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Chorley-based fulfilment services provider fulfilmentcrowd opened new centres in Yorkshire, France and the Netherlands to serve growing demand from e-commerce retailers. The investment will increase its overall capacity by around 48 per cent and create 25 new jobs, taking the company’s total workforce to 130 across its 13 worldwide locations.
Walker Industrial Estate, which sits by Junction 5 of the M65 in Blackburn, has been acquired by 4th Industrial, which backed by San Francisco-based TPG Real Estate Partners.
Blackburn College has been selected to lead a new £1.3m project created to bridge the skills gap in low-carbon vehicle mechanics. The Lancashire Automotive Skills Accelerator Project has been funded by the Department for Education as part of its Skills Accelerator Strategic Development Fund. The project also supports the government’s commitment to withdrawing the sale of new petrol or diesel cars in 2030 as part of the UK’s net-zero targets. The project will create five electric and hybrid vehicle skills centres across Lancashire at Blackburn College, Blackpool and the Fylde College, Lancaster and Morecambe College, Myerscough College and Nelson and Colne College Group.
The Highest Point festival, which brought 35,000 music fans together in Lancaster in September last year, generated £4.68m for the local economy according to a new study by Red Research. The open-air music festival, which featured acts such as James, Rag‘n’Bone Man, Rick Astley and Becky Hill, created 280 jobs in the run-up to and during the festival, and returned £4.26 for the local economy for every £1 invested.
Chorley-based grounds maintenance specialist Glendale Services secured a string of new contracts with Aster Group housing association, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Lewisham Council, Stroud District Council and The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, as well as earning a place on an environmental works framework with United Utilities.
Lancaster University
teamed up with biomedical firm ViraCorp to develop a one-of-a-kind nasal vaccine which will help improve vaccination
uptake and Covid-19 immunity around the world. Preston-based fabrics and reupholstery firm
Plumbs launched an online sofa sales division, Fable & Plumb. The range features solid wood sofas and chairs, hand-made in the UK, and uses removable covers which can be replaced to refresh the look without the need to buy an entirely new sofa.
DC & MG Associates, North West Design Collective and Joseph Boniface Architects, all based in Lancashire, have been appointed to revitalise Kirkham’s historic high street, funded through Fylde Council’s Shop Front Improvement Scheme.
Vincents Solicitors teamed up with
renowned divorce lawyer Mary Lowe and has renamed its Lytham Park Street branch Mary E Lowe at Vincents solicitors to mark the launch of the joint venture.
Autentica raised more than £150,000
investment from private investors and Innovate UK. The Blackpool-based tech start-up has developed the first blockchain-powered, AI- based digital supply chain for spare parts and is set to move from proof-of-concept to full launch by March this year.
Lancaster University-based Advanced Bacterial Sciences secured a £500,000 deal with NPIF - Maven Equity Finance. ABS creates, manufactures and sells biological solutions for a range of real-world pollution and maintenance problems and the funds will enable it to commercialise its current portfolio of products and invest in future product development.
Housing developer Countryside has acquired
land between Warton and Freckleton on which it plans to build 345 homes.
Edge Hill University’s Business School has been awarded further funding to continue its Leading Lancashire business leadership skills programme.
Preston’s proposed new cinema and leisure
complex, Animate, has agreed terms with its first tenant, Hollywood Bowl. The attraction will anchor the £40m development, and bring 16 computerised bowling lanes, a bar, diner and other amusements.
Heysham-based commercial cleaning
provider AM Services Group has been acquired by facilities and property managed services provider Pinnacle Group. AMSG was established in 2001 and employs 750.
Lancaster University Management School has been awarded a further £500,000 by the European Regional Development Fund to extend its business growth programme, Lancashire Forum.
Blackburn-based engineering firm Assystem
is to extend its partnership with Rolls-Royce and will lead on the development of products for its nuclear power division as the programme enters phase 2.
Preston-based Conlon Construction has been appointed as project partner and preferred main contractor for Preston City Council’s Re-imagining the Harris Project.
Vehicle manufacturer Solomon Commercials
invested £2m in upgrading its Haslingden headquarters, creating a new production facility housing three new CNC machines.
Annette Weekes, managing director of Nelson-based PDS CNC Engineering and Burnley-based Tooling Solutions, was recognised with an MBE for services to business, community and leadership, and for her work during the pandemic establishing a Covid manufacturing cluster for Lancashire and South Cumbria. Brian Newell, chairman of Euxton-based Shackerley Holdings Group, earned an MBE for services to the tiling and ceramics industry. Shackerley, founded by in 1992, specialises in rainscreen cladding. It has won two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the Innovation category.
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