miles by 2.3 miles, with Lynn and Inner Dowsing covering 7.5 miles by 2 miles.

The Siemens turbines have a 100m rotor diameter. “That’s the same as the London Eye – imagine the London Eye on a tower, that’s what they look like,” Mr Gilmour said.

He explained how a lot of project planning takes place within the building, for both scheduled to reactive maintenance, as well as health and safety, procurement, documentation control and joint venture liaison.

“We are sat on the North Wall where we have the capability to berth around eight wind turbine vessels on our pontoon, side by side,” he said.

“We have eight boats, but tend to need 14 in the summer, and we are down to five in the winter period.

“During the winter period we are reaping the wind, while in the summer we are doing more of the maintenance, that’s because we have the dichotomy where we want to put wind turbines where there is wind, but can’t work on them when windy because the sea is too rough.

“There is no point planning projects in the winter, they tend to get planned around March/April time, that’s why sometimes we will have 14 boats,

ADDRESS: Jeremy Gilmour, left, with Roger Smith, Grimsby Renewables Partnership chairman, following his presentation on life with Centrica in Grimsby, at the monthly gathering at Humber Cruising Association, and a busy Port of Grimsby East. Left, Lincs offshore wind farm being serviced from Grimsby.

which can become a bit of a headache with our beloved partners Dong Energy and E.on during the summer.”

So why the concentration around the southern North Sea? It is a concentration that is seeing North East Lincolnshire transform from being the end of a 50-mile cul-de-sac to the entrance to up to 10 huge power stations.

“This is a very shallow patch of sea.

If you have shallow sea it is easier to get the monopiles in. That’s why Dogger Bank is looking to be a big future wind farm, and Hornsea project, too, all the Round Three stuff, with Norfolk as well.

“The last thing about Grimsby, is that a lot of wind is westerly, which is good for getting the turbines turning and still getting people out there as well.

“The mean wind speed is perfect, as you get enough time to go and maintain them, too, and it would be horrendous if it was windy all the time.

“At the moment we are talking about 129 turbines, but we are looking at thousands. 7,000 to 9,000 turbines coming to this area in the future.”

Touching on the local supply chain, Mr Gilmour was happy to illustrate, from Harris and Garrod, who “do a lot of engineering, they are superb,” to Peter Hogarth and Son for personal protection equipment, and Green Pastures for milk.

Other firms mentioned included Survitec, Dyas Electrical, Taylor’s Fruit, Simply Delicious, Complete Office Solutions, Deli-licious, 3Q Industrial Supplies, Amvale, Print & Copy Centre, Fabricom and Blackrow.

made to support the guys working on the wind farms. They have created a project, Boy Scout, and that is to look at all elements of emergency response and how it can be improved.

“We are running a collaboration with Centrica, acting as a training and safety division to support hem, with a number of work streams, from a dedicated response team, to working at height and breathing apparatus training.”

Looking at the wider picture,

Mr Axcell said: “It is quite an infant industry with great acceleration. A lot of industries are far more mature, and have added emergency response procedures over a long period of time. The wind industry is so young, it is still finding its feet, even from a regulatory point of view with the likes of Renewable UK and the Health and Safety Executive. There is a big move forward to improve emergency response and emergency provision. It is an exciting project.”

Danish mission accomplished

Statkraft’s Triton share with RWE confirmed continued from page one.

Jon Brandsar, executive vice president of Statkraft, said: “This is an important step for Statkraft in delivering on our strategy for offshore wind. Strong partnerships between experienced offshore wind players are crucial for a successful industry. This transaction establishes RWE and Statkraft as strong, long-term and complementary partners in delivering offshore wind in the UK”.

The development and construction phases will be delivered by a joint RWE/Statkraft project team, managed by Statkraft and, drawing upon the competencies of both companies.

Hans Bunting, chief executive of RWE Innogy, said: “Securing partners for projects such as Triton Knoll has been a key objective in our renewables strategy, and this latest successful partnership with Statkraft highlights the attractiveness of our developments and RWE’s continued commitment to offshore wind.

Statkraft is a very experienced and reliable partner and we are delighted to be working with them to successfully realise the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm together.”

Financial close for the project is anticipated to take place in 2017, with onshore construction also expected to commence in the same year.

Olav Hetland, Statkraft’s head of offshore wind, said: “The project itself is blessed with ideal characteristics for an offshore wind farm, including shallow waters, strong wind resource, and excellent ground conditions. In addition, it is in an area of seabed which Statkraft knows very well from its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind projects.”

It is hoped Grimsby will once again be the centre of engineering and operations and maintenance work, with the wider Humber offering manufacturing support.

RWE Innogy’s head of offshore wind projects, Richard Sandford, added: “This partnership is excellent news for the future of Triton Knoll. It underlines our commitment to this project and our intention to deliver the investment and job opportunities which should flow from the construction and operation of the wind farm. This partnership will not alter our existing commitments or previous arrangements around development of the site and we look forward to continuing our close working relationships with all local partners and stakeholders.”

Economic benefits have already begun to flow from the project with over £20 million already invested in the UK during the development process.

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen is calling

NORTH SEA UNITY: The delegation leaders, from left, Hans Pedersen, Kurt Christensen, Susanne Odgaard, offshore wind branding manager for the Danish Wind Association, Mark O'Reilly and Ian Archibald, World Trade Centre Hull and Humber. Picture: Jon Corken.

● Continued from page one.

A local network co-ordinator role is to be established as the organisations finalise the network collaboration, underlining the level of commitment.

Mark O’Reilly, director of Team Humber Marine Alliance, said: “This whole process is starting to ramp up. It is going to take a

few years to happen but the numbers Hans talks about are very sizeable.”

Kurt Christensen is managing director of Windpower Support, a Grimsby-based ships’ agency and logistics provider to the industry. He is also Honorary Danish Consul for the South Bank of the Humber, and was approached about the

opportunity for further collaborative working at international shows.

Delighted with the turnout, with more than 60 people attending, he said: “Companies coming over here as part of this are serious about investment and joint ventures, and both mean job creation in this area.”

GRIMSBY Renewables Partnership and Team Humber Marine Alliance will be mainstays of the Humber Renewables presence at the European Wind Energy Association Offshore 2015 exhibition next month.

It takes place in the Danish capital between March 10 and March 14.

The event is the world’s largest offshore wind energy conference and exhibition, uniting the whole of the wind energy value chain under one roof.

Denmark is home to the world’s first ever commercial offshore wind farm and the second largest offshore wind market, behind Britain.

Within the Bella Center, Humber Renewables has stand C1-A9.

Five companies are currently joining the organisations, keen to benefit from the attendance of thousands of offshore wind energy professionals from Europe and beyond from manufacturers, developers, operations and maintenance, and logistics and installation backgrounds.

For more information contact Mary Green in the Team Humber Marine Alliance office on 01482 485271, or email marygreen@thma.co.uk

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This means that they are fully conversant with the risks and safe working practices associated with confined space working and are able to relate their experiences to course learning.

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Energy estuary requires vital Government help Martin Collingwood, head of construction and a member of the renewable energy team at pan-Humber law firm Andrew Jackson, has written the following article for our Business Telegraph Energy Page.

THE Humber estuary – dubbed the energy estuary – is a focal point for energy generation.

Like other areas seeking to develop their energy capabilities, particularly renewables, the region is susceptible to the effects of government policy and regulation.

There will be some concern about the findings of a recent report produced by FTI Consulting Inc – Global Wind Supply Chain Update 2015 – which examines the supply chain situation for 12 key components and three key materials accounting for more than 95 per cent of a wind turbine’s total cost.

The report also looks at the offshore wind farm balance of plant and supply chain strategies for a number of the world’s top wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

The report found that more than 100 suppliers had either collapsed or decided not to participate in the wind business.

The market has seen a prolonged period of contraction leading to extensive outsourcing of production assets; the collapse of tier 2 and tier 3 suppliers is expected to continue over the next two or three years.

Many key components, whilst facing over capacity, share elements of uneven distribution and bottlenecks in relation to some components which have gained popularity.

As with any competitive market, quality and price aside, suppliers are being asked to provide value added products and services to assist OEMs in reducing the levelised cost of energy in order to continue to compete with conventional energy resources.

This is a principal target for offshore wind but requires market stability.

By comparison the O&M market is seen as providing better opportunities in the future, and many component suppliers are moving into this market, leading to increasing competition.

Government plays an important role in stabilising the market by establishing and maintaining an attractive policy to increase investment interest.

This is particularly crucial whilst the industry continues to develop and requires continued, consistent support from government and regulatory CRUCIAL HELP:Experts say this is a critical time for the estuary when continued support is authorities to move it required. Inset, Martin Collingwood is head of construction and a member of the renewable energy group at pan Humber firm Andrew Jackson. forward.

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USINESS leaders in North East Lincolnshire gathered to learn about the thriving renewable energy sector in the region.

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He added: “By the time we have it Neil Bainbridge, head of properly up and running we will be able to direct air through the construction and engineering at turbine’s anemometer and the the Grimsby Institute, said the whole thing will turn as it would simulator “takes the mystery in actuality. away” from renewable wind energy and has been a big success “This enables us to observe all of with students. the operational processes, safe and sound, on dry land, at ground level.

He said: “Obviously we’re not going too in depth into all the “Instead of students just looking

out to sea and seeing the blades move to generate electricity, this demonstration shows them how it goes from one form to another.”

Elsewhere during the event, business leaders from the region were told of the national emphasis on the sector.

Tim Smith from Nautilus, who provide support with offshore technologies for SMEs, said: “When we say that the UK is leading the world for offshore renewable wind energy, we really mean it.

“It represents a massive opportunity for the UK economy – the scale of it is enormous.

“I spend a lot of time driving along the coast in this part of the country and I get the impression that not many people truly realise the money pot that this area is sitting on. There is an opportunity for untold levels of employment.”

In addition, Laura Rhodes, flood protection officer with the Environment Agency, gave those present a stark warning about the effects that flooding could have on

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She said: “Flood risk management is a big issue in terms of economic development.

“The most serious risk is tidal flooding and we saw the ramifications of that in December 2013.”

She added that some businesses in North East Lincolnshire could feasibly be at a greater risk from flooding than they are from fire.

Speaking at the event Sam Whitaker, vice principal of corporate projects at the Grimsby Institute, said: “The biggest impact on this region and looking forward to the future is making sure that it has a local impact – that is what drives me on a daily basis.

“There is nothing better than when local training and local jobs go to local people, and that is where the Institute is involved in all of this.”

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GREATER UNDERSTANDING: Speakers at the Grimsby Institute Engineering And Renewable Energy Event.

From left, Tim Smith, Neil Bainbridge, Dr Vicky Dunn, Laura Rhodes and Sam Whitaker.

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OUR major national contracts are at milestone stages for Grimsby’s multi-disciplined Blackrow Engineering, as it eyes up a £20-million turnover for 2015.

Two major food industry projects are combined with an increasingly important waste to energy niche and a foray into propulsion systems.

The first is for a global drinks producer, and involves the decommissioning of a full plant in Durham, as production is consolidated in Somerset and Poland.

The 16-week project involved a 25-strong team including project management, health and safety management, and skilled technicians, and even included the control of the auction of the redundant equipment, enabling the client to maximise value from the assets.

Barry Taylor, commercial director, said: “It has been a big success. Health and safety management, as always, was crucial as we stripped the site back to its original structure, including all main utilities, but to then also control the sale of equipment as well as offer the re-installation to buyers really added value to our service. We are now in final stage discussions to install a full process BIG KIT: The waste to energy plant at Birmingham, for which Blackrow is working for Chinook Services. line into Eastern Europe as a components have been fabricated in Kidderminster, having designed, result.” manufactured and installed a here in the workshops, some of In Coventry, a leading UK crisp control system to manufacture them up to 75 tonnes in weight and manufacturer is also midway propulsion systems for jet engines shipped to site where we install it. through a seven-week project and armaments.

Once first power is achieved we where a team of 40 skilled move into the 2015/2016 plan for “That is a seven to eight month employees from Blackrow is phases two, three and four, with project which is just beginning working 24/7 to install a new line, three times the original work commissioning now,” said Mr replacing another.

Taylor, who has software engineers Just up the road in Birmingham, coming. It is a huge job and one we are proud to be involved in.” carrying the works out. and the country’s biggest Blackrow is the full engineering “It is the type of work we are gasification plant is taking shape. familiar with, but a new end user,” services supplier to Chinook A further 75 men from the South he added.

Sciences for the project, for which Humberside Industrial Estate more than £100 million has been “We are progressing well on three business are working on the huge invested. It will process 180,000 project, which sees the workshops Barry Taylor or four different fronts. We have tonnes per year of recycling got a very, very positive outlook for in Grimsby used to manufacture 2015 and 2016.” the machinery, before undertaking residues and recover 10,000 tonnes of clean metal that would mechanical and electrical capacity of 42 megawatts – enough The team of 175 at the privately otherwise have been lost to landfill. to run the recycling operation on installation on site. First power is owned business helped hit a expected this month. the site and power more than 30,000 The plant will generate a £16.4 million turnover for 2014, homes. Lastly a five-strong team is with a £20 million prediction for significant amount of electricity, Mr Taylor said: “It is the first of its kind in the UK. All of the working with Roxel Rocket Motors with an installed generating this year.

“We are progressing well on three or four different fronts. We have got a very, very positive outlook for 2015 and 2016.”

Seafood giant shares success with the community

DEAL: Young’s Seafood Ltd chief executive Pete Ward, centre, with Grimsby Town FC director John Fenty, right, and Mariners Trust representative Dave Roberts.

CLEETHORPES’ summer spectacular and the campaign to get Grimsby Town back in the Football League have received the backing of Young’s Seafood this past month.

Grimsby’s biggest private employer is once again sponsoring the resort’s carnival, and the Mariners for the 2015/2016 season, the 12th successive year.

Pete Ward, who was last month unveiled as chief executive at Ross House, having worked in the business for his entire career, said: “We dearly want the club to be successful.

“An important part of the work that we do is centred on supporting the community and Grimsby Town is one of the main institutions in the area.

“It is a big part of people’s

lives and this relationship with the club helps us to be a bigger part of the community – we’re delighted our logo will continue to be worn by our local team.

“Everyone at Young’s has their fingers crossed that Town can enjoy success this season and that the club can get back into the Football League.

“We’ve seen some highs and lows during our time as sponsor – and what’s important to us is that we’re there as a stable supporter of the club throughout it all.

“Hopefully it’s a relationship that will continue in the future and we can enjoy success together.”

Of the carnival backing, which began back in 2012 with doubts over its future, Mr Ward said: “Supporting

the carnival is something Young’s is very proud of and we are pleased to be associated with it.

“A few years ago we decided to get behind the carnival after there were fears that it would not continue.

“We felt that was not appropriate for the community.

“It’s very important for Cleethorpes and the broader area because there has been a lot of negative press recently, but this carnival is one of the things that demonstrates the pride and commitment that we need in the area.”

Young’s is also the headline sponsor of the World Seafood Congress, the major event coming to Grimsby for the first time in September.

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Month in Review £6m waste plan passed ENVIRONMENT: Plans to create a new multi-million pound waste transfer site in Scunthorpe have been approved by council bosses.

At a meeting of North Lincolnshire Council’s cabinet, the leading Conservative group voted through plans to create a council-owned and operated waste transfer station.

The project is estimated to cost £6.4 million over the next four years with nearly £4 million expected to be spent in 2015/16.

The site will be located on Midland Road, and was owned by the council, but previously leased to a third party.

Permission is in the can INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE: Jorgen Lund, managing director of the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, pictured right, addressing the Humber Seafood Summit in Grimsby.

Above, Simon Dwyer, who is leading the delegation across the North Sea next month.

Global Congress call to be made ... in Norway!

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RIMSBY’S prestigious hosting of the World Seafood Congress is a little over six months away, and an international audience is about to hear what is in store.

A delegation from the town’s proud primary industry are to join the 10th anniversary celebrations of the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF), in Bergen, Norway – an event for leaders in the field that also has a true global reach.

A total of 650 delegates from 35 countries – representing more than 370 companies – will be present.

Grimsby’s Young’s Seafood and parent Findus Group are major sponsors, a partnership that began under the control of former chief executive Wynne Griffiths CBE. Young’s is also headline sponsor of the World Seafood Congress in September.

Leading a strong delegation is Simon Dwyer, who is UK representative for NASF. He said: “The UK has a strong tradition of catching, processing and farming seafood and it is hoped that other seafood and associated businesses, old and new to the conference, will join colleagues from the industry to celebrate the conference’s 10th anniversary, network at the fabulous lunches and dinners

that are provided and develop their intelligence towards the seafood sector.

“Finally, at the end of day one of the conference, the organiser will host a UK reception for delegates that will be a platform for Seafish to share more information about World Seafood Congress 2015.”

A pre-event cocktail reception is also being planned to further the word of the town, and the UK industry as a whole.

Present this year will be Seafish, M&J Seafoods, and Asda, as well as Seafox Management Consultants, Invest NEL – the inward investment element of North East Lincolnshire Council, and Steve Norton, chief executive of Seafood Grimsby and Humber, the UK’s largest seafood cluster organisation hosted by Grimsby Fish Merchants Association.

Jørgen Lund, managing director of NASF, said: “We are partners with the council and Seafish have been for years, and what we will do is take the opportunity at NASF to promote the World Seafood Congress in Grimsby, and it is going to be a central part. With such a strong UK delegation it will be a feature of our work, to make sure it is promoted, and that delegates are well aware.

“At the moment we have more than 30 countries

registered, and we are very pleased to say that in advance, registrations are up by 20 per cent compared to last year, which is quite exceptional.”

Mr Lund plans to play a prominent role in the World Seafood Congress too. The Scandinavian country is an increasingly important supplier to the UK and beyond, with Britain’s advanced retail market an attractive proposition – and Grimsby the gateway.

“Industry is supporting this, which is very important. They see value and I think bringing the industry together at events like these has huge value. We don’t all get together in discussion.”

Young’s is partnering with Asda, as Paul Geary, senior buying manager will present, as well as Ross House stalwart Mike Mitchell. Dominic Collins, purchasing director at Young’s, said: “We have been involved with NASF for several years and have been proud to have supported the conference through sponsorship and providing speakers ranging from our chief executives to technical directors.

“Congratulations to NASF on celebrating the milestone of ten years and we look forward to meeting everyone in Bergen.”

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Helen Duggan, head of responsible sourcing at Seafish, said: “Getting the standards signed off

by the Oversight Board is a huge step forward to ensure we re-launch a scheme that supports a socially responsible seafood industry. For

the first time, we can certify vessels which are demonstrating best practice in crew welfare and catching so seafood buyers can be confident that they

are sourcing responsibly harvested products.”

Seafish is also planning a chain of custody standard for the supply chain.

MANUFACTURING: Polish-owned firm Can-Pack UK Limited has been given council approval to extend its Scunthorpe factory.

The 9,000 square-metre extension at the Skippingdale Industrial Estate site will be mainly used for the storage of cans.

The factory, which was built seven years ago, currently employs 216 people working round-the-clock to meet orders from the European drinks industry.

Planners at North Lincolnshire Council have agreed to the extension to provide sheltered on-site storage for stacks of cans, and also an extension to the chemical storage building.

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Volvo’s range has grown in recent years to cover most areas of the prestige car sector.

As a result of this range expansion, Volvo sales have reached an all-time high and modern contemporary styling playing a part in increasing the brand’s popularity.

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Neil Cooke, business development consultant, has recently been appointed to develop relationships with local businesses. He is a specialist in the business sector and will happily discuss Volvo’s offer with all local businesses no matter whether they require a fleet of one car or as many as 100.

Over recent years, Volvo has developed strong relationships with specifically chosen organisations and in turn provides enhanced offers to members of these organisations, including: Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; Institute of Mechanical Engineers; Civil Service Motoring Association; Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM); Royal Yachting Association; National Farmers Union; Caravan Club of Great Britain.

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Month in review Humber Halal Park plan given Malaysia outing

TOUR: Nic Dakin, right, looks on as Tori Anderson operates a laser cutting machine, with Chris Quilter behind. Below, Nathan Challenger in conversation with the MP, and bottom, Tim Strawson speaks with the guest.

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SCUNTHORPE success story is hoping to write a narrative for more of northern Lincolnshire.

Youth Engineering Scunthorpe (YES) is a charitable enterprise founded by the chairman of the town’s Bradbury Group, Tim Strawson, as reported in last month’s Business Telegraph.

It gives disadvantaged young people vital skills in engineering and metal work, while also providing a useful service to industry in the area. Now, as it closes in on a first year of operations on South Park Industrial Estate, a potential Immingham site is being discussed.

Joe Mansley, managing director, welcomed Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin to the site on Friday, having shown Cleethorpes and Immingham MP Martin Vickers the potential earlier in the month.

The large workshop acts as a feeder to Bradbury’s extensive operations on Queensway Industrial Estate, while also undertaking work for others. The Department for Work and Pensions is also involved.

Mr Mansley, who has extensive senior experience from East Trans and ABP Connect, said: “Production is a logistics activity, it is not a chemical processing activity. We are bringing finished components, building them together, doing what we need to do and shipping them out. It is a logistical activity in a much broader sense.

“We are training people in skills that are required, now. Effectively, we are an incubator to the point where we say to employers, ‘tell us what you want and we will give you what is needed’.”

A total of 13 are completing their time, with a desire to take on a further six soon.

“We are training, helping, nurturing and mentoring. They all have baggage, but we are getting them to come to work, to be social, and to understand roles and responsibility, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. We are a very open culture, we are not repressive, we want to know them, we don’t want them to hide within themselves.”

While it is a social enterprise, it is focused on ‘profit making’ with funding channeled back in. Mr Mansley is delighted to have the services of Chris Quilter, who brings 30 years of RAF background to the role of factory manager, and is part of a “very strong senior team,” as they seek to attract other businesses’ work to offer an extension to their production capacity.

“As we generate profit, or surplus, the plan is to open in Immingham, but we have to prove this works,” said Mr Mansley.

“We are looking to further create awareness of what YES is about,” he added. “We do need to attract third party commercial business into the factory, but the whole objective is to place the people going through the programme into work.”

The trainees complete an NVQ with North Lindsey College, with all learning done on site.

“It has to be done here, as production is essential for me,” said Mr Mansley, who has instilled a real workplace feel.

“The college has been exceptionally good, providing lap tops, as well as the offer for any support we need.”

FOOD: Ambitious plans to expand Grimsby’s flagship business park, Europarc, have been revealed... in Malaysia.

Humber Halal Park has been drawn up and was being used as the key marketing message by a high-powered delegation at a global exhibition held this past month.

It follows the signing of a memoran dum of understanding between North East Lincolnshire Council and Malaysia-based Halal Penang to explore new market opportunities, as reported in September last year.

A distribution centre was top of the list, and with the UK’s biggest port and an ongoing project to bring forward a more advanced Border Inspection Post, it appears to have taken a major step forward with the artist’s impression featuring on an exhibition backdrop.

NELC joins Bondholders INVESTMENT: North East Lincolnshire Council has become the 250th member of the fast-growing Bondholders network dedicated to promoting the Humber.

The local authority committed to join the private sector-led marketing organisation to build upon success in attracting new businesses and jobs into the borough, as the Humber experiences an unprecedented wave of investment fuelled by the burgeoning offshore wind industry.

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Open day’s success AN open day marked the launch of a new Grimsby office for Air Compressors & Blowers North Ltd. The company has taken a room within E-Factor’s Business Hive in Dudley Street.

The main distributor for Gardner Denver products in the UK, it is also offering sales, service and support for CompAir, Hydrovane, Elmo Riestchle & Reavell, and has capabilities to maintain any make of compressor, blower and vacuum pumps, with six service engineers.

Hydrovane recently launched a new compressor which was displayed at the event, alongside products from the Elmo Rietschle range.

The company has also heavily invested in energy-focused equipment, enabling it to offer comprehensive reports on vibration analysis for monitoring bearing failure, and air leak detection and compressor energy efficiency, LAUNCH: Open day attendees included, from left, Dennis Weatherill of Tom Barker Ltd, to save on running and Chris Hall, of Air Compressors & Blowers Ltd, colleagues, Myles Mander, and Lewis Smith, Graham Read of Gardner Denver and Benedykt Maliszewski, also of AC&B. maintenance costs.

Brendan’s On Line role is an absolute privilege O

N LINE Engineering’s new managing director, Brendan Conlan, has told how he has walked into a business with the most “competent engineers in the region,” as he seeks to export the talent further afield.

A long term customer of the Immingham headquartered firm, built by Jeff Laird, he was asked to take on the role, leaving his position with Centrica Storage at Easington.

The Healing resident was honoured and delighted, and is now setting his sights on furthering the reach of the substantial business.

Mr Conlan said: “People don’t understand how unique the Humber region is when it comes to the variety of industry, when you take in all the facts and figures, such as the oil, and the amount of gas that comes into the area, at Theddlethorpe and Easington.

“On Line is unique, it is independent, a family, and a lot of people have been with the company for 20 or 30 years, and what I like about it is it seems to be really client-facing. Others are process driven, and that’s what we will capitalise on.”

Of the issues facing the industry at present, Mr Conlan said: “The low oil price helps companies like On Line because all the big companies still have to do work.

Companies like On Line, while relatively big in this region, are still small compared with global operators, with less overheads, it is dynamic and can adapt and move.

“I am going to look at contacts up and down the country, looking to new markets and new areas. I would like to get some work in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth. If you look at it from a point of view of our industry there are only really four key areas and Humberside is one.

“There in the North East, the North West, areas I have got quite a lot of contacts, having worked in oil, gas and chemicals, it has been quite a diverse portfolio of industries I have worked in, and I want to bring that to On Line to help On Line compete for some of that value in the market place.”

On the board at the University Technical College, Scunthorpe and HCF Catch at Stallingborough, he has made a big part of his recent career engaging with a future workforce.

TEAM: Brendan Conlan, second left, is welcomed to the Immingham headquarters of On Line Design and Engineering by, from left, Graham Mumby, commercial director; Steve Laird, finance director, and Duncan Russell, engineering director.

“The only concern for the region is I am not sure where all the engineers are going to come from,” he said. “It is very close to my heart getting young people, aged 14 to 19, interested in technical-type roles, whether they go to university or do apprenticeships. We haven’t been pushing people into it, yet it is one of the most rewarding, best paid jobs in the region.”

He plans to go into schools to promote the career choice. he is very passionate about it, and it is easy to understand why.

“When I was 12 or 13, I used to work in a local shop in the South West of Scotland. The guy who ran it was a retired chief engineer, and he used to tell me what they did. It had quite a lot of influence. All of my family have worked on farms and in dairies, so the influence came from him. I have a lot to thank him for.”

Born in Scotland, he graduated from the University Of Paisley in 1990 with a degree in Electrical And Electronic Engineering and initially worked in the distilling business and at Fisher Rosemount’s in Leicester, prior to joining the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He worked on various projects in Canada, the USA and Mexico in addition to being heavily involved in the design, installation

and commissioning of the £151 million Barton nappy factory.

Prior to joining Centrica, he also worked for Thermatrix, Pfizer and various other companies in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Taiwan and Singapore.

The 46-year-old first came to the Humber region in 1989 when he was offered a job at United Biscuits. Although he turned it down and was not initially impressed with the area, that perspective has now changed.

His partner, Angie, is Grimsby born and bred, and his sons, Cameron, seven, and Fraser, eight, have both been brought up here, where he is settled.

“The area grows on you, I just wish there were a few more hills, but there are beautiful villages and parts of the towns,” said the keen walker.

Focusing back on the task in hand, he said: “I have known On Line and used them in different aspects of work, and I think we have some of the most competent engineers in the area. There are some areas we want to improve upon but Jeff, from 1982, has built up a successful company from quite a humble start to employing 650 people indirectly and directly in the region, it is quite a phenomenal feat.

“We have got some good deep roots, and he has been able to do that because it has a committed workforce. People in this area have a good work ethic, probably historically because of the steel and power industries. It is an area that understands the value of technical people, a lot of areas don’t necessarily value technical expertise, but the Humber region does.

“We have very competent people, we work for Phillips 66, Total, Centrica, Tata, Novartis, Cristal and BP. Here is a small independent provincial company working for all the blue chips.

Many could work for one or two, but all of them tells you something, we are doing something right. We want to take that and build on it. It is evolution not revolution. I was really reassured when I went around all the offices, and it is good to see the amount of young apprentices brought in to develop.

I feel very honoured to be here, to be asked to take the managing director role of a business like this, that has been built up from scratch, and for Jeff to put that trust and faith in me, I feel honoured and humbled.”

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FT columnist headlines HCF 2015 annual bash

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UCCESSFUL economist and journalist Tim Harford, known for his column in the Financial Times and as a presenter on BBC Radio Four, has been revealed as guest speaker for the HCF Catch annual dinner, taking place in May.

The event, now in its 10th year, is a celebration of the successes in the industry across the Humber region, and takes place at the Hallmark Hotel, in North Ferriby, on Thursday, May 7.

Also announced is the main sponsor of the evening, Elevation, an engineering and manufacturing specialist recruitment firm, operating across the region, It represents a number of high-profile clients within the chemical industry and has teamed up with Stallingboroughbased HCF Catch for the occasion.

Katie Hedges, HCF Catch’s interim chief executive – following the recent departure of Dr Tony Flinn – said: “We are delighted to announce that Elevation has pledged its support to HCF as main sponsors of our annual dinner, which is, without doubt, the biggest and most prestigious event in our calendar. Working alongside such a well-established and trusted brand allows us to

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Well supported, the event has previously welcomed Dr Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Barry Cryer OBE; Steph McGovern, another BBC journalist; David Brown, chief executive of the Institution of Chemical Engineers; Ian McMillan, the ‘Bard of South Yorkshire’ and Tomorrow’s World presenter Maggie Philbin.

John Bohan, director of the engineering and manufacturing division at Elevation, said: “We

are delighted to be sponsoring the dinner, this year – a fantastic event recognising some of the achievements of industry leaders from across the region.

“While Elevation recognises the best talent and skill in the region, the HCF Catch dinner recognises the biggest and best business achievements in the chemical and renewable sectors which contribute greatly to the overall economic landscape of the region.”

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Internship opportunities offer key benefits

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HE Humber Local Enterprise Partnership is encouraging them to find suitable opportunities to offering a “win-win” for businesses and uni- support local economic growth. We believe that by creating graduate opportunities within small to versity leavers based in the area.

The Graduate Advancement Programme is encouraging local businesses to create a 12-week internship opportunity for a graduate who is unemployed or working fewer than 16 hours a week.

The internship must offer suitable work of graduate status. During the internship, the graduate must be paid at least the national minimum wage. In return, for an internship lasting the full 12 weeks, the business will be paid £1,200. At the end of the 12 weeks, the employer is asked to provide a written reference for the graduate.

Commenting on the Graduate Advancement Programme, vice chairman of Humber LEP Mike Parker said: “The aim of the programme is to help stem graduates moving out of the local area by

EXCITING TIME: Mike Parker. Opposite, Hull graduates.

medium-sized companies, we will help support individuals to develop and explore their full potential.”

Mr Parker, chair of governors at Grimsby Institute and former deputy chief executive at Young’s Seafood Ltd, continued: “For businesses, it provides a low risk chance to experience the benefits of employing a graduate with up-to-date knowledge, fresh ideas and enthusiasm. It is an ideal opportunity to address an outstanding project or explore potential for growth or diversification.”

Local authorities and Job Centres will work with employers to develop the internship vacancy. Working with graduate applicants, The Job Centre will help identify those with the right skills for interview with appropriate businesses. After interview, for any reason the prospective employer or graduate feel that there isn’t a natural match, there is no obligation to continue.

Mr Parker added: “It is an exciting time across the Humber with new job opportunities being presented as our economy adapts to new industries and we must ensure that we have a skilled and productive workforce to meet this challenge. The Graduate Advancement Programme is an essential part of our toolkit, and it gives new graduates a chance to gain work experience and ideally we hope that these internships will turn into permanent jobs.”

The scheme is supported by the Regional Growth Fund. For more information on the Graduate Advancement Programme, visit www.humberlep.org/skills/hass

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I have presented to three separate business advisers, who all thought the business was excellent, and the feedback from the industry had been superb too James Carter

THE creation of a base that has aspirations on becoming an iconic building within his home town will be a statement of success, and pride, for IT company boss Glenn Thow. Business editor David Laister spoke to him about a carefully carved career that began in a somewhat care-free fashion.

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BUDDING BUSINESS: James Carter of Carter Buying Ltd, and above, the earliest of spring flowers.

A bloomin’ marvellous idea for garden centres

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ERE it not for a strong feeling of self worth and a belief in his own skills, then a prominent town centre location may still be languishing unoccupied, awaiting another appearance in an auction catalogue.

Thankfully, Glenn Thow had the confidence to act on instinct and set up on his own – to the point where he now prepares to open a flagship office for his firm, nearly a quarter of a century on from those first tentative steps.

He said: “I started 24 years ago as a sole trader. I was the consultant, installer, trainer, accountant and debt collector. I didn’t start a business with an investment, so I could have a team up and running, I didn’t have the awareness of anything like that. I come from a working class family, my mum was an office cleaner and my dad was a lorry driver. When I was 16, I had my academic qualifications, I had done okay, but the thought of going to university was a no-no. I was going to get a job on the docks so I could pay my folks some rent. The only reason I ended up doing this was because IT was a hobby. I never considered it a career option.”

Had he been in a more welcoming environment it could be diagnostics under the bonnet rather than in the server room where his talents would have led.

“It was only when I got a job as a trainee motor mechanic and spent the whole time getting coffees and sweeping up, that I realised that wasn’t for me,” he said. Mr Thow completed a HND in computing at Grimsby Institute, as it is now, and with sage entrepreneurial advice ‘to find something you enjoy and work out a way to make money out of it’, ringing in his ears, he joined Dataplan, then part of Grimsby’s Cosalt Plc group of companies.

“They wanted me because I was really young and the PC was a new emerging technology, and they wanted someone straight from college who understood this new technology,” he recalled.

“I cannot believe I even got the job. I applied for it with no expectations. I was, however, always destined to be self employed, because I was fanatical about doing things in a certain way, the way I wanted it to be done. I am quite pleased I have that trait because if not, I wouldn’t have fallen out with my manager who told me I had to do everything his way!”

The acrimonious departure, which led to him telling his boss he could only retain authority over him until 5pm ‘because that’s how long it will take for me to write and hand in my

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ARDEN centre owners are being offered the benefits of bulk buying as a Grimsby entrepreneur sews the seeds of what he hopes will be a successful business.

NEXT GENERATION: LCS Group participated in a recent youth-orientated jobs fair. From left, Jess McCartney, Madison Thow, Connor Booker and Glenn Thow. notice’, he went self-employed at 23, dealing with payroll.

“I set up another IT business which was the predecessor to LCS. One of the first customers was John Fenty, of Five Star Fish, and lots of other companies on the docks.

“That first business, I didn’t run it very well, I spent the money as if it was my own,” he said candidly. “I gave Dataplan the customers back, met a guy in Immingham and the basis of LCS being born was a customer called Stora, a Scandinavian

question of ‘what next?’ came.

“I decided I was going to use all the skills I had learned in the corporate environment of a big international company – Stora employed 160,000 people,” the Healing resident said. “I decided to use all that to deliver IT services to Grimsby and the surrounding area. We have always had a corporate attitude. There are a lot of people in IT, you don’t require a qualification. If you want to practice as an accountant, a doctor, a lawyer or a financial adviser, you need letters after your name. If you want to be an IT consultant you are. A lot are self taught, and the reason why they are able to do this is because they have more knowledge than the consumer.

IT is fast-paced, ever changing, complex, and full of opinions.

“I think it is the most confused industry in the world, and with it the largest majority of criminal activity now. It has surpassed drug dealing, money laundering and the like.”

As such, internet security is high on the international agenda, and it is a massive concern for LCS, and Mr Glenn Thow Thow sees opportunity alongside every challenge.

“People have had websites hacked, we have had ours hacked, and I am paper company. We developed a not embarrassed about it, because I software system to run on the ‘new know there is nothing we could have modern PC platform’ to manage distribution of paper from Sweden to done about it. You only have to look at what has been achieved with the likes Barking, and other places, for the News of the World. It was a big group, of Sony, Microsoft, several world banks, NASA, and many government and they had decided to import the organisations. paper into Immingham and the rail “All that happened to us was a freight terminal. It came across on the message flashed up to “support ferry, unloaded in the warehouse and Indonesian suffering,’ it was an down it went, to the newspaper. We attempt to gain exposure to particular wrote the software, which was a situation in another country. Rather massive multi-million pound project.” than blowing up a government building, they used the world of One huge project completed, the

IT is fast-paced, ever changing, complex, and full of opinions.

I think it is the most confused industry in the world

information. No one died as a result of it, thousands of companies were just inconvenienced for a while.

“Technology is going to be the thing that will change humanity; the availability of information. The old idea that a government tells a population that this other population of this other country have some disagreement with them, be it political, religious, power or resource-based, is hopefully now disappearing.

“Hopefully, the development of the internet will see – for example – Muslim extremists at least start the debate about why they may be prepared to kill someone who doesn’t believe in their god. It doesn’t matter if I believe or not, I recognise it is still a person. We start using technology to open up ideals, understand more about where we are globally, why we are, then we have more of a chance. It

won’t be in our lifetimes, but there is nothing to say we can’t be the catalysts for change.”

But back to the day job, and Mr Thow has developed a strategy of understanding a sector and targeting it, rather than selling IT to every single business in a scattered approach.

“When you start getting into an industry sector, that’s when you can get some traction,” he said.

“Understanding the pain points, you can show solutions and enhance their business. I am not selling IT for the sake of selling IT. We believe we can add to he prosperity of a company, that it will be more successful if they embrace it.”

For now, embracing a new building will be a top priority, as Leon’s becomes LCS Group, from fish to microchips, as reported last month.

PROJECT: Mr Thow outside the new premises, which is undergoing a major refurbishment, as reported in January’s Business Telegraph.

University. A next step could be a PhD. Mr Carter said: “This venture is something I have thought about for a long time.

When I was at university I put the business model together as a consultancy. I know the ranges, I know what sells, I James Carter first got his know the costs and I know fingers dirty for a living at Brigg Garden Centre as a plant where the RRP should be. I am offering to do the buying, manager within the which means the garden award-winning team, before centres can be completely going on to work for major customer-facing. multiples. Now he is establishing his own cutting, “Working in horticulture has and looking to fill a gap in the always been my aim, twinned market by providing expertise with purchasing. My skills amassed in the past decade have centred around buying, into small and medium sized negotiations and range businesses nationwide. selection. Small businesses do Used to business, his parents struggle to get the best deal possible. That is where buying own Five Star Cattery in power comes in.”

Wrawby, and he has obtained 11 different qualifications in Dealing direct with growers, horticulture, including a he is working with seven Diploma in Plantmanship, clients already, as he prepares having been a student at North for a hard launch with website, Lindsey College, Bishop in the coming weeks. “When I get to 15 or 30 clients I will be Burton College and Lincoln

competing against the biggest garden centre companies,” he enthused.

“I have presented to three separate business advisers, who all thought the business was excellent, and the feedback from the industry had been superb too.”

At Brigg, Mr Carter was a plant manager, in charge of a category, with 14 staff and a turnover of £1 million, and was part of the team that won Garden Centre of the Year in 2005.

At 23 he was regional plant manager for Dobbies, a chain of 35 garden centres, while also gaining centre management experience, going on to work for Tesco and then Norwich-based QD Stores, with 49 outlets.

The plan is to be working with 30 garden centres within three years, with a turnover approaching £500,000.

Have you entered your business?

TIME is ticking by for your chance to enter the 2015 Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.

Launched in last month’s Business Telegraph, there are 13 accolades to be won, with 11 open to nominations.

The event itself takes place at Scunthorpe’s The Baths Hall, with a Wizard of Oz theme.

So don’t be a coward, show some passion, and put some serious thought into your application, otherwise the Chamber’s very own Dorothy will be donning her ruby shoes and heading your way.

For full details of all the awards and to re-cap on the launch coverage, visit

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The Grimsby and Scunthorpe Telegraphs are once again parterning with Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce to bring forward the highlight of the area’s business calendar, on Friday, May 15.

Any queries about the awards, or the evening itself in our own Emerald City, should be addressed to Anne Tate, northern Lincolnshire manager of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, on 01472 342981 or email a.tate@hull-humberchamber.co.uk Don’t forget, you’re not in Kansas anymore, you’re in proud northern Lincolnshire!

CONSTRUCTION: Draft plans for the future of Grimsby’s Cartergate are about to go public.

Last year, North East Lincolnshire Council committed to building a new, multi-million pound office and retail development on the current redundant site.

Lincolnshire’s largest law firm, Wilkin Chapman Grange, will be the anchor tenant for the development, which includes plans for a hotel.

It cements the 200-employee firm in the town from which it has developed a national reputation in particular areas of expertise.

Ta-ta to Tata’s losses STEEL: Tata Steel Europe, which includes the works in Scunthorpe, has announced a pre-tax operational profit of £74.7 million for the first nine months of 2014-15.

That compared to a loss of £13.9 million for the same period in 2013-14.

Turn-over in the first nine months also increased to £6.14 billion and deliveries were up from 9.79 million tonnes to 9.86 million tonnes.

It comes as due diligence continues into a potential purchase of the long products division, principally focused on Scunthorpe, by the Klesch Group.

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I have presented to three separate business advisers, who all thought the business was excellent, and the feedback from the industry had been superb too James Carter

THE creation of a base that has aspirations on becoming an iconic building within his home town will be a statement of success, and pride, for IT company boss Glenn Thow. Business editor David Laister spoke to him about a carefully carved career that began in a somewhat care-free fashion.

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BUDDING BUSINESS: James Carter of Carter Buying Ltd, and above, the earliest of spring flowers.

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ERE it not for a strong feeling of self worth and a belief in his own skills, then a prominent town centre location may still be languishing unoccupied, awaiting another appearance in an auction catalogue.

Thankfully, Glenn Thow had the confidence to act on instinct and set up on his own – to the point where he now prepares to open a flagship office for his firm, nearly a quarter of a century on from those first tentative steps.

He said: “I started 24 years ago as a sole trader. I was the consultant, installer, trainer, accountant and debt collector. I didn’t start a business with an investment, so I could have a team up and running, I didn’t have the awareness of anything like that. I come from a working class family, my mum was an office cleaner and my dad was a lorry driver. When I was 16, I had my academic qualifications, I had done okay, but the thought of going to university was a no-no. I was going to get a job on the docks so I could pay my folks some rent. The only reason I ended up doing this was because IT was a hobby. I never considered it a career option.”

Had he been in a more welcoming environment it could be diagnostics under the bonnet rather than in the server room where his talents would have led.

“It was only when I got a job as a trainee motor mechanic and spent the whole time getting coffees and sweeping up, that I realised that wasn’t for me,” he said. Mr Thow completed a HND in computing at Grimsby Institute, as it is now, and with sage entrepreneurial advice ‘to find something you enjoy and work out a way to make money out of it’, ringing in his ears, he joined Dataplan, then part of Grimsby’s Cosalt Plc group of companies.

“They wanted me because I was really young and the PC was a new emerging technology, and they wanted someone straight from college who understood this new technology,” he recalled.

“I cannot believe I even got the job. I applied for it with no expectations. I was, however, always destined to be self employed, because I was fanatical about doing things in a certain way, the way I wanted it to be done. I am quite pleased I have that trait because if not, I wouldn’t have fallen out with my manager who told me I had to do everything his way!”

The acrimonious departure, which led to him telling his boss he could only retain authority over him until 5pm ‘because that’s how long it will take for me to write and hand in my

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ARDEN centre owners are being offered the benefits of bulk buying as a Grimsby entrepreneur sews the seeds of what he hopes will be a successful business.

NEXT GENERATION: LCS Group participated in a recent youth-orientated jobs fair. From left, Jess McCartney, Madison Thow, Connor Booker and Glenn Thow. notice’, he went self-employed at 23, dealing with payroll.

“I set up another IT business which was the predecessor to LCS. One of the first customers was John Fenty, of Five Star Fish, and lots of other companies on the docks.

“That first business, I didn’t run it very well, I spent the money as if it was my own,” he said candidly. “I gave Dataplan the customers back, met a guy in Immingham and the basis of LCS being born was a customer called Stora, a Scandinavian

question of ‘what next?’ came.

“I decided I was going to use all the skills I had learned in the corporate environment of a big international company – Stora employed 160,000 people,” the Healing resident said. “I decided to use all that to deliver IT services to Grimsby and the surrounding area. We have always had a corporate attitude. There are a lot of people in IT, you don’t require a qualification. If you want to practice as an accountant, a doctor, a lawyer or a financial adviser, you need letters after your name. If you want to be an IT consultant you are. A lot are self taught, and the reason why they are able to do this is because they have more knowledge than the consumer.

IT is fast-paced, ever changing, complex, and full of opinions.

“I think it is the most confused industry in the world, and with it the largest majority of criminal activity now. It has surpassed drug dealing, money laundering and the like.”

As such, internet security is high on the international agenda, and it is a massive concern for LCS, and Mr Glenn Thow Thow sees opportunity alongside every challenge.

“People have had websites hacked, we have had ours hacked, and I am paper company. We developed a not embarrassed about it, because I software system to run on the ‘new know there is nothing we could have modern PC platform’ to manage distribution of paper from Sweden to done about it. You only have to look at what has been achieved with the likes Barking, and other places, for the News of the World. It was a big group, of Sony, Microsoft, several world banks, NASA, and many government and they had decided to import the organisations. paper into Immingham and the rail “All that happened to us was a freight terminal. It came across on the message flashed up to “support ferry, unloaded in the warehouse and Indonesian suffering,’ it was an down it went, to the newspaper. We attempt to gain exposure to particular wrote the software, which was a situation in another country. Rather massive multi-million pound project.” than blowing up a government building, they used the world of One huge project completed, the

IT is fast-paced, ever changing, complex, and full of opinions.

I think it is the most confused industry in the world

information. No one died as a result of it, thousands of companies were just inconvenienced for a while.

“Technology is going to be the thing that will change humanity; the availability of information. The old idea that a government tells a population that this other population of this other country have some disagreement with them, be it political, religious, power or resource-based, is hopefully now disappearing.

“Hopefully, the development of the internet will see – for example – Muslim extremists at least start the debate about why they may be prepared to kill someone who doesn’t believe in their god. It doesn’t matter if I believe or not, I recognise it is still a person. We start using technology to open up ideals, understand more about where we are globally, why we are, then we have more of a chance. It

won’t be in our lifetimes, but there is nothing to say we can’t be the catalysts for change.”

But back to the day job, and Mr Thow has developed a strategy of understanding a sector and targeting it, rather than selling IT to every single business in a scattered approach.

“When you start getting into an industry sector, that’s when you can get some traction,” he said.

“Understanding the pain points, you can show solutions and enhance their business. I am not selling IT for the sake of selling IT. We believe we can add to he prosperity of a company, that it will be more successful if they embrace it.”

For now, embracing a new building will be a top priority, as Leon’s becomes LCS Group, from fish to microchips, as reported last month.

PROJECT: Mr Thow outside the new premises, which is undergoing a major refurbishment, as reported in January’s Business Telegraph.

University. A next step could be a PhD. Mr Carter said: “This venture is something I have thought about for a long time.

When I was at university I put the business model together as a consultancy. I know the ranges, I know what sells, I James Carter first got his know the costs and I know fingers dirty for a living at Brigg Garden Centre as a plant where the RRP should be. I am offering to do the buying, manager within the which means the garden award-winning team, before centres can be completely going on to work for major customer-facing. multiples. Now he is establishing his own cutting, “Working in horticulture has and looking to fill a gap in the always been my aim, twinned market by providing expertise with purchasing. My skills amassed in the past decade have centred around buying, into small and medium sized negotiations and range businesses nationwide. selection. Small businesses do Used to business, his parents struggle to get the best deal possible. That is where buying own Five Star Cattery in power comes in.”

Wrawby, and he has obtained 11 different qualifications in Dealing direct with growers, horticulture, including a he is working with seven Diploma in Plantmanship, clients already, as he prepares having been a student at North for a hard launch with website, Lindsey College, Bishop in the coming weeks. “When I get to 15 or 30 clients I will be Burton College and Lincoln

competing against the biggest garden centre companies,” he enthused.

“I have presented to three separate business advisers, who all thought the business was excellent, and the feedback from the industry had been superb too.”

At Brigg, Mr Carter was a plant manager, in charge of a category, with 14 staff and a turnover of £1 million, and was part of the team that won Garden Centre of the Year in 2005.

At 23 he was regional plant manager for Dobbies, a chain of 35 garden centres, while also gaining centre management experience, going on to work for Tesco and then Norwich-based QD Stores, with 49 outlets.

The plan is to be working with 30 garden centres within three years, with a turnover approaching £500,000.

Have you entered your business?

TIME is ticking by for your chance to enter the 2015 Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.

Launched in last month’s Business Telegraph, there are 13 accolades to be won, with 11 open to nominations.

The event itself takes place at Scunthorpe’s The Baths Hall, with a Wizard of Oz theme.

So don’t be a coward, show some passion, and put some serious thought into your application, otherwise the Chamber’s very own Dorothy will be donning her ruby shoes and heading your way.

For full details of all the awards and to re-cap on the launch coverage, visit

www.nlincsba.co.uk or www.grimsbytele graph.co.uk/business or www.scunthorpe telegraph.co.uk/business.

The Grimsby and Scunthorpe Telegraphs are once again parterning with Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce to bring forward the highlight of the area’s business calendar, on Friday, May 15.

Any queries about the awards, or the evening itself in our own Emerald City, should be addressed to Anne Tate, northern Lincolnshire manager of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, on 01472 342981 or email a.tate@hull-humberchamber.co.uk Don’t forget, you’re not in Kansas anymore, you’re in proud northern Lincolnshire!

CONSTRUCTION: Draft plans for the future of Grimsby’s Cartergate are about to go public.

Last year, North East Lincolnshire Council committed to building a new, multi-million pound office and retail development on the current redundant site.

Lincolnshire’s largest law firm, Wilkin Chapman Grange, will be the anchor tenant for the development, which includes plans for a hotel.

It cements the 200-employee firm in the town from which it has developed a national reputation in particular areas of expertise.

Ta-ta to Tata’s losses STEEL: Tata Steel Europe, which includes the works in Scunthorpe, has announced a pre-tax operational profit of £74.7 million for the first nine months of 2014-15.

That compared to a loss of £13.9 million for the same period in 2013-14.

Turn-over in the first nine months also increased to £6.14 billion and deliveries were up from 9.79 million tonnes to 9.86 million tonnes.

It comes as due diligence continues into a potential purchase of the long products division, principally focused on Scunthorpe, by the Klesch Group.

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HE leader of North Lincolnshire Council, Councillor Liz Redfern, has welcomed Associated British Ports’ withdrawal of the legal challenge over Able Marine Energy Park.

The £450-million development sits on the border of the two South Bank local authorities, just within the Scunthorpe-headquartered administration.

Mrs Redfern said: “It has been a very protracted process, but at last we have some fantastic news. Nothing else should be allowed to stand in the way of this development that will see northern Lincolnshire become the centre for UK offshore wind.

“It will create more than 4,000 direct jobs in just a few short years. As well as attracting new industry into the South Humber Bank. It will also provide new growth opportunities for our manufacturing and engineering sectors. We are already engaging with local businesses to look at maximising job and training opportunities throughout this development.”

Taken together with Able Logistics Park, which already has planning consent – granted

by North Lincolnshire Council in June 2013, it represents a total investment of £550 million with the potential for 10,000 jobs, depending on the latter’s end use.

Plans include a business park, offices, transport depot, warehousing, external storage, distribution, chilled and frozen logistics, vehicle storage, motel and HGV park.

The site is connected directly to ABP’s Port of Immingham, the UK’s busiest port complex, and close to the major overhaul of the A160, offering direct access to the motorway network via the A180.

More than one third of the site will be extensively landscaped with major wildlife and nature reserves to meet the demanding provisions of the European Habitat Regulations.

Looking at the skill base, Mrs Redfern said a key Scunthorpe project would play a vital role.

“The Humber University Technical College will work closely with Able UK, and play a major role in ensuring that engineers of the future have the necessary skills and training needed for jobs in the engineering and renewables industries.”

David Shepherd, group development executive at Able UK, is chairing the private sector board behind the UTC. Referring to the statement issued by ABP Humber director John Fitzgerald, acknowledging the reality of a situation where there would be no compromise over the key conflict – the 13.5 acre ‘Killingholme Triangle’ which Able UK will now compulsory purchase from ABP – Mrs Redfern added: “I am delighted

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that ABP’s director for the Humber has recognised Able UK’s commitment to the offshore wind industry, and that the Humber Estuary has a great opportunity to lead the UK’s developing offshore wind and renewable energy industry.”

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DELIGHT: From top, Liz Redfern, right, with Able UK executive chairman Peter Stephenson and Marcus Walker, assistant director, planning and regeneration at North Lincolnshire Council, pictured when the initial Development Consent Order was granted. Middle, a vision of a completed Able Marine Energy Park, and right, Able Logisitcs Park footprint.

state-of-the-art quayside, with facilities purpose-built for the manufacture, assembly and installation of offshore renewable technologies.

The entire site of Able Humber Port covers more than 2,000 acres, and is at the centre of the largest enterprise zone in the UK.

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BUSY BASE: Humberside Airport heli-pad, increasingly busy due to offshore work in oil and gas, as well as renewables.

Below, Paul Litten, commercial director.

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NVESTMENT totalling £17 million at Humberside Airport is reinforcing its position as a key asset for the Humber economy, business leaders will hear later this month.

The airport, at Kirmington, is already the second biggest heliport in the UK and is now capitalising on growth in the offshore energy industries in the North Sea. It is also becoming a magnet for wider investment, capitalising on its strategic location and infrastructure.

In the first Bondholders breakfast event of 2015, members will hear Paul Litten, commercial director of Humberside Airport, give details of these investments and further opportunities in and around the airport.

The developments include plans for a new £7 million hotel, operating under the Hampton by Hilton brand, which is expected to open in mid-2016.

The airport has also been chosen as the location for a new £5 million national training academy for BAE Systems, which is due to be completed

by October 2015. The academy will be the central hub for BAE Systems to train apprentices for the maintenance

access improvements and investment in the latest passenger bag scanning equipment.”

Also speaking at the event are Paul Green, managing director of Nightel; David Talbot, head of BAE Systems’ Aircraft Maintenance Academy; and Marcus Walker, assistant director for planning and regeneration at North Lincolnshire Council, who will give an overview of developments and investment opportunities in the area and, specifically, the airport’s importance to investors.

The Bondholders breakfast, which will be held at the Best Western Oaklands Hall Hotel in Laceby, from and servicing of UK fighter jets and to 7.45am on Friday, February 27, will be support export contracts. It will followed by an exclusive opportunity to provide up to 60 apprentice join a tour of Humberside Airport and opportunities every year, resulting in view the developments in progress. more than 150 new jobs over three The Bondholders is a fast-growing, years. private-sector led group of more than Mr Litten said: “Humberside Airport 260 member companies and other is, at last, starting to deliver on its organisations that act as ambassadors promise to grow jobs and prosperity for for the Humber to encourage the region. investment and job creation. The Bondholders stage regular breakfast “In the past 12 months, some meetings themed around key issues £17 million of investment has been and developments. announced, including a new Bondholders members can register to state-of-the-art search and rescue base, attend the breakfast meeting by a new training academy for BAE, a new Hampton by Hilton hotel, road and e-mailing bondholders@hull.co.uk

Sniffing out vital funding gets easier HULL and Humber Chamber of Commerce has teamed up with two regional organisations to establish a funding and grants finder.

Grimsby Institute Group and Seafox Management Consultants have helped bring the online portal forward, and it launches this week.

Anne Tate, northern Lincolnshire manager of the

Chamber, is delighted with it. She said: “This is the goto place for all businesses seeking private sector funding at all levels including academic and training support. We’ve teamed up with the Grimsby Institute Group and Seafox Management Consultants to support business wanting to grow and upskill talent within their organisations.”

The portal will signpost organisations wanting to find funding streams.

Lesley CharlesworthBrowne, of Grimsby Institute, said: “This is an initiative that will allow organisations across the Humber to access headline details and discuss with us skills support funding of all types across all sectors.”

The portal will be accessible through the main

webpages of the Chamber, Grimsby Institute Group and Seafox.

Director of funding and grants at Seafox, Liz Baghurst, said: “We have a strong track record in supporting both private and public sector organisations in accessing all types of funding which varies from regional pots of money to EU funds including innovation.”

OFFSHORE: Industrial diving specialist REDS is to open a new support base in Grimsby, as the town’s offshore wind cluster further builds.

The company has taken a lease on a 400 sq m unit on South Humberside Industrial Estate, having operated out of the town from a base in Rugby, Warwickshire, in recent years, as it served Centrica Energy’s Lincolnshire coastline installations.

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HUMBER-based IT business has teamed up with electrical giant Samsung to host an education event on innovative technology.

Passport IT and Samsung will host the first Passport ITee event in the region, which is inspired by the world’s leading technology event – the Bett show 2015, at the end of the month.

The event will showcase solutions, which are aimed at improving the student and staff education experience.

Andy Griffiths, president of Samsung Electronics in the UK and Ireland, said they are committed to creating opportunities for the next generation through greater access to technology.

He said: “We believe that this technology has a significant role to play in opening doors for the leaders of tomorrow.”

Passport-IT, an Immingham-based IT solutions provider, are rapidly becoming the company of choice in the region for education related solutions.

With Samsung, they are turning learning environments into connected hubs where education is delivered in collaborative, interactive and creative ways.

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Michael Coulson, commercial manager at Passport-IT, said: “After initiating the Samsung partnership to allow us to provide their quality range of MFP/Print products to clients, my eyes have been opened to the differences Samsung technology as a whole can make within the education sector.

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“At the event you will be able to see the benefits of the connected classroom along with demonstrations of these products working together.”

He added traditional teaching methods are merging with the 21st century and this new found freedom means schools and colleges face enormous pressure to ensure procurement meets the needs of students today and in the future.

Ben Brown, education business manager at Samsung, said: “Samsung are committed to working with schools on achieving positive outcomes for their pupils.

“Technology won’t guarantee that but alongside great teaching it will enable and engage pupils.

“We want to support key partners like Passport IT in showing our connected classroom to schools all over the country.”

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Day to day operations are affected, trade debtor balances increase, Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) targets slip and businesses are prevented from taking advantage of opportunities for growth through lack of working capital or the ability to raise finance.

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Barry Taylor, of Blackrow Engineering, said: “FB IT have provided Blackrow Engineering with exactly the nature and level of service we needed to support our dynamic and growing business without any need for investment in any internal IT knowledge.

“Their staff are clearly experts in their field and provide us with the structure, systems and expertise we need to enable us to focus on our core business activities.”

FB IT Solutions is located at Prince Albert Gardens, Grimsby, in the same building as Dataplan Payroll Limited.

They provided an evaluation of the design and delivery of Blackrow’s new IT infrastructure, as the existing system was outdated, inefficient and prone to error with potential for “catastrophe”.

Mr Taylor added: “They provided us with outstanding advice, communicated in such a

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The most efficient performing businesses have clear credit control policies and procedures but also allow some flexibility to work with customers to collect debt whilst not losing the

customer relationship.

You should consider: do you have a credit control system? Are customer disputes resolved and late payers chased promptly? Is performance measured and reasons for late payment identified to spot trends or problems?

If you want customers to pay more quickly consider implementing a discount or reward programme.

For slow payers implementing consequences such as the charging of late payment compensation and interest can help improve cash flow.

The longer debt is overdue, the harder it is to collect.

Chris added: “It is advisable to build a relationship with a law firm experienced in commercial debt recovery so that you can move quickly when the need to ‘go legal’ arises.

“You may only need your solicitor to send an overdue customer one letter to obtain payment, however it is also important that your partner law firm can provide a range of credit control/legal debt recovery advice and deal with more challenging debtors as well.

“I recommend that you carry out a review. An improved process and documentation will build better relationships with your customers and reduce the time it takes to convert invoices into cash.

“Better systems for collection, recovery and legal action will improve cash flow and assist in your quest for future growth.”

For further information please contact Chris Grocock at Wilkin Chapman LLP Solicitors either by phone: 01472 262626 or by e-mail: cgrocock@wilkinchapman.co.uk

EXPERT ADVICE: Chris Grocock, partner and head of Wilkin Chapman LLP’s Debt Recovery and Insolvency team.

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HUMBER-based IT business has teamed up with electrical giant Samsung to host an education event on innovative technology.

Passport IT and Samsung will host the first Passport ITee event in the region, which is inspired by the world’s leading technology event – the Bett show 2015, at the end of the month.

The event will showcase solutions, which are aimed at improving the student and staff education experience.

Andy Griffiths, president of Samsung Electronics in the UK and Ireland, said they are committed to creating opportunities for the next generation through greater access to technology.

He said: “We believe that this technology has a significant role to play in opening doors for the leaders of tomorrow.”

Passport-IT, an Immingham-based IT solutions provider, are rapidly becoming the company of choice in the region for education related solutions.

With Samsung, they are turning learning environments into connected hubs where education is delivered in collaborative, interactive and creative ways.

Everything from mobile devices, online learning solutions, interactive white boards to zero client (cloud) displays and innovative print options give teachers and students the chance to access what they need, discover something new, and then share it instantly via their tablets and smartphones.

Samsung has created a complete Samsung School solution so that schools are able to deliver personalised learning that is totally interactive, intuitive, collaborative and eminently customisable.

Michael Coulson, commercial manager at Passport-IT, said: “After initiating the Samsung partnership to allow us to provide their quality range of MFP/Print products to clients, my eyes have been opened to the differences Samsung technology as a whole can make within the education sector.

“We are now able to provide and support their education solutions to enable the connected classroom to be a reality, helping in collaborative learning.

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technology can make in the classroom, therefore we have decided to hold what we hope to become an annual event called Passport ITee – Innovative Technology in education event – to showcase to local schools and academies these innovative changes.

“At the event you will be able to see the benefits of the connected classroom along with demonstrations of these products working together.”

He added traditional teaching methods are merging with the 21st century and this new found freedom means schools and colleges face enormous pressure to ensure procurement meets the needs of students today and in the future.

Ben Brown, education business manager at Samsung, said: “Samsung are committed to working with schools on achieving positive outcomes for their pupils.

“Technology won’t guarantee that but alongside great teaching it will enable and engage pupils.

“We want to support key partners like Passport IT in showing our connected classroom to schools all over the country.”

If you would like to attend the event, which will be held on Thursday, February 26, phone Michael Coulson on 01469 565057 or e-mail enquiries@passport-it.co.uk.

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POSITIVE cash flow management is vital for all businesses.

Poor cash flow or debt recovery processes can cause businesses to struggle.

Day to day operations are affected, trade debtor balances increase, Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) targets slip and businesses are prevented from taking advantage of opportunities for growth through lack of working capital or the ability to raise finance.

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NGINEERING solutions provider Blackrow Engineering delivers services that add true value to their customer’s operations.

A leading client of Forrester Boyd, Blackrow also has a proud history of supporting the food industry both in design, manufacture and installation of conveyor systems and process lines, including patented designs, worldwide.

Blackrow has developed its portfolio of customers using transferable skills and experience into several industries including power, oil and gas.

Their highly skilled workforce, based at the 150,000 sq ft engineering facility in Grimsby, are at your disposal for the design, manufacture and installation of your engineering needs across a wide range of industries.

They recently received IT support from FB IT Solutions, which is also Forrester Boyd’s IT division.

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It is advisable to build a relationship with a law firm experienced in commercial debt recovery so that you can move quickly when the need to ‘go legal’ arises.

Chris Grocock explains how most businesses have perfor mance.

Chris said: “Unfortunately, reasonable credit control systems customers often treat credit terms but closer examination could as a kind of interest free loan to reveal ways to improve

fund their own working capital delaying payment as long as possible.

“Businesses end up with unreasonable amounts of cash tied up, with unpaid debt strangling cash flow.”

The following are ways to help you improve cash collection and DSO: ● Clear terms should be agreed at the outset and communicated to the customer. ● Consider the content of an account opening form to gather customer data and after the credit approval process

They provide all the services of a dedicated IT department to small and medium-sized businesses in Lincolnshire.

Barry Taylor, of Blackrow Engineering, said: “FB IT have provided Blackrow Engineering with exactly the nature and level of service we needed to support our dynamic and growing business without any need for investment in any internal IT knowledge.

“Their staff are clearly experts in their field and provide us with the structure, systems and expertise we need to enable us to focus on our core business activities.”

FB IT Solutions is located at Prince Albert Gardens, Grimsby, in the same building as Dataplan Payroll Limited.

They provided an evaluation of the design and delivery of Blackrow’s new IT infrastructure, as the existing system was outdated, inefficient and prone to error with potential for “catastrophe”.

Mr Taylor added: “They provided us with outstanding advice, communicated in such a

fashion to make ‘laymen’ such as ourselves to make informed decisions.

“The service is fantastic value for money, both in hardware and installation.

“They will continue to provide us with ongoing support, thanks to their efficient, friendly and knowledgeable staff who provide high quality service.

“They are also supporting us with the development of a new commercial operating platfor m.

“The rationale behind this is business growth requires improved communication and control systems to support not only the business but to offer staff the platform to become more proficient and effective.”

This new platform will enable Blackrow to create detailed reports, instantaneous snapshots of business performance, and constant support through development stages with training along the way for key staff.

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and resolving outstanding debt delays ● Send a confirmation letter attaching the terms of trade.

Think about how orders are received and acknowledged to form the contract and then ensure that invoices are delivered promptly and in accordance with the order.

If you improve the customer experience they are more likely to pay on time.

The most efficient performing businesses have clear credit control policies and procedures but also allow some flexibility to work with customers to collect debt whilst not losing the

customer relationship.

You should consider: do you have a credit control system? Are customer disputes resolved and late payers chased promptly? Is performance measured and reasons for late payment identified to spot trends or problems?

If you want customers to pay more quickly consider implementing a discount or reward programme.

For slow payers implementing consequences such as the charging of late payment compensation and interest can help improve cash flow.

The longer debt is overdue, the harder it is to collect.

Chris added: “It is advisable to build a relationship with a law firm experienced in commercial debt recovery so that you can move quickly when the need to ‘go legal’ arises.

“You may only need your solicitor to send an overdue customer one letter to obtain payment, however it is also important that your partner law firm can provide a range of credit control/legal debt recovery advice and deal with more challenging debtors as well.

“I recommend that you carry out a review. An improved process and documentation will build better relationships with your customers and reduce the time it takes to convert invoices into cash.

“Better systems for collection, recovery and legal action will improve cash flow and assist in your quest for future growth.”

For further information please contact Chris Grocock at Wilkin Chapman LLP Solicitors either by phone: 01472 262626 or by e-mail: cgrocock@wilkinchapman.co.uk

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Are you interested in science and maths?

If so, have you ever thought about a career in engineering?

If so, then this event is for you!

After the success of last year’s Here Come The Girls event, BEEP is proud to announce details of this year’s event to be held on March 7, coinciding once again with International Women’s Day on March 8.

This day, which is now annual, is a chance to discover first-hand what it is like being a female engineer or apprentice from some of the ladies that help make the Humber Bank industries tick.

It is also an opportunity to discover which pathways they chose to reach their chosen careers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to try your hands at engineering and science challenges, tour a real workshop environment and speak to a range of female engineer role models, apprentices and graduate training providers.

Although the number of women engineering professionals has doubled since 2012, they continue to represent less than 10 per cent of the workforce – the lowest proportion in Europe.

And here on the South bank of the Energy Estuary we have a host of careers and exciting new opportunities within STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).

This is a free event for female students in years 10, 11 and 12.

All attendees will receive an attendance certificate for their learning portfolios The event is held at CATCH, Stallingborough Industrial Estate.

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THE North Lincs Health and Safety Group Annual Awards Dinner takes place later this month.

It will be held at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton, on Friday, February 27.

If you’re interested in going along then you’re in luck – as there is still time to book a place.

Dinner is at 7.30pm with the bar open for drinks from 6.45pm.

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raffle in aid of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.

Awards will also be presented on the evening, covering improved or industry bettering records, and innovation in the field of health and safety improvements.

A panel of three judges, agreed upon by the president, vice president and the chairman, are considering applications.

For more information call 01724 297739.

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HREE new appointments have been made by Louth-based ProtectHear, as it unveils a strategic growth plan for the business.

The hearing protection equipment manufacturer, launched 15 years ago as At Source QX Ltd, produces a range of personally moulded earplugs, designed to offer the highest degree of comfort while proving an effective acoustic barrier helping to prevent noise-induced hearing loss, a key consideration in industrial environments.

Clients include Network Rail, Weetabix, Kellogg’s, Phillips66 and Tata Steel UK. In order to cope with demand and expand the business, Bonita Poole joins as an apprentice in credit control, with Kieran Towse in sales and marketing administration.

Both are 19-years-old and are from the area, and were found via the National Apprenticeship Service, as former students of First College, Louth.

Richard Farnhill also joins as an area sales representative, covering West Yorkshire, taking the team from five to eight, having started with two in 2000.

It is a personnel growth strategy that dovetails with plans for a new

WELCOME: ProtectHear’s new apprentices, Kieran Towse, sales and marketing administration and Bonita Poole, credit control. Above right is ProtectHear’s new area sales representative, covering West Yorkshire, Richard Farnhill. Right, some of Protecthear’s products. cloud-based IT solution to streamline and integrate sales, marketing, finance and production at the Eve Street base.

Managing director Mick Whitaker said: “We have literally reviewed the entire business. Our

ethos has always been to look after our customers, and this won’t change; the people, process and technology developments have simply been made so that we can continue to delight our existing loyal customer base and manage

enquiries from new clients. These are very exciting times and we look forward to making more announcements this year.”

The privately-owned business grew turnover by 21 per cent year on year 2013 to 2014.

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T is the end of an era for Scunthorpe law firm QualitySolicitors Bradbury Roberts & Raby, after Chris Raby, the practice’s last founding partner, retired from the business.

Pub chain building Batemans, the family brewer based in Lincolnshire, has recruited Linda Green as its new retail director.

The appointment comes as Batemans makes acquisitions a major priority for the business, with the aim of increasing its managed houses in particular.

Batemans is looking to evolve its estate to be split equally between tenanted, managed and franchised operations, with a particular focus on sites that include a strong food, or accommodation offering, alongside cask ale, and have the capability to earn between £8,000 and £12,000 a week. South Yorkshire, East Midlands, North Cambridgeshire and Norfolk have been identified as the favoured locations for new Batemans sites.

Linda, pictured, will be targeted with increasing the number of managed houses in the Batemans estate to 15 in three years, and then to 20 after five years.

She joins Batemans with a main board position, and has over 20 years of executive level experience.

In the pub and bar sector, she worked for Scottish & Newcastle for more than ten years, helping to set up the food division at brands including Chef and Brewer and John Barras.

Stuart Bateman, managing director of Batemans, said: “Linda’s appointment marks the start of an exciting time for Batemans as we look to dramatically increase our retail estate. This is a new role for us, and we believe Linda will prove invaluable in helping us to achieve our acquisition targets.”

Mr Raby, pictured, specialised in divorce proceedings, separation and all financial aspects of relationship breakdown, including high value cases involving pensions and company issues. He also helped clients to resolve disputes about contact and living arrangements for children.

He started practising law in the early eighties with Hett Stubbs & Kemp Solicitors, before being involved in establishing Bradbury Roberts & Raby, as it was called at the time, with David Bradbury and John Roberts, both of whom have also retired.

In an illustrious career, which at some stage has covered most areas of law, his preferred specialism and commitment to excellence led him to become a prestigious Advanced Member of the Law Society’s Family Law Panel.

As a Member of Resolution, the professional body whose 6,500 members are committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes, Mr Raby

trained as a collaborative lawyer and mediator, in order to help couples who were planning to separate or divorce, work out constructive solutions regarding children and finances.

Known for a realistic and common sense approach to clients’ concerns and requirements, he appeared regularly at the local County and Family Proceedings Courts.

He said: “I am proud to have been one of the founding partners of Bradbury Roberts & Raby.

We started in 1984 with 10 people and we have survived recessions and massive Legal Aid cuts and today there are 40 people in the Laneham Street premises. We have a loyal staff and an excellent client base and I’m sure the firm will continue to thrive in the

future.”

A keen golfer, evidenced by retirement gifts including a themed cake and electronic golf trolley, bag and accessories, he intends to play a lot more now he has retired and also hopes to learn Spanish. Ultimately, he’s very much looking forward to having more leisure time and says he enjoys walking, “as long as there’s a pub at the end of it”.

QualitySolicitors Bradbury Roberts & Raby celebrated the occasion by holding a dinner for partners and staff in his honour at Colosseo Italian Restaurant, in Scunthorpe.

He leaves the practice in the hands of partners Robert Taylor, Sue Rands, Ian Horner and Matthew Inman.

WELCOME: Turner Warran managing director Kevin Turner, right, welcomes Keith Hunt, left, to the team.

Accountancy practice take on office manager Turner Warran Accountants has welcomed a new office manager.

Keith Hunt has been appointed into the role, and he will work with managing director Kevin Turner on the business development of the Brigg-based accountancy firm.

Mr Hunt qualified with the ACCA in 2003, and is described as having a good knowledge of the area, and a strong belief in client service, which fits in well with the Turner Warran ethos.

“I am excited about the new role and thank Kevin for the fantastic opportunity he has given me,” Mr Hunt said. “It will be great to work alongside a businessman such as Kevin, who has more than 20 years’ experience in running an accountancy practice and has a wealth of business knowledge which I will gain from.”

The whole firm is excited and looking forward to growing the business in 2015.

Mr Turner said: “I am looking forward to the fresh approach that Keith will bring to the firm. He has settled in great with the rest of the team and we’re all looking to the new ideas that he will hopefully bring.”

Litigation head move Mason Baggott and Garton has welcomed Tim Phipps, pictured, to the expanding litigation team.

Mr Phipps has worked in the area for more than 30 years as a solicitor specialising in personal injury claims and has been employed to head the litigation department.

He will be based primarily in Brigg, but will be holding surgery days at the Scunthorpe and Epworth offices.

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In Britain, sales in January were up 6.7 per cent, with Germany witnessing a 2.5 per cent rise, with Spain a whopping 27.5 per cent and France 5.9 per cent.

A £26 million investment by Associated British Ports, in partnership with Volkswagen Group and logistics provider GBA Group, has seen the town’s role future-proofed with a new river terminal dedicated to car imports and exports.

Large swathes of concreted-land in northern Lincolnshire are used as reception facilities for the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that arrive annually, ahead of pre-delivery inspection and distribution to dealerships around the UK. Sue Robinson, director of the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) which represents franchised car and commercial retailers across the UK, said: “It is extremely positive to see that the new car market in 2015 has got off to a strong start.

“January saw strong growth in the UK fleet market with an increase of 18.1 per cent indicating a strengthening in business confidence enabling businesses to invest in the purchase of new vehicles.

“The new car market across Europe is seeing signs of recovery with Germany this week posting a 2.5 per cent increase in new car sales in January, as well as Spain and France who posted 27.5 per cent and 5.9 per cent increases respectively. It is believed that improving consumer sentiment across Europe and more disposable income and Government incentives are helping drive this market.

“The NFDA expect the market this year to continue to perform well and to build on the success of 2014.”

This is the 35th consecutive month of growth in the UK market.

Car tax changes don’t need to be taxing: Online service launch AN ONLINE trial has been launched by HM Revenue And Customs (HMRC), allowing company car drivers to make changes to car and fuel benefits that will affect their tax codes.

This means that Pay As You Earn (PAYE) customers who have company cars will be able to make any changes online to their company cars and will no longer have to wait for HMRC to update their tax code for them.

HMRC’s chief digital and information officer Mark Dearnley said: “HMRC is rolling out customer-focused digital services that are so

straightforward and convenient that everyone who can use them will choose to do so.

“Our digital services will deliver significant savings to HMRC’s customers in both the cost of phone calls and time spent dealing with the department. They will also mean that people can deal with the department when it is most convenient for them – rather than for us.

“This trial means that we can incorporate customer’s feedback to ensure we deliver a service they want.”

The new digital service is being used with GOV.UK Verify

– the new way for people to prove who they are when using government digital services.

HMRC receives about 4.3 million calls a year from customers about their tax codes.

It has recently completed a public consultation on voluntary pay-rolling of benefits-in-kind, including company car benefits.

Where employers adopt payrolling of benefits, customers will not need to use the new digital service as they will be paying the right amount of tax in real time.

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Western gateway Local Growth Fund success is most welcome C

OMMERCIAL property professionals have welcomed the successful Local Growth Fund bids, announced this past month.

Several projects were approved, and while modest individually, they added up to a near ÂŁ10 million investment across northern Lincolnshire.

Two that caught the eye and have the ability to make a big difference to the inward investment proposition, were South Humber Industrial Infrastructure Programme and Stallingborough Interchange Strategic Employment Site.

Together they open up a vast swathe of land between the ports of Grimsby and Immingham, enhanced by work underway to introduce pre-selected mitigation sites to allow for the Humber’s Natural England Site of Special Scientific Interest status to flourish alongside employment opportunities.

Great Coates Industrial Park will be created by opening up access across what was the Courtaulds estate, linking Pyewipe with Stallingborough Industrial Estate, with an adopted road from Moody Lane to Hobson Way, between Lenzing Fibers and Centrica’s gas-fired power station.

Then land to the south east of Kiln Lane roundabout on the A1173, the eastern approach to Immingham, will also be readied for investment, with vital services and roads installed.

Carl Bradley, director with Clark Weightman, said: “I think this Local Growth Fund opens up land for big industrial users and smaller type developers. “Major industrial users are absolutely fantastic because that is going to be genuine inward investment, that one would hope will employ a large number of people. “The smaller stuff is required, too. We know that there is a shortage of quality industrial stock coming in to the

GRAND PLAN: South Humber Infrastructure Investment Programme, featuring Great Coates Industrial Park and Stallingborough Interchange, together with strategic ecological mitigation sites, which free up vast swathes of land. Welcoming the funding success, announced this past month, are, clockwise from top, Carl Bradley, Laura Lougher and Ed Chisholm.

market place at the moment. What we would like now to happen is someone to have the confidence to do some speculative building.�

Underlining the demand out there, he said: “The time lag between a business wanting to do something, to then physically being in occupation is too long for some businesses.�

One slight concern was the impact it could have on other areas where stock is tiring, if businesses already trading in the borough seek to move. “It does beg the question if all of this comes to fruition, what actually happens to the older, second hand stock,� said Mr Bradley. “We end up with premises, like in

LAUNCH: Lord Newby, centre left, is welcomed to Cleethorpes, and specifically the stripped-back Cleethorpes Pier, to announce the successful Local Growth Fund projects, by Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers, second left. Looking on are Lord Haskins, chairman of Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, and Councillor Chris Shaw, leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, with Grimsby Telegraph business editor David Laister.

King Edward Street, and other areas around the town, where former occupiers are suddenly in new premises. You can look at Haiths, who have moved from Park Street to Europarc, an absolutely fantastic investment, but the balance involves a site vacated that is still sat there. “If South Humberside Industrial Estate and Kiln Lane type people are looking to relocate into new buildings now, a pro-active strategy is required from North East Lincolnshire Council on how they deal with ground leases so new businesses can come in to these places and look to refurbish. “We have got to make sure some secondary stock doesn’t suddenly become very tertiary.�

Funding was also obtained for improvements to the rail bridge at Melton Ross, on the A18, where heavy goods vehicles have been prohibited; two mixed-use developments in Cleethorpes, at Grant Street and the wider Dolphin Hotel site; and significant Scunthorpe town centre regeneration, with an enterprise centre, and an enterprise hub on Westcliffe, Scunthorpe, as well as the first phase of environmental works at the Lincolnshire Lakes residential development, west of the town.

Ed Chisholm, a chartered surveyor at Scotts in Grimsby, said: “When you look at the announcements with Able UK, and the marine energy park being brought forward, we are getting enquiries that we cannot accommodate, and people are looking for modern commercial property stock. Even food grade stock is scarce because an issue with a lot of older buildings in and around Grimsby is that the technology and guidelines have moved on. � Continued on page 25.

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GAINSBOROUGH CHURCH STREET • Two Retail Units • Ground Floor Retail Space • Prominent Location • Town Centre • 191.02 Sq M (2,056 Sq Ft) • Freehold £150,000 • No 2 - Currently Let • No 2a - Rent - £10,000 Pax • Epc Rating E - No.2 • Epc Rating E - No.2a

GRIMSBY ESTATE ROAD NO 1, STH HUMBS IND EST • To Let £10,000 Pax • Established Commercial / Industrial Location • Ground Floor Offices • 150 Sq M / 1,600 Sq Ft Nia • 6no Parking Spaces • Negotiable Lease Terms • Epc Rating E

£10,000 To Let pax

GREETWELL KIRTON ROAD • Owner Occupier Opportunity Or Investment • 5 Apartments • Could Be Converted Back Into Large Bungalow • Epc Rating D - Pine Lodge • Epc Rating E - Front Lodge • Epc Rating E - Lodge End • Epc Rating D - The Den • Epc Rating E - Pine Cottage

£350,000 Freehold

GLENTHAM UNIT, THE WILLOWS GARDEN CENTRE • Retail Unit • Garden Centre Location • Rent: £80 Per Week • £600 Yearly Service Charge • Epc Rating B

INGHAM THE CLIFF • Rural Barn Conversion • Site Area 0.567 Acres (0.229 Ha) • Office Space - 202.1 Sq M (2,175 Sq Ft) • Workshop Space - 183.66 Sq M (1,976 Sq Ft) • Yard • Parking For 10 Vehicles • Epc Rating D

GAINSBOROUGH MARKET STREET • Retail Premises - 2 Floors • Ground Floor Retail • First Floor Storage • Secure Shutters To Part Of The Ground Floor • Prominent Location • Contribution Towards Fit Out May Be Considered • Epc Rating G

HEMSWELL CLIFF GIBSON ROAD • Ground And First Floor Office Suites Available • Ground Floor East Suite 1,480 Sq Ft • Ground Floor North Suite 2 - 484 Sq Ft • First Floor Office 1 - 618 Sq Ft • Store Room 4 - 187 Sq Ft • Epc Rating F

WILTON ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE JACKSON PLACE • Workshop • Single Storey With First Floor Mezzanine • Produces £24,000 Pax • B1/b2 Use • Includes All Fixtures And Fittings And Business Assets • 2 Full Height Sliding Doors • Three Phase Electricity • Freehold • Epc Rating F

With Offices at

| Lincoln | North Hykeham | Sleaford | Boston | Spalding | Grantham | Grimsby |

£80 per week To Let pax

NEW

£450,000 Freehold

£12,500 To Let pax

Rents From £1,584 To Let pax

£240,000 Freehold

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Opening up the South Humber Bank further ● Continued 23.

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“From a speculative investor point of view, the land needs to “There is also a problem with be near-enough free, and that’s speculative building, and that assuming there are no costs of contamination, putting is we have clients who have vacant property on the market specialist foundations in etc.”

This situation means that for 12 to 18 months, and either the landowner has to be because rents are a massive become the developer, or the concern and insurance business has to take on the premiums on top are project itself, as well as doing significant, it deters what it does best. developers from building “As an end user, they are less more. concerned about value, “Another issue we are still finding is the cost of building because a building is for use for 10 to 15 years as part of a doesn’t equal the value. A typical industrial unit doesn’t business plan, it becomes an asset of the company,” said Mr stack up unless it is for owner-occupation. The cost of Chisholm. “They have still got to fund it, but the return building has gone up, but doesn’t matter as much. values still haven’t recovered fully from 2006/2007.

“Overall these

announcements are very positive though, they have got to be. This is new development, in the right place, very port-centric with great motorway access.”

Laura Lougher, a solicitor specialising in commercial property with Grimsby-headquartered Wilkin Chapman Grange, said: “I think the council is right to be looking forward, and what we are seeing could be five years hence.

“At the moment the majority of work is lease work, and we seem to be dealing with quite a lot of lease renewals and businesses expanding. There is a growing demand for more space.”

This is new development, in the right place, very port-centric with great motorway access Ed Chisholm AS WE ARE NOW: An aerial view of the Moody Lane to Hobson Way development, cutting through the middle, with Europarc to the left. Picture courtesy of Google Maps.

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UNWANTED LEGACY: Haith’s growth and ambition has also left an as-yet redeveloped or reocuppied site in Park Street, Cleethorpes. According to professionals working in the sector this can be a downside to new development phases.

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CHARTERED SURVEYORS & COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS

CLEETHORPES

GRIMSBY

Land at, Norfolk Lane

* FOR SALE * Residential development land * Approx 0.23 acres/0.09 hectares (subject to site survey) * Planning consent for 5, 3 storey terraced houses * Close to railway and sea front and most facilities and amenities * Existing rental income for 12 x brick lock-up stores/garages and potential for further parking/ storage * Freehold

81-83, Freeman Street TO LET

* Ground floor sales approx 302 sqm/3240 sqft * Deep return frontage, Security shutters Approx. 221 sqm/2278 sqft; first floor secondary sales, plus ancillaries * Rear loading access and on street car parking, * EPC Rating D

£250,000

RENT £15,000 p.a.x

LOUTH

GRIMSBY 180, Eastgate TO LET

* TO LET (MAY SELL DUE TO RELOCATION) * Former dental practice/arcade cafe * Approx 61sqm/658 sqft * Internal frontage approx. 4.5m/14.8ft * presently partitioned to create waiting area, 2 consulting rooms, a decontamination room, with DDA WC * Porecourt access/parking * New lease, term by negotiation * EPC Rating C

RENT £8,000 p.a.x.

Site, Railway Street FOR SALE/TO LET

* Former motor trade sales pitch, Workshop/offices, EPC Rating E * Overall site approx 0.64 acres/0.25 hectares (SSTS) * Suit alternative uses subject to appropriate consents and approvals * Freehold/Lease terms by negotiation, Considerable potential/may divide

PRICE O/A £175,000/Rent by negotiation

GRIMSBY Units 2 & 4, 53 Julian Street TO LET

FEATURED PROPERTIES

Town Hall Square GRIMSBY •Second floor offices with lift •1,738 sq ft •Town centre location

£15,000 pa

Units 6-9, Enterprise Way GRIMSBY •Workshop / warehouse •2,404 sq ft •Just off Ladysmith Road

£8,750 pa

Charlton Street GRIMSBY •Food grade factory / warehouse unit •office, preparation areas & cold stores •Well located for A180

£275,000 (leasehold)

Falkland Way, Stanley House BARTON-UPON-HUMBER •Modern high quality office and workshop premises •1,332.9 sq m (14,342 sq ft) •Site area 1.15 acres

* Stores available * Unit 2 approx. 163 sqm/1755 sqft with an eaves height of approx. 2.87m, office content and roller shutter loading door * Unit 4 approx 724.5 sqm/8044 sqft with an eaves height of 3m including office content * Secure yard, shared parking * Available on new agreements

63, Freeman Street * Lock-up former take-away, EPC Rating E * Approx 1259 sqft/117 sqm (GIA), First floor storage, approx 17.94 sqm/193 sqft plus WC facilities * Security shutter, Take-away/cafe restaurant potential with ground floor toilets

Rents from £500 pcm including electricity

£8,000

GRIMSBY

GRIMSBY

GRIMSBY

18 Cleethorpe Road

307, Laceby Road

39, Ladysmith Road

£50,000 pa

To find out more and search for available property please visit

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TO LET

TO LET

FOR SALE

* Period office building, Approx 1029 sq ft/95.6 sq m * Ground floor former optician's, Approx 632 sqft/58.7 sqm * Lock-up shop unit approx 498 sqft/46.3 sqm, Let 2 * 5 offices on 2 levels, Close to Victoria St North/ * Extensive double glazing and gas fired central heating, bedroomed flat over Westgate parking * Detached 2 storey workshop/store approx 835 sqft/77.6 sqm * EPC Rating F * EPC Rating D * Investment potential, Freehold EPC C

RENT £5500 p.a.

RENT £5,000 p.a. exclusive

OIRO £85,000

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Commercial Property Serving the Region’s Business & Commerce

Project out the pipeline

Former Residential Care Home in Central Corner Retail/Office Premises in Popular Cleethorpes Offering an Excellent Market Town Opportunity for Re-development

MOVING FORWARD: Westwood Pipelines, Sandtoft.

NEW TOT MARKE

Caistor - South Street £46,950

NEW TOT MARKE Cleethorpes - College Street

£325,000

These substantial premises have been used for many years as an residential care home, providing 15 BEDROOMS with living facilities in the heart of central Cleethorpes, being a short walk from the main shopping street, St Peters Avenue, the various bars and eateries along High Street and Market Place, as well the seafront and all its facilities. The property has been extended to provide some (378 sq m) 4067 sq ft and offers an excellent opportunity to create a boutique Hotel/B&B for the expanding demand of the Humber Bank and resort itself, other uses could suit change of use to a House in Multiple Occupation or a re-development into flats, all of course subject to the necessary planning consents. An early viewing is recommended to appreciate the potential on offer.

Centrally Located Business Premises Former Private Shop On Arterial Road

Located just off the Market Place, on a prominent corner position, within this ever popular and improving/expanding market town, which lies just of the main Grimsby/ Lincoln A46 route. Within the town centre you will find various local and national traders, independent retailers and eateries/ pubic houses. Offered For Sale, these ground floor premises offer an excellent opportunity for either a retail or office user, having been last used as a professional practice.

The premises provide 527 sqft (49 sqm) of accommodation, which is currently arranged a reception/waiting room, consulting rooms, kitchen/rear store and wc off.

Extensive Former Public House With Various Commercial & Residential Consents

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fast track expansion project has been completed for Westwood Pipelines at Sandtoft, with five jobs created.

The company has relocated warehousing, workshops and office facilities to a new and modernised lay-out, delivered in part through Regional Growth Fund support.

Steve Brewer chief executive, appointed Scunthorpeheadquartered CR Parrott Consultants in late 2013 as project manager and agent for the £550,000 scheme, that has just completed.

The consultant helped

secure the £100,000 of public funding, without which Mr Brewer said the scheme would not have been developed to the full potential.

Cube3 Construction, of North Killingholme, was appointed via tender in September last year, and the 13-week build was completed on time.

Mr Brewer said: “From inception to completion, both CR Parrott Consultants Ltd and Cube3 Construction delivered professional and timely results which has allowed Westwood Pipelines much needed expansion. The Regional Grant Funding opportunity also enabled us to provide five new jobs at the company.”

Cleethorpes - Grimsby Road £100 per week

Located on Grimsby Road, the main arterial route through to both the towns of Grimsby and the popular sea side town Cleethorpes, attracting a high volume of visitors on an annual basis with a high level of traffic throughout the day. The accommodation provides a ground floor business premises with an area of 402 sq ft (37.34 sq m) that would suit various uses, subject to the appropriate consent. Available on flexible terms at a rent of £100 per week.

Luddington - High Street

Prominent Town Centre Workshop/Units Situated Within A Busy Established Trading Area

COMMERCIAL

£100,000

An extensive former public house on a site of approximately 0.83 acres, located on the B1392 within the heart of the picturesque rural village of Luddington North Lincolnshire, lying between the towns of Scunthorpe and Goole that has undergone part conversion to the ground and upper floors, providing a two bedroomed apartment with space for a further residential dwelling to the first floor. An excellent development project with various commercial planning consents to the ground floor, including A3 and A5 use. The property is available for sale with an asking price £100,000.

Prominent Corner Retail Unit

The scheme was led by CR Parrott’s senior project manager, John Hubble, who said the works comprised the refurbishment and total upgrade of the existing redundant building, including part demolition of secondary units, complete re-cladding of roof and vertical sheeting, together with upgrades to staffing facilities, and new office provision, as well as the relocation of the existing company manufacturing equipment units.

The hardstand areas are now used for the storage of the company’s pipeline materials, which were previously sited on rented areas.

At the centre of North Lincolnshire’s Commercial and Industrial markets FOR SALE HOTEL, RESTAURANT & BAR PROMINENT LOCATION, SCUNTHORPE

TO LET PRIME OFFICES LIMEWOOD SUITE PARK SQUARE, SCUNTHORPE ● ●

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17 bedrooms plus Restaurant for 60 covers, bar and kitchen.

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TO LET CAFE/TAKEAWAY/RETAIL 2 COLE STREET, SCUNTHORPE

TO LET RETAIL UNIT 4 RAVENDALE STREET, SCUNTHORPE

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Cleethorpes - Grimsby Rd £85 per week

Grimsby - Unit 1&4 Holme Street £5,500 p.a. each Prominent town centre Workshop/warehouse accommodation of between 1235/1353 sq ft (123.2/125.8 sq m) located on Holme Street/Eastgate Grimsby situated within a busy established trading area, located close to Hainton Avenue/ and Freeman Street providing easy access to the docks A180 motorway network. Secure car parking and loading facility, 3 phase electricity supply. Available To Let on flexible terms at an annual rent of £5,500 each, incentives available.

Corner retail unit holding a highly visible position, located at the junction with Suggitts Lane, in a good commercial area. Grimsby Road is the main arterial route through to both the towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes and has a high level of traffic throughout the day. These prominent corner premises of 362 sq ft have most recently been utilised as a cake shop and offer an excellent retailing opportunity with the added advantage of side off-road parking. The premises would suit a variety of users and are available on flexible terms.

Other branches in Brigg, Barton-Upon-Humber, Hessle, Humberston, Market Rasen and Gainsborough

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Located in the pedestrian area of the town with high footfall.

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Kiosk unit ideal for small retailer.

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Approx 276 sq ft (24.89 sqm)

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High footfall location.

Located in the pedestrian part of the town centre.

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Food and retail users surrounding.

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Approx size 1622 sq ft (150.81 sqm).

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1 parking space.

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New lease available.

Major retailers adjacent & opposite Cost effective terms

RENT £7,000 PER ANNUM

RENT £7,500 PER ANNUM

FOR SALE HMO INVESTMENT 235 FRODINGHAM ROAD, SCUNTHORPE

FOR SALE RESTAURANT BUSINESS POPULAR VILLAGE LOCATION, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE

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CHARTERED SURVEYORS • PROPERTY CONSULTANTS • ASSET MANAGERS GRIMSBY 01472 353436 SCUNTHORPE 01724 856037 www.lovelle-commercial.co.uk

Prestigious purpose built offices.

Development includes solicitors, government, financial and other professional users.

Close by are the Law Courts, Police Station, Railway Station and Theatre.

Units available from 200 sq ft, 486 sq ft & 1650 sq ft.

High specification.

Dedicated parking.

5 Bedroom HMO

Income producing max approx. £16,900 pa

Main road location. Attractive setting with on site parking.

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Premises held on a lease.

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Landlord pays services & outgoings

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Approx 44 covers plus bar area and seating. Fully equiped kitchen, cellar etc.

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High yield opportunity

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Similar property available next door

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Immediately available

FREEHOLD PRICE £97,500 Large selection selection of of Large further properties further properties available

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PRICE £64,950 INC BUSINESS FIXTURE & FITTINGS

Contact Contact John John Knight Knight Tel: 01724 870520 Tel: 01724 870520 32 Oswald Road, Scunthorpe

www.paul-fox.com/commercial

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Commercial Property Building a strategy for public sector work

VISION: Parkway Business Park, Scunthorpe, where phase one has been sold, in a £1.36 million deal.

Parkway peaks interest as national companies explore a second phase A

BUSINESS park in Scunthorpe, home to several national companies, is set for further expansion after the project developer completed the sale of the first phase.

Proceeds from Parkway Business Park will kick-start the new element, which is already attracting the attention DONE DEAL: Andrew Allenby, of more big brands, owner left, and Dave Garness.

Allenby Commercial, based in plumbers’ merchants, was sold Hull, said. for £1.36-million to the trustees of Kingston Unity Friendly Society, with a yield of 8.38 per cent.

Andrew Allenby, managing director of Allenby Commercial, said a planning application is now being prepared for the next three acres, with a further 30,000 sq ft of trade counter space.

“We have always done well in the Scunthorpe area, which Andrew Allenby has shown that if you produce good quality developments the customers will respond,” he The site, which houses seven said. “We want to establish this units with tenants including location as the town’s trade Screwfix Direct, Crown park centre.

Decorating Centre and Graham “The new project will be an

If you produce good quality developments the customers will respond

expansion of what is already there and the money from this sale will support our ongoing investment and development in the area. We are already in discussion with some national operators which are interested in the new site.”

Garness Jones of Hull and Jones Lang LaSalle were the joint agents for Allenby Commercial and Matthew Edwards, regional managing partner at Ryden, acted for the purchasers.

Dave Garness, managing director of Garness Jones, said: “This is a significant deal involving a prominent site and it demonstrates the confidence in the Scunthorpe area held by the purchasers and by Allenby Commercial, who have acted to deliver on the potential for future development and jobs in the area.”

Mr Edwards added: “The property fits in with Kingston Unity’s strategy of buying good quality assets in improving locations and I look forward to seeing work commence on the next phase.”

Britcon’s Advanced Manufacturing Park win SCUNTHORPE-based building and civil engineering contractor, Britcon, has been awarded a significant contract by the Homes and Communities Agency to design and build a £4.2 million technical centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Sheffield.

The facility provides world-class technology solutions for use in precision industries including aerospace, defence, construction, and automotive. The 100-acre development is a joint venture between public and private sector organisations to create an internationally recognised centre for engineering, innovation, research and manufacturing excellence.

At its hub, the park has some of the world’s leading materials and manufacturing

technologies organisations.

Britcon will deliver a 32,291 sq ft facility which will include five split level workshops with shared office space. The building is to be marketed as an incubator for high tech business.

Ian Chapman, regional manager, said: “We are delighted to secure this major contract.

Our combined design and build capabilities and sector track record has qualified us, through a very strict tender process, to deliver a one stop solution.”

Britcon expects to start construction of the new facility in March with completion anticipated in September 2015

THE Local Government Association’s new construction procurement strategy sets the framework for improving public purchasing for small and micro firms, according to the Federation of Master Builders.

The Construction Category Strategy was launched earlier this month, and is intended to support a more focused approach to what is a key spending area for local government and a major source of employment across the country.

Peter Fleming, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Improvement and Innovation Board, said: “Local government wants to build long-term partnerships with suppliers who we believe can help us deliver significant local growth, increased skills and jobs. The strategy is the first step in addressing the need for a strong collaboration between industry and local government to make sure that local people have the skills required to deliver these projects.

“The strategy outlines a general ‘call to arms’ for local government so as to enable increased efficiencies through collaboration and partnering. Construction permeates virtually all other industries, is a major source of employment and is a foundation of a prosperous society.”

Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders, said: “With 41 per cent of SMEs failing to win nine out of ten public sector contracts they bid for, the LGA focus on making procurement processes more SME-friendly is extremely welcome. The new strategy, which is the first of its kind, is right to highlight how increasing the amount of construction work awarded to construction SMEs is key to maximising local economic growth. I urge all local authorities to analyse their own processes against the key objectives contained within the strategy and ensure their own approach isn’t needlessly blocking small firms.”

RAM BOULEVARD

FOXHILLS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SCUNTHORPE DN15 8QW

Warehouse / distribution facility and offices 8,272.41 sq m (89,011 sq ft) Extensive site of 1.75 ha (4.33 acres) Excellent location, approx 2.5 miles from M181 Freehold £POA

Tel: 01482 645522

0113 241 0940

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LAISTER’S Investors raise a glass to pub Last Word Commercial Property

BY DAVE LAISTER

Let’s not allow our league of nations status to become an international SOS LAST month’s dream of a final safe passage for Able Marine Energy Park in 2015 has been granted, and it appears to have put one big smile on the face of northern Lincolnshire.

It was the talk of one business event I attended, and it certainly banished those January blues away.

We now need to see a united Humber, be it local authorities or port operators, banging the drum as loud as possible for this area.

No more so now too, as some of our more traditional industries on the South Bank undergo some major rationalisation.

The events at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery and Cristal have undoubtedly clipped the wings of our heady ambition, but they are making sure their people get the best chances when it comes to the new era.

Part of Total’s adaptation plan involves a considerable pot of money to re-train, not just their own affected, but others struggling with employment.

I hope this sum, somewhere around the £2 million mark I understand, can be put to good use locally, the likes of HCF Catch and the apprentice programme that has been lauded by many springs to mind.

This sudden loss of 250 great positions also underlines the importance of ensuring the workforce here is leaner, meaner, and more efficient, so decisions made well beyond this newspaper’s circulation area are not made without due thought about the impact it brings. When we are at the behest of board meetings convened in Paris, Riyadh, Houston, Basel and Berlin, then we need to make the best possible case for maintaining, investing and ensuring a strong future for all industry, not just the renewables revolution. We need to make the hard decisions even harder.

GRIMSBY NEW

INDUSTRIAL SCUNTHORPE

REF 10630SI/1

Detached industrial premises of 1,107.89 sq m (11,917 sq ft) approx.

Versatile premise with 1st floor mezzanine uPVC double glazing, fire/security alarm systems compressed airlines 3 phase electricity & fitted lighting. ● Popular and well-established location on the South Humberside Industrial Estate with good road access. ● ●

GRIMSBY

www.pph-commercial.co.uk

OFFICES SCUNTHORPE

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Attractive rural location but with good road access to the

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Available by way of a new lease.

TO LET

Modern fabrication/engineering premises of 2,767.5 sq m (29,782 sq ft) on a site of approximately 1.48 Hectares (3.656 Acres) ● Quality two storey offices with clear span workshop facilities and extensive yard area ● Popular/accessible location on the A1077 close to the M181/ M180 ●

Available for immediate occupation either as a whole or as

Estate. two separate units.

REF 10177SI/1

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Unit15 WestsideBusinessPark,EstateRoadNo2 Detached new industrial/business unit of 292.64 sq m (3,150 sq ft) approx.

Fully fenced/site with high quality landscaping and car parking. ● Popular and accessible location close to the A180 and docks. ● Excellent opportunity to lease or purchase new industrial premises in a much sought after industrial location. ●

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£85,000 PAX TO LET/MAY SELL

INDUSTRIAL SCUNTHORPE

PyewipePlace,SouthHumbersideIndustrialEstate Units from 214.02 sq m (2,303 sq ft) to 243.87 sq m (2,624 sq ft) approx.

Attractive well designed scheme with designated car parking and landscaping ● Popular and well established location on the South Humberside Industrial Estate with good road access to the A180/M180, docks and town centre ● EPC Rating G. ●

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INDUSTRIAL

20 Warren Road ●

Trade counter/industrial premises of 691.48 sq m (7,441 sq

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Prominent location on Warren Road.

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Available for immediate occupation.

ft) approx.

£120,000 PAX TO LET

FROM £11,500 PAX FOR SALE

£165,000

RETAIL ASHBY

RETAIL/SHOWROOM GRIMSBY

OFFICES/LEISURE

Normanby Gateway, Lysaghts Way

¢ Modern high quality managed business suite 115.38 sq m (1,242 sq ft) with excellent voice and data communication infrastructure ● ¢ High speed broadband internet access ● ¢ Fitted heating, lighting, carpeting and carpeting and on site car parking facilities. ● ¢ Prominent and accessible location with good links to the motorway network ● ¢ Use of well equipped conference and meeting rooms ●

£3,120 PAX TO LET

2-4 Market Place

Substantial town centre property Excellent opportunity in need of work ● Prominent location overlooking the Market Place ● Large former Co-Op Food Store on ground floor ● Upper floors comprising residential, ancillary and storage space ● EPC Band C ● ●

ON APPLICATION FOR SALE

202-210 Ashby High Street

Modern retail/showroom premises of 289.3 sq m (3,113 sq ft) to 1,606.94 sq m (17,291 sq ft). ● Prominent location fronting Ashby High Street, neighbouring occupiers include Wilkinsons, Home Bargains and Ladbrokes. ● Clear span flexible accommodation may suit alternative uses, subject to consent. ● Available for immediate occupation. ●

£295,000 FOR SALE/TO LET

3-7 Brighowgate ●

Former Tukes Cafe with conferencing and meeting room

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Available upon new Lease.

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Would suit a variety of alternative uses such as offices,

facilities providing 719 sq m (7,736 sq ft) approx.

leisure, restaurant/licensed premises and training.

ON APPLICATION TO LET

The Region’s Award Winning Commercial Property Agent

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sq ft) approx.

A16.

Popular location on the South Humberside Industrial

REF 10229SR/1

Detached single storey office premises of 60.45 sq m (650

REF 837SO/1

Station Road ●

Industrial premises of 4,628.8 sq m (49,826 sq ft) approx.

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INDUSTRIAL

NEW

REF 10608SO

HOLTON LE CLAY NEW

Dragonby Vale, Mannaberg Way

INDUSTRIAL GRIMSBY

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TO LET

INDUSTRIAL GRIMSBY

£280,000 LONG LEASEHOLD TO LET

Units5&6OmegaBusinessPark,EstateRoadNo.6

01724 282278 or648888 01472 267513 01482

● My daughter’s fourth birthday passed without the Frozen phase thawing. We’re starting to border on the obsessive when it comes to merchandise. I am pleased to report, however, that the party didn’t require a specific gift list for those invited, fines for non-attendance or food allergy advice pre-printed on the buffet or my wife’s awesome cake. Keeping it real! ● Amusing diary clash at Chez Laister. Annual dinner of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce with Shadow Chancellor as guest speaker up against girly night out to see 50 Shades of Grey.

So I’ll be listening to Balls while my wife is thinking of... popcorn and pick ‘n’ mix, obviously.

NEW

Plot 5, Estate Road No. 4

FOR SALE

FINAL PIECE: Able Marine Energy Park should complete the green energy jigsaw on the Humber, much like this act in June 1980 completed the road section of the Humber Bridge.

REF 5581SI/1

full block occupancy stretching back to Osborne Street, with House of Fraser and Freshney Place just yards away. Tom Cunningham, associate director of licensed leisure at Savills, who acted for a private vendor, said: “With an established tenant in place, this asset offered a stable long term income and attracted considerable interest from investors.”

The pub business is unaffected by the transaction, and the investment take-up underlines confidence in a CHANGED HANDS: The Friary, a strong investment. strong town centre.

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Tim Cunningham

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This attracted considerable interest from investors

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The premises, a former Yorkshire Electricity Board showroom – previously trading as Edward’s and DN31 – had a guide price of £1.2 million, with a 23-year unexpired lease held by Mitchells & Butlers, bringing in £95,000 a year.

The 7,22 sq ft property is on the pedestrianised stretch of Victoria Street, and enjoys

REF 10553SR/1

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RIMSBY top town pub The Friary has sold as an investment purchase.

£32,500 PAX