IF YOU THOUGHT, presenting staff with a gold watch was a thing of the past, then think again as Ockendon-based building services company H W Wilson handed out their seventh recently. The watches are handed out to employees who have completed 25 years continuous employment with the company.
Thursday (11 October) saw the first Thurrock Meet The Buyer event, held at the London Cruise Terminal in Tilbury, where nearly 150 local suppliers registered to have appointments with buyers.
Cllr John Kent, Leader of Thurrock Council, was at the start of the event, and afterwards he said: “Working with our partners at the Essex Chambers of Commerce and BIZphit – we have managed to find a dozen buyers from businesses who between them potentially have £7.5m of contract opportunities available.
THE PORT of Tilbury Police Force has been shortlisted in the Public Sector and Not-For-Profit category at the second St John Ambulance First Aid Awards.
They’ll find out if they’ve been successful at a glittering event in London on Monday 19 November, hosted by survival expert Ray Mears who has himself used first aid many times.
ERASMUS for Young Entrepreneurs is an exciting new European project that is available to businesses and individuals in Thurrock. The scheme offers the opportunity for established businesses to receive ‘would be’ entrepreneurs from other European countries to work in their business for a period of up to six months. The ‘would be’ entrepreneurs are committed, dynamic, full of fresh ideas and eager to learn from their hosts.
LOTHBURY Investment Management, on behalf of Lothbury Property Trust, has acquired a modern 250,000 sq ft distribution warehouse located on Weston Avenue in the popular West Thurrock trading estate for £18.85 million reports Business Weekly. The property is located next to junction 31 of the M25 and the Lakeside Shopping Centre and retail parks.
THE LAKESIDE channel on youtube provides all sorts of fascinating insights into the working of the shopping centre. In two minutes, this film encapsulates the working day of Lakeside.
Commenting on the short list success, Peter Newman, Chairman of Ensignbus said, ‘We are of course very proud to have reached this stage in the competition, which is a great achievement in its own right and is a great reflection on the people we have working so hard and diligently here’.
MEET the Buyers Thurrock is the latest initiative from Thurrock Council, working in partnership with Essex Chambers of Commerce, to enable local businesses to engage with buyers from a range of major organisations looking for suppliers of goods and services.
OLLY Murs will be at Lakeside on Thursday 11th October signing copies of his autobiography "Happy Days"! Olly will be in the Central Atrium at Lakeside from 5pm.
ROYAL Vopak, Greenergy, and Shell UK Limited completed their purchase of assets of the former Coryton refinery on Friday 28 September. Investment can now begin in creation of a state-of-the-art import and distribution terminal, which will be named Thames Oil Port.
FREIGHTLINER has achieved a new daily throughput record of 481 containers handled in Tilbury.Managing director Adam Cunliffe said: “Since 2009, year on year we have seen our volumes at Tilbury steadily increase.
Unite said the jobs were to go at Ford's headquarters at Warley, near Brentwood and its Dunton Technical Centre at Laindon, Basildon reports the BBC. Ford said 500 jobs would be lost across Europe as part of its drive to reduce costs, but could not confirm which sites would be affected.
People have until 2 October to tell HMRC they want to take part, submit completed returns, and pay the tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) that they owe. By coming forward voluntarily through the campaign, launched on 3 July, people will receive better terms, and any penalty they pay will be lower than if HMRC comes to them first.
At the end of the interview, he was asked if he would be applying for the post of governor of the Bank of England. Mr Sentance said: "I'm not sure about that. The application hasn't closed yet." Paul Lewis took that as a "Definite Maybe".
