FASHION chain Republic has gone into administration putting 2,500 jobs at risk. Administrator Ernst & Young said the 121 shops including the the store at Lakeside will continue to trade while it looks for a buyer.
Aquatics and reptiles specialists The Trop Shop also received help from Vision On covering everything from displays and signage through to offers via social media platforms. Since the training, The Trop Shop has made several changes to the point of sale area and improved signage to the reptile shop on the second floor.
UNIONS have raised concerns about union rights at DP World in Stanford-le-Hope. Unite believes that the apparent refusal by the port’s owners - Dubai-based DP World to recognise the union will mean a "race to the bottom in terms of employment conditions" which could threaten the future viability of the container ports at Felixstowe and Southampton, as well as at Thamesport.
STEPHEN Hammond MP, commenting on the ‘immense scale’ of the new London Gateway port and Europe’s largest logistics park, said: “It really is quite an astonishing example of how UK plc can bring together the best of the best to plan, design, finance, construct and operate world-leading port infrastructure.”
Tilbury B will burn every year the equivalent of more than three-quarters of all UK wood produced every year. They are currently importing wood from US and Canada. Highly biodiverse, often ancient forests are being turned into pellets to make profits for the European power industry. As demand grows forests fall to be replaced by tree monoculture that destroy biodiversity and soils and deplete freshwater.
A HOST OF Thurrock businesses have been shortlisted for the Thurrock Businesses Awards 2013. The awards run by Newsquest have become one of the key events in the Thurrock diary. Among those short-listed are Caroline Thomas of Sales Scene who has been nominated for businesswoman of the year as well as new company.
AS PART of our Business focus showcases, YT went to South Ockendon to interview Phil Pearson at HW Wilson. We wanted to speak to Phil about the challenges facing a company in 2013. H.W.Wilson Limited is a forward thinking, multidisciplinary construction company that carries out work throughout Essex, Hertfordshire, London and the South East.
Speaking at the Logistics Leaders Network Forum, hosted by London Gateway on Thursday, Surtees described the success of Project Sphinx, a collaborative initiative led by Kimberley-Clark, in which seven leading brands (including Heinz, Nestle and Kelloggs) are sharing warehousing and distribution, achieving annual cost savings in six figures for Kimberley-Clark alone.
PURFLEET-based Carpetright, funded by Lord Harris has seen trading rise by over 3% n the last three months. The company is seen as a bellweather company whose fortunes indicate in which direction the economy is heading.
THURROCK WRITER has fulfilled the dream of a lifetime by taking over a bookshop.
Tan Dhillon has been known on the multi-media radar for a number of years as a writer, broadcaster and DJ. But Tan has added another string to his bow by taking over the village bookshop in High Road, Woodford Green.
THURROCK'S temporary responsive repairs contract starts next week and the process of transferring to Mears has already started. Discussions between the council and Mears have been fruitful, but include over a week’s backlog of 20-day priority outstanding appointments.
COPES Estates agents opened up fifty years ago. As anyone will tell you, 1963 was the year of the big chill. And since 1963, Copes Estate Agents opened its doors with the mission statement to help people open their doors.
TOWERING at a height of 138 metres, taller than the London Eye, London Gateway’s colossal quay cranes are on their way to the UK’s new deep-water container port. The first three of the port’s giant quay cranes, manufactured by Shanghai's Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC), have started their journey from China.
MR PATEL said: "It had always been something the family had been wanting to do. Every time we wanted to eat traditional authentic Indian food, we would travel to London and even as far as Southall and our friends were the same. When we got together, it would be in a restaurant in London, although we all lived in Thurrock.
A £30 million boost to the Government’s Start-Up Loans scheme has been announced by the Prime Minister to give the next generation of entrepreneurs the finance and support to start their own business, a move welcomed by the local loan fund managers, NWES.
