16
BAROMETER UP
by the Environment Agency, Lancashire County Council and other partners, will provide flood risk mitigation for communities from Preston Riversway up towards the M6 and Higher Walton.
Lancaster University has launched the £19m
Security and Protection Science at Lancaster initiative, designed to support the government’s incoming National Cyber Force and the development of the North West Cyber Corridor.
Grimsargh-based TWF Structures has been supplying steelworks for the Old Trafford Cricket Ground redevelopment project. Eric Wright Construction is the main contractor for the redevelopment of the stadium, home to the county’s cricket team.
Accident management specialist DAMS moved into new 30,000 sq ft purpose-built head offices in Burscough. DAMS secured an initial ten-year contract for the facility, on Burscough Industrial Estate, with owners Crompton Property Developments.
Blackburn with Darwen Council selected
Autolab as its preferred bidder to occupy land off Carl Fogarty Way. The company, which customises 4x4 vehicles, has already expanded its current Blackburn home twice and is now seeking planning approval for the £4m move.
Staci opened a 100,000 sq ft ecommerce fulfilment centre in Blackburn. Staci 7 is the company’s 64th site overall, its seventh in the UK and its fourth in Blackburn. It sits at Walker Park, adjacent to the company’s 250,000 sq ft UK head office.
term strategic interventions which would see the county become the fastest-growing digital economy in the UK by 2035.
Haslingden-based Solomon Commercials won
a number of significant new contracts, including helping supermarket giant Tesco roll out its first fully electric 18-tonne truck, and providing 72 new vehicles for foodservice firm Brakes.
A newly formed Employee Ownership Trust has
acquired Dent Instrumentation from the founder’s family. The Colne-based company was launched by Geoffrey Dent and has become a world leader in yarn sensor design and manufacture.
Blackburn-based sports nutrition company Science in Sport secured a £3.5m funding package to streamline its operations and help retain 150 jobs in the town. The finance, from Lombard, part of the NatWest Group, in collaboration with PMD Business Finance, will bring operations under one roof, launch a new production line and increase energy efficiency.
Edge Hill University is to help Burnley-based
fabric designer and manufacturer Panaz improve its productivity and increase its competitiveness on a global scale. The two-year project has been funded by a grant of more than £100,000 from Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership.
Entrepreneur Conor Walsh, who launched the Preston-based Stone UK is to create four Worden Hall, which sits between Leyland
and Euxton, is back open to the public with additional community facilities following a £2.8m investment. The Grade II building had fallen into a state of disrepair before South Ribble Council made the decision to revitalise it, upgrading space for events, weddings, offices and community use.
The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership published a new strategy which will see the county’s digital sector become worth more than £5bn per year by 2035, employing more than 50,000 workers. The Lancashire Digital Strategy lays out a series of 14 short, medium and long-
jobs and expand its product range after securing a £100,000 investment from NPIF FW Capital Debt Finance, which previously provided a £250,000 loan in 2017.
Work can now commence on a 544,000 sq ft
warehousing and logistics unit in Leyland after planning permission was granted and a funding deal agreed. Connect 6 is expected to bring more than 1,000 jobs to the area once complete, and around 600 jobs during construction.
Preston-based VolkerStevin secured a
£37m contract to undertake Phases 1 and 2 of the Preston and South Ribble Flood Risk Management Scheme. The scheme, being led
PATCH app for window cleaners with Paul White, who previously launched Modern Milkman, have together created Ditabo Ventures to provide early-stage funding for Lancashire businesses.
South Ribble Council has appointed Conlon
Construction to oversee the development of a new extra care facility. Planning approval has now been granted for Jubilee Gardens in Leyland, which will include 70 apartments with on-site support and facilities such as a café and hair salon. The centre will be owned and managed by the council and is the first scheme of its kind in the borough.
Unbound Group, the parent company of
Skelmersdale firm Hotter Shoes, recorded a 10 per cent increase in revenues in the first
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72
