In conjunction with The Business Library (in the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library at The Forum), the Chamber is pleased to bring you the headlines from the EDP Wednesday Business Supplement.
MAIN PAPER
Race circuit plans ‘on ice’ (p9)
Plans which were approved 18 months ago and could create 500 jobs at a new business park and hotel at Snetterton Circuit have been put on hold. Due to the global economic downturn, owner and chief executive of MotorSport Vision (MSV), Jonathan Palmer says plans have taken a “backward step”. He says the economic situation has been exacerbated by Breckland Councils condition of the erection of a “costly” £200,000 sound insulating earth bund.
BUSINESS SUPPLEMENT
Workforce could treble through green growth (p2)
Gorleston-based 3Sun is looking to increase its workforce by up to 40 jobs to keep up with green energy industry demand. 3Sun are precision instrumentation and control systems specialists. They work with oil and gas industries in the North Sea and overseas.
Merger is a recipe for food success (p3)
The merger of Hockering-based County Fresh Produce and Sustead’s Food Cellar has created a new gourmet food operation. They will offer pub, restaurant and hotel chefs staple ingredients and specialist cheeses, meats, oils and olives from both regional and European producers.
When it comes down to survival, west is best (p4)
Norwich Recruitment agency OSR Recruitment Services is opening an office in Kings Lynn and has plans for the opening of a further two offices in the region in 2010. OSR says West Norfolk’s strengths in food processing, agriculture and horticulture, and geographic locations means it is well-placed in these changing economic times.
Now Twitter is all in the game for Real Projects (5)
Mountergate, Norwich-based e-training company Real Projects has proved a new client can be won in less than 140 characters via Twitter. They posted a “tweet” about a new learning game for training workers in the oil and gas industry. Within an hour, a Skype discussion was underway with an executive from Norwegian oil and gas industry training specialist, Simprentis, about working together. To see Real Project Twitter feed, see TwitterID: @realprojects.
Extra help for jobless (p6)
Breckland Local Strategic Partnership has secured £123,500 funding from a Future Jobs Fund to provide 19 new jobs for long-term unemployed young people in Breckland. Eight of the jobs will be with an “environmental task force”, four with Peddars Way Housing, one at a Watton solicitors and 6 with a Thetford hairdressers.
Help shape the future of tourism industry (pp6-7)
EDP and Larking Gowen are carrying out a survey amongst local tourism businesses to address the challenges facing East Anglia’s £2bn plus industry in 2010. The survey is only open to businesses involved in the tourism industry and offers a prize of a random selected winner of a 42inch plasma screen television. To start the survey which closes on Friday 26th February, go to http://www.edp24.co.uk/tourismsurvey
Owner back to save jobs at ‘his baby’ (9)
Ex-owner Paul Hendry-Smith has re-secured Fakenham-based Anglian Chemicals from Hampshire-based investment firm Tigertails Capital. Having sold it to Tigertails, he was horrified less than three years later to learn that his former employees faced redundancy. The original sale was made to allow Mr Hendry-Smith’s parents to retire and to enable him to concentrate on a new business. The day-to-day running of Anglian Chemicals will be handled by director David Johnson.