Business telegraph april 2018

Thursday, April 19, 2018

SHORTLIST IS OUT FOR SOUTH BANK AWARDS BASH

FINANCE BOOST FOR EXPANDING LEISURE FIRM

PAGE 12

PAGE 2

EXPERTS in Commercial Property and Leases Contact us on

01472 699599 64 St Peters Avenue Cleethorpes N.E. Lincolnshire DN35 8HP

www.rjsolicitors.co.uk

The latest business news at humberbusiness.com

HORNSEA HEADS TO THE HUMBER

By David Laister

SHEER SCALE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST WIND FARM IS WITNESSED

Business Editor dave.laister@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk Twitter: @davelaister

POST-Easter summer season is upon us when it comes to the Humber’s offshore wind industry, and as delegates prepare to gather for the major regional conference, the world’s largest project is cranking up the scale.

Heading north from Spain now are four huge jackets, steel rig-like structures to hold the massive offshore substations and allied equipment charged with transforming the Earth’s natural resource into UK electricity supply – plugging into northern Lincolnshire at North Killingholme, and operated and maintained from Grimsby.

All four jackets have been loaded out, with a reactive compensation base and the first offshore substation plinths hitting the waters off immediately after the Bank Holiday Weekend.

The further two offshore substation plinths were loaded last week.

Within a fortnight all will be on site, 120km off the Humber approaches, with jack-up vessels primed to meet them.

The first substation has also been loaded out of Denmark.

Offshore Wind Connections 2018

Hornsea Project One infrastructure on the move from Spain. Inset, Martin Whitmarsh. will open as they close in on the Hornsea Zone, underlining the huge raft of experience, with key speakers from the project lined up.

As well as Orsted, behind Hornsea, Semco Maritime, the company tasked with substation delivery, is lined up. It has already established a base beside Orstred’s East Coat Hub, as it gears up for the world first – three identical installations – as it brings the engineering feat to life alongside Siemens Gamesa and a host of other contractors from home and abroad.

It comes as a Humber centre of excellence for operations and maintenance is established, and as the UK Offshore Wind Industry Council launches a full review of the UK supply chain as part of its vision for 2030 which was unveiled last month.

A key aim is to foster a world-leading supply chain, and Martin Whitmarsh, former McLaren Group chief executive, is to conduct a review to create a clear development plan for the industry.

It will set out how the industry can

ORTH LINCS TYRES

GRIMSBY

for the latest and breaking business news around the Humber region visit humberbusiness.com

Continued on PAGE 4

www.northlincstyreslimited.co.uk LOCKHILL,VICTORIA STREET, GRIMSBY

01472 360369

NORTH LINCS TYRES is conveniently located at Lockhill, the roundabout for Victoria Street and the A180

STE-E01-S6

TYRE MANAGEMENT BY PROFESSIONALS

deliver £2.6 billion in annual exports by 2030 – five times that of today – and support up to 27,000 high quality, well-paid jobs across the country.

Mr Whitmarsh said: “It really is an honour to be leading this review and I want the UK’s offshore wind supply chain to be in pole position in this increasingly competitive global market. “Increasing supply chain productivity will directly lead to lower costs and enable UK companies to

your daily port of call

2

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

STE-E01-S6

Business contacts Editorial

David Laister Direct line: 01472 806972 Mobile: 07730 639525 Email: dave.laister@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

General Advertising Angie Atkinson Direct line: 01472 806963 Mobile: 07920 823554 angie.atkinson@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

Property Advertising Sharon Cameron Direct line: 01472 807031

sharon.cameron@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

Motors Advertising Andy Bannister Direct line: 01472 806962 Mobile: 07799 626752 andrew.bannister@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

Next edition:

Grimsby Tuesday, May 22 Scunthorpe Thursday, May 24

Director Tom Burrows, right, is congratulated

by RNS partner Alex Douglas on becoming a dealer for the Venus range of Lunar caravans.

Caravans of love keep the home fires burning EXPANSION PLANS FOLLOW RANGE ADDITION A FAMILY business is embracing expansion as a 40-year evolution is now guided by a third generation.

Inglewood Leisure, of Messingham, has become a dealer for the Venus range of Lunar caravans – expanding its range to include new models for the first time since the firm was established.

It also has plans to extend its caravan storage facility and develop a caravan and camping site, which could open this time next year.

The caravan arm of the business was launched five years ago, building on the reputation of N&P Burrows Fireplaces, which was started on the same site by the late Norman Burrows and his son Paul, who is still the managing director. He has been joined by his son Tom, now a third generation director.

Also a director is Paul’s wife Elizabeth and their daughter Clare is company secretary.

Tom said the expansion into caravans was prompted by a desire to utilise the six-acre site and an adjoining field.

It began with a caravan storage facility – which now accommodates around 200 units – and has grown to include a workshop offering servicing, repairs, valeting and warranty work, plus a shop selling accessories and spares.

The range of used caravans stretches from starter models up to luxury twin axle mobile homes, and the addition of the new Venus range is the “icing on the cake”.

Tom said last year was the best yet Inglewood Leisure. “We like to think it’s down to our established name and location and the fact we are a small

family business – we still offer the personal touch.”

He added that sales of new and used caravans had “gone through the roof ” over the past decade. “It has never been as popular as it is now.”

Latest figures bear that out. A total of 22,000 touring caravans were sold in the year to June 2017, a 7 per cent rise on the previous 12 months – while sales for the entire leisure vehicle market, which also includes motor homes and static caravans, rose by 9 per cent to more than 56,000.

Tom attributed the growth to the popularity of “staycationing” due to fears about terrorism and the cost of taking children away during school holidays.

“It also enables people to get weekends away frequently – it’s still relatively low cost,” he said.

Help from North Lincolnshire’s

RNS Chartered Accountants has led to the company gaining Financial Conduct Authority approval to broker finance, aided the new van sales.

“We have a relationship going back 20 years and they have helped us a great deal along the way,” he said.

However the expansion of the caravan business doesn’t mean the initial venture has cooled.

N&P Burrows Fireplaces has taken on a new brandof its own – it is now one of only 40 showrooms to offer the Michael Miller Collection.

“It’s a quality product at a reasonable price and we offer a good service to go with it,” said Tom. Alex Douglas, partner at RNS, said: “We have been pleased to help wherever we can and hope to continue to support Tom in his ambitions.”

Paul Burrows, wife Elizabeth, son Tom and daughter Clare with the Michael Miller Collection fireplaces.

STE-E01-S6

Thursday, April 19, 2018

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Business

Gender pay gap: Wren doesn’t favour men

IN BRIEF

Five Star blow but jobs saved FOOD: Grimsby’s Five Star Fish could be set to close, with 390 jobs at risk.

The seafood specialist has surrendered contracts with M&S, with town giant Young’s Seafood picking up the work, and creating 200 jobs.

The prospective blow was softened further with a timely expansion announcement from Morrisons, and a further 100 roles.

Owner 2 Sisters Food Group has called time on years of loss-making, having invested £11 million in recent times, as it aimed to support the award of the major high street contract in 2016.

Five Star was the creation of John Fenty, major shareholder and director of Grimsby Town FC, with the purpose-built plant set up on Great Grimsby Business Park in the mid-Nineties.

It has changed hands three times since he sold up in 2004, having been expanded and bought out of administration in a turbulent decade.

BARTON KITCHEN GIANT COMES TOP OF THE RETAILERS SOUTH Bank manufacturing and retail giant Wren Kitchens has been revealed as the ONLY retailer among its peers to have no pay gap in its ranks, and one of only 8 per cent of businesses in the UK. This month saw the deadline set by The Equalities and Human Rights Commission for all companies, charities and public-sector bodies with more than 250 employees to publish their position.

And while the majority of kitchen retailers reported around the 10 per cent mark, the ideally named Wren – the name given to Women’s Royal Naval Service – has a balanced workforce now numbering more than 3,000.

Alex Grant, finance director at Wren Kitchens, said: “I am pleased to report that Wren Kitchens has no gender pay gap making us the lowest in the kitchen industry and within a group of just 8 per cent of companies nationally that don’t report a pay gap.

“In addition, women make up 27 per cent of higher paid jobs and 27.6 per cent of lower paid jobs which aligns with our gender distribution of 29.6 per cent women and 70.4 per cent men across all 3,153 of our colleagues.”

The statistics put Wren well ahead of the likes of Ikea and John Lewis, competitors in the marketplace.

Launched in East Yorkshire in 2009, the company swooped for the Kimberly-Clark nappy manufacturing facility when it closed, making it “The Nest” and investing £40 million in the 750,000 sq ft facility on Falkland Way in 2013. From there it serves 69 UK showrooms in a vertically integrated model from build to installation, with sales over the past four years totalling £1 billion.

That put it in the top 10 per cent of flying businesses listed in The Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table.

As well as Barton, it operates a stand-alone facility on Foxhills Industrial Estate, Scunthorpe.

Stores surge

RETAIL: Scunthorpe’s delivered wholesaler and convenience retail specialist has posted strong fourth quarter results, with sales up more than 26 per cent.

It has been driven by huge growth in member numbers, with the total number of stores now served up 38 per cent to almost 5,000, from less than 3,500, on the back of the demise of competitor Palmer and Harvey.

Earnings are also in line with expectations.

The Waldo Way team said excellent new member recruitment, combined with investment in price, promotions, consumer leaflet development, and the further success of Nisa’s award-winning own label range, contributed to a strong trading period, as it awaits a decision from the Competitions and Markets Authority on the agreed £137.5 million buy-out by The Co-op.

Roadside Assistance

ORTH LINCS TYRES

GRIMSBY

Fleet Audit

TYRE MANAGEMENT BY PROFESSIONALS

Proud to have been Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards Winners of the DFDS Excellence in Community Award in 2017

Forklift Earthmover

NORTH LINCS TYRES is conveniently located at Lockhill, the roundabout for Victoria Street and the A180 LOCKHILL,VICTORIA STREET, GRIMSBY, NORTHEAST LINCOLNSHIRE, DN31 3LS email: info@northlincstyreslimited.co.uk www.northlincstyreslimited.co.uk

SALES ENQUIRIES: (01472) 360369 24 HOUR EMERGENCY: 07850 395408

3

4

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Business So what does the future hold?

THE Grimsby event was all about looking to the future, and respected figures from industry gave their take as part of a panel dicussion.

Hugh McNeal is chief executive of RenewableUK, the professional and trade body working between industry and gover nment.

He said: “We need to see the medium sized business grow if we are to transform places like here, we need to see medium sized companies become larger.

“It is unrealistic to think the UK is going to become a manufacturing powerhouse for Taiwan. Over time it would not make sense to transport around the world.

“What will make sense is knowledge, thought leadership and innovation and service. We have seen with Aberdeen, it has become the service centre for oil and gas, that can be here. A lot of the wider sector deal is about investing in innovation so people come here to see how it is done.

“We don’t necessarily replicate what we have done, but trial the next generation of crew transfer vessels, the first autonomous vessels. We can test them in the field here.

We have that capacity up here to be a test bed as the world develops.

“Innovation is absolutely it, so there are great opportunities here.”

Ray Thompson, head of business development at Siemens Gamesa, welcomed The Crown Estate’s move to examine further development.

“As an industry we very much feel the timing is right for the release of more seabed zones,” he said.

“Round Three was released in the very first week of 2010, yet 2017 was when we put the first turbine in at Rampion. We probably should have had more zones coming in.

“While we have a very strong pipeline it is a very small number of projects and a small number of developers. There is a very strong appetite for new money, new developers. It is now attracting a real clamour to invest, so to commit to have more projects in the market place will create more competition, and from the auction process, that should benefit the bill payer.”

Hornsea arrival

■ continued from page one. seize new opportunities across the globe.

“Another key part of the review is looking at how SMEs can join this growing industry, making sure they understand what industry needs and routes into the sector. I’m looking forward to working alongside the industry experts and engaging with suppliers at all levels of the value chain, and I’m confident that we’ll be able to produce a clear plan, with tangible recommendations to achieve the ambitious targets the OWIC has set for the industry.”

He was McLaren’s F1 team principal and will report back by the end of the summer.

Benj Sykes, co-chair of OWIC and UK country manager for Ørsted, said: “Martin brings extensive experience in the automotive industry and has proven results in improving supply chain productivity.

“Improving productivity will have positive knock-on effects throughout the UK, reducing the cost of offshore wind even further, benefiting domestic and industrial consumers, and helping to support other industries as companies become more competitive.

“The big prize is in the export market.

This is a lucrative opportunity that UK companies want to be involved in.”

STE-E01-S6

Vision for the Humber offshore wind O&M in AS the sector deal model was unveiled for the UK, Grimsby played host to a special event from the recently-initiated UK Operations and Maintenance Centre of Excellence. Business editor David Laister reports.

WITH 10 wind farms likely to be operating from Grimsby by the middle of the next decade, and more zones likely to be released for long-term development in the next 12 months, it seemed very right that ‘Building on Industry Success: How are we Planning for the Future?’ was held in the town.

A partnership between Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and University of Hull, the Humber is the location and a physical base could yet emerge in Grimsby, but officials are tight-lipped at present.

Hopefully presence will follow prose in the coming months, and while steel in the ground was mentioned, where exactly was not, only for it to be “central to the region”.

But while no doubt, agreements, funding and other key issues are worked up, what it aims to achieve is clear, and strong overtures about the town were played out, by organisers and the keynote speaker, Ørsted UK managing Matthew Wright director Matthew Wright.

Chris Hill, offshore performance director of ORE, said: “Since I was involved in the development risk for Hornsea zone, I have had regular visits to the region, and there has been huge progress in that time. With its maritime and energy heritage and geographical location the Humber is well positioned to play a huge role as a leading hub as we grow the offshore wind sector.

“We want to become recognised as the go-to centre for O&M, attract businesses to the area, to build and develop the existing cluster

“

that’s here and support businesses to develop new technology and solutions, and to collaborate to help win new work.

“Here in Grimsby, what better place to talk about it, being a seafaring region with great heritage and expertise and resources for the marine environment. It has been a pioneer for the UK, and we are world leaders in offshore wind.

“It is a competitive space and fierce environment, and fast-changing. Capability is fast-growing in other jurisdictions and it is up to us to capitalise, to drive, to continue to innovate. We need to embrace Industry 4.0, digitalisation, robotics and machine learning. We are here to help and succeed in the fast changing environment.”

He referenced the good work of both Team Humber Marine Alliance and Grimsby Renewables Partnership in what has been achieved so far, with nearly 1.5GW now controlled from the port, and construction on course for 5GW, with more to follow.

Dave Richards, pro-vice chancellor of venture partner University of Hull, said: “We are delighted to be working with ORE Catapult to realise an operational centre of excellence, because we see a lot of opportunity here, and quality here. Why have we chosen to invest?

When you look at offshore wind our belief is this is the place, and place is incredibly important in he Industrial Strategy. That’s where funds will be channeled.

“We want to provide a place, an obvious space where industry comes together, where

If you threw a rather large ring around our projects in operation and construction, they all come back to a point on the Humber. This is the closest point with fantastic facilities to be able to service these wind projects.

we do lots of innovation and tickle the talent.

As a university that’s one of our key roles.

“An announcement around an innovation centre, a base to support this, will come in the next few months, and then we will start putting steel in the ground and that will be a future home.”

With a Greater Grimsby Town Deal in Westminster and indelibly printed in the Industrial Strategy, endorsed by Prime Minister and Business and Energy Secretary, the road map is there.

“It is a real nascent industry with enormous potential,” Dr Robinson said. “No one place has all the answers, collaboration is absolutely key.”

Should there be any doubt that Grimsby is the place to do it, then Mr Wright’s invitation may well have erased them.

Buoyant having visited the £10 million East Coast Hub the team is currently creating at Royal Dock, he had joined the returning crew on the “new toy” – 81m service operation vessel Edda Passat – as she completed her maiden trip from the port to Race Bank.

He said: “It is a transformation. renewable energy has seen this dramatic increase, now it is has its own momentum, it is unstoppable.

We can not only dream about, but really envisage a world that runs entirely on green energy. That’s our vision. We want to be at the vanguard of that.

“Our company is the world’s largest offshore wind developer, and we are the biggest by some distance. The UK is in front by far at the moment, the largest market and leading the world in decarbonisation.

“We have built 10 wind farms since 2006 and have a very strong pipeline, mostly off the

STE-E01-S6

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

to be the blueprint for the UK and overseas out of it.

Speakers at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult “In Taiwan, we are really confident about event at Grimsby Institute, with Matthew Wright, keynote speaker, left, Hugh McNeal, third left, and Ray offshore wind turbines dealing with earthThompson, second right.

Picture: www.davemoss.com quakes and typhoons. We are absolutely confident about robustness of technology, that it can deal with that.

A lot of the risk has come out of the industry, which has driven down the cost of capital and contingency, and of all the things it has had the largest impact.”

And giving an update on his morning visit “down dock”, Mr Wright added: “It is a bit of a construction site down there. Where we built the operations centre for Westermost Rough three years ago, now – because it is going to be the operational centre for all of these projects – we are expanding it again.”

Scheduled for completion in the final quarter of this year, it is a £10 million investment.

“We are going to run five, maybe six projects out of there,” Mr Wright said. “It brings enormous synergies.”

He told how he had arrived at the event having taken the opportunity to welcome home Edda Passat, back from her first fortnight in the field.

“I was there this morning and I met the team who have been on the maiden voyage and they really, really like it.

“We’re not a competitor for P&O but it has a cinema room, gym, the cabins are really nice and apparently the food is fantastic. Not only is it a good place to spend a couple of weeks, from an operational standpoint this vessel is state-of-the-art. It has a motion-controlled gangway, you walk to work from this vessel, you don’t push on and climb up. It comes in, locks on, and we have access. In the bowels of the vessel is a warehouse, with all the parts East Coast. We have already got 2.5GW of tion, the former water industry chief said: “It we need, with a lift that comes up to the capacity, and we are now going to raise to is real. The reasons are some of the more gangway. It is a big beast, and it has just 4.4GW. Our business is going extremely well. obvious things. Scale - the projects are getting transformed what we do. “£12 billion will have been invested in off- bigger, further from shore, accessing higher “Technicians have already done transfers at shore wind in the UK by 2020, we have most wind speeds with much larger turbines. It is 2.3m wave height, considerably more than recently begun Hornsea Project One and economics 1.01, economies of scale. you get from a CTV. It is a potential range and Hornsea Project Two will rapidly expand “Also, risk. 10 years ago we were stepping condition that will allow us to transfer on to a this. into the unknown. What would the sea bed turbine and get us back working if it has “This is really where most of this is hap- conditions be like? How would the elements tripped out and gone down.” pening for us. Here we are in Grimsby, where cause our turbines to wear? What kind of ■ New Westminster offshore wind sector we have made our East Coast home. If you operational vessels would we have? Now this champion, Baroness Brown of Cambridge threw a rather large ring around our projects is common practice, we have taken the risk speaks to Business, see over page. in operation and construction, they all come back to a point on the Humber. This is the closest point with fantastic facilities to be able to service these wind projects.”

Looking holistically at the area, the Ørsted chief said: “We have economies of scale, critical mass, all the things we need to succeed right round this estuary. We have operations and maintenance centres, ours will be the largest operations and maintenance centre in the world, we have a blade factory on the North Bank, we are working with University of Hull and its collaborators.

“We have UTCs, Catch on the South Bank, we have all of these things here on the Humber, to take advantage of the global utilisation of offshore wind and we want it to happen here. The Humber can be the blueprint of growth of the offshore wind industry in the UK and internationally.”

A large rope or a cable route?

Of the wider North Sea area, Mr Wright told Orsted’s East Coast projects, how the UK could potentially power the whole with Hornsea Project One now of the EU nearly twice over. in construction and Lincs, Race Addressing nay-sayers – not that any were Bank and Westermost Rough packed into Grimsby Institute’s University all operational.

Centre – and those skeptical about cost reduc-

Thursday, April 19, 2018

5

Business A drone is used for inspection at E.on's Humber Gateway offshore wind farm by Humber firm MMS.

PROUD TO BE

RENEWING THE HUMBER

E N V I R O N M E N TA L LY A W A R E • SKIP HIRE • WASTE TRANSFER STATION

• PLANT • HAULAGE • AGGREGATES • EARTHWORKS

Email: waste@brianplant.com

Email: info@brianplant.com

TEL: 01472 241342

TEL: 01472 341499

www.brianplant.com

6

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Energy

STE-E01-S6

Baroness breezes in as ‘surprise’ sector champ

In association with

Tel: 01469 577698 www.onloanrecruitment.co.uk

NEW OFFSHORE WIND AMBASSADOR’S DOUBLE DELIGHT

www.andrewjackson.co.uk

01472 889200 www.blackrow.co.uk

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

THE ability to drive carbon reduction while creating skilled employment made the invitation to become Westminster’s Sector Champion for Offshore Wind an opportunity Baroness Brown of Cambridge could not turn down.

She will spearhead a vision that includes £48 billion investment in UK infrastructure, with significant further job creation in coastal communities highlighted.

Speaking to Business, the engineer and cross-bench member of the House of Lords, who was the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016, said: “I am very pleased, really pleased to be asked to do it – quite surprised and very delighted.

“There are two perspectives.

One, I have been a member of Committee for Climate Change since it was established in 2007, and with the modelling of the path to 2032 I always knew there would be a high proportion of offshore wind, even before we saw the cost coming down as fast as we saw in the last auction. Even before in our model, a strong requirement was there, now with reduction in costs, we can get to the 30GW in the vision. That is in the sector deal, and it certainly seems to be the right level we should be aiming for.

We need a big contribution to deliver C02 reduction, to make sure we have a planet for other generations, for our children and grandchildren which can still be habitable.

“The other great thing is it creates jobs, skilled jobs, in coastal areas and traditional maritime areas. It is not about jobs in London or the South East, it works for the country where we need it the most, it will increase GDP where people need a quality of life, a better standard of living.

“Also being an intensely green industry, it has a pretty good record in diversity. There have been a lot of school visits to encourage it. A lot of women are attracted to it and actively engaged. It is also about image,

and these projects are seen as hav- lap tops. There is so much to be ing a real impact. People can see it excited about in this, the vision, is building a better world for the and what a diffuture, today, ference it could and I see plenty make to the of positives UK.” there.

She is well “It is interestaware of the difing to see traference it can ditional marmake in the ine, the generic Humber too. picture of a man Baroness Brown of Cambridge “Grimsby is an in greasy overarea that is the alls, and then centre of this. It we get to people controlling and is going to be a great model for a analysing a lot of this from their cluster that we can develop out in

“

Young people want exciting stuff, and this is here. Why go somewhere else?

regions in the UK. My impression is that the Humber LEP has been very supportive, I know University of Hull is very ingrained and it is good to hear about the Humber Energy Campus that is going to introduce training provision and supply chain support.

There is Greenport in Hull, Grimsby Renewable Partnership do a lot of good, and I hear Orsted has managed to recruit 90 per cent of its workforce from the local area. When you think how they will be highly skilled staff, that is a great achievement in quite a short time.

“Young people, those at university, want exciting stuff, and this is here, really near. Why go somewhere else, where housing costs are much more expensive?

There are careers here, lots of great jobs, it will extend to the wider economy, from the port facilities and way beyond. There is the big Siemens blade factory, it is a real magnet, for existing and innovative companies that want to get into the supply chain, who want to engage with the centre of excellence for O&M.” And when it comes to the global challenge we can continue to contribute according to the Baroness.

“I am very enthusiastic about making sure we are exporting technology,” she said. “This is big data, robotics, drones, and when you put it all together you get a transformational vision of what operations and maintenance is going to look like. Because we have this advantage, with more installed offshore wind generation than any where else in the world, we have more experience. It is now about how we bottle that experience and turn that into really powerful exports. It is a really exciting challenge and one I think will deliver the Industrial Strategy that Government has set.”

Collaboration call to GRP for emerging supply chain opportunities A COLLABORATIVE approach to supply chain opportunities in offshore wind was flagged up by James Fisher Marine Services as the company addressed the latest meeting of Grimsby Renewables partnership.

John Best, special projects consultant, spoke at Humber Cruising Association, explaining the services offered by the company to the 100-strong

membership. While based in Barrow-in-Furness, it has a permanent presence in the port.

He said: “James Fisher Marine Services is widely recognised for its capability to deliver complex marine projects. To deliver such comprehensive support, we draw on the deep expertise within our own group structure, complemented by the rich and diverse skills, capability and

experience within the local supply chains with which we operate – particularly where it will add strength to our integrated offering and, more importantly, benefit our clients.

“Many of the local businesses that we work with subsequently find themselves part of the bigger offer opening many doors both locally and beyond.”

He told how JFMS provides a

comprehensive range of specialist marine services and has set the benchmark, and a new industry model, for delivering integrated construction support services at Galloper Wind Farm, a 353MW array off the Suffolk coast.

James Fisher business development manager Corinne Barry, sits on the board of Grimsby Renewables Partnership. She added: “These are exciting times

for the renewable energy sector in the UK – and in particular Grimsby, for the role it is playing in leading the renewables revolution with the largest wind farms in the world being constructed off the East Coast. The fact that local companies have the opportunity to support these projects is truly fantastic for the region’s economy and the supply chain and it is a huge statement to the industry.”

STE-E01-S6

Thursday, April 19, 2018

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Business Marine surveyor embraces Grimsby’s maritime renaissance. See page 14.

Stellar line-up for wind conference OFFSHORE WIND CONNECTIONS IS UPON US ROUND Three’s realisation is a major theme for 2018’s Offshore Wind Connections event, the annual Team Humber Marine Alliance conference that is setting its stall out as a UK leader.

With the world’s largest farm now in construction, key figures behind it will talk to the wider industry at the business calendar highlight, taking place next week.

Morten Holm is Ă˜rsted’s head of operations for Hornsea Project One, which at 1.2GW, will reclaim the title for Grimsby-based arrays.

It is to be immediately followed by the even larger Project Two, off the Humber in the North Sea. Based at the East Coast Hub in Grimsby, Mr Holm is responsible for the setting up and deployment of all activities relating to the long term operations and maintenance of the project.

He spent 20 years in the Danish Air Force before moving into the wind sector in 2007. Since then, he was worked on many wind farms in the UK and overseas for Siemens and Global Wind Service UK. Providing the turbines, blades and further equipment for this multi-billion pound investment off the Humber is Siemens Gamesa, lead sponsor of the event, and Ray Thompson, head of business development will once again return to the OWC stage. A year ago he predicted the staggeringly sharp fall in cost that wowed the offshore wind world in September’s auction, with the second Hornsea phase coming in at £57.40, halving previous subsidy requirements.

Innogy – currently working towards

Morten Holm, Orsted’s head of operations for Hornsea Project One. financial close on Round Two Triton Knoll – owns one of the Round Three Dogger Bank phases, further up the East Coast from Hornsea, and Martin Ferreira, head of offshore investment and asset management is on board.

Two panel discussions will also work around Round Three themes, with far-shore subsea and operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities to be investigated.

Andy Reay, regional manager for installation vessel provider A2Sea will also address the audience at the new Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Hull, with Callum Draper, environmental consultant at Royal HaskoningDHV to give a glimpse into offshore wind re-powering and decommissioning opportunities as he looks beyond the 25 year lifespan of

turbines – some of which are already a decade old.

Mark O’Reilly, chairman and chief executive of Team Humber Marine Alliance, will open the event, followed

by Matt Jukes, chief executive of Hull City Council.

It is the first time the event has been held in Hull, having started at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton, then moving to Bridlington Spa. Back on the Humber, and Barton’s Maf Smith, deputy chief executive of Renewable UK, will give his take as the trade body celebrate 40 years, fresh from hosting a networking event the previous evening.

Having been introduced last year, Ben George, director of the University of Hull initiative, Aura, will update on the vision to create a world leading offshore wind research, talent and innovation hub, as Lorna Bennet, mechanical engineer at Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult will also speak, hot on the heels of the Grimsby-hosted outline of the offshore wind Operations and Maintenance Centre of Excellence in the Humber region, as featured on page four.

OWC 2018 takes place on Thursday, April 26, with welcome events on April 25. Exhibition space has sold out, and organisers are hoping for record delegation attendance as it is brought more central.

The Telegraph’s dedicated business website, www.humberbusiness.com, is once again media partner with THMA, and will be carrying reports live from the event.

For delegate tickets visit www.offshorewindconnections.com/#book.

(OR GSSGNěKCĚ CFUKEG ON IGěěKNI Kě RKIJě PĚGCSG EONěCEě 6GRGSC 6JOMCS ON GMCKĚ ěGRGSC ěJOMCS"VKĚLKNEJCPMCN EO TL OR UKSKě VVV VKĚLKNEJCPMCN EO TL

7

8

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

STE-E01-S6

Food In association with

Listening intently to The Cost of a Healthy Workforce talk.

Manufacturers of Industrial Hygienic Doors

www.lincsdoors.co.uk

01472 889200 www.blackrow.co.uk

01472 352998

01472 340938

Jamie@lincsindustrialpainters.com

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

How health initiatives have halved sick days ABSENTEEISM has fallen by more than 50 per cent at Grimsby’s largest private employer, after bosses were inspired to ensure Young’s Seafood became a leading light in a healthy workplace scheme.

Rates of between eight and nine per cent are now below four per cent after the processing giant graduated through the bronze, silver and gold standards.

With a self-set vision to get the nation eating more fish, on the back of the well-versed health benefits of its products, it revealed how a 10 year journey within its Grimsby factories and iconic Ross House headquarters has proved popular.

Maria Fotellis, head of human resources at Young’s, addressed a special Bondholders breakfast event, explaining the work done within.

It came ahead of this month’s news that the company has won major contracts with Marks & Spencer, while proposing reorganisation of its Scottish facilities and bringing more work to the town, in moves that will create 200 jobs.

The results came out as she told about the journey to address mental illness.

Maria said: “We need to care for employees and their families. As a main employer in the area, and as a manufacturer we are well versed in helping people stay healthy physically and the benefits are well known by employees and managers and there is no stigma attached to asking for help.

“We know stress and related mental health makes up a substantial amount of workplace sickness. Nine or 10 years ago we

heard about North East Lincolnshire Council’s healthy workplace programme and we were inspired and right then we wanted to take the lead, to take responsibility of the wellness of our team.

“We started with easier subjects, healthy eating and smoking cessation. No-one in our organisation knew how to cope with people with mental health anxiety and stress.

We took the easy option and started with healthy eating, we gave free fruit to our employees - two pieces of fruit for over 1,000 people.

“It gave us a quick win, and helped us achieve the bronze award as the first company in the region to do that. We went for silver, and again stayed away from mental health, instead focusing on physical activity, alcohol and substance misuse, an we achieved the silver award, and was the first employer in the region to do that.

“Then we decided it was time, and to go for the third we chose mental wellbeing and minimising

stress. We knew it was going to get tough.

“When you look at the factories of our size, one has 450 people in. A line manager manages 15 to 20 people, and that line manager spends most of his day with that person, and can see anxiety, as early intervention is key. We trained our managers on identifying changes and worked with the best people the area, Healthy Places and Navigo. We partnered with these people who know what they are doing. Dan Pryah and Adam Johnston, we couldn’t have done it without them.”

It emerged all the initial steps were paving the way for easing the dealing with mental illness.

“We soon realised all the things we did previously helped mental wellbeing.All the physical activity, healthy eating, smoking cessation and alcohol and drugs work, it all fitted together and the penny dropped for us, that we had been working on mental health for a substantial time and not realised we had been.

“We helped a few people, we had some really challenging people, and it was really critical we linked up with the agencies, as it opened doors for us to take people for crisis care and to Navigo to get people seen quicker. They would see them on the day.”

And positive steps have encouraged a culture shift.

“What people do when they have mental illness – and there is realisation - is they talk about it, they will tell people how they feel, and it creates conversation. In a factory, where you have men, women, of different shapes and sizes, we Maria Fotellis, of Young's Seafood had an employee, a 6ft tall rugby

Heather Middleton, of Seafish. player, who had mental issues, talk about it and that encourages others to talk about it, and it created a pull for the service.

“We broadened our scope to care for more people. It is about sustainability. You have to do it, embed it then sustain it. We always had the intention of embedding into our culture and this is the support. We are seeing results.

We have seen 147 employees across every level, from production operatives to director level. That’s just over 10 per cent. We had over 400 appointments, and it is not just come and see and go away, it is continued support.”

STE-E01-S6

Thursday, April 19, 2018

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Business Seafood’s health status flagged up as part of wider wellness agenda GRIMSBY’S prime export could help ease the burden on the NHS, the town event heard.

Heather Middleton, marketing manager for industry authority Seafish, put the statistics behind the bold claims from the sector.

She said: “We have an amazing seafood industry here, and it great to see so much done for the workforce.

We are simply not eating it as much as we should. “Poor health costs the NHS ÂŁ9 billion annually, and costs 179,000 lives. We have fantastic companies like Young’s in this area that can really help us. Omega Three is a no brainer for us,â€? she added, going on to list Vitamin D, Vitamin B, calcium, iron, iodine, zinc, potassium and selenium as vital pieces of a healthy lifestyle menu, all found in seafood. “Small changes can make a difference, one extra portion will get us to two a week, and that is recognised as the optimum we should be going for,â€? she said. “We are only at 1.15 portions of fish a week. “Bringing the message back is a priority. The NHS recommendation is to eat fish twice a week as part of a healthy diet. Seafood can tackle obesity. It keeps you fuller for longer, you don’t have to eat so much protein, it is low fat and low carb. In nutrient terms getting so much goodness it is amazing what you can get.â€?

Addressing business leaders, she said companies could get in on the act. “Create a challenge, appoint a champion,� she said. “The work done in Grimsby is absolutely amazing, we need to eat more Grimsby fish. We don’t look at health as a flash in the pan, it is a long term project.�

Having explained the company’s steps, Maria Fotellis also covered off Young’s products.

On the subject of dietary support, she said: “In Britain you can never be more than 70 miles away from the coast, yet we consume four times more meat than fish. We don’t like handling it and we don’t know what to do with it, it is expensive and we don’t want to mess it up, yet we choose it a lot in a restaurant.

We believe a fish loving nation is a happier nation, and we have one vision, to inspire people to love fish now and for generations to come.�

David Gent of Active Humber, a charitable company whose purpose is to help people of all ages and backgrounds to improve their health and well-being by taking part in regular physical activity and sport, concluded the event.

Looking at the wider region, he said: “If our region was a nation in its own right it would be in the top 10 in the world for Olympic medals, but when it comes to physical activity we are puddings. It is one of the most inactive places in England by far. To tell you how serious that problem is, we should be doing 150 minutes each week of physical activity. Only 28 per cent in the region are doing 150 minutes. The health problems are stacking up enormously. Muscular skeletal diseases, cancers, mental health...�

He urged businesses to investigate “small solutions� such as clocking on flexibility to aid a daily exercise, and a “revolution of the lunch break,� for brisk walking.

MONTH IN REVIEW Beckie Hart, second right, with Adam Lovell, Simon Green, Marc Doyle and Rob Waltham.

Waste to energy contract win ENERGY: Waste processed in Scunthorpe is being used to create electricity at a plant capable of powering 160,000 homes.

Recycling and waste management firm Ellgia, which has a depot on Winterton Road, has secured a new contract to supply refuse-derived fuel to the ÂŁ300 million Ferrybridge Multi-fuel Energy Ltd plant, known as FM1, in West Yorkshire.

Ellgia, founded in Cambridge in 2011, has grown across the east of England. It bought the assets of Thompson Waste Management in 2014, along with the town’s Bell Waste Control.

Major oil win

‘Keep shouting about the place’ CBI FIGURE BACKS NORTH LINCS PUSH THE regional director of the CBI had a message for businesses and North Lincolnshire leaders: Keep shouting loudly about the opportunities this region offers.

Beckie Hart was speaking at the North Lincolnshire Economic Forum, organised by the Place Marketing Board as part of its ambassador programme.

She told attendees how her organisation was engaged with the Government’s Industrial Strategy.

It had been taking the opportunity to help shape it and look at sector deals, such as offshore energy, where this region was strong. “We take a pragmatic view across the Yorkshire and Humber region – we roll our sleeves up and get on with it,� she said. “My call to action here is to please shout about what you are doing. You will be heard.�

Improved productivity was key to growth and the CBI had been helping Local Enterprise Partnerships to look at the four drivers of productivity: infrastructure, educational attainment post-16, management practices and propensity to export.

The panel also included the leader of North Lincolnshire Council, Cllr Rob Waltham, its executive director (commercial) Simon Green and the principal and chief executive of host venue Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, Marc Doyle. It was chaired by Adam Lovell, development director of Pepperells Solicitors.

Cllr Waltham said it was important for the council to connect with businesses at every opportunity. “We need to listen to your issues and also look at how we make the most of opportunities,� he said. “Your success is our success. We are about getting more people into work. Our residents are your employees and potential employees going forward.

We need to work with you to ensure you benefit by having people with the right skills.�

Mr Green said part of the council’s role was to enable companies to help themselves. “We need to ensure you have access to business support and access to skills,� he said. “It is very much about how we work together.�

While it was important to promote North Lincolnshire, it was also key to “behave like a bigger region� and work in partnership with others.

To that end, the council was actively engaged in the Humber and Greater Lincolnshire LEPs and was lobbying hard for improvements through Transport for the North.

Mr Doyle said all the ingredients were here to turn the area into somewhere that was “incredibly special�.

He felt there was a gap between “what pays at the end – jobs and opportunities – and students seeing it.� “Here, at the UTC, we are developing employability skills and confidence in our students,� he said.

Meeting your Business Requirements So whether your company is involved in property development, purchasing commercial property or leasing commercial premises we have the expertise to help secure the deal within your timescales and budget ‡ %XVLQHVV VHW XS ‡ /DQGORUG 7HQDQW ‡ 3URSHUW\ ‡ %XVLQHVV 'HYHORSPHQW 6XFFHVVLRQ ‡ 6DOH 3XUFKDVH ‡ $XFWLRQ 3DFNV ‡ (PSOR\PHQW ‡ 3ODQQLQJ $GYLFH In these and many other areas we are here to help For more information or to talk to our Commercial Team Grimsby on 01472 240251, /RXWK RQ %DUWRQ RQ RU 6FXQWKRUSH RQ Keep it local - local Lawyers with a Nationwide reach

:LOOLDP NLQJ#EJVROLFLWRUV FRP 2U ÂżQG XV DW ZZZ EJVROLFLWRUV FRP

PETROCHEMICALS: A ÂŁ50 million contract has been awarded by oil giant Phillips 66 to James Fisher Marine Services Ltd. The company, already operating out of Grimsby in the renewables sector, has won a 10-year integrated marine services contract with Humber Refinery.

It will be tasked with ensuring the safe and successful delivery of 15 million cubic metres of crude oil per year to one of the most sophisticated petro-chemical plants in Europe, via Tetney Monobuoy.

The South Killingholme facility supplies almost 20 per cent of the UK’s fuel demand.

FOOD FACTORIES CO N S T R U C T I O N

& MAINTENANCE

ALL ACROSS THE UK

Factory Refurbishment Office Upgrade Canteens Locker Rooms Development Kitchens

www.fscl.co.uk

01472 355 454 Unit 7 – 8 Pegasus Square, Innovation way, Europarc, DN37 9TJ

9

10

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

GTE-E01-S6

Chemicals & Process In association with

Bowel cancer beating boost is just reward for five safe site years

Hertel and Total Lindsey Oil Refinery staff present a cheque for £1,000 to Laura Gooderham, centre, of the Health Tree Foundation, with Dave Thompson and Geoff Pratten of Hertel on her left and Jean-Marc Durand and Rob Morgan of TLOR on her right.

www.cube3construction.co.uk T: 01469 541737

HERTEL Staff at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery have recently celebrated five years of accident free work, and by doing so are donating £1,000 to a health cause close to their hearts.

The multi-discipline maintenance services company provides access solutions, thermal insulation and corrosion protection at the North Killingholme site.

And with one of their number currently receiving treatment for bowel cancer, the Rear into Gear fundraiser resonated when he suggested it.

It is a campaign to purchase keyhole surgery equipment for both Grimsby’s Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital and Scunthorpe General Hospital, with the state-of-the-art equipment benefit-

ing patients with bowel cancer and those with bowel complications.

The worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “As a cancer patient who needed the services of the Health Tree Foundation I know first-hand how helpful it has been to me and really appreciated that the site guys supported my nomination of this important local charity so they can continue the good work they do to assist others like myself.”

The £500 gift was matched by TLOR to mark the impressive safety achievement.

Praising the team, Jean-Marc Durand, TLOR general manager, said: “I am very proud of this achievement it is very important that we stay safe every minute every hour every day and all go

home safe. Congratulations to everyone.”

Rob Morgan, head of mechanical at TLOR, added: “Well done on achieving five years total recordable incident rate (TRIR) free.

Safety is a core value here at LOR. Five years TRIR Free is a phenomenal achievement, so well done again. Here’s to the next five years and more.”

Community champion for The Health Tree Foundation, Laura Gooderham, received the cheque at a presentation held at the refinery. She said: “Thank you to Hertel and Total for donating £1,000 to our Rear into Gear appeal. It will go a long way in helping to fund the equipment for keyhole surgery.

“Congratulations to the team on

their five-year milestone and thank you for thinking of The Health Tree Foundation when considering which charity do donate to. We are very grateful for the generosity.”

Hertel’s regional director, Chris Garland, put the achievement into context within the wider Hertel group.

He said:“I would like to say how great it is that you have reached this milestone. Out of the 35 sites that I cover you are only the second to have reached five years TRIR free.

“There have been lots of improvements and you are continuing to improve here at LOR, you should all be very proud of yourselves. Well done.”

Luxus sorts a plastic problem for all manufacturers Hire / Sales / Service Parts / Training / Access Platforms www.bjblifttrucks.co.uk

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

LOUTH technical compounder Luxus, has launched a rapid coloured polymer analysis service that tests for ‘end-of-life’ recyclability.

It enables producers to discover for the first time if the plastic packaging or products they make can be detected via near-infrared sorting.

Each year in the UK 3.5 million tonnes of plastics go to landfill because

black and coloured plastic cannot be detected by recyclers, due to it absorbing the infrared radiation, offering little reflectance that renders them ‘invisible’ to sensors.

Peter Atterby, pictured, managing director at Luxus, said: “Design for recyclability is an urgent priority for producers.

This unique service offers the ability to quickly assess if any coloured

plastic item produced can be detected and if not, we will offer a colour matched infrared detectable alternative.”

Anything from black shampoo bottles to yellow yogurt pots and brown coffee pods can be analysed.

Supporting this innovative service is a new spectrophotometer capable of reading solar reflectance in the NIR spectrum.

Mr Atterby said: “Our service represents a real ‘game changer’ for brand owners and product

designers.

“We are able to clearly identify pigment mixes given a near-infrared footprint and then expertly assess every possible colourant combination to meet the challenge of finding the closest and most economically viable colour match for designers, satisfying both aesthetic and plastics pollution concerns.”

GTE-E01-S6

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

11

Business MONTH IN REVIEW

Trade honour for our Haith’s EXPORT: One of Grimsby’s longest standing family businesses has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to international trade and investment in a UK first.

Haith’s, the birdseed and bait producer, has received one of only four Board of Trade Awards, a new accolade launched

by International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox. Brought forward to celebrate success of top-performing companies, the Europarc business of 81 years standing is in the first tranche, having already been used as a case study and made a Northern Powerhouse export champion as the UK gears up to capitalise on global expansion post-Brexit.

Box office hit?

On Line Design and Engineering is setting a new level as a local success story. Inset, Brendan Conlan.

Shoulder to shoulder with blue chip giants ON Line Group is establishing itself as an international force, honed in the Humber, as it takes on major blue chip engineering companies to win work in the region, the UK and beyond.

The company turned 35 last year, and is in the prime of its operational life, as it builds in its Immingham-laid foundations.

Brendan Conlan, managing director, said: “As a group we have had strong growth over the last 12 months, with a 50 per cent increase in On Line Design and Engineering business, consolidating group growth of 30 to 40 per cent in revenues.

“On Line is steeped in history and rooted in the Humber region, of which we are proud, as it has given the knowledge and context for the business we are. Now we are working from the Caribbean to China, with main growth areas in the UK in South Wales, the Thames Estuary, Yorkshire in the North West with nuclear, which is a first for the group.

“We have diversified quite dramatically from the points of view of region and sectors. It will make us fitter and more robust to weather any downturns or challenges in the market place.”

In the Caribbean On Line is working for a huge multi-national company helping to support liquid natural gas terminals, while in the Far East it is supporting an international pharmaceutical company in functional safety.

“We continue to support our main clients, and thank them for their support,” Mr Conlan said. “If we go back three years ago there was quite a sharp downturn in the region, and we are now starting to see some positive growth from them, and it is continuing.

“We are challenging the big operators, taking on some of the established international engineering companies and establishing ourselves on that level. It all feeds into our strategy of growth throughout the UK, while consolidating and supporting our clients on the Humber.”

Within the elements of the group, Anglia Engineering Services, on Grimsby’s South Humberside Industrial Estate, has brought in growth of 15 per cent, predominantly in the UK food sector, with recruitment arm On Line People, opening an office in Birmingham and targeting industrial and automotive markets. It is also looking at moving in to permanent hire in

LEISURE: A new £20m cinema development in Grimsby town centre has been hailed as a catalyst for greater things to come by the director of Freshney Place.

The new Cineworld-led complex will feature nine-screens and up to seven restaurants.

Hundreds of jobs will also be generated during the building phase, and it opens in 2020.

It has been on the drawing board for the past three years to get the development up and running, with a land deal with the council secured by the shopping centre owner prior to the tenant being attracted.

Westminster Brexit call Deal for base ON Line Group has been invited to participate in a parliamentary review being led by Sir Eric Pickles.

The work, starting in May, is focused on sharing best practice as a learning tool for the public and private sector, examining how the UK grows in a post-Brexit era.

Brendan Conlan was delighted to receive the invite. “I think it is quite a feather in the cap for us,” he said.

Sir Eric is no stranger to northern

the UK and internationally.

And as with the clients it serves, safety is paramount.

“Our growth is underpinned by a world class safety record which we continue to maintain,” Mr Conlan said. “We are proud of 12 consecutive year awards with the British Safety Council and seven consecutive years for Total Lindsey Oil Refinery, with more than 500,000 hours since our last lost time injury. Bearing in mind the

Lincolnshire, having visited Port of Grimsby and Able Marine Energy Park when in post as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, a position he served for the entirety of the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government.

He was gaining an insight into offshore wind operations and maintenance, a sector also on Mr Conlan’s radar, given the Humber’s cluster status and the engineering alignments.

OFFSHORE WIND: CWind is bringing a purpose-built operations centre to Grimsby.

The company, which has worked out of the Humber’s first port of call for the past five years, catrering for offshore engineering needs, has just signed the agreement for land on the North Wall.

The facility will include offices, warehousing and a pontoon for vessels, in what will be a significant, as yet undisclosed investment for the 25-strong team already assembled on the port estate.

diversity of sites we are maintaining, it is something we are extremely proud of.

“We are also proud we have had our 35th anniversary, and of the fact we have got more than 250 people based at offices in the Humber and South Wales.”

■ This article first appeared in a special Year of Engineering supplement from the Telegraph. It is available online as an eBook at www.humberbusiness.com.

TRAINING: Grimsby Institute has been ranked in the top 10 per cent of colleges in the country.

The education and training centre also ranks 17th highest for overall achievement in the country, as the largest college in the top 20 of the national achievement rates tables for 2016-17.

Improvements were seen in apprenticeships and education and training, leaving the Grimsby Institute up to 4.9 per cent above the national rate.

Education joy

12 12

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel GTE-E01-S6 www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel GTE-E01-S3

Thursday, April 19, 2018 Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Business

Shortlist Shortlistrevealed: revealed:So Sowhich which right rightin inthe theend endfor’ for’come comethe the NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE BUSINESS AWARDS 2018 RUNNERS AND RIDERS: THE SHORTLIST for the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards has been unveiled.

A total of 11 awards were open to nominations, and judges have narrowed entries down to the final three in each category.

From retail to manufacture, knowledge to specific services, a diverse range of businesses have recognised, with winners to be unveiled

at the Beauty and the Beast themed gala dinner at Grimsby Auditorium on Friday, May 18. Anne Tate, organiser and northern Lincolnshire manager for Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, said: “We had more than 100 entries and 22 applications alone for the business growth award, which is a good sign for the economy.

“There was a lot of debate and discussion,

and some excellent nominations, and I really feel sorry for some that didn’t get shortlisted.

There were some really close calls this year.”

In addition will be the Grimsby & Scunthorpe Telegraph Lifetime Achievement Award, an individual hand-picked by the team, and the Forrester Boyd Award for Business Excellence, which is selected from all nominations received.

“

We had more than 100 entries and 22 applications alone for the business growth award, which is a good sign for the economy. There was a lot of debate and discussion, and some excellent nominations, and I really feel sorry for some that didn’t get shortlisted

GRIMSBY CARPET WAREHOUSE SMALL BUSINESS AWARD ■ Ragged Edge Recruitment & Consulting Ltd Barton-based port-focused business in new hands ■ Urban Feather Ltd - Scunthorpe web design and print marketing agency ■ XOS (UK) Ltd - print solutions business based in Grimsby

Anne Tate

NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AWARD

ABP BUSINESS GROWTH AWARD ■ BJB Lift Trucks Ltd - materials handling specialist in Grimsby ■ Taylors Family Butchers - Retailer in Ashby High Street, Scunthorpe ■ Tillett’s Clothing - Women’s fashion outlet headquartered in Cleethorpes

■ JemBuild Ltd – Humberston-headquartered construction firm

■ Scratch Meals Ltd – Grimsby team behind Fit

Kitchen brand of health dishes ■ XOS (UK) Ltd – Second listing

WILKIN CHAPMAN BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD

NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE BUSINESS INVESTMENT AWARD

■ Jonathan Birtwhistle – owner, Birtwhistle Landscaping Ltd, Barrow-upon Humber ■ David Fenwick – managing director, 4Matic Design & Manufacture Ltd, Humberston Host Helen Fospero is pictured with Matthew Robinson, managing director of GS Kesley, and ■ Karl Thew – chief executive, Cat Tech Steve Norton, former Grimsby Fish Merchants’ Association chief executive, the respective winners of the Forrester Boyd Award for Business Excellence and the Grmsby & Scunthorpe International, Scunthorpe

■ Arbor Forest Products – N ew Holland construction timber supplier ■ Foster Environmental Ltd – Scunthorpe air conditioning contractor ■ Rocal Insulating Panels – Brigg-based composite manufacturer of doors and panels

HAYS RECRUITMENT INTERNATIONAL TRADE AWARD

GRIMSBY INSTITUTE TRAINING EXCELLENCE AWARD

Telegraph Lifetime Achievement Award. Below, chef and hotelier Steven Bennett receives the Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year Award from then senior partner Mark Carlton, left, with Mrs Fospero and Kevin Hopper, then North East Lincolnshire area chair of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce.

■ Fast Form Systems Ltd – Innovative Grimsby construction systems provider ■ Mariner Packaging Company Ltd – Grimsby seafood packaging specialist with a sideline in space exploration ■ Ramsden International – Grimsby-based grocery exporter

BRIDGE MCFARLAND NEW BUSINESS AWARD

community health and care services provider

■ Foster Environmental Ltd – Second listing ■ JemBuild Ltd – Second listing

DFDS EXCELLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY AWARD ■ Driver

■ Dollie Jewellery – Cleethorpes fashion brand ■ Optimal Digital – Scunthorpe website

designer ■ Walshe’s Property & Letting Agency Scunthorpe property services provider

■ Care Plus Group – North East Lincolnshire

–

FRANKLIN COLLEGE YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR ■ Michael Coulson – My Procurement Partner, Grimsby ■ Ashley Taylor – Taylors Family Butchers ■ Katie Webb-Jones – Dollie Jewellery

Hire Grimsby & Scunthorpe – recruitment specialist located in Grimsby ■ St Andrew’s Hospice – Grimsby respite and palliative care provider ■ Systematic – Print, design and brand management conducted from Caistor

HBP SYSTEMS INNOVATION AWARD ■ Quickbox.co

– Stallingborough custom cardboard box supplier ■ Road Traffic Solutions – Scunthorpe traffic management systems provider ■ Ultimate Packaging Ltd – Grimsby digital and flexographic printing specialist

GTE-E01-S6 GTE-E01-S3

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018 13 Tuesday, April 17, 2018 13

Business

businesses businesseswill willitit‘turn ‘turnout outall all big biggala galanight nighton onMay May18th?

18th?

Renewing acquaintances this year will be the 4matic Design and Manufacture Ltd team, pictured left, with David Fenwick third from right, and Cat Tech International, with Mr Thew also third right. Both won in 2017 in company categories. Below, right, Jonathan Birtwhistle.

Two directors who celebrated in 2017 in the running for personal gongs BOTH took silverware back to their businesses in 2017, and now Cat Tech International chief executive Karl Thew and 4Matic Design and Manufacture Ltd managing director David Fenwick find themselves vying for the Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year award.

They are joined in the category by relative newcomer Jonathan Birtwhistle, who is lifting the family landscaping business to new heights since becoming the sole director three years ago, when he took over from his father.

Barrow’s Birtwhistle Landscaping Ltd then employed nine people, working from a kitchen table. That figure now ranges between 25 and 35, subject to seasonality, with all domestic and increasing commercial needs catered for, be it soft or hard, swimming pool or housing

development. A first step was to put in an office manager and new systems, then new offices were built with a local commercial landscaper taken over. Mr Birtwhistle is now in the process of completing industrial qualifications to open up further doors, having just secured Investor in People status, the first in the sector to do so, and a real source of pride.

New Zealander Mr Thew performed a management buy-out on the former Shell subsidy Cat Tech, which provides industrial services to the petrochemical and refining sectors from a South Park Industrial Estate base in Scunthorpe.

The move from a multi-national in 2012 took time to stabilise but is now showing double digit profit returns on sales with further growth plans.

Covering more than 100,000 miles a

year, the results and continued satellite office expansion overseas are said to be down to his drive and determination.

Specialising in catalytic technology, last year it won the Barclays International Trade honour.

Following him on stage was Mr Fenwick, as the Humberston food industry equipment provider picked up the Grimsby Institute Training Excellence Award.

In the past five years it has brought six apprentices through in a tight, but expanding team on Wilton Road Industrial Estate.

This time round he has been nominated by staff, aware of his relentless commitment to the company, which offers 3D design, specialist fabrication, CNC machining, electrical control and CDM management in-house.

A butcher, a jeweller and a print manager head up the future stars category THE quality of meat, sparkle and copy is paramount to those in the running for Franklin College Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2018.

The category that recognises upcoming business talent has brought three very different businesspeople forward, two customer-facing companies and a business-to-business specialist.

Katie Webb-Jones, together with mother Karen Webb-Meek, is behind the Dollie Jewellery brand.

She has worked in the industry since the age of 13, and after completing a degree in Visual Merchandising

and Retail Branding from the London College of Fashion she picked up valuable industry experience at Harrods, Pandora and Selfridges before becoming area sales manager for German brand Thomas Sabo.

Now back in Grimsby, Katie is Michael Coulson, Katie Webb-Jones with Gok Wan at a recent fashion roadshow event, and Ashley Taylor with leading the new wholesale and his impressive sausage rolls. retail brand, recently securing a managed print services Lincolnshire Business Awards, contract to supply Virgin Atlantic. of 12 staff. He fulfilled a dream of consultancy. He has already moved don’t miss May’s Business edition. his own business in 2016, and Starting his career at the age of Winners will also be revealed at turned over £1.3 million in his first from home office to first 12, Ashley Taylor was every inch www.humberbusiness.com as they year at the helm of Taylors Family commercial premises, with a new the butcher boy, helping out on a Butchers. director and tele-sales manager are announced from the stage at local market stall.

Michael Coulson launched My brought on board.

Grimsby Auditorium.

He became an apprentice at 16, Procurement Partner as this event ■ For all the stories behind the Last year’s coverage is also online, moving through the ranks to winners at the 2018 Northern with video of winners. manager at the age of 20, in charge took place last year, providing a

14

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

GTE-E01-S6

Ports & Logistics In association with

GLOBAL RESOURCE SERVICES LTD Tel 01469 550607 www.globalresourceservices.co.uk

Humber Work Boats

Marine Contracting, Dredging and Boat Building

www.humberworkboats.co.uk Tel: 01469 540156

‘Humber’s message needs to be heard’ STRATEGIC work to promote the region’s ports is progressing past an initial pilot event in Sheffield.

Marketing organisation Bondholders is consulting with industry experts on HumberPort Forum to promote the opportunities available to both manufacturers and distributors by trading through the estuary.

Late last year South Yorkshire stakeholders were addressed, and the model is now being further developed.

Diana Taylor, managing director of Bondholders, said: “It is important for us to play a part and take the key messages of the Humber

out to a wider audience. This first set of roadshow events will provide a blueprint for us to globally position the offer of our region across many of our key growth sectors.”

The collaborations continued this past month when representatives from the sector attended Immingham’s Modal Training Centre, where the Humber’s promotional campaign was showcased. It will be used initially to target businesses across the north to encourage use of the Humber’s infrastructure as a key part of their supply chain.

Simon Dwyer, chief executive of

Peter Baker of PRB Associates, Simon Dwyer of Seafox and Chris Vause of ABP at Modal, Immingham for the HumberPort Forum.

Seafox Consultants, said: “We have had the opportunity to present the overview and summary of our current Humber offer to attract businesses from northern regions, the UK and also potentially abroad to promote the importing and exporting opportunities.

“This forum has been very well received with engagement from the sectors’ key figureheads

providing very informed feedback. Our promotional offer will be used later this year to target areas such as Sheffield, Doncaster and Leeds. With an added opportunity to take the Humber message to Rotterdam.”

To find out more about HumberPort Forum email diana.taylor@marketinghumber.com.

How Grimsby IT expertise is driving dive technology

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

MONTH IN REVIEW

High Street aim A CLEETHORPES bar owner is aiming to resurrect a popular venue concept on the resort’s High Street.

Brett Smith, the man behind People, Folk and Copper, is proposing to bring back Society – the sport, music and film-led bar he originally opened on Cambridge Street.

A victim of its own success in the original location, he switched the offer to deli and dining there, opening Copper on Alexandra Road in the intervening period.

It is now with planners.

A GRIMSBY-based enterprise software specialist is playing a key role in the expansion of the world’s largest independent manufacturer of specialist subsea vehicles.

Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd provide remotely operated vehicles and specialist trenching systems to sectors such as oil, gas, offshore wind, defence and telecoms.

Headquartered in the UK, the business designs and manufactures from facilities in Wallsend and North Shields, with a sales and support office in Singapore and more recently a new design and manufacturing facility near Shanghai, China.

When the company needed Enterprise Resource Planning software to help run the new Chinese plant, it turned to Grimsby-based Vanilla Solutions, an ERP and IFS specialist.

Claire Valentine, support manager at Vanilla, said: “Three of us have been working with SMD on the project and it’s getting busier now we’re nearing the go live date.

“SMD needed a comprehensive ERP solution to support its business processes and simplify its manufacturing processes and we’ve moved the Shanghai operation on to IFS. What we’re implementing will be an over-reaching solution incorporating asset and project management, business analytics, finance and HR as well as contract, document and work order management.

“We also have about 30 million records to migrate from one database to another, and then we need to detach the new database from the source, so there will be no communications between the two.

“We’ve been working with SMD for a while and their expansion has been impressive,” Claire added.

SMD’s new 7200m² facility will bring additional resources and focus to the

Claire Valentine and Paolo Zaino, with the subsea vehicle that has led to the rapid expansion. grow as the China market matures.

“We’ve been working with Vanilla on the SMD Shanghai project since the beginning of 2017, but have worked with Vanilla in a company’s East Asian expansion plans. number of different areas for three or four Vanilla Solutions has offices in Grimsby years,” said Paolo. and Newcastle and is one of the leading “They were chosen because they could providers of IFS applications-related services provide the range of skills that SMD were in Europe and provides consultancy, support looking for in a consultancy to complete this and products to the wider ERP market. task. The SMD Shanghai Project required Clients include BAE, Babcock, Skanska & robust project management, good technical Largo Foods, and the company employs 27 expertise and also a comprehensive people across the UK and their two offices Paolo Zaino, IFS support manager at SMD, functional knowledge in order to successfully complete the project. Vanilla Solutions were said: “Vanilla has been helping us to set up an IFS ERP system which is the software the enthusiastic about being involved from the start,” he explained.

Shanghai plant will use to run operations.

“Vanilla Solutions work closely with their This has involved setting up a new database for the China office and migrating data from customers as a team, providing the understanding and flexibility that is required our UK database to our new one. on a complex project of this nature,” he “SMD Shanghai will initially employ around 40 employees but we expect this to added.

GTE-E01-S6

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

15

Business

Surveying the port’s maritime renaissance

MONTH IN REVIEW

Capital rail push on track TRANSPORT: Business leaders are on board with a South Bank MP’s campaign to secure a direct train service between North East Lincolnshire and London.

Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has the backing of the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce.

He has been holding talks with open access operator Grand Central Trains and Virgin East Coast about extending services on the South Bank, a move which complements the Chamber’s published Transport Priorities.

Restoring the link has been a long-held ambition of the Chamber which has previously worked with former Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell and Mr Vickers’ Conservative predecessor, Michael Brown on the issue.

They said Mr Vickers’ work has got “closer than ever�.

Resort’s boost A GRIMSBY-area marine surveyor is taking his business to the next level in the town as he builds on a renaissance in vessel movements at home, while exploring international opportunities.

Allan Larsen is managing director of Larsens Marine Surveyors & Consultants Ltd, and is looking to grow like the port’s own maritime might is once again.

This summer the company will exhibit at Seawork International for the first time, with the Southampton annual show widely regarded as Europe’s largest commercial and marine workboat event.

The company, currently on the look-out for premises as it expands from the Holton-le-Clay home base having added additional staff, provides a wide range of services to the maritime industry, including ship and boat surveys, MCA workboat code of practice surveys and expert witness services.

The largest area of business is in

training, education and continued professional development, something Mr Larsen is well versed in himself.

Fresh out of Scottish high school he joined the Merchant Navy at 16, and qualified as a marine engineer and officer at 20, going on to work in ship repair and design, becoming chief engineer for a shipyard in Glasgow.

He went on to join a multi-national survey company, relocating to Newcastle, Grimsby then Paris, commuting to the latter from 2007 to 2015, having met the woman who would become his wife. He then decided to go it alone, having launched a consultancy as an aside in 2013.

Director and vice president of Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors, Mr Larsen is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. “We are a small local company, and we are growing and I want to increase the size further,� he said. “We certify

workboats which is a big thing now for Grimsby. The number has really taken off with the offshore wind industry. Hopefully we’ll get even more work here and see it grow again. “We are a local company working very much internationally; we can jump on a plane and go anywhere. It is very exciting, we love it.�

While happy to travel, Larsens also has a global network of associates it can call upon, while a total of 200 students a year go through courses up to Level Six Diploma with Lloyds Maritime Academy on material he has written for distance learning.

The business turned five in January, and also features wife Lynsey as a director, with Karl Pizzey having joined with no marine experience, but now, like Mrs Larsen, is level six qualified, and has become the course director. “We want to start pushing what we do here,� he said. “We want to be on board local boats, here. We are looking to make ourselves more visible to the small craft industry.�

Expert witness is another crucial role, with accident reports for personal injury or damaged cargo. One prominent case has seen his work used in the Court of Arbitration in the Hague for a Russian vessel and Greenpeace’s Artic Sunrise, when it was opened fire on.

Looking ahead to Seawork, which is expected to attract more than 7,600 industry professionals, Mr Larsen added: “Seawork 2018 will be the first time we have exhibited since inception five years ago. We visited the show in 2017 and realised how well respected and attended it is. The visitor profile is perfectly matched for us and we look forward to using the event as a platform to showcase our portfolio of services to the workboat and wider marine audience.�

“

We are a local company working very much internationally Allan Larsen

TOURISM: Major plans for ÂŁ7.2 million of investment, events and improvement works in Cleethorpes have been officially showcased.

North East Lincolnshire Council and private-led group CoastNEL outlined proposals to make improvements to town centre streets and historic buildings.

There were also major funding announcements for a once in a lifetime air show for Cleethorpes this summer, tying in with the 100th anniversary of the RAF, and special marine sports events.

+RPH *DUDJH 'RRUV

%8<

',5(&7 )520 0$18)$&785(5

$1'

6$9( Â&#x2026;Â&#x2026;Â&#x2026;

7+( 5(*,216

%,**(67

6+2:5220

VDOHV#ELUNGDOH FR XN ZZZ ELUNGDOH FR XN %LUNGDOH 0DQXIDFWXULQJ *URXS /WG 8QLW $UNZULJKW :D\ 6FXQWKRUSH '1 $(

)5(( 6,7( 6859(<

16

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

GTE-E01-S6

Business Support In association with

It’s a multitude of angels INVESTOR APPETITE EXPLAINED BUT IT IS OFF CAMERA WHERE OFFERS ARE MADE A new group has been launched to bring together investors and entrepreneurs in the Grimsby-area.

Business editor David Laister joined Angelgrpups for an introductory session.

01472 311711 bmcf.co.uk

T: 01652 680888 www.hibl.co.uk

Grimsby t: 01472 350601 Scunthorpe t: 01724 863105 www.fb-digital.co.uk

Chartered Accountants in Grimsby - T: 01472 355215 Scunthorpe - T: 01724 844876 www.hwca.com

AFTER 15 series of Dragons’ Den on television, and another now filming, you would be forgiven for thinking that anyone with an interest in business investment would have a good idea how it works.

But then you remember this hit BBC show is merely a snapshot of the pitch, with plenty of show business sparkle and dramatic intrigue.

Recent months have seen Angelgroups, a connected network of high worth individuals across northern England, launch in the town in association with Wilkin Chapman, Forrester Boyd and Investment Hub NEL. Now it is keen to build up numbers, to provide a strong core of investors to put business cases before.

Founder Martin Avison started out as a graphical designer, moving into sales in the print industry, working his way up the ladder before entering the consultancy business. He quickly learned how cash was king.

“While I was generating sales in the business I was in, we couldn’t achieve without the capital, so I soon got involved in raising funds,” he recalled of his first experience of finance.

This introduced him to large investment groups, eventually working on deals in the region of £3 million to £5 million.

“Investing in early stage businesses is a risky business and we put a warning on absolutely everything,” Mr Avison underlines, in bold, and highlights for

good measure, from the outset.

“What an investor chooses to invest in is completely their decision, we introduce to businesses we have pre-vetted and it is up to the angel with their experience or other angels to look at the investment opportunity. We only make the recommendation. If it goes wrong it is their fault. Often it is not one person, it is three or four with life experience. One may be operational, another marketing, between them they can make a lot of difference.

“The whole world of investment, and the ambition of those seeking it has exploded, partly due to the television programme, but it is just a TV programme.”

Referrals come through marketing initiatives and professional networks, with roughly 25 businesses a month approaching the

“

I speak to people who want to invest in local companies, they want to see Grimsby do well, and that’s great Martin Avison

Leeds-based operator. “A large percentage are too early and not ready,” he said, and many have interesting ideas on worth too. You can almost feel the Peter Jones scoff, but I wager he’d be far more polite.

“People see great stories coming

out of Silicon Valley, about value, but that is a different world to what we are in, here in Grimsby,” Mr Avison said. “Valuation is probably the biggest challenge we get.”

So what motivates? There’s a strong tax incentive, under the EIS and SEIS schemes, and these were explained by Forrester Boyd’s private client manager Maggie Casey as part of the session, held in the Wilkin Chapman boardroom atop the Cartergate House HQ. There’s also local pride and the challenge. “Angels typically invest in a 50 mile radius where they live,” Mr Avison said.

“They simply want to be able to go in and support a company, and they don’t want to have to travel 200 miles. There is often a great allegiance to the area too. I speak to people who want to invest in local companies, they want to see

Grimsby do well, and that’s great, we see that a lot.”

They are typically investing £50,000 to £500,000 in a business, often as part of a group, and typically each angel is putting in £25,000 to £100,000, though it is not set, and it is all open to those involved.

But as with many who approach, it may not be just money that is required. “The problem is they don’t know what they don’t know,” the founder said of the businesses seeking support. “They need someone to sit alongside them, a confidant, someone who can challenge, ask the relevant questions at the relevant time. Our job is to provide a little sense check.

“Fundamentally we are looking for a good team of good people. A Grade A team can do wonders with a Grade B product. Businesses can be very tech or commercial-led but

Belief in the business and an investment in the people - key advice from angel investors

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

ALWAYS invest in people!

Andy Rouse, a Grimsby-born property specialist, swears by it, so too believing in what they are doing.

Addressing the gathering, the former pool professional, who started in the licensed trade, moving into development with London-based group, said: “I am a quite experienced investor, mainly in technology sector. It wasn’t planned in the beginning, it was just how it happened.

“A lot of people in the UK just want to invest because of SEIS and EIS, it is tax efficient. I think you

should only invest because you believe in something.

“I cannot tell you how many people come looking for a fish, but need a fishing rod. So many people don’t realise they just need more professional advice. It is great that accountancy firms and lawyers are involved in this . They are at the heart of it and seeing it from day one.

“I have seen some great ideas that just don’t have the team to deliver it. Always invest in people, if they are serious they will find a way. Ask, would they invest their time, their efforts, without your

money?”

Another investor, who wished to remain anonymous, told how he got involved as he approached retirement as a life insurance underwriter.

“I had never had any involvement in small business,” he said. “What I found was that you have to ensure information from the company flows to everybody, so all parties are aware. Typically, I have found if five angels are looking to invest, two or three may drop out.

“Not everyone gets involved, and the great advantage in appointing a lead investor in a syndicate is you

get all the experience of the people involved, and you can listen to the quations they ask about the business, then start to answer them yourselves.”

Mark Robinson of Barclays said there was a role for professional sector to act as a critical friend, as well as the investors. “Have challenging conversations, explore the business model, the vision for the company and other markets It could be exploring. We are often there from moment one when they open a business account in the Grimsby branch to the point of exit.

GTE-E01-S6

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

17

Business Support

...with this area at heart!

In association with

Precision Machining Boring - Milling - Turning - Drilling - Welding

01652 632388

Barton-upon-Humber www.collingwoodengineering.co.uk info@collingwoodengineering.co.uk

Enterprise demand aids move into town

not commercial enough. “Listen to what they tell you, but listen to what they don’t, is what I say. They will get so excited about technology, so excited about how clever it is, but never tell you how it will make money. If they don’t tell you that I tend to take a step back.”

The average exit for an investor comes eight to nine years down the line. And there are warnings about too large a stake or over-investment. “People don’t understand dilution,” he said.

“They don’t understand the journey they are going on and it is not in our interests to have them demotivated (should they lose a worthwhile stake).”

Crowdfunding, an alternative financing solution should the mainstream options not be open, is proving popular for some, but Mr Avison sees a flaw, explaining how a competitor can invest £50

and “you’re reporting to them every month”.

What you certainly don’t see on Dragons’ Den is the other DD – the due diligence. Wilkin Chapman corporate Adam Ottley was on hand to explain the necessary steps for those looking to invest, and talked interested parties though important legal checkpoints such as shareholder agreements, including fall-back positions.

“Unpicking a mess can be difficult rather than at the outset when everything is rosy,” he said.

“Things can get messy and if it gets messy it gets to be expensive, and the only people who win are the lawyers fighting out the battle.

The costs will spiral and it takes the focus off what the business should be doing.”

A REGIONAL organisation is aiming to help more entrepreneurs in the area after opening a Grimsby office.

Over the past 12 months, Finance For Enterprise has seen growing demand from business owners who have requested access to loan funding to fuel future growth.

In order to meet it, the company has taken a base at The Enterprise Village in Prince Albert Gardens.

It is headed by experienced senior investment manager Tim Daniels and new investment manager Jane Cusse.

Tim joined the Doncaster-based not-for-profit organisation in 2012, helping SMEs to access the most appropriate forms of financial lending. He has more than 40 years’ experience working in the banking and finance industry as well as also operating his own business.

Jane has spent most of her 26 year finance career supporting business owners in Grimsby and Lincoln with the Royal Bank of Scotland. After leaving her bank role in 2016, Jane has worked with the North East Lincolnshire Investment Hub, where she has used her knowledge and expertise to guide business owners through the process of applying for business loans and grant funding.

Launched in 1985, Finance For Enterprise provides a wide range of tailored financial and business support to pre-start and growing SME businesses when traditional

bank lending is not a viable option. The organisation acts as a start up loans delivery partner and joint fund manager for the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which is underwritten by the British Business Bank. Loans provided by Finance For Enterprise can range from just £500 to £150,000.

Andrew Austwick, executive director of Finance For Enterprise, said: “Over the past 12 months we’ve seen more businesses from North East Lincolnshire and within East Yorkshire apply for business loan funding to fuel future growth projects. It’s a clear sign that business confidence within the local economy is returning. We have provided support to local businesses in the region for a number of years and we felt the opening of a new regional hub would enable business owners to benefit from greater access to face-to-face support, as well as reflecting our own commitment to support the local economy.

“Our new members of staff each bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge of the banking and business loan lending sector, as well as an understanding of working with businesses of all sizes in all sectors to ensure they are signposted to the available financial sources which best suit the needs of their business, whether looking for the funds needed to launch a new business venture or ready to grow and expand.”

info@gskelsey.co.uk www.gskelsey.co.uk

01724 854362 G.S. Kelsey Construction Ltd

Housing Management Property Development Community Investment 01724 279900 | www.ongo.co.uk

www.ashbournehotel.co.uk T: 01469 541010

Funding breakfast served up next month

Dragons’ Den - Purely a TV show according to Martin Avison.

InvestmentHub NEL is bringing the Midlands Engine Investment Fund to Grimsby, for a special funding event next month.

A special breakfast update and Q&A session will be held from 8am on Wednesday, May 16, at The Innovation Centre, Europarc.

Bookings can be made online via Eventbrite or by email at info@ investmenthubnel.org.uk

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 or 07920 823544

18

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Training

Redwood Park Estate, Stallingborough, North East Lincolnshire, DN41 8TH www.hcfcatch.com Tel: 01469 552843

Host status for Humber Royal GRIMSBY’S Humber Royal Hotel has become the latest organisation in the UK to gain national recognition for its commitment to customer service, after being awarded WorldHost Recognised Business status.

With more than 20 per cent of its staff trained to thedemaqnding standards, the venue overlooking Grimsby Golf Club has officially become a WorldHost Recognised Business and signed a commitment to delivering excellent customer service.

Teresa Penistone, general manager, said: “We are passionate about service standards and are incredibly proud to have achieved WorldHost Recognised Business status.

“When our customers see the WorldHost logo displayed in our business, they’ll know that we have made a commitment to delivering an exceptional experience for them. Not only does this generate a positive buzz about the service we offer, but it helps to promote North East Lincolnshire as a friendly and welcoming tourist destination.”

The WorldHost programmes are being rolled out across the UK by performance and talent management expert, People First, to help businesses gain a competitive edge and position the nation as a world-class tourist destination.

The recognition certificate is valid for two years and is renewable on completion of a refresher course.

GTE-E01-S6

Airport on board with international ambition SCHOOL PLANS WELL FOR MORE OVERSEAS STUDENTS NORTHERN Lincolnshire’s only independent day and boarding ‘all through school’, St James’, is joining forces with Humberside Airport to encourage more international students to the area as it seeks to expand its numbers.

Many of the Grimsby school’s long-standing students already use Kirmington on the first leg of journeys home, and this new partnership, alongside the personal service being offered by the airport, aims to encourage many more students to travel to the UK using Humberside.

Dr John Price, headmaster of the Bargate school, said: “I am delighted that we are entering into a partnership with Humberside Airport. To my knowledge we are the first school in the country to partner with a regional airport.

“I have always been so impressed with the superb facilities and ser-

“

To my knowledge we are the first school in the country to partner with a regional airport.

Dr John Price

vice that Humberside Airport and also the main airline, KLM, provide and it’s great that the oldest and only ‘all through’ independent school in North East Lincolnshire is able to enter into such a partnership, which, I know, will provide an excellent and unique service to our overseas pupils.”

St James’ currently has around 20 international boarding students at the school and with plans for expansion underway, this new partnership will allow them to achieve their goals and bring more international students into North East Lincolnshire.

Deborah Zost, Humberside Airport’s managing director, said: “We are delighted to be working with St James’ School, promoting Humberside Airport as the gate-

way for their international students; ensuring travel arrangements are seamless and convenient.”

The personal service sees pupils met at the door at Humberside by a member of staff, and taken through security and escorted to their boarding gate. If flying with KLM they will also have support in the airport going through Schipol, so that their luggage is transferred. It is not just provided to the pupils but also families who are coming to visit who may not be experienced travellers.

Ian White, director of East Yorkshire-based White’s Travel, will also be working closely with the school. He said: “As a huge supporter of Humberside Airport and KLM, it is fantastic to partner with St James’ School to showcase our combined services to an international market.”

International pupiles of St James’ School with, from third from right, Deborah Zost, Dr John Price and Ian White, at Humberside Airport.

Top, a pupil is welcomed by a member of staff from the airport outside the terminal as part of the new scheme.

Business leaders’ backing POLICE and Crime Commissioner Keith Hunter and the new chief constable of Humberside Police, Lee Freeman, laid out their vision for the future of the force to business leaders.

Mr Hunter told Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting that since being elected to the role he had got to grips with the force and initiated a refresh of the chief officers’ team, and his new Chief Constable, Lee Freeman, was the visible evidence of those

changes. The Humberside force is on the biggest recruitment drive of any police force in the country and is looking to increase its staff by 500 officers, to around 1,800.

He said the force was facing massive challenges, but these challenges also provided big opportunities.

From Grimsby, Mr Freeman, pictured, has served in the City of London and Lincolnshire Police forces during his career, and said he was proud to be appointed to

GTE-E01-S6

www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel

Thursday, April 19, 2018

19

Careers Sponsored by

Engineering, Design, Project Management Recruitment and Construction Services

Andrew Holt, left, and Mark Carlton commemorate the handover at a partners’ dinner at Kenwick Park.

Top, the new office, and Mr Carlton taking over as senior partner from Philip Day, back in April 2011.

New senior partner for leading law firm

HANDOVER FOLLOWS TRANSFORMATIONAL TERM THAT SAW NEW HQ EMERGE IN GRIMSBY TOWN CENTRE THE REGION’S leading law firm has a new senior partner.

Long-serving partner Andrew Holt has taken the reins of Wilkin Chapman from Mark Carlton, who is stepping aside after seven years at the helm.

The role offers a new challenge and opportunity for the highly regarded lawyer as he liaises closely with the firm’s chief executive, Des Mannion, leading the lawyers within the firm and acting as an ambassador in the wider community.

He has enjoyed a long and established career with Wilkin Chapman, with some 30 years’ commercial litigation experience.

Of his appointment, at the head of the 400-employee organisation,

Mr Holt said: “I am delighted to accept this appointment. Our firm continues to display an innovative approach to its growth and work within our region, and in doing so is a true leader in its field.”

Mr Holt started his career with the firm in Cleethorpes nearly 30 years ago, moving to Immingham within 12 months, where he qualified and remained for four years.

He spent similar terms in Louth and then Horncastle, where he was branch partner, landing in Lincoln 17 years ago.

He became Wilkin Chapman’s head of dispute resolution four years ago, adding the role of head of regulatory crime shortly afterwards. In recent years he has also co-ordinated the organisation’s

delivery of the National Farmers Union’s legal advice scheme in the area.

Mr Carlton is delighted to welcome his long-term colleague as his successor. “We have known each other since being very young solicitors and in many ways our career paths have followed each other,” he said.

“Andrew is Wilkin Chapman through and through, always putting the best interests of the firm and others before himself. He is a fine leader and I am absolutely certain that he will uphold the tradition and values of the firm.”

During his tenure, the law firm moved from the dual locations of New Oxford House and St Mary’s Chambers in Grimsby town

centre, to a purpose-built flagship office development, Cartergate House. Mr Carlton will remain an integral part of the senior team, taking on new responsibilities as head of the Grimsby office Mr Mannion added: “Mark has steered our firm through much positive change, including our move to the new Grimsby headquarters, while maintaining our enviable position as the biggest firm in our chosen markets locally.

“There is no doubt that Andrew is a worthy successor. He will continue to build upon Mark’s legacy as we look to use our success as a vehicle for the growth and prosperity of the region as a whole."

for Humberside Police’s top brass follows briefing the top job with Humberside Police in June 2017. He told the audience that following an ill-fated programme of change in 2014/15, he has now set a new course.

He believed in listening to his staff – and he also believed that the River Humber running through his force is a big strength, not a weakness.

The Chief Constable said he is now transforming Humberside Police at a rate which is

unprecedented in policing and he said the staff were behind him and Mr Hunter because they have engaged with them and listened to their issues and concerns.

Mr Freeman said he expects his officers to treat the public with fairness, integrity, respect and professionalism, and in return expects his officers to be given the same respect by the public.

He said he had created the conditions for success and they now have to deliver it and

Humberside Police has embarked on a two to three-year journey in terms of culture, pointing out that this was one of the few forces in the country to be investing heavily in neighbourhood policing aimed at building confidence in communities.

The efforts of Mr Hunter and Mr Freeman will be scrutinised in the autumn, when the Annual Police Inspection takes place, but he promised that he is determined that his force won’t

settle for second best.

Chamber chief executive, Dr Ian Kelly, said: “Keith and Lee impressed our members greatly with their determination, commitment and motivation.

“The Chamber has always been a big supporter of Humberside Police in the vital work they do in keeping our communities safe and tackling crime.

“We wish Keith and Lee the very best in their ambitions to build the best force possible for the future.”

Inward investor CWind appoints new ‘helmsman’ MARK Preece has been appointed as managing director of CWind, the offshore renewables business about to build a new base in Grimsby.

The appointment has been made by Global Marine Group, the parent company and a market leader in offshore engineering services to the telecommunications, renewables and oil and gas industries.

Mr Preece, who has extensive experience in the offshore and maritime sectors, joined CWind on an interim basis late in 2017, following the departure of Lee Andrews.

He has built a solid reputation for delivering complex, high value projects, having for merly served as executive vice chairman at PDi Ltd, chief executive of Ceona Offshore and Reef Subsea.

He said: “CWind’s journey to Mark Preece. date has been impressive.

“Since 2009 they have grown at a phenomenal rate, and are recognised by many as a key partner to successfully deliver innovative operations and maintenance solutions in the offshore renewables market. I am delighted to play a part in the next step of their journey.”

“Mark is a high calibre individual with a strong record of achievement.”

Headquartered in Chelmsford, CWind announced last month it had signed a deal with Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises for a plot on the North Wall, complete with pontoon facilities for berthing vessels. It currently relies on client facilities with a temporary office on the port.

Ian Douglas, chief executive of Global Marine Group, said: “Mark’s operational, commercial and business development experience will be invaluable to us and will strengthen the CWind leadership hugely as we align ourselves to meet future industry requirements.”

20

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

STE-E01-S6

Commercial Vehicles In association with

Flatbed fleet addition

be part of the family

Grimsby: 01472 355801 Lincoln: 01522 544700 Scunthorpe: 01724 271800 Hull: 01482 330660

For support in raising your company’s profile in this sector call: Andrew Bannister on 01472 806962

“

With an incredible 80 years’ experience in the flatbed sector, the investment in these new trailers demonstrates our commitment to increasing our presence in the market Tim Doggett

CLUGSTON’S £500,000 INVESTMENT IN 20 TRAILERS CLUGSTON Distribution Services has invested almost half a million pounds to expand its fleet of flatbed trailers.

The Scunthorpe company has purchased an additional 20 new flatbed trailers, 15 of which are extendable as well as five standard flatbed trailers Clugston’s new trailers are individually designed for the transportation of various products up to 22 metres in length, and are also built to full British Steel specification requirements.

The investment comes at an exciting time for the company, having also only recently completed a six-figure upgrade to the truck and trailer maintenance

facility on Brigg Road.

Equipped with leading-edge equipment, it offers a full turnkey solution for maintaining a wide variety of major truck manufacturers’ commercial vehicles and trailers as well as a commercial vehicle MoT test station.

Tim Doggett, pictured,distribution director, said: “We are experiencing an increased demand for our services across all our industry sectors, from bulk food, powder and fuel distribution through to specialist silo evacuations.

“With an incredible 80 years’ experience in the flatbed sector, the investment in these new trailers demonstrates our commit-

ment to increasing our presence in the market, alongside continuing to provide high levels of service.

“In total, over the course of the last three years, we have invested nearly two million in improving services for our customers.”

Building on the tanker fleet, Clugston has just bolstered its presence at the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers’ Expo in Liverpool, held this week.

The £140 million turnover business is taking the opportunity showcase the entire group’s capabilities, including property construction and facilities management.

10,000th members of a club that is always on the move!

GRIMSBY motorhome manufacturer Auto-Trail has welcomed its 10,000th member to its owners club.

Kim and Julia Knight signed up at the NEC Motorhome Show.

Going into the first big exhibition of the year, the sales team knew they were close to the major milestone, and the deal was completed on the fourth day.

It comes in the 25th

anniversary year for the Auto-Trail Owners’ Club.

Club chairman, David Wort and club treasurer Kat Ashton presented the couple with an engraved award, a bottle of champagne, complimentary first year’s free membership, and 25th anniversary year polo shirts.

Managing director of Auto-Trail, Dave Thomas and president of

the owning Trigano Group, Francois Feuillet, also presented the new members with a free habitation check.

This week a 25th anniversary rally will converge on Doncaster Racecourse. More than 250 vehicles will be present, with a visit to the Auto-Trail factory on Europarc arranged for all owners to explore the recently doubled production capacity.

Kim and Julia Knight are welcomed to the club by Auto-Trail managing director Dave Thomas. Left, the expanded Grimsby production plant on Europarc.

STE-E01-S6

Thursday, April 19, 2018

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

21

Construction & Commercial Property

Clugston safety wins in contract and ethos

Professional PPH role TONY Gravel has joined PPH as a divisional director.

A member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, he joins from Banks Long & Co. PPH director Ben Medhurst said: “Tony is a property valuation and appraisal specialist and his remit will be to work

£25m HULL SCHEME FOLLOWS UP AWARDS SUCCESS Steve Radcliffe and Thomas Martin, chairman of Arco, centre, with, from left, Hull City Council representatives Alex Codd city planning manager; Cllr Stephen Brady, leader; Cllr Martin Mancey and Matt Dukes, chief executive.

tes turner evans stevens

COMMERCIAL

CLUGSTON Construction has been awarded the contract to build a £25 million extension Arco’s National Distribution Centre in Hull.

The Scunthorpe team will add more than 20,000 sq m to the 18-year-old building, which won awards for its innovative design.

Due for completion next summer, it will give the UK’s leading safety group a further 40,000 pallets of storage space.

The design team supporting Arco and Clugston included Alan Wood and Partners from Hull and HBPW Civils.

Steve Radcliffe, managing director at Clugston Construction, said: “Following several months of preparatory work with the designers and planners, we are delighted that the on-site works are now starting, and once again to be working with Arco, for whom we previously built an earlier extension to their National Distribution facility.”

It comes as Clugston’s own commitment to health and safety has seen it receive a highly prized International Safety Award from The British Safety Council. The award is in recognition of its commitment to keeping its workers and workplaces healthy and safe during the 2017 calendar year.

Now in their 60th year, the International Safety Awards recognise and celebrate organisations from around the world which have demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the scheme’s independent judges, their commitment to preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health during the previous calendar year.

Mike Robinson, chief executive of the British Safety Council, congratulated Clugston on their success and their commitment and efforts to keep their employees and workplaces free of injury and ill health.

r/o 2-14, Allanby Street

with the banks and our private clients to ensure that we maintain the highest standards in our professional department in the Scunthorpe and Grimsby offices. He will also act on behalf of private clients on landlord and tenant work and business rate appeals.”

GRIMSBY 01472 362020 01507 602264 LOUTH LINCOLN 01522 511665 MABLETHORPE 01507 473476 SKEGNESS 01754 766061 SPILSBY 01790 752151 SUTTON ON SEA 01507 441166 WOODHALL SPA 01526 354111 www.tes-property.co.uk www.rightmove.co.uk

CHARTERED SURVEYORS & COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS GRIMSBY

158, Grimsby Road

Units 1a & 1b, Railway Street

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

FOR SALE/TO LET

* Potential workshop/warehouse Approx. 360 sqm/3880 sqft GIA * Office content approx. 49.5 sqm/530sqft plus ancillaries * Suitable alternative uses, subject to appropriate consents, EPC Rating E, Freehold

* High return investment, Comprising lock-up shop and three flats * Industrial site approx. 360 sqm/3875 sqft (STSS), Frontage approx. * Gross income approximately £14,500 p.a. exclusive of outgoings 30m * Highly visual location opposite McDonalds and Grimsby Town Football Club * Adjoining raised section of Cleethorpe Road * On-street parking, EPC Rating D: Shop, Flat 1: C, Flats 2 & 3: D * Planning approval for 2 x B1 units, 62.4 sqm;/672 sqft overall, Freehold

PRICE: O/A £60,000

PRICE: £125,000 PRICE: £60,000/£6,000 p.a.

SCUNTHORPE

Land at Yaddlethorpe

GRIMSBY

GRIMSBY

Unit 2/3 Bull Ring Lane

1, Railway Street

FOR SALE

TO LET

FOR SALE

* Approx. 11.1 acres/4.5 hectares (STSS) * Undulating grass land * Vacant possession * Freehold

* Retail/office premises, Approx. 1272 sqf;/118 sqm * Workshop approx. 1432 sqft/133 sqm with 2 sets of loading doors and office * Deep return frontage to Market, Wide frontage * First floor office/stores approx. 356 sqft/33.3 sqm, Yard approx. 4900 sqm * High pedestrianised footfall, New lease available, with circulation and palisade fenced/gates for in the order of 40 cars EPC Rating D * Suit alternative uses (STP), Freehold, EPC Rating E

PRICE O/A £85,000

MARSHCHAPEL

RENT: £12,000 p.a. O/A £175,000/£12,000 p.a.

CLEETHORPES

GRIMSBY

Grant aids Marketplace’s move MARKETPLACE Systems Ltd, which provides tendering, quote management and grant-sourcing services to businesses across the Humber region, has recently relocated to larger offices in Barton in preparation for further growth and recruitment plans.

With assistance from Grimsby-based enterprise support agency E-Factor Business, it was able to secure a grant to furnish the new space.

Jason Kay, director and principal consultant, said: “We wanted to expand and take on an apprentice, and so

cent of the costs of setting up the office, so basically paying for half of all the furniture, TV screen, etc. It allowed us to put everything in new, and we got 50 per cent of that cost back.”

Marketplace launched in 2016 by the former Tata Steel procurement officer.

Mr Parker, Business Growth Hub advisor, said: Mr Kay, left, with Mr Parker. “We have worked with Jason since he set up and it's great were looking for larger office to be able to help his growing space. We found the office, at business. The move to the Waters’ Edge Visitor Centre new premises in Barton will and it was perfect. Steve make it much easier to Parker from E-Factor helped engage with businesses on the South Bank.” us to get a grant for 50 per

Marshchapel Butcher's Shop, Sea Dyke Way 13 St Peter's Avenue FOR SALE

TO LET

PRICE: O/A £190,000

108, Cromwell Road FOR SALE

* Comprising former butcher's shop, garage and detached bake house/store * Highly visual location, lockup retail premises, approx 870 sqft/80.8 sqm * 3 bed accommodation, Investment income from let fish & chip shop, with security shutter * Significant potential subject to planning consent, EPC: Butcher's shop EPC; * Ground floor WCs, first floor sales/storage approx 920 sqft*/86 sqm* E, Accommodation EPC F, Fish & Chip shop - C * Incentives available by negotiation, EPC Rating C, Rent free by negotiation

Potential investment property, GF retail premises and potential separate flat over Long-established bathroom display use now available due to relocation Shop approx. 63.9 m / 688 ft GIA, Rear yard. EPC Rating TBC

RENT: £16,500 p.a.

GRIMSBY

PRICE £85,000

GRIMSBY Viking House 55-57, Church Street TO LET * Prominent office space * Approx. 6950 sqft/646 sqm * Ground and first floor space * EPC Rating E * Lift, central heating, car park * May divide * Rent by negotiation

Prince Albert Gardens FOR SALE * Modern purpose built office accommodation, Approx. 2691 sqft/250 sqm (NUFA) * flexible accommodation, Common areas/reception/WCs, Large car park * Overall site approx. 0.42 acres/0.16 hectare/1700 sqm (STSS), EPC Rating C

Rent by negotiation

PRICE: £225,000

LINCOLNSHIRE’S LEADING ESTATE AGENCY GROUP

22

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

STE-E01-S6

Construction & Commercial Property Key contracts CIVIL engineering specialist Britcon has recently completed two major projects that underline its role in the region’s crucial industrial make-up.

Multi-million pound developments in the ports and chemicals sector have been realised by the Scunthorpe firm.

A new bio-acrylamide manufacturing process at Kemira Chemicals UK in Bradford saw a 13-metre high process building erected, covering 4,700 sq m.

Designed by Engie Fabricom, it involved the construction of a new steel-framed dryer building between two existing buildings with a raised reinforced ground floor concrete slab on down stand beams on piled foundations for the Finnish-owned company which makes products for water intensive industries. Works also included internal process support steelwork for mezzanine floors, vessels, control and switch rooms. The roof of an adjacent building was also raised by nearly three metres to facilitate a new production line’s installation.

Robin Allen, marketing and business development manager for Britcon, said: “During demolition works the existing boilers were kept live. Careful planning and communication between all stakeholders was key to ensure our work didn’t affect the client.

“As well as working in a live working environment, we were also operating in a highly chemically sensitive environment.

Kemira had never completed major works such as this so we needed to demonstrate our full capability to the provision of little disruption to their daily routine through planning and programming, as well as keeping costs controlled.”

Closer to home and Humber Marine Control Tower is now a hive of activity for the estuary’s vessel movements.

The £2 million contract delivered a four-storey facility to house a broad section of ABP’s marine team navigation disciplines in Grimsby.

Works included a piled foundation system with concrete slab foundation on the piles including all services, pipework and ducting.

“It was a vital requirement to keep the existing Humber Estuary navigation systems running 24/7 while construction operations were underway and transferred to the new building, given the need to ensure safe navigation of vessels along the Humber estuary,” Mr Allen said.

Commercial property expertise across the Humber Region

SALES & LETTINGS | LEASE ADVISORY | VALUATIONS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT | BUSINESS RATES

01482 645522 0 Chartered Surveyors and C Commercial Property Consultants

www.clarkweightman.co.uk A full property search is available on our website

Care provider secures own permanent base

EXPANSION IS ALLOWED FOR IN MOVE FROM RENTING LOUTH-based residential and community support service, Alderson Ltd, has celebrated its expansion following the purchase of its first fully-owned offices.

The family-run firm first launched in 1996, and is comprised of an 18-bed residential home, Alderson House, and Libertas, which delivers at-home care to East Lindsey.

The business employs 150 people, with Libertas, a prime provider for Lincolnshire County Council.

It works in close partnership with the local authority to deliver approximately 3,000 hours of care per week.

Since its inception, Libertas’ head office has been run out of rented property but, last year, founder and owner Tom Carter decided the business needed a more permanent home, particularly with the stability and sustainability provided by Lincolnshire County Council.

Partnering with HSBC, he was provided with a commercial mortgage to purchase a permanent home on Eastgate.

The new space, twice the size of its previous premises, will allow the business to take on more clients each year.

Mr Carte said: “The care of our community is my passion and we strive to provide an exceptional service which helps the lives of those who need extra support.

“In our rented property we found we were becoming limited by the space and wanted to meet the growing demand for our services.

“HSBC’s support has been vital

The senior Alderson team, from left, Linda Mitchell, director of quality, compliance and safety, Tom Carter, managing director; Ian Green, HSBC relationship manager; Claire Lee, head of operations to our progression and owning our own property will allow us to support so many more local people.

“It also means we can develop the space to our exact needs; having this flexibility is invaluable in the care sector and my team and I are thrilled to now be in our new home.”

HSBC’s relationship manager Ian Green, led the deal for Alderson Ltd, and continues to provide guidance as the company expands its home care services.

Stephen Evans, HSBC’s area director, added: “Alderson House and Libertas provide vital services to Louth and the neighbouring towns and it’s been a privilege to support Tom and his team, who are all so passionate about their work.

At HSBC we are always inspired by businesses who take such a close-knit role in the community and strive to ensure they can develop and expand their presence in the market.”

Carolyn Nice, assistant director

covering adult frailty and long term conditions at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “We are pleased to support this permanent office move which means Libertas can continue to strengthen their links to the community and help support vital care services in the area.

“It is important we have a strong relationship with our providers to ensure the best home care services possible for those in need.”

Ahead of the game on service charge implementation PROPERTY agent Scotts has placed itself at the forefront of planned new measures which will ensure a gold standard in the management and administration of commercial service charges.

A new code of practice covering commercial service charges has been drafted by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, (RICS), supported by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Law Society.

For the first time, this updated fourth-edition of the code sets out mandatory requirements for RICS professionals and

firms in this specific area of commercial property work.

RICS believes that, by introducing this edition as a professional statement with mandatory requirements, the industry will take a significant step forward in trying to stamp out ‘rogue’ landlords and managing agents. Such people will use unscrupulous methods to make as much money as possible from service charges.

However, from this month, agents must ensure they adhere to the tougher new practice code, which focuses on transparency of service costs, not profiting from

the provision of services and ensuring value for money.

It also highlights the need for the use of alternative dispute resolution to resolve disputes.

In making these changes, RICS said it is striving to ensure that those engaged to manage service charges are doing so with ‘professionalism, scrupulousness, diligence, integrity and impartiality’.

Anticipating the onset of this new code of practice, Scotts Property, which has offices in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Hull, has already implemented all the changes outlined on behalf of all its management clients.

Partner Lawrence Brown explained how the team at Scotts recognised that the implementation of this planned new code was ‘a necessary step to ensure

good practice’.

“There should be full support for this new code from everyone within the industry. There is simply no room for those who enter this profession with the aim of simply making as much money as possible, by whatever means necessary,” said Mr Brown.

“In seeing what was planned, we had no hesitation in taking steps straight away to adhere to the points of action in the draft code – whether it was implemented or not.

We want to ensure that all is being done to ensure best practice,” he added.

STE-E01-S6

Thursday, April 19, 2018

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

23

Construction & Commercial Property

How 1 Undershaft could look within Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skeleton of steel skyline. Below, 4 Pancras Square, and LISI prisdent Chris Vaughan welcoming Mr Parry.

DBox. 4 Pancras Square Eric Parry Architects / Dirk Lindner.

Main picture: Eric Parry Architects /

Eminent architect outlines a need for our steel in the city

THE MAN BEHIND LONDONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEXT TALLEST BUILDING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AND A HIDDEN GEM OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE - GIVES 2017/2018 SEASONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FINAL LISI LECTURE ONE of Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most eminent architects has underlined the vitality of metals in construction, now and in the future.

Eric Parry, the man behind what could be Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next highest building, addressed Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last gathering of the season in a feast of a finale.

Talking through prestigious projects from the chiefly subterranean St Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s In The Field to 18-storey 5 Aldermanbury Square, it was the next off the drawing board, 1 Undershaft, that really caught the imagination.

Through planning, it will take the city up higher than ever before, surpassing The Shard and benefiting from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;habitableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top floor space.

He then gave his take on where steel sits in construction, and it was lapped up by those responsible for it.

Mr Parry said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a huge amount in common but we are coming from very different spectrums. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I cast my mind back to being a student, one of the incredible occasions for me was

going to Corby to experience the scale, and last year I was lucky enough to have a trip here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One just gets the sense of depth of community and a culture of making, which we, all too sadly, have lost too much of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As an architect it is really interesting to think how industry can engage with design. It is still mystical, alchemical and brilliant what you can do with metal and steel.

We have great metal fabrication, and there is great industry in the primary work.

I think steels and metals are always going to be there. Concrete design has got more efficient, and flat floor post tensioning has got a good span now and it is good for thermal mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The concrete industry is changing and catching up but as soon as you get over a set span, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t become very efficient, particularly over 10m. Many of our office floor footprints are 16m clear span, and there steel is always the answer. It is the material of choice. It is huge.â&#x20AC;?

Of Undershaft, the 73-storey development, it

is 289.94m tall and proposed for land by The Gherkin in the City. It will rise to a height of 304.94m above ordnance datum, â&#x20AC;&#x153;crowning the new cluster of planned skyscrapers in the square mile,â&#x20AC;? providing nearly 90,000 sq m of office space.

A new larger public square will be created at the base of the tower. The elevated office reception lobby means that the public will be able to walk freely beneath the skyscraper.

Retail space will be created in the lower level retail gallery, with new restaurants, cafĂŠs, and shops accessed from the public square.

At the top of the building will be the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest public viewing gallery, served by dedicated lifts. A public restaurant will be located on the level beneath the viewing gallery.

Weathering steel bracing plays a strong functional and aesthetic role across the 300m, with 10 floors per brace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a helluva lot of steel in this building, in all the new office buildings there is a lot,â&#x20AC;? Mr Parry said.

Weathering steel is already part of another

project the Royal Academy council member takes pride in, 4 Pancras Square.

At the cutting edge when it comes to significant investments in London and beyond, the man behind Covent Gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Opera Terrace, said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been a change. There has definitely been a cooling. You can see it in all aspects of our industry, with clients not willing to come forward, but there is still a feeling that the City is going to get bigger over the next couple of decades so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need more space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Square Mile is constrained by views of St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral and a very limited footprint. Undershaft is a key piece of the jigsaw, but whether it needs to be pre-let or not I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, it may be much more multi-tenanted than it may have been in the past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are different industries other than banking taking place, it is not all doom and gloom, but a changing landscape.â&#x20AC;?

+XPEHU 5RDG %DUWRQ XSRQ +XPEHU Ĺ&#x2DC; 7ZR JRRG TXDOLW\ ZRUNVKRSV )25 6$/( ZLWK DQFLOODU\ RIILFH DQG \DUG SUHPLVHV Ĺ&#x2DC; *URVV LQWHUQDO DUHD VT P VT IW LQ DFUHV Ĺ&#x2DC; 0D[ HDYHV KHLJKW RI P ZLWK W JDQWU\ FUDQH IDFLOLW\

e

www.clarkweightman.co.uk

24

www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/business

Thursday, April 19, 2018

STE-E01-S6

LAISTER’S Last Word

BY DAVE LAISTER

The Internet Fusion website.

Online retailer gets a £9.5m banking boost as it acquires LOUTH-based e-commerce business, Internet Fusion, has secured a £9.5 million finance package from HSBC to continue its ambitious acquisition strategy.

The online retail expert, which sells everything from equestrian equipment to Seasonal Affective Disorder light products, operates 12 separate websites through its bespoke proprietary global technology platform, allowing easy online sales worldwide. The company, founded in 2002, employs 250 staff.

Internet Fusion has seen a significant period of growth over the last two years, catalysed by a number of key acquisitions – with the latest, last month in Country Attire.

Keen to pursue additional opportunities, the business recently moved to HSBC as part of a wider group re-financing deal. The move was inspired by the bank’s extensive knowledge of the e-commerce sector and will in turn help the company increase revenue by 33 per cent and recruit a further 30 employees.

Martin Brailsford, chief executive, said: “The last two years have been an incredibly exciting period of growth for Internet Fusion.

“We have acquired some fantastic sites, assets and talent and the company continues to increase revenue.

PREMISES: Internet Fusion’s base.

“Our new partnership with HSBC is the perfect way to accelerate this growth; the bank has an unrivalled knowledge of the sector and enthusiasm for Internet Fusion’s direction of travel.

“Alongside this exciting acquisition strategy it is important that Internet Fusion can continue to grow organically as well, driving profitability for the group and sustaining its expansion.”

An award-winning e-commerce trader, it is based on Fusion Way, Bolingbroke Road, Fairfield Industrial Estate.

Roger Pratt, HSBC’s area director in the East Midlands, said: “The planned expansion at Internet Fusion is something we are extremely pleased to be involved with.

“HSBC is committed to supporting ambitious businesses like Internet Fusion with funding and advice

and we look forward to seeing the company continue to grow in the future.”

The financing was used in part to fund the recent acquisition of Country Attire, which sells men’s and women’s fashion brands with British heritage, such as Ted Baker, Barbour, Jules, Hunter and Jack Wills.

It hhas a proven track record of profitability, having shown consistent growth over the past 10 years.

“This purchase is a strong example of an acquisition that is well positioned to continue to drive sales and profit for the wider group,” Mr Brailsford added.

HSBC’s relationship director, Jack Coley, led the deal for Internet Fusion and continues to provide guidance as the company progresses its business strategy.

Back in the ranks for a relegation fight to the finish... just don’t ask me to clap (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap FISH)!

Paternity leave has come to an abrupt end and I’ve been thrown in at the deepest of deep ends.

Seven years of carving out weekend exclusivity for the kids has been shattered by my first love, sending an SOS that feels ever so slightly like a CSA demand.

Yes Grimsby Town came subconsciously calling and is back in my life, front and centre, and I’m hooked.

I pick my times don’t I? No win in 15, couldn’t buy a goal, then this articulate, ambitious, suited stranger walks in, and hope springs eternal.

Mid-life crisis set in monotone? Possibly. I knew I was getting old when ‘veteran’ Michael Owen retired, as he was born a few days after me.

Now the manager’s the same age and it is the chief constables looking younger not the police officers, that I’m worried about.

I digress. Being vaguely competent at cricket I’d rediscovered my passion for the long game and had spent those last few Saturdays of the ill-fated 2009/2010 season putting the ball over the big tree at Hibaldstow and on the pavilion roof at Broughton, while trying to make sure my bowling wasn’t dispatched in the same manner.

We were in Cyprus when the axe finally fell on that disgraceful day at Burton Albion, and when the first of our children came along the following February I’d well and truly fallen out with the team I’d been so faithful to since the baptism of joy that was Alan Buckley’s first coming.

I had my keeping in touch days through the non-league era, mostly on a corporate ticket, where the fish and chips, couple of pints and panoramic views of the Humber made up for the dull fare dished up on the pitch.

Watching players have to actually look down to check they had the ball in their possession felt alien after McDermott, Donovan, Lester, Mendonca, etc... I’d have happily called my first-born Stacy Coldicott right then, if it meant a return to those heady highlights of blatant over-achievement, where we had the audacity to whinge about a defeat at Wolves and the bare-faced cheek to sack managers after drawing with Portsmouth.

There were dark days, don’t get me wrong.

Oldham and Hartlepool still send shudders down my spine, and with a lot of Soccer Saturdays under my belt with the Monkey Hangers’ celebrity fan in the chair, I’m surprised my vertebrae are still intact.

Those invites drifted off as three years became four, five and six off the bottom of the coupon, so by the time Paul Hurst had assembled his charges I felt a fraud returning. Contribution to Operation Promotion made, I settled for watching on Cleethorpes Cricket Club’s big screen, reading the Telegraph, and increasingly, anyone using #GTFC or #UTM on Twitter.

An office move brought the business desk alongside the sports desk, and the banter, insight and occasional blind optimism, and hope-shattering pessimism (often punctuated by a weekend) that pre-and post match games did bring.

The seed was planted and I was as thrilled as those dancing back down Wembley Way when we sealed the return. But, again. I felt I’d be

jumping on the bandwagon if I joined the EFL marketing in making its way back to Cleethorpes. Hurst’s due reward came for his unstinting efforts, and I was ambivalent about Russell Slade’s appointment. I’d have happily given him another crack after the Cheltenham Play-Off defeat, and what a time Sir Alan enjoyed on his return, but still I didn’t.

Then crisis hit, and attention and fear over what could become from a second Football League disappearing act hit home. Like offshore wind has been my professional ‘project’ there’s something special about being there at the very beginning of a new chapter, and Michael Jolley’s appointment provided that for me, along with some amazing acts by fans. 20-year-old Bailey Mussell’s ‘When you try your best but you don’t succeed #gtfc’ thread is one particular highlight.

So I’m back, and so far unbeaten! Back as purely a fan, like 20 years ago at Chesterfield for the first round of the Auto Windscreens Shield campaign that ended so spectacularly. Back constantly checking the wrist watch when we’re ahead or behind, back with a sore throat, back waving at Mighty Mariner!

The Tuesday after Wayne Burnett’s golden goal I was drafted into support the Telegraph’s coverage of away matches, primarily post-match interviews with managers and players. Initially fantastic, a closer insight into the club I’d held so dear for so long, at the same age as the clutch of players, some local, some brought in, that did us proud. Some became friends, some still are.

Beers, cheers and tears have all been shared, and it was an incredible ride. But the day job became more demanding and shortly after one of those lads, Phil Jevons’ delivered that wonder goal at Anfield, I had to let go of that privileged position.

Reverting to the original, and at present it is the ultimate labour of love, we need that big hard push to deliver everything the town, and the 5,000 hardy souls who have committed far more than me, deserve. Solid Football League status.

It is going to be a rollercoaster ride after a point on Saturday, but you can see the improvements being made.

Thank you Grimsby Hospital Join the bolded up words above together and you have a little clue as to why I’m now wearing a plaster cast and won’t be shaking hands with anyone very soon.

Retrieving a foam rocket from my son’s attempt to replicate Michael Foale’s efforts saw me disappear through the garage roof it landed on.

As ever in my dealings, the staff at DPOW were a delight. They even christened me Rocket Man! Gotta love a bit of Elton. Cricket season delayed, business awards season to negotiate, entering my 40th year plastered... Let the fun (for my wonderful wife) begin...