NEWS EXTRA IN BRIEF
Award-winning Sadler’s Wells Resident Company ZooNation brings SOME hip hop to Birmingham Hippodrome from 11 to 15 October. Created by ZooNation
founder Kate Prince and Felix Harrison, the show is the company’s first full-length production since the award- winning West End smash hit, Into the Hoods. Tickets are available on 0844 338 5000 or select a seat online at
www.birminghamhippodrome.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has announced turnover growth of six per cent to £2,461m for the year ending in June this year, up from £2,331m in the previous year. Mark Smith, regional chairman
at PwC in the Midlands, said:“This is a positive set of results despite the challenging economic times and they reflect a strong trading performance here in the Midlands. “We continue to strengthen our business locally particularly by investing in our people. We have recently promoted three new partners and eight new directors in the Midlands and we are looking forward to welcoming 83 graduates.”
Bromwgrove-based Judd Medical has been chosen by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to supply 103 sets of surgical instruments. The equipment, which will be used at the Mater Hospital, include hysterectomy, cervical section and abdominal sets from Judd Medical’s wide range of specialist instrumentation. All of Judd Medical’s
instrumentation is manufactured in the UK by the firm’s sister company Incus Surgical Ltd.
Dig this: Volunteers harvest the Aston Villa potatoes at the club’s allotment
Villa’s new crop of talent A
ston Villa is starting to grow its own fruit and vegetables for use in the
restaurants at Villa Park. Villa Midlands Food (VMF) has
worked alongside the St George’s Community Hub to clear the land and create an area which has raised beds for planting, a greenhouse and a shed.
‘We pride ourselves on being the most sustainable club’
It follows a successful grant handed out by Catch 22 in order to get the allotment, which lies a stone’s throw from Villa Park, up and running. The club’s plan is now to grow its own fruit and
vegetables which will then provide the produce for community kitchen projects – including VMF and Villa
Vitality. The team of volunteers working on the project have now harvested their first crop – potatoes – with 75kg of the red and white variety dug up and used in both VMF and on matchday in the McGregors and Directors restaurants.
Alison Plant, head of hospitality, said: “This just adds another level to our reputation as the most sustainable football club in the country, having won the sustainability gold gong at the Football Hospitality Awards. “We pride ourselves on being the most sustainable club and this project just adds to that. The allotment is still in its very early stages but we’re already reaping the benefits, with the potatoes used being very well received.”
To sample the VMF Restaurant, as well as produce from the allotment, call 0121 326 1570.
Contract wins for HROC Visit to city’s Jewellery Quarter
Martin Donnelly (right), Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, recently met represenatives from Birmingham’s jewellery industry. He is pictured with Beverley Nielsen, director employer engagement at Birmingham City University, and Chamber chief executive Jerry Blackett.
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HROC PR, part of the marketing communications agency HROC Group, has won a number of new accounts. The Birmingham-based agency, which already boasts a strong portfolio of clients, has won contracts with Vaillant, one of Europe’s leading heating manufacturers, to implement and manage its social media strategy, and sanitary ware giant Geberit, to launch its innovative Geberit AquaClean to the consumer and retail markets. To complement this, HROC PR has secured the PR accounts for Moores Furniture Group to support its Shades Bathrooms and Four
Seasons kitchens brands, the media and social media relations for Nuby baby products and the contract for window and door manufacturer Evolution. Other new PR wins include
Keyfuels, the UK’s leading fuel card solutions specialist, and Ardentia, providers of business intelligence to the NHS. Steve Sherran, HROC’s managing
director, said: “It’s been a fantastic year for us to date and we are delighted to be working with such high profile brands on exciting projects. It’s been a record year for the PR division within HROC Group, with income more than doubling on 2010.”
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