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Oil giantare awards major Offices final piece contract Britishpuzzle team of potatoto empire

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

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OTAL Lindsey Oil Refinery’s multi-million early £3-million has been pound principal invested into maintenmaking ance contract has been northern Lincolnshire a awarded to British giant Wood central hub for the needs up. of the UK’s biggest ofGro some The five year deal will see the potato sellers.

Aberdeen-headquartered business Elsham Wold has just become the head up mechanical, electrical new headquarters for AKP Group, and instrumentation works supplier to supermarket giantin what is the latest element Morrisons and major chip of a wide-ranging McCain. project to secure the manufacturer future of the hugeoffice plant.block, A state-of-the-art About 100 controlled staff are expected temperature potato to transfer from previous contractor, storage facility and grading line, US-owned Jacobs, aheadto of the together with extensions January 1 start date. existing handling areas have just The completion of the been completed, with theopen tender process after Wood’s 13-year-old firm came headed

by Richard £2.2 billion “transfor mational Arundel moving the whole acquisition” ofback Amec Foster administration into the area Wheeler, from York.which has created a global leader in the delivery of The son of Grimsby town centre project, engineering and technical and Freeman Street markets services to energy andwho industrial grocer David Arundel, also marke s. as a potato merchant to used to tact is alsofish part of the theItarea’s and chipbusiness’s shops, strategic move to Suffolk become less joined forces with reliant on upstream oil and gas businessman Bruce Kerr in 1999. work, havingKP been hit by the price The former potato storage drop inwhich the oilhas market three years facility now been ago. substantially developed, was New Lindsey Refinery acquired in 2007,Oil when a project general manager began to grow skinJean-Marc finished Durand on said it Isle wasof part of the potatoes the Axholme. “overall planto toshow continue “We wanted we could improving produce the refinery requiredperformance”. quality He said: “Itsupermarkets is a new partnership locally that were on maintenance activity and it buying in from Herefordshire, brings aor way to improve the he Scotland even importing,” profile of the refinery . us with it said.

“Morrisons backed theForward units, and“We we have wentreshuffled to Yorkshire reshuffled theregional organisation and (the scrapped created projects that putting bring value development agency) and increase efficiency together a plan.

We then. tied the Maintenance is and one got of the supply chain up themain activities and when we put all this funding.” together it is creating a firm That equated to £700,000.

With future for this plant.”

Morrisons’ rapid growth in the He world, said Jacobs, a long-term retail the business has been contractor on theand North propelled quickly, working Killingholme site, Lremained with Eastoft-based Harrisonan & important partner when it came Co, the infrastructure to allow for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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MAJOR DEAL: Total Lindsey Oil Refinery, and right, Jean-Marc Durand, centre, with Total Lindsey Oil Refinery maintenance manager Jerome Araud, left, and Steve Henry, Wood Group business manager. to project work and turnaround activity.

Wood is now starting to mobilise further has now been put on the increases refinery, with the presence inramping place. up ahead of the official “We have taken two years to this get handover.

“We are following toprocess this,” said Mr Arundel.

“We got to make sure it goes the grant funding for storage and smoothly and everyone gets the grading operations inprocesses 2009, andare opportunity and all built the storage throughout 2010, managed accordingly,” Mr Durand tosaid. be open for that harvest. We have had potatoes infirst from 2010 and The opportunity presented 2011, and the whole projectthe has itself in early 2016 when been finished with the offices tender process began.

Jeromejust now.

Arnaud, maintenance manager, “Our“The desire is toobjective have more said: main was to quality producers local to sustainpotato and maintain our strength this site.

It would cut down on of maintenance, while keeping transport costs.safety Thererecord.” is still a lot our excellent ofUnderlining potential, itawill helpfor the desire strong environmental footprint culture, motivation andand this part of the world has the innovation, he said: “Weability neededtoto grow some the beston potatoes in bring newof methods to the site the is what we to country, improve that efficiencies, to are majoring increaseon.” quality and make it right the firstoftime.

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where we want to improve is in scheduling of all the works, and we want to work on the employed, handling 120,000 capabilities of the team ontonnes site ofand potatoes a year.

Of that,the 35,000 upskill and develop skills tonnes are self-grown, with aand of to be better, more efficient growing group.” in this region and better quality around another in Suffolk, Wood, which site is dropping the contributing the balance.

‘Group’ element of the brand, Recently 15 employees were day recently held a major supplier added, three graduate on thewith South Bank, with bosses trainees also part of response. the company, encouraged by the They specialising in growing, have committed to an logistics and technical elements, including apprenticeship programme and agronomy . The remaining have been impressed with Catch investment has seen awhere fleet of at Stallingborough, ansix Mercedes brought in to in deliver existing rigs training provider the potatoes AIS, to customers, with the Aberdeen, has a presence. primary route Morrisons’ Tom Gilchrist, Wood’s packing operations operationsnear andHarrogate. maintenance Keen to cultivate a prosperous director, said: “What is really important for us is winning future for Lincolnshire potatothe work and people farmers, theonboarding 32,000sq ft the storage to become good sq employees during facility and 4,000 ft two storey a safe transition. There is still office development – which drewa job to do, with months of inspiration fromthree Genesis Office

hard work while we mobilise.

“This is a positive story around upskilling, and people trying to Park on Grimsby’s flagship work in development, new ways. We will do think Europarc be the group are capable, we by have officially opened this week heard a lot of positives.

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board “It is exciting forchairman us to win this John Godfrey CBE, himself a work.

We have worked in the North Lincolnshire farmer.

Humber, but we are not as well Mr Arundel added: “We’re known.

We are trying to change looking forward opening the who that. There areto a lot of people new cold store and grading facility want to work with us. We were – the uncharacteristic weather hopeful we hadbrought done enough conditions have us a to win the contract, now have got challenging year, but thewe opening to deliver what we we can. event is juston rewards forsay everyone’s That is our commitment to Total. hard work.

Therenew is also a commitment to the “The facility will not only local area.

This is not about of enable us to meet the demand our biggesta customers, running project out but of we’ve also successfully improved the Aberdeen, this is for the Humber quality andheartland freshnessof ofEngland.” our area, the potatoes Thereby is reducing an option to extend the transportation, handling and using contract for astore further two years. the latest cold technologies.”

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

The money, available to firms in northern business news around the Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked Humber regionto £2-million – investments – ranging from £15,000 is there to help small and medium sized businesses meet their growth and development requirements.

The figure amounts to 224 investments in 183 small and medium sized enterprises since August 2010, visit leadinghumberbusiness.com to more than 4,600 jobs created and safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, the venture capital and loan fund completed 30 investments totalling more than £4.3 million.

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

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

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

For information visit www.finance-yorkshire.com

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The company, part of Dee Bee has been The Ramsden Group, has working with Sanderson, invested a six-figure sum which specialises in Grimsby: November 21 in two new systems wholesale distribution, multi-channel retail and specifically designed to manufacturing software increase efficiency and Scunthorpe: November 23 solutions, on the precise service to customers in specification of the new its growing delivered systems. The voice-pick wholesale business. technology is being The voice directed Warehouse Management installed at both the Grimsby depot on Adam Smith Street and the ng ppi Sho recently opened site in Dine Wine and Motoring n hio Fas Hull, with the company Travel Homes Lifestyle returning to the North Bank after a 25-year es om H hi rre absence. n Li nc ol ns er th or N Fo r Andy Taylor, pictured, the group’s trading £ 2 .7 5 director, said: “We have invested a considerable amount in this new IT infrastructure, a move that further demonstrates our

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The ePOD system is being installed in the company’s expanding fleet of vehicles delivering from both depots and enables staff to capture customer acceptance signatures and carry out delivery amendments at the customer site. aggressive growth Mr Taylor added: “This strategy for the will greatly improve our wholesale and delivered operational efficiency by business. cutting out any delivery “The voice-pick errors and enhancing our technology alone will service to customers. We give even greater efficiency and picking of can expect a return on orders and will speed up this investment in just a the entire process to the few months.”

The Dee Bee depots benefit of our retail, on-trade and food service each stock a range of around 6,000 products customer bases.” and have a customer base Voice directed order of more than 2,000 retail, picking software sends pub, restaurant and cafe picking instructions to the warehouse operatives outlets in the north.

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GRIMSBY Town Football Club has agreed a new three-year deal with Dee Bee for the supply of beer at Blundell Park.

The cash and carry wholesaler is to supply Heineken at the stadium, and a spokesman said the company was delighted to have been able to negotiate the new deal.

The club’s commercial manager, Dave Smith, said: “This represents the renewal of a long-standing relationship with Dee Bee and the Heineken range.”

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NEW motorhomes produced in Grimsby will benefit from an online portal from next year.

Auto-Trail, the UK’s leading UK manufacturer, has introduced My Auto-Trail for Tracker, Apache and Frontier models.

It will allow owners to manage and monitor the location and status of their provided the Eurparc firm with the motorhomes remotely – giving customers complete control and peace portal.

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An additional feature added to My Auto Trail is an annual tracking subscription, Auto Trail Connect.

It will provide real time relay across Europe, with Thatcham category six approval carrying an ability to reduce premiums.

The system is being showcased at this week’s NEC Motorhome and Caravan Show.

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£1m investment is a big lift for port capabilities

Month in Review Status of Liberty is to step up and hit capacity

STEEL: Production at the former Caparo Merchant Bar mill in Scunthorpe is to be stepped up by around 30 per cent next year with new jobs created, new owner Sanjeev Gupta has said.

The Indian-born industrial entrepreneur and head of the Liberty House Group was in town to rename the 32-year-business as Liberty Steels Scunthorpe.

Mr Gupta, 45, who was joined by his parents, praised the 145-strong workforce for keeping the mill alive, after the firm’s former owner went into administration almost two years ago.

The Liberty deal, for an undisclosed sum, completed in July.

Innogy takes sole control OFFSHORE WIND: Innogy has taken sole ownership of Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.

The German utility giant has bought out Norwegian company Statkraft’s share in an undisclosed deal for the fully consented project, which received Government subsidy support last month.

It has been in the management of Innogy, previously RWE, throughout the lengthy development process.

To be built off the Lincolnshire coast, with Able Marine Energy Park the preferred port base, the company has made it clear the future ownership structure will be reviewed further, and it comes as investors are attracted earlier to the burgeoning offshore wind energy sector.

HEADING TO GRIMSBY: A new Liehberr LH110 Port Handling Machine is demonstrated at the German manufacturing base.

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MAJOR investment in port handling equipment has been made by RMS Grimsby & Immingham, as it builds on capacity and capability.

More than £1 million has been committed to the acquisition, in what is the biggest single investment in equipment since a management restructure of the group was completed earlier this year.

RMS, which absorbed what was Freshney Cargo Services into the wider Humber operation, and proudly boasts operations in every port accessed from the estuary, is anticipating the arrival of the

Liehberr LH110 Port Handling Machine this week.

Andy Dixon, managing director of RMS Grimsby & Immingham, said: “This is a new development by Liebherr Port Handling machines and will be the first 110M type machine in the UK. “This is by far our most exciting investment yet, in 27 years of port operations at Grimsby, and projects us into the future.”

While it will complement the existing crane fleet, it also marks the start of a replacement programme, and was made possible with funding assistance from HSBC. Further options are being explored as the group “looks to grow, develop

and invest for the future”, Mr Dixon said.

The handler will be equipped with two, three and five square metre grabs, a 1.4 square metre claw grab, 25 tonne hook block and bale clamp.

From the leading German manufacturer, a pioneer in craneage, the 110M offers a high lift capacity and long reach, with hydraulic cab operation to enable the best viewpoint at the controls.

Mr Dixon said: “We will have handling capacity for any type of cargo for up to 7,000 dwt vessels for the years ahead.”

RMS operates from Westside Road in Grimsby, serving berths in Alexandra Dock and Royal Dock.

Prime town land push

FUTURE FOCUS: Andy Dixon.

CONSTRUCTION: Associated British Ports and North East Lincolnshire Council are working together to enable the development of a huge patch of wasteland in Grimsby town centre.

Garth Lane, a site that would appear to be a developer’s dream, fronting water and neighbouring the town’s primary shopping area, has been a barren blot for more than a decade.

National developer Henry Boot had brought forward a mixed use scheme combining shops and apartments back in 2006, but the financial crash and subsequent deep recession saw it canned.

Now it has been revealed as a strategic site within the local authority’s Greater Grimsby Project.

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Month in Review £137.5 million bid for Nisa Retail from Co-op RETAIL: The Co-op has tabled a £137.5 million deal for Nisa Retail.

The board has unanimously recommended shareholders accept, stating it would bring significant immediate and long-term value for Nisa members, allowing them to retain independence while remaining part of a key organisation in the growing convenience sector.

Nisa shareholders will receive an equal initial payment, a deferred share payment payable over three years, as well as additional rebates payable over four years.

Co-op would also take on the existing Nisa debt of £105 million, as well as associated deal costs of £5.5 million.

It came as the Scunthorpe delivered wholesale specialist posted a strong first half to the year, with a double-digit sales increase to £728 million.

Strong growth in new stores, with a further 409 recruited, has been credited for aiding the 12.4 per cent boost.

Eastern adds to fleet as Flybe franchise takes off

Apprentices to sparkle TRAINING: The first cohort of engineering apprentices have been welcomed on to a groundbreaking new scheme, having beaten more than 1,000 applicants to land sought-after roles with some of the South Bank’s biggest and brightest names.

The Maintenance & Operations Engineering Technician programme, known as Moet, will see new industry-alligned standards worked towards, embedding core knowledge, skills and behaviours, ahead of the squad of 16 starting roles with ABP, Young’s Seafood, Dong Energy, DFDS and Lincoln & York.

Grimsby Institute is delivering the programme, and working with the Apprenticeship Levy, each company has a branded apprenticeship as part of the partnership.

Can-Pack’s stat attack!

MANUFACTURING: A £75 million investment by the Polish owners on building a canning factory in Scunthorpe has paid big dividends.

For the 200-plus employees at the Can-Pack UK plant on Skippingdale Industrial Estate are celebrating rolling the 10 billionth can.

Proud company chiefs claim 10 billion cans laid end to end would stretch around the world 32 times or reach from the Earth to the Moon and back again.

The landmark comes nine years after the factory opened with a single production line.

Following the installation of a second line three years ago, the plant is capable of producing more than six million cans a day.

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WELCOME ADDITION: Eastern Airways’ new 72-seat ATR 72-600 aircraft. The first of two leased by the Kirmington team. Inset, Alan Corbett.

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UMBERSIDE-based Eastern Airways has introduced a new 72-seat ATR 72-600 aircraft to its fleet, the first of its kind to operate in the regional airline’s network.

France, earlier this month and will enter service in the coming weeks.

Tony Burgess, Eastern Airways’ chief operating officer, said: “These efficient, modern aircraft help us to fulfil a vital role and provide a long-term commitment supporting The modern aircraft will be put to the oil and gas industry. work on the Aberdeen to Shetland “The introduction of these two oil contract charter services for the new ATR 72-600s into the fleet Integrated Aviation Consortium. increases our capabilities in the This is the first of two new leased 70-seat market and complements ATRs being added, reflecting the our existing aircraft. They are airline’s on-going commitment to modern and comfortable aircraft the oil and gas sector in the UK. which are ideally suited for the airports we fly to and environments The aircraft was delivered from we operate in.” the production line in Toulouse,

ATR is part of the Airbus group and offers a comfortable cabin environment with a state-of-the-art glass cockpit incorporating the latest technologies.

It has twin turbo props using two powerful Pratt and Whitney 172m engines, giving the aircraft a maximum cruise speed of 317mph.

Alan Corbett, Bristow’s vice president for Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, said: “Bristow is delighted to welcome a modern new ATR 72-600 into the fleet for our valued oil and gas clients. This is a significant commitment for Bristow Group

which, along with recent construction of a new fixed-wing passenger terminal in Aberdeen, endorses our focus and commitment to service delivery, quality and safety. We are very excited to be launching this new and improved service.”

The aircraft serial number is MSN1448 and is being leased from Nordic Aviation Capital.

Eastern Airways celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and the ATR 72-600 joins a fleet of two Embraer 170s, three Embraer 145 jets, nine Saab 2000s, and 17 Jetstream 41s.

Five-year deal will bring enhanced connections EASTERN Airways has secured a five-year franchise agreement with Flybe, enhancing route networks and access to them.

Flights from Humberside will now be bookable online via Flybe.com, with bosses stating how both airlines will benefit.

Flybe’s route network will be strengthened through this franchise arrangement, while Eastern Airways’ distribution channels are broadened and connection opportunities enhanced for its customers. The BE flightcode will be adopted.

Eastern provides up to three flights each weekday, plus a Sunday service from Humberside to Aberdeen, connecting with onward services to destinations including Stornoway and Wick John O’Groats in Scotland, Sumburgh (Shetland), Kirkwall, (Orkney) and Norway’s Stavanger and Bergen.

Earlier this month the Kirmington operation began an alliance whish saw four aircraft provided to operate on six of Flybe’s existing branded routes in Scotland, enabling Flybe to provide a continuation of its services from Sumburgh, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Mathew Herzberg, Eastern Airways’ head of commercial, said: “The franchise partnership will help to broaden the sales distribution of our route network through the Flybe brand and reach a wider audience of customers who are new to the Eastern Airways operated services.

The BE flight code gives our customers greater connectivity to Flybe’s routes and global airline associated network with one single, seamless booking, along with online check-in.”

Flybe franchise flights operated by Eastern will depart from Aberdeen, Wick John O’Groats, Stornoway, Glasgow, Newcastle, Durham Tees

FLYING FRANCHISE: Eastern Airways and Flybe on the stands at Aberdeen.

Valley, Leeds Bradford, Humberside, Belfast City, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Cardiff, Norwich, Southampton, Paris Orly and Rodez.

Known as Flybe since 2002, the Exeter-based airline can be traced back to 1979 as Jersey European Airlines, becoming British European in 2000.

Christine Ourmieres-Widener, Flybe’s chief executive, said “Flybe is delighted to start operations with our new franchise partner,

Eastern Airways. The flights, both under the franchise and risk-sharing agreements, demonstrate our long-term commitment to Scotland and provide much needed choice on some of the lifeline routes so critical to the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Flybe and Eastern together also offer a wealth of onward connections to the UK and the rest of the world and we look forward to welcoming passengers on board.”

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HC Group’s contract win with Dong Energy to serve Hornsea Project One wind farm has provided a platform to look at investment opportunities at Humberside Airport.

The company’s regional director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Mark Abbey, said the 30-strong team at Kirmington could well be expanded, should the plan instigated in the oil and gas downturn bring further wins.

As reported this past month, the aviation services deal was landed for the first phase of what will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

Speaking to the Telegraph after announcing the agreement, Mr Abbey said: “It is still early days, but it is the realisation of a strategy that for us started a number of years ago. We are clearly embedded in the oil and gas market and one of the strategic aims was to start and divest the order book a little bit into adjacent markets.

“The southern North Sea coast is an absolute prime area for us to do that.

We began to build a relationship with Dong Energy and a number of other renewable companies, and this announcement is the execution of that.

It is clear demonstration that the guys down in Humberside have clear transferable skills that can use with both oil and gas and renewables.

“It is the start of a journey for us, we have come into a partnership with Dong, who have been successful with Hornsea Project One, and now Hornsea Project Two. It is a real opportunity for us to start thinking, to develop and invest in the southern North Sea. We hope it is a partnership that can become stronger and stronger, and this model, this package, becomes a very, very lucrative business venture for us.”

The contract includes a transfer service to take people from shore to the wind farm, and also smaller helicopters to transfer people and tools between the turbines and substations.

A combination of Leonardo AW139 and AW169 helicopters, to suit the different phases of the project, will begin flying out of Humberside's heliport from April next year. It will work alongside the new generation SOV vessels that are being built to serve the huge farms from Grimsby’s Royal Dock.

“We have done some small pieces of work for other renewables companies, but we have not secured any other

THE explosion in the use of social media and digital practices shows little sign of abating – in fact, quite the opposite.

It will be no surprise to anyone that Facebook remains firmly at the top of the social media tree, with an average of two billion active users a month. Then you have Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit...the list goes on. These platforms are used both personally and professionally across the globe.

Meanwhile in the workplace, electronic records are used by all departments for company data, with personal files also stored digitally.

Using computers, laptops and mobile phones saves time, money and resource – but as you look to the future, it is vital that you are aware of the pitfalls of not managing or protecting your digital data and information correctly.

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major contracts out of Humberside, Norwich or Holland,” Mr Abbey said.

“This business has relied very heavily on oil and gas, and this is the first real move in.

“We will serve part of this contract by introducing a new aircraft to the Humberside region. The AW169. It is smaller. Currently, the AW139 is used for oil and gas, for crew transfer operations. We move guys offshore or to manned or unmanned installations. We will continue to do that for some of the wind farm developments, moving people in on to floating or fixed platforms, then in the smaller helicopters the AW169, we will winch them on to the turbine for production and maintenance activities.

“The business in Humberside has gone through the downturn that has played out on the oil and gas business, though we are seeing small shoots of recovery there. By really developing this opportunity it gives us even more of a platform to look at investment opportunities we have to make if we are going to be successful.”

CHC, with a European head office in Aberdeen, is a leading provider in the oil and gas industry. Working with Uni-Fly as a sub-contractor, CHC will deliver the six-year deal covering the construction phase as well as the first five years of operations and maintenance, which are being controlled out of Grimsby.

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“I have lived in North East Lincolnshire most of my life and there have been false dawns, but I have never been more certain that what’s being announced is going to happen,” Mr Neul said. “I have seen Addressing Grimsby Renewables it before, this time it feels real, and Partnership, Tony Neul, strategic it is important we make the most of commissioning lead for energy and that. We have the opportunity here environment policy at North East Lincolnshire Council, said it was to really develop something an “exciting time” and a vital special.” period in which to capitalise on the It is hoped support for the blaze of publicity the Humber and proposition will enable the borough green energy has been bathed in. to become a model of sustainability With Dong Energy leading on the for other towns and cities to follow. rapid cost reduction in offshore Potential borough-wide savings of wind, and basing itself in the town £64 million on energy bills have to operate and maintain the largest been extrapolated. farms in the world, there is a sense of real capital to build on.

“We know where the carrot is, we Last month the local authority know where the money can come hosted the Clean Break conference from,” Mr Neul said. to explore potential, and the District heating has got to esteemed speakers underlined how feasibility stage, with cold storage seriously this proposition is being and other industrial activity taken. generating a considerable amount Mr Neul, who is heading up the of waste heat there to be seized programme known as RenewNEL, upon. told the monthly meeting at Humber Cruising Association: “I “This is all about heat pumps, and think it is an exciting time in we are a refrigeration town,” Mr North East Lincolnshire.”

Neul enthused, having been an Stating it has to be done “as an apprentice refrigeration engineer integral part of the wider with Findus in the early Eighties. regeneration and development of “We need to make sure we have the the borough”, Mr Neul, who has skills here so we are not sucking been with NELC since its them in from outside.” inception, and worked in the Acting chair of Grimsby private sector prior to an eight year FUTURE FOCUS: Andrew Goudie, left, welcomes Tony Neul to the latest Renewables Partnership, Andrew stay in Peterborough, said: “I was meeting of Grimsby Renewables Partnership. born here I have come back. I know Goudie, said: “This is there are great people here and game-changing. We achieve great advantage to be where we are. that as a badge of honour, we also great places to live, that is why I things in our town when we have a Historically it perhaps wasn’t. have low aspirations for people’s came back. I don’t think we shout clear, joined-up vision, purpose and careers and people’s futures. It is “The profile for this place has about it enough. That’s what the something we are all tackling, we objective, and it is something the chief executive and leader are keen do have a bright future, but without never been better, and the profile is council cannot achieve on its own. growing all the time.” to do and are doing. Raising the It is a strategic enabler, not a While offshore wind has given profile is important, as is the story aspiration people are not going to take up the jobs, the capacity that is Grimsby the launch-pad, the future technical services organisation. We of our place. We are a coastal needed to deliver. plans are very much about have the vision for the area, we community, and Government “We have many challenges, but harnessing onshore means and now need to work backwards an accepts they have been left behind. many opportunities. We need to methods too. These include large We have a proud maritime and look at the business opportunities surf the wave of investment, scale redistribution of landed fishing heritage, but there is a and the developments required to attention and enthusiasm in North electricity from some of the huge saying that if you spend too much fulfil that vision.

East Lincolnshire and make sure offshore installations, capitalising time looking back you will fall “The size of investment in this we benefit more widely from it. on being home to the world’s down the stairs. largest biomass feedstock reception industrial renaissance is “Incredibly we have a strategic “We have the proud heritage but transformational. I completely back facility; district heating in advantage on the Humber. The we need to look forward. It is the initiative and look forward to a harmony with heavy industry – important not to labour on that. We Northern Powerhouse is close working experience with with more energy from waste developing, regional have significant levels of RenewNEL and the member ship of provision eyed up – as well as administration is preferred, deprivation in North East Grimsby Renewables Partnership. furthering solar and potential increasingly it is becoming an Lincolnshire and we have worn

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A RECORD proportion of the UK’s electricity was generated by renewables in the second quarter of this year, with wind way out in front.

New figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy covering April to June show that a record 29.8 per cent was green, beating the previous quarterly record of 26.9 per cent set in quarter one.

It underlines the capacity additions, with the Humber contributing well with the 1GW of installed capacity – all operated out of Grimsby – passed in the period in focus, as it continues to build.

Nearly half (45 per cent) of

the UK’s clean electricity in quarter two was generated by wind alone (27 per cent from onshore wind and 18 per cent from offshore wind), due to increased capacity and higher wind speeds, according to the Gover nment’s latest Energy Trends report.

RenewableUK’s executive director, Emma Pinchbeck, pictured, said: “It’s terrific to see that nearly a third of the UK’s electricity is now being generated by renewables, with wind power leading the way.” The UK’s renewable energy sector is an industrial success story, attracting On project out of Port of investment, creating new Grimsby East now, and this jobs, and powering our economy.” quarter has seen Race Bank

quietly become Grimsby's biggest offshore wind farm, as installed capacity surpassed that of the four-year-old Lincs (270MW), with more than 300MW now commissioned as it ramps up to 573MW. Both are off the Lincolnshire coast, with Dong – to become Ørsted in a generating transfor mation-inspired name change – in the process of taking over the operations and maintenance of Lincs, in what will be a first for it on a project it did not construct.

It follows Centrica’s exit from the sector, with Green Investment Bank buying the owner of British Gas out,

having been the pioneer for offshore wind, delivering the first three farms and initiating Race Bank.

This month also saw the next Contracts for Difference round announced, with more than half a billion pounds committed to the Spring 2019 subsidy auction.

It was roundly welcomed, with Dong’s Hornsea Project Three likely to be the focus for it out of the Humber, after success with Triton Knoll and Hornsea Project Two in September’s breakthrough auction, which saw the price of offshore wind halved in two years.

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More top tier suppliers are selected for Triton Knoll

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Familiar team will take on cable route CURRENTLY delivering the Hornsea onshore cabling works skirting around North East Lincolnshire, contractor J Murphy & Sons Ltd has been lined up to provide the same for Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.

While the current Dong Energy project will serve the world’s largest array, the Innogy project will represent the most complex.

The challenge of installing 60km of onshore cable infrastructure has been described as “unprecedented in the UK”.

More than 300 separate horizontal direction drills will be required to cross obstacles, with the largest carried out in the UK to date being 100 during the widening of the M25.

It will stretch from landfall at Anderby Creek to a new-build substation at Bicker Fen, near Boston, with two separate teams on northern and southern sections.

The works provide the best opportunities yet for local suppliers.

Murphy will set up a new project office close to the cable route, which is eventually likely to house more than 100 staff.

The civil engineering and specialist excavation and drilling works required will attract a large workforce for the duration of the installation.

RITON Knoll has confirmed two more major preferred suppliers, wile eyeing up strong sub-contracting opportunities now emerging.

Following last month’s selection of MHI Vestas for the turbines, with the latest 9.5MW model to provide the 860MW capacity off the Lincolnshire coast, Siemens Distribution and Transmission will provide the substations and MPI Offshore Ltd will transport and install the foundations.

Siemens’ Manchester-based team will be used for the engineering procurement and construction of the two offshore substations and onshore substation. The company will also design and deliver a 400kV electrical connection into the existing National Grid substation at Bicker Fen. It is anticipated that the offshore substation platforms could be fabricated within the UK, with Siemens looking to strengthen its supply chain links.

The Triton Knoll team is working with Siemens to unlock opportunities for regional and national suppliers as it gears up for the start of construction later in 2018.

Siemens’ director of AC grid access, Mike Grainger, said: “Siemens is proud to be a part of the Triton Knoll team.

We look forward to working together to deliver a solution which reflects the continuing innovation and quality expected from Siemens and which builds upon our track record of

delivering seven grid connections in the UK with over 3GW of offshore wind connected power.”

The MPI Discovery jack-up vessel will lift, transport and install all the foundations as part of an all-weather inclusive turnkey operation, which includes the engineering, project management, quayside logistics and scour protection installation.

Managing director of the Teesside firm, Tony Inglis, said: “We are grateful to Triton Knoll for their faith in our ability and belief that we could be part of their collaborative team effort and look forward to an innovative and successful project.”

Welcoming both, James Cotter, project director, said: “Siemens’ involvement represents a very real opportunity for competitive UK companies to get involved with our project and benefit

from our investments.

“MPI already has a great UK footprint and engagement with the UK supply chain, and we expect to now work even more closely with them to build on that, as we progress towards contract completion and start of offshore works.

We and our top tier contractors will be working with the most cost efficient suppliers to deliver this project and our commitments to UK jobs and contracts.”

A financial investment decision is anticipated from Innogy, now wholly owning the project, in mid-2018. Full onshore construction would start shortly after, with offshore construction in 2020. First energy generation could be as early as the first quarter of 2021, with the project expecting to begin commissioning in 2021.

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Why the seafood industry commodity and prioritise Humber Seafood Summit may have brought some startling facts about the industry and Brexit to life, and underlined the vital relationship with Iceland and how it can be furthered, but behind last week’s headline-grabbing news was some quality insight from industry specialists. David Laister reports.

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Coining the terms ‘healthy hedonists’ and ‘wellderly’ for young fitness fanatics and those ensuring they mature better than others, Ms Nuttall said: “These people will The founder of highly respected probably pay 20 per cent more for consultancy Brand Incubator hails something that fits with their from the Grimsby area, with her lifestyle. Take lunch time, it is ‘my family roots firmly at the coal face time, time to do something for me’, of the industry she brought her and for healthy hedonists it is at skills to bear on with some the forefront of their minds because strategic suggestions. it is really cool to walk in London, Her grandmother worked in a Manchester or another key city Grimsby fish finger factory while where health is really fashionable, her grandfather toiled on the docks, to be walking around with seaweed and she has gone on to work crisps. alongside and Grimsby’s own “People will pay more to be eating Young’s Seafood and many other these things. I never thought I leading brands in a career that sees would be saying health is trendy, her help ensure fast moving health is fashionable, health is cool, consumer goods live up to their but it is. We see 60 is the new 40, billing as she identifies and builds people aren’t getting older! I am 47, on emerging trends.

I want to stay young, I go to the Recruited after impressing gym three times a week. It is all summit organisers at the North about staying young. We are all Atlantic Seafood Forum in Norway going to be working longer, we will in March, Simon Dwyer, a leading have 70-year-olds in work place, not figure in Grimsby’s seafood cluster wanting the young who supports the annual Bergen whipper-snappers saying we are event, described her as a “golden old-school. nugget presenter,” leading to the “Fish can play a massive role in invitation to Cleethorpes Pier. long term prevention too – the role And her high-energy insight was fish plays in diet in terms of long lapped up by the delegates, with her term preventative benefits needs proud dad also looking on. exploring.

“The whole opportunity for the “Find some new news, find some seafood industry is quite huge and largely untapped,” she said.

“One of the biggest challenges is justifying the premium. When fish is competing with other protein sources, it can be quite difficult to justify that extra pound for a main meal in an evening. It is a still a huge challenge, and while all we want to do is increase consumption from once to two or three times a week, that’s harder than it looks.

Everyone knows the barriers, the smell of fish, preparing fish, but no-one is looking at a solution. We should be justifying the premium.”

Claire Nuttall Priding herself on working with some of the biggest household names to new start-ups, she had new stories and think about it in a some answers, too. positive, amazing way, rather than “Health is a currency,” she said. just talking about fish.

“Ten years ago everything was all “Fish is so much more important about money, that was the biggest than other proteins. It has so many factor, but now health has become niche nutrients and essential fashionable, people wear their nutrients, but no-one is really health. Social status is more about how you look, how you behave and flashing that. We should focus on

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ADDRESS: Jonathan Banks speaks at Humber Seafood Summit, watched by, from left, Claire Nuttall, Jack Macintyre and Zoe Healey. that rather than ‘eat more fish, eat more fish’. People want to stay looking good on the outside and inside. It is about nutrition and wellness, no-one is going to look after you if you don’t – the buck stops with you.

“People want to eat more healthily, and they want really tasty stuff.

Adding that more nutrient-packed products must be possible, if we look, she said it then needed dressing appropriately.

“Fish could do some exciting, sexy things,” she said. “It is all about really gorgeous descriptors that make your tastebuds flow.

‘Pan-fried’, ‘seared’, getting people to eat it because they want to eat it.

Fish is so delicious in so many things, and take ‘flakes of fish’.

Flakes is quite an evocative word. If over-cooked we know it is rubbery, but individual flakes you could stir into a pasta dish... it is about thinking creatively about how we get convenience into the every day diet.”

Touching on convenience and the ever-shrinking time slot for preparation of the evening meal,

she said seafood was ideal, stating she would use a bag of frozen fish flakes if they were brought to market, while she said seafood also had advantages when looking at tackling malnutrition, obesity and over-processing.

“Fish is in a great position to do something about these issues,” she said.

And as a champion of a brand, she was full of praise for a home-grown star – Saucy Fish Co. Contrasting with the likes of Tesco’s made-up farm ‘brands’, she said of Saucy: “This is a brand I love. They challenged a lot of the industry and addressed so many issues, over smell, handling and cooking, while delivering great tasty recipes.

Those behind it should be so proud, it is just phenomenal.

“It is an amazing brand, a proper brand. The brand is more than the product. The brand builds over time. There is so much superficiality out there, conning consumers into thinking there is a special background story.

“Brands are like a family relationship, it grows stronger and stronger every year. This brand has

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should not treat fish as a making health a currency INNOVATION UNLEASHED: Simon Dwyer launches the Made Great in Grimsby initiative, below, using trolleys of products to emphasise the point. It came as more new products launched last week from Young’s Seafood’s Gastro range, Icelandic Seachill’s The Saucy Fish Co and JCS Fish’s BigFish Brand. Far left, Mike Hryckowian, who came up with the new stamp, which is inset below.

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Made Great in Grimsby is ‘a trolley good’ idea NEW branding is being launched to underline Grimsby’s proud role as the UK’s seafood capital.

Wholly endorsing the added value brought by the town’s “bedrock” industry, Made Great in Grimsby is a simple message it is hoped will lodge deep in the minds of the trade, and wider consumers, as identity is given to the innovation that is exported nationally by the hour.

Simon Dwyer, a key figure behind Grimsby cluster organisation Seafood Grimsby & Humber and secretariat of Grimsby Fish Merchants’ Association, made a passionate pitch as part of Humber Seafood Summit.

Wheeling in two overflowing supermarket trolleys of seafood products that are processed in the town, from the high volume major retailer suppliers to the done extremely well because it has traditionally smoked haddock, he been invested in the right way.” highlighted the sheer breadth of Now living in Winchester, she lines, stating he could have filled described her early introduction to 10. seafood. “My dad used to get “We are truly a defined parcels of haddock, and we were told very, very clearly that we don’t international cluster,” he told more than 150 seafood industry buy cod,” she said, recalling how leaders. “We have cold storage, she was told it had worms.

And she said family, starting with logistics, distribution, manufacturing of packaging and grandparents Thomas and Phyllis various other activities and touch Nuttall, instilled disciplines that points around. We have sole have seen her thrive since leaving traders, mobile fish vans loading Louth, via university in France. up with a few thousand pounds of “They worked extremely hard, and fish and coming back with a lot it has given me that grit to just keep going,” she said. “I was always more few thousand pounds. We supported, and told by my Dad ‘you have micro-businesses, a lot can be who you want to be’. It was family orientated, some now that and growing up with people moving in to larger ownership; who worked really hard, and people then we have the larger guys, who instilled values as I grew up, Young’s, Morrisons, Icelandic that really gave me that sense of Seachill, Caistor Seafoods, all worth.” dealing with major retailers.

She told how she was motivated “We have 5,000 jobs, we generate by feeling, rather than money, once well over £1 billion of revenue. We waking up at 4am and deciding to have our real niche, high-end leave a highly-paid job to run her products, our PGI smoked fish, own business. and we have overseas investment “I do it for love, that feeling of here from Iceland, Denmark, The creating something successful,” she Faroes, Japan and the US, and we said.

are increasingly exporting.

“Made Great in Grimsby – we are hoping we can share it with others and put that brand on all the polystyrene boxes that leave the town every week completely unbranded. If we can get that on and out, that is our message.

“If we are clever and smart, we can leverage this. If you look at the UK and the proliferation of supermarkets, on average you are never more than 10 minutes away from Grimsby processed fish.

“Every major retailer, everyone, has it. If you don’t, your neighbour next door will have fish fingers in the freezer.”

It was set against a backdrop of Brexit concern, which may well have done for the previous tag-line of Europe’s Food Town.

And facing a possible labour headache should no deal be struck on free movement or concessions for industry requirements, instilling pride in the products and operations in North East Lincolnshire could have a strong impact on the home front too when it comes to filling any workforce holes.

“Grimsby doesn’t shout loud enough about itself; it understates itself. Grimsby is the key asset in the UK for the seafood sector and yet it understates itself. We need to change that. The importance of Grimsby and the global links is that piece we need to work on.”

Speaking at Cleethorpes Pier, he told how 400,000 vessels pass it annually to enter the Humber, including seafood strongholds Iceland, northern Norway Sweden, Denmark and via Rotterdam and Zeebrugge, China, stressing the fact that 90 per cent of the raw material is imported – hence the made great, rather than made in line in the early-stage logo, which features three fish in a box.

Work that came out of the Seafood Grimsby & Humber

board, it was Mike Hryckowian, general manager at United Fish Industries that brought it up.

“I take pride in the fact I work in Grimsby,” he said. “I really want to try and get this Grimsby stamp on a lot of what we do so that people know that in Grimsby we produce great products. I don’t think people from Grimsby shout about it loud enough.”

Bringing it into the design of his fir m’s fishmeal packaging, he said the dream would be to see the likes of Young’s – who carry the Dock Tower as part of a seascape masterbrand – Icelandic Seachill, Morrisons, Five Star Fish and the others use it.

“I would love to see it adopted,” he said. “In future it could be used for anything we produce. It could be food, it could be wind turbines, whatever. In seafood we may not produce a lot from our own raw material sources, but we bring it in and transform it into great things a lot of people eat. We could have that as a town brand.”

Mr Dwyer had last week flagged up 73 processing and packaging premises already carrying the GG source code that can be sought out by eagle-eyed customers, but it is hoped this new stamp could make it even simpler for people seeking it out.

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The strong evening visit programme that has been a key thread in the Grimsby site’s community involvement for years welcomed a diverse mix of learners.

They enjoyed a presentation on the history, heritage and workings of the pharmaceutical giant, underlining its global role in medicine and health care, before completing a walking tour of the South Humber Bank site’s laboratories, process areas and engineering workshops.

Daria Hollinshead, who co-ordinates the programme, said: “Like every organisation we are keen to be as effective as possible, and we get numerous requests from education about our evening visit programme, which is so successful, We tried to bring the requests together, which made for a very diverse gathering.

“It was a really broad mix from school children to university students and lecturers. We have quite an active education group on site, and we want to manage our business needs as well as fulfil a role to support the local community. The aim was to contextualise science, and open students’ eyes to some of the opportunities and careers.”

It was helped by the mix of representatives who enabled the evening.

“Our guides and people supporting the event also came to us via different routes, some started from school and studied with support of Novartis, going on to do degrees, and some were recruited from university.

“It worked really well, as the evening visit programme works well, we tried not to tailor it too much.”

The group featured Caistor Grammar School students and

teachers, award-winning primary school teacher Amber Hardwick, the science co-ordinator at Ormiston South Parade Academy, as well as a student who had shown a specific interest at a careers event, and a recommendation from

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Dr Chris Hamilton Humber UTC. Students and lecturers from University of East Anglia’s unique Pharmacology and Drug Discovery BSc course were there, so too Franklin College and

University of Hull representatives.

Amber, who was joined by colleague Lauren Harper, said: “We felt it allowed us to gain a real insight into how science can be used in industry. We believe it is important to raise the aspirations of children from a young age and for children to be engaged and interested in science from the very beginning of the primary years.

“Attending the education evening allowed us to understand how important science is within industry, enabling us to promote a love for the subject within our school. In addition, we are looking forward to our future work with Novartis, sharing what we already do in primary schools and working with science specialists to increase pupils’ skills and knowledge.”

Last year saw the launch of the Pharmacology and Drug Discovery undergraduate degree in Norwich.

Dr Chris Hamilton, part of the School of Pharmacy at University of East Anglia, said: “We wanted to appreciate some of the commercially active elements of the

pharmaceutical industry as well as the theoretical and practical elements taught at university.

“The visit provided a rare opportunity for the students to gain some real insights into the real life logistics of large scale pharmaceutical manufacture ranging from flexible plant design accommodating different pharmaceutical production runs through to process optimisation, trouble shooting and meeting the requirements for stringent waste management. The students can now relate a lot of the analytical and purification chemistry they are now learning to real life settings that they observed at Novartis.

“These are the kind of site tours that other businesses, in this and other sectors, should be actively encouraged to run. Chance observations and experiences are what often seed the thoughts of future career aspirations in students’ minds. If I’d visited here when I was 25 years younger there’s a realistic chance I’d have ended up a chemical engineer!”

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Safety celebration for Cristal and Hertel staff

Month in Review British Steel goes Dutch for wire rod expansion STEEL: British Steel has agreed a deal to buy a Dutch wire rod plant.

FNsteel, based on the outskirts of Rotterdam, produces wire rod between, 5.5mm and 30mm, enhancing the 17mm capacity in Scunthorpe.

It turns over £133 million and employs nearly 300 people.

A share purchase agreement has been signed with FNsteel owner Mahler Investments, with the deal subject to regulatory approval.

The intention is to maintain employee and production levels across both sites, with Scunthorpe’s wire rod mill also employing 300 people.

It would not be British Steel’s first foreign venture on the manufacturing front, having bought Hayange Rail Mill in France as part of the initial take-over of the Tata Long Products business in June 2016.

It has recently launched its global sales offices too, as well as expanding distribution in Germany, with a focus on the automotive market.

Wren’s leading position RESIDENT contractors at South Bank giant Cristal have been praised for reaching a key safety milestone.

Two years of maintenance without a lost time injury has been achieved, with nearly 190,000 hours worked by the team, from Hertel.

They gathered for a special presentation event, with a cheque for £500 presented to St Andrew’s Children’s Hospice.

Putting it into context, Ian Birtles, Hertel’s regional business development manager, told the team: “It is a real pleasure to come to an event like this where we are celebrating safety.

Your safety is very important to us. It’s our number one priority and that goes for our customer Cristal too.

“Collectively you guys have worked almost

190,000 hours safely over the past 24 months which is a tremendous achievement. When you put it into perspective 190,000 equates to 2.25 working men’s lifetimes. Given we start work at 16 and generally finish at 65 after working around 85,000 hours. And to do this incident free is pretty impressive. So thanks for that and please keep it up.”

Neil Critchley, regional health, safety environment and quality manager, told how he has been involved with the Cristal maintenance contract since it was first awarded, and has seen the safety culture develop and grow over the past five years.

He said: “A lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes to try and ensure that no injuries are sustained to anyone working on site but it is

you guys who perform the daily tasks - blasting, painting, cleaning and scaffolding, that are adhering to the controls that we put in to ensure that you all go home safely.

“Without your input and dedication, these safety milestones would not be achieved. I cannot thank you all enough for looking after yourselves and others while working on site.”

For the client, Simon Roberts said: “Cristal would like to congratulate all the resident contractors at our Stallingborough site for this excellent achievement. It shows a real commitment to safety as a value, showing a sustained performance that is in keeping with the culture at Stallingborough.”

Teresa Crowe received the donation.

Awards double leaves Julie tickled pink as her fledgling marketing firm flourishes GRIMSBY’S Pink Jacket Marketing has pulled off a double award win at The 2017/18 Yorkshire & Humber Enterprise Awards.

The Business Hive-based operator won Excellence in Corporate Event Planning, and Best in Lead Generation.

Managing director Julie Keen said: “To win one award is amazing, but to win two is beyond comprehension. The awards were anonymous and judged by an independent panel, so it was a massive shock when I received the news out of the blue. To be recognised by independent experts is just incredible.

“This year has been fantastic for awards – we were shortlisted for Best New Business in the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards, as well as being runner-up in the Lincs Digital & Tech Awards.

The company is less than three years old, having quickly moved from hot-desk arrangement at the E-Factor centre on Dudley Street to an office.

“It’s a real honour to be recognised for the hard work and effort we put in to managing our clients,” Miss Keen added.

“Generating leads and arranging corporate events can be very challenging, especially in the current climate of uncertainty around Brexit, but to be recognised and rewarded for something I love doing, it’s amazing.”

She has been working with Brigg-based Action Coach John McHale, who has helped several companies succeed and be celebrated, as previously reported.

He was described as a catalyst for business success after helping several companies earn high-profile recognition.

“John is fantastic,” Miss Keen said. “He challenges me and the business to be the best we can be.

My only regret is that I didn’t start working with him sooner!”

WALL OF PRIDE: Julie Keen in her office.

MANUFACTURING: Wren Kitchens is in the top tier of The Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table.

The Barton-based business is ranked 23rd in the analysis of Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales, placing it in the top 10 per cent.

Wren is part of West Retail Group, also owner of electronics retailer Ebuyer.com.

Founded by entrepreneur Malcolm Healey, 73, in 2009, Wren now employs 4,000 people, with sales of kitchens in the past four years totalling £1 billion.

Recent years have seen it invest £40 million in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at the acquired ‘The Nest’ headquarters in Barton, creating 600 new jobs at the former Kimberly-Clark nappy plant.

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Classic looks to the future with expansion deal

Custody suite go-ahead CONSTRUCTION: Work will start on a new £14 million police custody suite in Grimsby next month.

North East Lincolnshire Council's planning committee has given the go-ahead to the 36 cell custody suite a property store and ancillary office for around 170 staff on Birchin Way. The development will have parking to meet the peak demand of all the teams based on site, together with visiting operational vehicles.

Development is expected to start in November and the site will become operational in early 2019, when it will replace custody facilities at Scunthorpe and Grimsby police stations.

It is to be delivered by Willmott Dixon.

DEAL TABLED: David Ripping, left, and Dan Wilson at Classic Furniture.

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RETAIL: Fashion outlet Peacocks has confirmed plans to open a fourth branch in the area.

The popular high street chain is opening in the former Brantano store on Grimsby’s Victoria Retail Park.

The company, part of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, already has shops in Scunthorpe, Cleethorpes and Louth.

It is set to open alongside Sports Direct, Smyths, Next and Poundstretcher on Thursday, November 9.

CLASSIC Furniture, a trade-only wholesale supplier, is set to expand after securing a funding package worth £2.7 million.

Established in 1989, the Brookenby-based business provides retailers with timber cabinet furniture and chairs, combined with delivery and customer support service.

With the extra backing, through HSBC, it is to target larger markets and increase its product range, boosting staff numbers along the way.

Dave Rippin, director, said: “Our customers demand an ever increasing range of furniture products.

“The funding package puts us in a great position, ensuring we can meet customer demand whilst tapping into a new trade markets. We’re now

expecting our turnover to increase within the next year and looking forward to new opportunities as we continue to grow our business.

“We’re delighted to receive financial support from HSBC.” The deal was completed

by Daniel Wilson, HSBC’s corporate relationship director in North Yorkshire and Humber.

Area director for North Yorkshire and the Humber, Adam Kelly, said: “We strive to help SMEs grow through our dedicated lending fund and we are delighted to support Classic Furniture.

“The company is the perfect example of the type of businesses we support: passionate about what they do and dedicated to ensuring the business maximises its potential.”

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NNOVATION and a growing order book at a Danish firm with its UK division based in Grimsby could lead to collaboration with local manufacturers who serve the food industry.

Doorsystem was established in Denmark nearly 20 years ago, taking on an office in Europe’s Food Town – the only physical presence it has outside of Scandinavia – in 2015.

Now it is looking to build again, having overcome an immediate lull in the market following the Brexit vote, as fresh industry investments were guarded.

A team of four is headed by UK managing director Soren Rahbek, having first begun with a representative, engineering support and then a solid sales platform operated out of Alexandra Dock Business Centre.

Mr Rahbek said: “The company has been in England a little over two years. We took on Steve as a sales representative for the UK four years ago, as we saw the opportunity, a good market in England. We started out with a representative, with everything sold from Denmark, then we saw the necessity of starting our own company here, and 100 per cent wanted to invest.

“The office has been very good for us, and now we are expanding again. Up to 18 months ago we used freelance service engineers we hired in to do installations. We had so much work, we decided we wanted 100 per cent control of the engineering side and we took on our own guy.”

Recruiting again, there is potential to bring

EXPANSION PLANS: Doorsystem chief executive Preben Sandergaard, second left, and Soren Rahbek, second right, with Grimsby-based duo Lauren Croft and Steve Andrews. manufacturing work into the town too, with expertise aplenty to tap into, with Lincs Doors and Central Insulations highlighted by the team.

“Manufacturing is something we are considering,” Mr Rahbek said. “With the larger doors freight can be costly, so it would make sense. We have started selling, we have new products being created, and if they come through and are successful, we can up scale. I think we would want to collaborate with English manufacturers, and we would talk with those in the area.

“We feel we are back on track, we are looking for another engineer and we

want to invest in the UK. We believe there is big potential.

We have invested a lot of money into the fire testing of doors, we think after the tragic incident in London things will evolve – there is a not of awareness now. It could be a focus for many different industries but we are mainly targeting the food industry – that’s why we are based in Grimsby.”

High speed freezer doors are another key product, with a lot of research completed with the Danish Technology Institute to prove energy savings generated – up to 75,000 kWh in some cases.

“Our products are in the quality range, and one of the

challenges in the British market is to convince the end user that long term investment is a better idea,” Mr Rahbek said.

Mr Andrews was a transport planner with DFDS before he started out in the door industry 17 years ago.

He worked from home until the UK division was established, and welcomed Mr Rahbek, as well as founding chief executive Preben Søndergaard to Grimsby earlier this month.

Mr Søndergaard, who has a team of 40 in Hasselager, on the outskirts of Aarhus, and has supplied to projects in Indonesia and Africa, said: “I can see the potential here.”

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Centenary season starts with tale of vital LISI address 50 years ago C

HRIS Vaughan told of the huge honour as he takes over the presidency of Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute as it enters its centenary year.

The works manager at British Steel has taken the chains of office from Richard Farnsworth, and used his presidential address to reflect on the history of the vital industry, from Rowland Winn to Greybull, and all that came between.

Mr Vaughan said: “It is a great honour, especially being the centenary year. Not many institutions get to 100 years.

“It continues to evolve, it has a rich history, in recent times we have been British Steel, Corus, Tata and back to British Steel.

“I love the name, it is fantastic, it says what is does and it carries so much weight as well.”

It was British Steel Mr Vaughan joined in Scunthorpe 22 years ago, and he has spent much of his career in primary steelmaking. He came to North Lincolnshire after four years in research and development in Swindon.

And an address made to LISI 50 years ago inspired a fitting part of his talk. It focused on the necessity of The Anchor Project, part of a huge investment by the newly nationalised company across the five key manufacturing sites. It brought modern steel practices and would take production up from 2.7 million tonnes to 4.5 million, but also involved a 16 per cent reduction in staff, 19,600 to 17,200 “staggering numbers as we think of them in today’s day and age,” Mr Vaughan said.

“Mr JD Joy addressed LISI in 1967, arguing the points for the project and why it must be realised and must go ahead,” he said. Initial cost was £80 million to bring to fruition, but delay disruption in the Seventies and inflation saw the price on commissioning came to £230 million.

“The main economic argument was the existing blast furnaces which had been expanded.

They were the main stated reason why the new steel plant should be built.”

And large scale recent and ongoing maintenance,

refurbishment and replacement has ensured a productive future.

Fast forwarding 50 years to the present, Mr Vaughan said: “It is with great joy I stand here knowing we have brought a project to completion that will secure steel making opportunities for further years to come.”

One of the three huge convertor vessels that receives the liquid steel at the BOS Plant was taken out repaired, refurbished then re-commissioned.

He added that the next stage has just received £7.5 million of investment to replicate work on a second vessel, to start imminently.

Looking further ahead, he said method and geography, with an ever-increasing eye on environmental impacts and different processes would be at the fore.

“The steel industry will be increasingly using ferrous scrap in the medium to long term,” he said, as he looked at the role of electric arc, and replacing carbon with hydrogen in the manufacturing

process.

“I am certain the debate will continue to rage on for some time. We must be aware of what the future may hold as we start as British Steel to define our own future,” he said.

Mr Farnsworth, managing director of British Steel’s construction business unit, handed over the weighty chains of office.

Reflecting on his presidency, which came as the new era for the Scunthorpe works began, he said: “I really enjoyed it. You never quite know what it is going to be like.

“We focused on steel in action, and the product of that. The speakers who came along, gave some really interesting speeches.

“For me it culminated in the dinner, which still enjoys a good attendance.

“LISI brings together people from across the spectrum; we have new members, senior figures and people who have retired – some many years ago – who enjoy coming back and staying informed.”

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: The BOS steelmaking plant in May, 1972, seen from Brigg Road.

ROYAL APPROVAL: The Queen, with David Joy, arrives to officially open the BOS plant in May 1974.

2017/2018 programme: ● November 13: Materials Processing Institute and the Future of Steelmaking with Chris McDonald, chief executive, MPI. ● December 4: TBA ● January 8: Temperature Solutions in Iron and Steelmaking Through the Ages with Mark Lee, managing director, Heraeus Electronite. ● February 5: 3D Printing

– Repair at Rolls-Royce using additive manufacture with Gavin Baxter – Rolls-Royce ● March 5: Young Members Event: LISI and IOM3 Young Members’ Lecture Competition Local Final ● April 9: Architecture project with Eric Parry Architects ● April 20: LISI Annual Dinner

HANDOVER: Chris Vaughan, left,with LISI secretary Ross Angove, and (above) he receives the chain of office as president of Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute, from Richard Farnsworth.

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‘We have got to treat people as adults, as human beings, engage, support and develop them - that is at the heart of all good business’ Skills, recruitment, retention and the shape of the future workforce came under the spotlight when a senior national figure addressed a South Bank audience. David Laister reports on what CIPD chief Peter Cheese had to say, and how an innovative IT business is helping lead the way.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD, speaks at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton.

Right, Kate van der Sluis.

And while they may be issues at the recruitment stage, retention is seen as equally important, if not more so when it comes to the bottom line.

“We have got to rethink what we do in the workplace,” Mr Cheese urged.

“The biggest waste of talent is the people who leave. People join an organisation but leave managers.

“We have treated people like bad robots, put them in a box, give them lots of rules and tell them to get on with the job. We have got to treat people as adults, as human beings, “We live in exciting times,” he said. engage, support and develop them, “Politically we cannot write the and that is at the heart of all good script, it is a very different political business. environment now – Donald Trump in “I think this is all in our collective the White House, who would have hands, and the more we get together thought that! Brexit here at home. It as a community and support each does create challenges for business other the better. It is up to us, not a and the business environment. big power in Westminster, to sort this “The CBI and TUC, together, have out.” said we have got to protect EU Kate van der Sluis, employment and workers’ rights, and we are already sills board member at Humber LEP, seeing a drain of people heading back. gave a sub-regional perspective on the “For so many years the debate has subject matter. been about globalisation, opening up “The skills gap is getting bigger and the borders. Now we are seeing people the recruitment even more saying ‘it is not necessarily good for challenging,” she said. “It is going to me, what about my voice’. Putting up get harder across the whole of the barriers and walls is not language we area, and if it hasn’t already it will have been used to hearing.” effect the bottom line of your Mr Cheese, who represents 135,000 business. members, and has been in post since “We are approaching 73 per cent 2012, said opportunities were rapidly employment, the highest for nine emerging as issues came into sharp years, so the majority of work-ready focus. candidates who want a job have a job “Brexit is a trigger to address already – we are approaching a skills,” he said. “I was talking with a saturation point. university lecturer and he said 40 per “We have to keep emerging talent in cent of the faculty came from Europe. the region.”

I said ‘I bet you didn’t know that on Looking at initiatives in place, she June 24, 2016’.” said: “In the Humber we don’t sit still, Citing 60 per cent of kids starting we do stuff, we have specific skills school will be doing jobs that haven’t shortages and there are some great yet been invested, he touched on initiatives, such as Women into FOBO, the next stage FOMO – fear of Manufacturing and Engineering (see being obsolete following from the page 20) and Humber Skills Pledge. I milder fear of missing out. think regional businesses are “We just don’t know,” he said. beginning to understand the “Every sector is expecting something importance of flexible working too, to happen. In retail, the BRC but unfortunately it is just is not estimates that one in three jobs could enough. disappear, driven by economic “In the context of continuing necessity. We are 20 per cent less creates new opportunities. It was said wellbeing challenges we need to technology. Young people turn up and competition for talent in the north, productive than the French, but how by now we would be working 15 hour address. We push so hard for our haven’t got basic work disciplines, be this is just not enough, not consistent do we pull more out of the resources enough, not quick enough and we weeks. I know many are working 15 economic output.” it time keeping, communicating we have? In retail, the rising cost of have to get better. hour days.

Touching on immediate issues in the properly, literacy ... numeracy levels labour, with minimum wage and in this country are extraordinarily “We need a talent strategy and we “The technology is always on. workplace, Mr Cheese said: “A lot of pensions, is the biggest cost, and low. Core skills are the most need one really fast.

Vodafone said 40 per cent of us grab business growth challenges are margins are already tight. important, and the ability to critically our phone and start reading emails if related to staff. We are seeing a “The ambition has to be to drive up “They are going to have to displace the quality of leadership and really these jobs with technology. That’s part we wake up in the middle of the night. growing skills mismatch, and this will think, as well as a basic understanding of the digital world.”

We have mental health challenges and get wider, arguably, because of engage and develop these people.” of the debate, but technology also

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eflecting on the repercussions from the seats of Power in Westminster and Washington, Peter Cheese, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, gave his take on the current state of affairs and the challenges close to every business’s heart.

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IT academy is held up as an exemplar to other employers GRIMSBY IT specialist Glenn Thow’s LCS Group was held up as an example of good practice as it prepares to launch an academy to ensure a workforce of tomorrow, today.

A first intake will join in the new year.

Speaking after Peter Cheese, Mr Thow said: “The skills gap was getting wider, we had recognised that for a long time. Mid-stream engineers for IT are in short supply. We poach our staff from competitors, they poached ours, and all it did was push up the pay-band, which was not good for the business and in the long run, not good for them.

“We needed to think where we would be in three, five or ten years’ time. We needed to train people ourselves, we needed to bring people in to business without any pre-conceived ideas about what they should be doing, or about work, because they have not had a great experience before.

“By engaging with local young talent we have the opportunity to shape and mould, to give them a career and fulfil their passion and give an answer to our problem to fulfil the needs of our growing customers.”

Mr Thow is working with Grimsby Institute and Franklin College to provide the platform, recognising strong IT-related courses from which he can recruit.

Having bought and completely refurbished premises on Alexandra Road in recent years, The Academy is all set to go in an environment that will undoubtedly please. And picking up on Mr Cheese’s points about retention, it is clear he is on that wavelength.

He said: “Employees are not just driven by money, and some business owners are not just driven by money.

We have an obligation too. I have great people working with me, and I am going to keep them in Grimsby because we have an amazing business and we are not determined by locale but by the people in it.

“If you go to work and enjoy what you do it feels like fun. Creating a joyful and happy environment will benefit the company and me as a shareholder. As a company we are going to progress and be more prosperous.”

Looking at the wider issue of recruitment, Mr Thow said: “In the UK we are

privileged and honoured to live in a society that has so much, yet we all want more.

I see a lot of young people who have a degree of apathy to life and work. They have been brought up in nice warm homes, surrounded by all the technology and gadgets, taken on holiday once or twice a year and want for nothing. That can have a positive impact and a negative impact. They may not have the drive, the passion, the will to do something. They expect it to come to them.”

VISION BECOMING REALITY: Glenn Thow, who has pioneered an academy for LCS. Supporting pictures show the facilities on a recent open day.

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The company helped move 5.4 million pallets around the Palletways UK network, the best performance in the 23 year history.

Figures released this week showed that the 2016/17 figure beat last year’s previous record of 5.1 million by some 300,000 pallets with spikes in demand for members, like East Trans, at Christmas 2016 and this Easter.

Palletways also exceeded its largest daily volume in pallets recorded to 27,017, up from 24,696 in 2015-2016 – up 9.4 per cent – on April 11.

Paul Hickling, director at East Trans, said: “Our team works extremely hard to respond to customer demand and move pallets quickly and efficiently through the Palletways network.

The network is strong and resilient enough to take on whatever pallet volumes our customers want to move, even at the busiest times of last year.

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helped the network hit new pallet movement highs.”

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Dave Walmsley, Palletways UK managing director, said: “The figures for last year are outstanding and represent our

biggest year on record. Our members, like East Trans, are the most important part of the Palletways UK success story and record breaking year. Dedication to customer service excellence and embracing innovative digital technology are crucial elements for us to match customer expectations and deliver even higher pallet volumes.”

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expectations were exceeded to move more than 867,000 pallets after a late surge of orders. At Easter, 27,000 pallets were moved on a single day, partly as a result of a 20 per cent surge in home improvement and DIY product pallet orders.

Membership numbers in the UK also climbed from 107 to 113 – a record high.

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British Steel boss welcomes progress at recently acquired terminal BRITISH Steel’s recent joint venture, Redcar Bulk Terminal on the River Tees, has announced a series of new contract wins.

A long term deal has been secured with Javelin Global Commodities to handle hundreds of thousands of tonnes of imported coal for use in the power generating sector.

It has also agreed a multi-year contract to handle large quantities of granulated blast furnace slag for construction materials supplier Hanson.

The steel-making by-product is

ground into a fine powder for use as a cement replacement in ready-mixed concrete.

The deals are among a number RBT has secured in recent months and they come as the terminal continues its growth following the investment

by Scunthorpe-headquartered British Steel, which secured a 50 per cent stake in the business earlier this year.

The terminal had previously been used as an import facility for iron and coal before the collapse of SSI in October 2015.

British Steel’s chief executive, Peter

Bernscher, said: “We’ve been greatly impressed by the team at Redcar Bulk Terminal and the results they’re now delivering.

“I’d like to thank them for their efforts thus far and I’ve great confidence in their ability to continue growing the business.”

A total of 79 people are employed at the terminal, which operates a 320 metre long quay capable of accommodating vessels up to 17m draft.

RBT general manager Garry O’Malley said: “The transformation of

this business is remarkable, underlined by our fine start to the year and the number of new contracts we’ve secured.

“Through the dedication of our employees, and the strong customer partnerships we’ve developed, the business is growing significantly and starting to realise some of its undoubted potential.

“It’s exciting to know this is just the start for Redcar Bulk Terminal and there’s great scope to increase our customer base, shipments and capabilities.

“Strong partnerships like those we enjoy with Javelin Global Commodities and Hanson give me every confidence we’ll continue to attract more new customers and become the bulk terminal of choice for importers and exporters alike.”

British Steel bought the share in Redcar from Tata Steel.

It complements the operations at Immingham Bulk Terminal, with the remaining 50 per cent controlled by the Official Receiver, following SSI’s collapse.

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Roadside recovery’s blanket coverage is an industry first...

THAT COSY FEELING: Leanne Lyons tests an Orve+wrap thermal blanket with Nick Curtin, left, and Tony Codd, at Gallows Wood Recovery, Barnetby Top.

NORTHERN Lincolnshire recovery specialist Gallows Wood has taken on a regional product that helps save lives.

The Barnetby Top team has added Orve+wrap thermal blankets to the ‘tool box’.

Manufactured by Hull company Orvecare, it raises a patient’s core temperature without needing a secondary heat source.

Already used within the NHS, the advanced healthcare product is seen as ideal in life-threatening situations such as road accidents, as well as keeping drivers and passengers warm during a breakdown.

Nick Curtin, managing director of Gallows Wood Recovery, said: “We work with most leading motoring organisations and when we saw Orve+wrap in use by the emergency services we realised it would also be an excellent product for us.

“People are advised to stand away from their vehicle until the recovery

team arrives and can very often get wet and cold during this time. Our staff can now offer warmth and protection from inclement weather while we safely recover their vehicle.”

Orvecare started out four years ago and is part of Orvec International, which has 41 staff in Hull.

Tony Codd, business development executive, said: “The blankets are very versatile, and now we have our first motor vehicle recovery client we hope that others will also want to improve the services they offer stranded motorists or at accident scenes.”

Orve+wrap is a six-layer laminate manufactured in the region and fed into the UK market, as well as being exported to Finland and Norway.

UK customers include St John Ambulance, London Ambulance Service, Kent Search and Rescue, Bolton Mountain Rescue and veterinary wholesalers as well as the NHS.

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EW regional chairman of the Energy Institute, David Talbot, has underlined how the world still needs oil and gas, as the organisation positions itself across all forms of generation and provision.

recognise that we are the Energy Estuary, and what a year it has been for the estuary. Back In January, I was proud to be part of a delegation from the region to Westminster to help highlight the work going on in the

culminating locally in the North East Lincolnshire Council Clean Break Summit. At the summit the giant leaps forward in the renewables sector were evident and delegates heard about the growing offshore wind presence.

“Of course, renewables produce Addressing the Humber branch’s electricity, and that is just one part of annual dinner, the chief executive of the energy system. The North Sea Catch gave his maiden speech to the still has a huge part to play in the oil organisation following his industry and, as oil bosses warned appointment to the role. recently, the basin will need to earn He told how renewables was its right to grow within a rapidly knocking at the door, but there remained generations of work still do changing energy landscape. to, while reporting positively on steps Renewables are clearly knocking on nationally to play a role in one of the the door and the energy transition to region’s strengths – offshore wind. a low carbon future will happen but it Mr Talbot, who served in the RAF will take generations to happen and before joining BAE Systems and then in the mean time the world will still moving to Stallingborough, said: need oil and gas.”

“When I took over the chair, my first The gathering at Oaklands Hall task was to visit the Energy Institute Hotel saw more than 160 guests enjoy and meet with the chief executive, a three course meal, while raising Louise Kingham. I wanted to money for Andy’s Children’s Hospice, understand the EI better, to hear what Castle Hill Hospital Ward 10, Dove their vision was, not just for the Energy Institute but also for the House Hospice Cleethorpes RNLI and branches in the regions. We both London to Paris Breast Cancer Now. agreed that this is clearly a Dr David Talbot Mr Talbot added: “I would like to fascinating time for the energy sector take the opportunity to thank my and it was interesting to hear from predecessor as chair, John Kersey, region. MPs Greg Clark, Nick Hurd Louise how important renewables, who has supported the committee for and in particular offshore wind, is to and Andrew Percy all came to the event to hear about the momentum in over 20 years and has kept a firm the Institute, while not forgetting hand on the tiller during his tenure.” the region, and how industry was traditional forms of energy. I have He is staying on as vice chairman. now started to work up an action plan working closely with the local with the EI to deliver a strategy for authorities and the LEP to capitalise David Hughes “another stalwart of the region.” on the Energy Estuary. the committee with over 20 years And it has a lot to take in.

“Since then we have seen a plethora service,” was also thanked for his Mr Talbot said: “”It is important to of developments in the energy sector, contribution.

Renewables are clearly knocking on the door and the energy transition to a low carbon future will happen, but it will take generations to happen, and in the mean time the world will still need oil and gas

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Kevin Gaskell was heading up Porsche UK at the age of 32, going on to take the wheel at Lamborghini and then BMW GB, before channeling his entrepreneurial spirit into start-up s investments - with incredible success throughout.

So how does he get the performance out of teams like the cars driven out of his former showrooms?

“It starts with a vision, dreaming about what can be possible,” he told Business Hive Live 2017.

“In our businesses we don’t talk about looking for another one per cent market penetration or two per cent return on assets or three per cent return on investment. 99 per cent of your people have no idea what it means. How do they make a difference to that? They don’t know.

We talk about creating something special, something extraordinary. A team of ordinary people can do something extraordinary, you invite people on a journey.”

Seatbelts metaphorically snapped in, we were ready for the grand tour.

Mr Gaskell was born in Macclesfield, and planned to be a civil engineer, winning prizes at university in Bradford. Graduating as a structural engineer, he stayed on for his MBA, and then worked in the industry, helping deliver Birmingham NEC and the M54 motorway. Increasingly frustrated with inefficiencies in the construction sector, he opted for another direction, joining a major manufacturing business as a management accountant.

Reasons for getting the seat at Porsche at an age when most would struggle to pay the insurance on one were shrouded in modesty, but you suspect his drive and leadership was out in front already, having joined as a regional manager when he saw a job advertised.

“I was asked to run Porsche when I was 32, I was as green as grass,” he said. “Why choose me? No-one else wanted to do it. We had lost 90 per cent of sales, we had three years of new car inventory sat in fields. Of 31 brands in the UK in customer satisfaction, we were 31st.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse they make you MD!” So how did he handle a hand break turn of business proportions with headlights on such a prestige brand when the early Nineties crash hit?

“I said to people ‘are we going to be the people steering this great brand when it goes off the road?’

No. I had been there five years and I said we can do this, we can do

something we have to have a dream. It is about having a dream.

“It is about passion, being able to look inside yourself to see you are determined to make this happen.

“We had lost 90 per cent of the sales, dealers were throwing back contracts, no-one would buy one, it was not the car to be seen in as the market went into recession. I looked into the eyes of my team and they were scared. Banks wouldn’t touch us. We transformed the business by taking it to pieces and putting it together again.

“In four years, with the same team of people, we went from 31st to number one, we went from losing 20 per cent on cars to making 20 per cent, we were the most profitable business in the UK car market. It is about releasing your passion and belief, and ability to dream. You can change the world. They say every successful business person is a dreamer, but that’s not the same as saying every dreamer is a successful businessman. There has to be structure behind it.”

Supercar stock was furthered, too, with an acquisition under his watch, having also been in a distressed state. “I bought Lamborghini for £100,000. Not a car, not the parts, the business,” he said.

Next came BMW, with the polar opposite beginning. “It was very stable, seen as the number one brand,” he recalled.

That concerned him, he didn’t want it to be about how fashionable the famous blue and white quarters were, but how good the craftsmanship and technology that lies beneath and behind was.

Could he grow a business worth £5 billion with 70,000 people?

Since leaving BMW he has built “I said let’s go and learn from five 14 new businesses. star hotels and first class air travel.

He has also gone on to walk Let’s bring these ideas in to the unsupported to the North Pole and company.

South Pole, and is dedicating much of his time away from the various offices he now splits himself between to raising money in memory of a younger sister he lost to cancer.

He believes there are three vital stages in achieving when building a business: commit, connect and create.

“You have to make a positive decision to do something, and you never do it on your own, it won’t happen,” he said. “Everyone has a community of people around them, let them know what you are trying Kevin Gaskell to achieve and they will help you.

Then create magic. Do something extraordinary, where people go “We grew by 80 per cent, we grew ‘wow, look what we’re part of, look operating profit by 500 per cent. My what we’re achieving’.” belief is ‘get better and bigger well And don’t think it is as gentle as a come’ don’t chase the numbers. cruise in a 7-Series either. “If “Two years into the journey as the numbers span up my board got everything seems under control you are not going fast enough,” he very excited, and the ideas went said. “You need to be on the edge, it around the world.

“It is not about how good you are, needs to be uncomfortable, you need to be pushing the it is about how good you want to be.” boundaries.”

If everything seems under control you are not going fast enough.

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entrepreneurs on track speakers hit top gear STELLAR LINE-UP: Business Hive Live 2017 speakers, from left, Geoff Burch. Andrew Dixon, Becky Boyd. Dan Riley and Kevin Gaskell at Grimsby Auditorium. Picture: Chris Lynn Photography. www.chris-lynn.co.uk

I was expelled from school, told I was a disruptive influence. Where do you go from there? Alcoholism? Drug abuse?

Living on the streets, sleeping in a cardboard box? There was only one place left to go, into sales. I did and I loved it Geoff Burch

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HE importance of big data and ensuring every employee is hard-wired to a business’s ethos was the fusion for future success that emerged from Business Hive Live.

Andrew Dixon, Barclays’ regional digital expert was back for a successive year, downloading big data tips this time round after covering cyber security in 2016.

He said: “It is not just about growing and expanding your business, it is about improving operations in your business.

“Businesses have always been powered by data, there has always been information there, we just need to know what we are doing with it and how the digital revolution has changed what is now possible with data.

“The volume of data through normal channels is difficult to interpret. We already own quite a lot of information about our customers, we own information about our financials and about our websites, and there is also publicly available data and data others own. There is then social, be it applications, locations and the internet of things.”

Mr Dixon told how Starbucks had created a programme feeding in a variety of metrics to find new places to open outlets, while Tesco was using data from sensors to manage energy efficiency in refrigeration and reduce malfunction costs.

“Using data will provide an accurate insight into what is really going on in a business,” he said. “For years we have built businesses on a gut feeling.

We can now take it to the next step now by using the big data available.

“Play to your strengths.

Smaller business always have an advantage over big companies when it comes to knowing your customers.

We can extend that further with accurate insights.”

Self-confessed technophobe Geoff Burch followed, arriving on stage in surreal fashion on a gleaming white motorcycle, as he looked to rev delegates up about their workforces.

Explaining his credentials, the respected authority on

customers, sales, leadership and change, said: “I was expelled from school, told I was a disruptive influence.

Where do you go from there?

Alcoholism? Drug abuse?

Living on the streets, sleeping in a cardboard box?

– There was only one place left to go, into sales. I did and I loved it.”

He told how it “doesn’t take much to transform a business from doing all right to doing fantastically”, and compared many British businesses’ resources in such areas to a dodo’s wings.

“They are the sales function of most British businesses, so shrivelled it can no longer lift the fat thing off the ground,” he said. “Look at a seagull, every bit of it is poised to fly.

It represents the entrepreneurial culture, every single person involved realises where the business is going.”

He touched on appointing on attitude rather than skills, with a caveat that they must know what they are doing.

“Everybody who works with you has a very simple choice, they can be an ambassador or an assassin,” he said.

“Whatever your business is, there needs to be a theme at the heart. You need to sell that to your people so they can deliver that.

“If you get everyone involved, buy the coffees and the donuts, get everyone together, you will be amazed at how much money your van driver can bring in.”

He urged confidence and a professional approach to business, adding: “You can be an assassin of your own business by not valuing it properly or showing the right level of professionalism.”

Becky Boyd from Google gave a presentation on digital skills roll-out, while Dan Riley, managing director of Spearhead Interactive, introduced his Middlesbrough-based imaging technology agency as a glimpse of the near future was given in augmented and virtual reality business tools.

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Chair’s endorsement TIM RIX, chair of the Green Port Growth Programme Board, said: “Not only is the initiative proving a success with women, but it’s also providing a new route to recruitment for employers in the region, and promoting the variety of exciting careers and prospects in manufacturing and engineering.”

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ORTHERN Lincolnshire women are being invited to discover job opportunities at a special event being held in Scunthorpe.

“Although manufacturing, engineering and renewables in the Humber region are going from strength to strength, there is an ongoing issue of gender balance within these fields. Just 9 per cent Women into Manufacturing and of the UK engineering workforce Engineering (WiME), which is and 6 per cent of registered supported by the Regional Growth engineers and technicians are Fund, was created in 2016 to female. encourage females to choose a “Our first events had real impact career in these industries.

– eight women have been recruited Following the huge success of its through the scheme and WiME now first year, the next event is being has the support of 21 major held on Saturday at Humber UTC. employers from across the Humber It is the first time it has been held region. We are looking to generate on the South Bank, having been even more interest from across the brought forward by Green Port wider Humber region, so we are Hull. thrilled to be holding our first The WiME careers day will be a event on the South Bank. We hope chance to meet women already lots of women and girls from the working in these sectors, find out area will drop in to find out what about current vacancies, discover careers in engineering and what training and qualifications manufacturing are all about.” are needed, and learn about Women can talk directly to apprenticeship opportunities. representatives from companies More than a dozen companies, and their female employees about including British Steel, Two Sisters how to get into this exciting and Food Group, BP, Dong Energy and growing sector of the local EDF Energy are supporting the economy. There will also be an initiative. opportunity to get hands-on with Kirsty Clode, chair of WiME, said: engineering equipment, and up to

100 attendees will be able to ride on a steam train to look around British Steel’s Scunthorpe manufacturing facility.

Abbie Cheater, 19, from Cleethorpes, pictured above left, has secured an apprentice manufacturing engineer position at Swift Leisure in East Yorkshire as a result of the initiative. The former Franklin College student is combining the role with a course at Humberside Engineering Training Association’s Stallingborough site.

She said: “I didn’t want to go to university, I wanted to learn on the job. The WiME careers day was amazing, I loved how it was organised so you got a chance to speak to women from a variety of different companies. I took away lots of information and when the team at Swift invited me in for a look around with regard to a potential placement I was thrilled. I started at Easter, just a few short weeks after the WiME event.

“My advice to girls like me who are thinking about a career in engineering is don’t shy away or be intimidated by the number of men in the industry. Look into things

properly – there are so many different routes and you can find out the one that suits you the best.”

Chloe Barnett, 18, from Scunthorpe, pictured above right, was told about WiME by her father.

She said: “Working at Siemens, my dad heard about the first event through a few colleagues who were going along to do presentations. He encouraged me to go along, as Siemens strives to recruit more female employees. At the time, I was coming to the end of an apprenticeship in customer services and fancied a career that was more physical and hands-on.

“The WiME event really opened my eyes to the types of roles that are out there. Although I had an idea about what Siemens does, it was great to have the different roles explained in more detail.

“After my apprenticeship came to an end, I applied for a role and was fortunate to be taken on as a packing operative. I’m really enjoying learning something new.”

To register for the WiME event, which runs from 10am to 3pm, visit www.greenporthull.co.uk/wime.

New suite of management apprenticeships delivered by North Lindsey College NORTH Lindsey College has launched new apprenticeships in leadership and management.

The new suite of Chartered Management Institute apprenticeships provides valuable progression routes, from team leader to operations manager and up to the Chartered Management Degree Apprenticeship. It incorporates the BA (Hons) Professional Practice in Leadership and Management awarded by the University of Lincoln.

The highly successful University Centre at North Lindsey College is

leading on the BA (Hons) Professional Practice in Leadership and Management as part of the long-standing partnership working with the University of Lincoln.

“We know that across the UK, and within our region, leadership and management skills are critical to business success and are a recognised area of skill shortage,” said Cath Jackson, training and development consultant at North Lindsey College.

“We have been delivering management qualifications for over 15 years and with the new

apprenticeship standards there are fantastic opportunities for employers to use their apprenticeship levy or access potential funding support to enable them to access learning and development that will really make a difference.

“These programmes can lead to sound improvements in the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of key personnel; developing their skills in areas such as innovation, communication, problem solving, decision making and management of key resources.”

North Lindsey College is currently offering the following programmes: ● Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6) ● Operations/Departmental Manager (Level 5) ● Team Leader/Supervisor (Level 3) The delivery model has been developed with employer feedback and is built around module provision, to support employers by offering flexible attendance patterns to reduce workplace impact but add value to the lear ners’ experience.

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increased demand for these programmes, due to the organisation benefits associated with them and the opportunity to support the progression and development of their teams, particularly where staff are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Employers can fund these via the apprenticeship levy, or for some SMEs paying 10 per cent of the cost this can be as little as £500 per person.

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Checking back in: Humber Royal return for Teresa GIRL power is clearly at the helm of the Humber Royal Hotel in Grimsby.

Heading up the new female-dominated management team is Teresa Penistone, who returned to the hotel in August as general manager.

She first arrived at the Humber Royal as room revenue manager in 2014, but left for a brief spell at The Oaklands in 2016.

Teresa returns with a new energy to keep the hotel on top of the corporate pile in North East Lincolnshire. She said the hotel has always been the premier place for local industry to hold their conferences and events, and she wants to keep it this way.

“The Humber Royal Hotel has always been the place to go for the captains of industry whether for conferences, launch events, meetings or gala dinners,” she said, underlining the five conference suits and 450 delegate capacity. It recently held Clean Break and the reception evening for Humber Seafood Summit.

“I’m delighted to be back here and I’ve got a fabulous team with me, some new and others who have moved position who all have the skills and experience to keep the hotel in its top spot.”

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co-ordinator. Also joining the hotel are Catherine Sykes in the role of head receptionist and Emma Lingard as marketing and communications.

Dawn Birks has joined as head of housekeeping, with the only man – head chef Mark Belcher – also on the management team, having worked at the hotel for eight years.

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WELCOME: Forrester Boyd’s latest cohort. Right, Chantelle Ellis.

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WELVE students have swelled the training ranks at Forrester Boyd as the latest cohort has been taken on. It is a continuation of the chartered accountancy practice’s proud commitment to help people develop their careers without having to leave the region.

region who are setting out on their career to earn worldwide recognised qualifications and also remain closely involved in their community and its economy.”

It comes as Forrester Boyd, an employer of 250, progressed two places to 41st in a list of the largest independent practices in the UK. HR co-ordinator Chantelle Ellis said: “We had The latest recruits will be split across four a large number of strong candidates apply for offices, with Laura Andrisova, Lauren Parrott, our trainee positions this year which is great.

Betsy Wood and Sophie Pattison in Grimsby; We are pleased to welcome what we believe to Ben Godbold, Charlotte Waiton, Abigail be a strong team of trainee accountants to the Dunning, Ellie Ramsay and Carlissa Daniels in business.

Louth; Caprice Lamberti and Ruth Bollington “The students will study for professional in Scunthorpe and Harry Shepherd in Beverley. accounting qualifications over a number of Welcoming the new trainees to the firm, years which with hard work and determination Kevin Hopper, the partner responsible for will see them reach chartered status. Our training, said: “High calibre employees are the trainees will spend time studying in a key to this firm’s continued success. We are classroom based environment with our trusted creating a long-term benefit for our business as training provider Kaplan Financial. Forrester well as our clients by investing in the training Boyd will fully fund it while providing essential and development of new members to our team. on the job training.”

“It is also pleasing to recruit from local Chantelle herself has also had good reason to schools and colleges so that we can continue celebrate, having received an MSc with merit our ethos of training people from our home in Human Resource Management.

Grimsby-born, she joined the firm in 2013 as a trainee HR professional, after graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with a 2:1 degree in English Language and Literature before studying HR Management at the University of Hull.

Mr Hopper added: “Chantelle is a testament to our ethos of training local people and I am very pleased that she has achieved formal recognition of her ability and skills. Chantelle will now look at developing her wider commercial knowledge, working within the Forrester Boyd Group and with our clients. The wide skills that we hold across our traditional accountancy base continues to expand across other professional areas, which is essential to the range and quality of services we provide to our clients. We feel Chantelle’s qualification improves this further.”

Cyber security and strategic direction role CYBER security in a fast-paced digital world is one of the main challenges being met by an IT expert who is settling into a new position at the region’s largest law firm.

Dean Hall has joined Wilkin Chapman solicitors, heading up the IT and facilities teams, after three years in a similar role with a local social housing association.

Based at the firm’s Cartergate headquarters in Grimsby, Mr Hall is also responsible for IT infrastructure at offices in Lincoln, Beverley, Sheffield, Louth, Horncastle and Alford.

Over the coming months, Mr Hall, who lives near Lincoln, will be looking at the future strategic direction of the firm with regards to its IT offering and taking appropriate changes forward, with a permanent focus on cyber security.

“We must always ensure the resilience of our systems, making sure our IT facilities are permanently robust,” he said. “This is a vital part of our work, you only have to look at what happened in the NHS earlier this year to see the very real threats that exist.

“It is a rapidly changing environment and we must all ensure the right processes are put into place to ensure we have a robust IT infrastructure fit for the future,” he added.

Heading up a team of IT and facilities professionals, along with the facilities operation, Mr Hall is looking forward to the opportunities in his new role.

“I have a very good team of people here and am confident we can continue to improve, implement and support the best possible IT and facilities practices within the firm,” he said.

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Toyota Pro Ace is winning its place in the market TOYOTA’S 2017 range of Proace vans and Verso people carriers is taking advantage of the fast-growing medium-sized van and MPV market, offering choices spanning wheelbases, powertrains and equipment specifications.

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

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

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

All come with good specification levels include user-friendly equipment such as rail-mounted sliding seats, opening rear tailgate glass, automatic sliding side doors and a multifunction roof.

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

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interiors with the dashboard design featuring clear, analogue dials and ergonomic switchgear. The driver gets good all-round visibility from the elevated, SUV-like driving position and use of a slick, short-throw gear lever mounted close to the flat-bottom steering wheel. Versions equipped with automatic transmission have a stylish rotary gear selector positioned on the centre console.

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The Proace Compact Van which has three front seats and a cargo bay measuring a 2,162mm long by 1,628mm wide, giving a load volume of 4.6 cubic metres. It also features an opening bulkhead and lifting front passenger seat base to increase load length capacity by 1.16 metres and overall load volume by an extra half a cubic metre. ● To find out more, contact John Roe Toyota in Grimsby on 01472 306163, or Scunthorpe on 01724 389062.

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TARTING small but with a desire to grow, Semco Maritime has arrived in Grimsby.

The offshore substation specialist, a global giant in engineering, procurement, construction and installation in some of the harshest environments, is delivering the world’s biggest contract of its type for Dong Energy’s Hornsea One offshore wind farm.

The £10 million contract to provide the vital equipment within the huge rig-like superstructures that link the vast arrays to the mainland via high voltage cables is underway in Denmark, and with more phases to come the executive team behind the move are confident in being a long term feature of the port.

Hosting a reception within Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises, Bjarne Christensen, director of service operations for wind, oil and gas in the £191 million turnover business, said: “Semco Maritime has been working in the wind business for many, many years.

“We have been serving offshore wind out of Denmark, but based on the tremendous activity over here, and the fact we will deliver three substations in a row for Hornsea Project One from the start of 2018, we need to be here.

The three substations for Dong are the very first time three have been built is a row, for the same project, ever. It is

incredible. Following Hornsea One there is Hornsea Two, Hornsea Three, and then who knows, this will be the largest zone anywhere in the world.

Based on our very close co-operation with Dong we needed to be here to support them with the commissioning, technical transformation and ad hoc services.”

Bladt Industries is fabricating the giant substations, ahead of the complex installation work.

That will continue with commissioning once shipped to the site and installed, 120km off the East Yorkshire coast.

Not that Semco’s work ends there. “This industry is still quite young, Mr Christensen said.

“We do see upgrades in the very first years, we see requests for modifications and we will be there to support our customers.”

Semco has been involved with one third of all offshore substation builds in the industry globally, and more than 50 per cent in near neighbour Germany. The first was installed in Denmark in 1999. “The size has gone up five to six times, and it will continue,” Mr Christensen enthused.

He is already very positive about the town, thanks to a positive welcome given by the sector’s growing community.

Representatives from Dong Energy and North East Lincolnshire Council joined GFDE at the reception.

“It is a really exciting time,”

Mr Christensen said.

“Everybody is here, everyone that has got something to do with offshore operations and maintenance and offshore services, they are all now in Grimsby. We need to be here as well.

“We start very humble, with a modular site office, but that’s a good start. Martyn Boyers (chief executive of GFDE) has already offered us some more square metres, and we are very hopeful to be reaching out. We are definitely looking to grow, and we are very encouraged by the welcoming approach.”

Semco already has offices in

the UK in Aberdeen and Invergordon, with a large set down yard in the latter.

The initial modular building forms part of a mini village on the Port of Grimsby East estate, between Grimsby Fish Market and Old Lock Keepers Cottage, now home to All NRG. It comes as major infrastructure changes continue to take shape on the docks, with roads re-routed and a new one-way system in place as Dong Energy’s enlarged footprint emerges after Eastside Road was absorbed and so too the land where the old Cosalt HQ once stood.

LAUNCH: Bjarne Christensen, director of service operations for wind, oil and gas at Semco Maritime, right, with, from left, Ole Angell, head of supply chain, Mads Iversholt, service manager who will have responsibility for the Grimsby office behind them, and Finn Olesen, lead on telecoms.

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HE developer behind a new North East Lincolnshire office park joined agents in welcoming the first tenant on

Park, having bought the land off Altyre Way when he owned the Grimsby Audi dealership back in 2006.

Now, 11 years on, and having sold site.

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dealership, the £3.5 million development has been realised.

And first to take advantage of the location offering easy access to a large residential population, is Wold Veterinary Clinic.

Mr Bramall said: “At the time, taking advice from agents, we were FIRST ON SITE: Tony Bramall, second left, told there was big demand for office ofwner of developer, Bramall Properties, space. We got planning permission in welcomes Peter Dixon and Phillip Mutondo, 2012 and have developed the site, owners of the Wolds Veterinary Clinic. Also starting in 2015. It took 20 months to pictured are Lawrence Brown, left, of Scotts finish, and what we have are six Property, and Duncan Willey, right, of PPH self-contained office units of about Commercial. Pictures: Rick Byrne.

2,650 sq ft each, and a seventh of 5,800 sq ft.

Wold underlines the flexibility of the assistant are already employed, with a “All have their own front door and further animal care assistant and centre, transforming the open plan would suit the professional user. We space into a ground floor featuring nurse being recruited. have one now occupied and another three consulting rooms, two surgery “We have booked a Christmas party hopefully will soon come to fruition, theatres, a preparation room, for 12,” Dr Dixon said with a smile, ultrasound room, kennels, x-ray room, underlining the ambition. and isolation ward.

New brochures have been prepared Now, less than a month into with schematics showing what operations on site, the team is looking to expand upstairs.

“We are looking at phase two now, we hope to put in a cat ward in, a lab and wash room, as well as bedrooms for when an animal requires critical care overnight,” said Dr Peter Dixon. Total investment in Hewitts “It is quite important that if an Business Park animal requires 24 care that we can Duncan Willey provide that. lay-outs are achievable in the setting, “We are very busy and we are very known as Blossom Avenue. and we hope others will follow, and we pleased with the response.”

Lawrence Brown, managing partner are starting a marketing campaign Two qualified vets, two nurses, three at Scotts, said: “Our thoughts were now.” reception staff and an animal care that there was a lack of quality business park accommodation in the area. We were aware of Europarc and the town centre, but were looking to develop in other locations.

“The working environment is very attractive, inside and out.”

Joint agent is PPH, with divisional director Duncan Willey driving home the first deal. Mr Willey said: “There was good office accommodation provision in the centre and the west of Grimsby, and the council-owned offices in Wilton Road enjoy strong occupancy.

“We recognise the increasing residential area here and people wanting offices closer to home.”

Available to rent or buy outright, it puts a further dimension on them.

“If an investor is looking to buy to then rent the property it is a good option,” Mr Willey said. “It is a new build, making it easy to repair and maintain, and the investment market remains fairly strong at the moment.”

We recognise the increasing residential area here and people wanting offices closer to home

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Commercial Property

TO LET PRIME OFFICES PARK SQUARE LANEHAM STREET, SCUNTHORPE ●

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Close to town centre with its usual amenities and railway station.

Whole floor available or can be subdivided.

Total area approx. 240.6 sqm (2589 sq ft) sub-division from 36.33 sqm (391 sq ft) Other users on the development include Solicitors, Accountants, Scunthorpe Telegraph and Government offices.

TO LET LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT/STORAGE WENTWORTH ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE ●

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RENT FOR WHOLE FLOOR £22,000 PER ANNUM

RENT £58.00 PW + VAT PER WEEK

FOR SALE RETAIL/WORKSHOP R/O 251 ASHBY HIGH STREET, SCUNTHORPE

FOR SALE SARGENTS ICE CREAM & TEA ROOM 5 MARKET LANE BARTON UPON HUMBER,

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Bramall holds further outline planning permission for 50 houses, 20 per cent of which are in the affordable bracket, for the final piece of the jigsaw. “We are trying to finish off the office element before we start on that,” Mr Bramall said. “During the next few months we will consider our options.”

Seven motor manufacturers are now located on the site, with those behind much of the development estimating upwards of £10 million to have been injected with all the recent additions, with Read Hyundai and Trenton also recent additions.

Located in Market Lane Barton upon Humber.

Long established Ice Cream and Tea Room business with knowledge of ice cream production not necessary as this is outsourced.

Retail unit extends 925 sq ft 86.22 sqm with 25 covers.

Leasehold premises.

Profitable business with huge potential.

PRICE £35,000 FREEHOLD

FOR SALE £39,950 BUSINESS, FIXTURES & FITTINGS

FOR SALE FISH & CHIP RESTAURANT COLE STREET SCUNTHORPE,

FOR SALE VILLAGE STORE & POST OFFICE 49 STATION ROAD KEADBY, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE

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£117,500 FREEHOLD, BUSINESS F&F Large selection of further properties available

Excellent freehold business opportunity.

Corner location on through road.

High turnover village store & post office.

Includes sales shop, storage, outbuildings and income producing first floor flat.

Business element includes retail sales, post office and outreach, cash machine, lottery & newspaper round.

PRICE £210,000 PROPERTY, BUSINESS, F&F, SAV

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

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Commercial Property Lakeside pod launch for national car-buying firm

Quality shines through for Bennetts with Bicester deal T WO universities and a luxury shopping village expansion are the latest prestigious projects supplied

by Grimsby’s Bennetts Timber.

CAR buying service Webuyanycar.com has landed in Scunthorpe.

A pod has been placed in the town’s Morrisons car park at Lakeside Retail Park, with one job created.

It is the fourth outlet in the county, following Grimsby, Boston and Lincoln.

Richard Evans, head of technical services at Webuyanycar.com, said: “Our latest opening in Scunthorpe is testament to our continued growth and our support for customers in Lincolnshire who we have been buying many thousands of cars from over the years.

“With the new branch we hope to reduce customer travelling time by opening in a more central location.”

Earlier this year the Manchester-based firm welcomed its millionth customer, having built custom on achieving better deals than part-exchange offers.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY EXPERTISE ACROSS THE HUMBER REGION

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£225,000

Graham Davis (Commercials), Laceby • Long established FOR SALE business • Vehicle & trailer sales, tow bars • Workshops, sales offices & sales pitch • Prominent freehold property

£320,000

Grange Lane North, Scunthorpe ALL ENQUIRIES • Former commercial vehicle dealership premises • GIA 1,735 sq m (18,670 sq ft) • Site area approximately 1.25 acres • Long established industrial/commercial area

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The company, which has been operating for more than 200 years, is seeing a surge in popularity for the timber cladding it specialises in.

Now the Phase Four development of Bicester Village, a designer outlet near Oxford, has benefitted from the 20-strong team headed by brothers Edward and Robert Bennett, as well as Cambridge Science Park an Birmingham University.

Warner Brothers Studios in Hertfordshire can also be added to Bennetts’ long list of customers, with retailers Aldi, Tesco and Sainsbury’s all using cladding on new store builds and refurbishments.

Edward Bennett said: “We are extremely proud of our history and pride ourselves in offering our customers the support and advice they need. Every customer is important to us from someone building shelves at home to a house builder needing quality timber for a large housing project.

“Business has been brisk over the last 18 months or so and we are currently looking at expanding the business in the short to

NATIONAL DELIVERIES: Robert and Edward Bennett of Bennetts Timber. Inset, the Humberston house.

medium term.”

The cladding was selected

by Colin Goodwin for the Humberston home that won him a Best Sustainable Project in the regional Local Authority Building Control Awards, and the brothers

believe an advantage they have is an onsite mill and painting facility at the South Humberside Industrial Estate base, a rarity for a modern timber merchant and a legacy of such a heritage.

Hughes Building’s ideal legacy to my pal Glyn The past month has seen an emotional opening ceremony for The Hughes Building, the latest expansion of the Catch facility at Stallingborough, named after its long serving former chief executive. Dr Glyn Hughes passed away two years ago, having served for a decade at the helm of the process industry’s public-private partnership, bringing forward the concept to reality. Here friend and colleague David Calvert, who was at the launch, reflects on the lasting tribute.

THE WORD legacy is often used, be it in relation to a major sporting event like the Olympics, musical icons such as David Bowie and even political figures such as Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and no doubt Donald Trump.

These are all directly outside of the industrial context and I have been moved to consider whether there is such a thing as an industrial legacy, and have come to the conclusion that there are instances where there is a true industrial legacy. “My thoughts were initiated by an event I was delighted to attend at Catch, where they opened a fourth extension to the training facility and took the wonderful step of naming it after one of their previous CEOs and a

FITTING TRIBUTE: The Hughes Building. Top left, Glyn Hughes, with David Calvert below. Top right, Dr Hughes’ wife Pamela and two daughters officially open it, with the workshop, below. great friend of mine, Dr Glyn Hughes.

Catch stands for ‘Centre for Assessment of Technical Competence – Humber’ and has been up and running for over 10 years now. It provides real-life industrial training for apprentices and employees in the process industries sector and has certainly come a long way since the first stone was laid by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. From being an offer focussed on the chemical industry, it has expanded the services to energy and renewables.

The centre was driven by

everyone bemoaning the lack of true skills in the chemicals sector and the ageing demographics. This has certainly not changed a great deal over the last 10 years but I believe that Catch is making a difference that will be seen and appreciated for many years to come. The work of all those involved will lead to a lasting legacy in the sector, the region and probably most importantly with those who have and will pass through Catch as part of their training.

I guess that true legacy actually lies with the impact on individuals,

and Glyn certainly left a legacy with many, many people. I was proud to have known him and often find myself thinking ‘now what would Glyn have said / done about that?’

The challenge to everyone is can you leave a legacy behind from your working life? We cannot all expect to lead large initiatives like Glyn but we should all aspire to have a positive impact on individuals we work with and if we can achieve that then we will all be able to say we too have left a lasting industrial legacy.

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Construction

Capital praise for Britcon’s specialist build B

RITCON has successfully completed a major contract to deliver a new state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion plant food waste recycler ReFood (UK) Ltd. The £13.5 million construction project was completed within the allocated 66-week timeframe and on budget by the Scunthorpe specialist, which has become a key strategic partner for Refood and has delivered all of its UK projects too date.

ReFood is the European market leader in the recycling of food chain by-products. It has a portfolio of 11 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants across Europe which together generate enough renewable energy to power over 50,000 homes annually. It is a part of the Saria Group which is a division of Germany’s Rethmann Group.

The new £32 million plant in Dagenham is the most advanced integrated AD plant dedicated to food waste in the south of England.

The gas to grid (G2G) facility is capable of recycling 160,000 tonnes of food waste each year generating 14 million cubic metres of biogas.

Using G2G technology this is upgraded to reflect the qualities of natural gas – allowing it to be injected directly in to the national grid and used to power 12,600 homes across the region.

As well as displacing 73,600 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking 14,431 cars off the road, ReFood Dagenham will support Transport for London’s Clean Air Action Plan through the generation of biomethane for gas-powered vehicles.

The plant is located in the London Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) in Dagenham Dock and has created more than 60 jobs.

John Whitmore, a director at Britcon who is intrinsically involved with Refood’s plant delivery strategy, attended a recent event where the site was officially opened.

He said: “As principal contractor for the project Britcon managed to entire build project including groundworks, remediation works, piling operations, structural steelwork buildings and construction of works for multiple high rise, post tensioned, circular, reinforced concrete digester, receiving and gas storage tanks.

“The programme also included delivery of a carbon neutral, high specification office complex, and state-of-the-art depackaging building with deep basement, numerous process structures and extensive external and landscaping works.”

Britcon has previously delivered construction works on a £24 million plant in Widnes and a £20 million plant at Doncaster, with subsequent £5 million extension, all for ReFood.

Philip Simpson, commercial director at

ReFood, said: “Opening ReFood Dagenham comes as part of a strategic ambition to recycle more than one million tonnes of food waste by the end of 2017 – a milestone that we are on track to achieve thanks to Britcon’s considerable expertise in such highly complex sites. Since our first year of production in 2012, national operations have grown by more than 250 per cent.”

Britcon’s experience working within the energy and renewables sector has resulted in exemplar credentials in biomass, solar PV, CHP, wind turbine, anaerobic digestion and thermal and ground source energy. The company is an active member of the Renewables Network.

Shirley Rodrigues, London’s Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy said: “We’re committed to helping drive up London’s recycling rates, as well as making London zero carbon by 2050. This new facility, the first of its kind in London, is exactly the type of solution we need to help achieve this. Not only will it deal with London’s food waste, but it will also produce clean biogas to help cut the carbon emissions of the gas grid.”

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Conference called on mental health M

ENTAL health in the workplace can be handled empathetically and successfully. That is the message being shared at an annual conference to be held in North East Lincolnshire next month.

Fortis Therapy & Training, an independent mental health service provider based in Grimsby, is preparing to host Surviving or Thriving?

Mental Health Fitness in the Workplace, a day-long conference for managers, chief executives and employees across public and private sectors.

During the day, delegates will hear presentations covering a variety of current topics including ill health absences, presented

by Wilkin Chapman LLP, stress management from NEBOSH, and a developing the right cultures outline from Fortis director Alexis Powell-Howard.

She said: “More and more people are suffering with depression and anxiety, which can

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SUPPORT: The Fortis team, from left, Claire Brumfield, Alexis Powell-Howard, Alice Cleary-Baxter, Jacqui Foster and Sarah Hnatyszyn. manifest in the workplace.

If you haven’t been signed off by a doctor, going to work can be incredibly difficult.

“But now, more people are talking about it and admitting that they want help. There’s a lot of people engaging in public conversations and awareness campaigns. So we’ve built on our previous conferences to

organise an event for anyone who works in or manages a workplace that will cover all different aspects of mental health.”

In addition to presentations, delegates can attend two of four informative and interactive workshops; 'Understanding and managing anxiety', 'Is it the load that breaks you down, or is it the way you

carry it?' and 'Creating a coaching ethos' presented

by Fortis Therapy & Training therapists and associates, and 'Why do we do the things we do?' facilitated by Performance Psychologist Alan Searle.

The event is taking place at Oaklands Hall Hotel on Thursday, November 16.

For more information, contact Fortis Therapy & Training on 01472 241794.

Carpet team rolls out Challenge win

BUSINESSES went head-to-head to battle it out in the third annual Business Hive Challenge.

More than 150 business people across 29 teams took part in an afternoon of healthy competition, facing their rivals in a series of activities which included archery, biathlon and laser clay pigeon shooting.

The Challenge Day, with activities provided by Get Hooked on Positive Activity (GHoPA), a non-profit social enterprise working with young people aged 11 to 25, welcomed big names and larger companies from the area as well as SMEs with their all-star teams.

Sam Burgess, membership

manager at Business Hive said: “The best thing for us was seeing the calibre of businesses and indeed key people from within those businesses, coming along and showing their support. They’ve clearly seen its a great opportunity to not only bond with their own teams but make new connections too, mixing business with pleasure in the best way.”

This year, the coveted Challenge Cup was won by Grimsby Carpet Warehouse, following Flixborough Eco Technologies and inaugural winners Dong Energy UK. Myles Shaw, managing director of Grimsby Carpet Warehouse, said: “I think the Business Hive Team did a fantastic job of making all the guests

feel welcome and creating a great atmosphere, we’re delighted to have won and can’t wait to come back next year and defend our title.”

The event was held at Oaklands Hall Hotel. Sponsor Gary McMullen, managing director of Grimsby’s Tower Staff Construction, said: “The Business Hive is always supportive of the business community so it was a pleasure to sponsor the Challenge.

It’s always a great afternoon, a chance for businesses to meet up and to just have a bit of fun and healthy rivalry. Team Tower Staff may not have won this year, but we’ll be ready to take the cup from Grimsby Carpet Warehouse next year.”

MONUMENTAL: Opportunities offered by the region’s offshore energy activity are big business.

SALE OF THE CENTURY: Peter Capaldi launches new campaign supporting offshore wind as the future for UK energy at Westminster Station.

UNDERGROUND appears to be the new mainstream – or have I just got tunnel vision?

Two major campaigns for two sectors so important to this part of the UK used London’s tube network for some valuable profile raising, though you’d be forgiven for thinking the Humber wasn’t the only link.

With Peter Capaldi on one line and some intriguing giant seafood costumes on another, it did have a distinct feel of a quick reprise from the recently retired role.

But closer inspection casts Capaldi as an ardent wind warrior, pitching in to lend some A-list attention to the amazing advances in offshore wind.

And the seafood shufflers? Nothing more threatening than Seafood Week’s Punday launch with a rather contrived Tottenham Cod Roe feeling a little more end of the line.

Back up the East Coast Main Line, and Seafood Week welcomed Humber Seafood Summit, and it was encouraging to hear a strong push not just for the products we export, but Grimsby’s brand as a centre of excellence that people should welcome and seek out, as

reported on page one.

I hope it travels as well as the dishes, as recent news that Brexiteers will delight in, seems to suggest we’re ditching being ‘just’ Europe’s Food Town and looking much further afield.

The US is certainly proving popular with Saucy Fish Co and Young’s Seafood both tucking into market share Stateside, which can only be good.

As for wind, the sheer volume of announcements and steps taken since September’s Contracts for Difference auction make it seem light years ago, but one that definitely caught the attention was the operations and maintenance research proposal for University of Hull.

Let’s hope a campus can materialise on the South Bank to really capitalise on the role that Grimsby has made its own, to deliver – just like seafood – a cluster of different elements, so that not just service centres, can appear.

Back underneath the capital though, and as these activities surfaced, Scunthorpe steel was proving a force to be reckoned with as well, as Crossrail’s tracks are laid with the final consignment dispatched. Who knows what publicity stunts they may host in years to come!

O-FISH-AL LAUNCH: Sorry, no I really am sorry... Seafood Week’s early splash.