Speaking afterwards, mayor Cllr Charlie Curtis said: “It was a pleasure to attend and promote this carvery. The food was good and the company superb.” He added: “We must do all we can to help back local small companies like this — they are the lifeblood of Thurrock’s economy and if by just coming along and showing my support I can promote their business that’s what I’ll do.”
Hermione Mackrill, portfolio director for Land Securities, commented: "In a challenging retail environment, the expansion of Lakeside Retail Park demonstrates the continued retailer interest in the scheme." Overall, the shopping site spans some 380,000 sq ft and houses firms such as Toys R Us, Next, Currys and Mothercare.
ENERGY Minister Charles Hendry today gave the go-ahead for InterGen’s proposals to construct a new 900MW gas power plant at the London Gateway Logistics Park, Coryton.
The plans are for a new £600 million power station comprising of up to two CCGT generating units, each around 450MW in capacity. This brings the total new capacity consented by the Government since May 2010 to 5,456MW – enough to power more than seven million homes if developed.
Essex FSB Businesses Against Crime spokeswoman, Glenys Chatterley, said: “Essex FSB appreciates that Essex Police have to make savings of £41 million on its budget by 2014 and understand that in a service which is reliant on people that that means jobs have to go.
The Partyman Company, which is planning a £1.5million development project to acquire the old Empire Theatre wants any local community theatre groups, dance schools etc to contact them to discuss how they could work together for the people of Essex to make the new Empire/Partyman Theatre the most talked about project in the South East. Any interested parties should send an email to [email protected].
So, if you are at T-Fest on Saturday and have an idea for business, then why not visit the Thurrock Den. You can pitch your idea on camera. All the pitches will be judged the general manager of the Park Inn Thurrock, Richard Groome.
The best idea will win an overnight stay at the Park Inn, a facebook designed page by Sales Scene and a logo designed by dottyhippodesign.
Until now business rates have been passed by councils to the Treasury so that the sum can be redistributed to more than 300 local authorities in England as part of a £30 billion annual central grant. Under this system there is no incentive for councils to attract business, and in some cases it can cost local authorities more, as they have to fund infrastructure for new developments.
P&G claims that the bottle shape and overall product appearance of Luhns’ dish detergent products are an exact copy of P&G’s Fairy Hand Dish Washing liquids, which are distributed in the European market a paper reports.
Northern-based sofa retailer CSL has defied the retail gloom and plans to expand into Thurrock after reporting like for like sales growth of 6% in the nine weeks to 26 June. This month, Wigan based CSL will open its first store in the South East at Brent Cross Shopping Park in North West London. The store will be its first outside of the North and Midlands reports Property Week.
Inner east London, which includes Canary Wharf and the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Hackney, topped the list with the biggest gain in economic activity and a 236% house price increase over that decade. This compares with a 195% increase in average prices, from £56,018 to £165,430, in the slowest-growing areas such as Thurrock , Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Blackpool. The average house price in the 10 fastest-growing areas in 2008 was 61% higher than the average in the 10 locations with the lowest levels of activity.
SMALL businesses in Essex are being asked to think about taking on an apprentice as part of a drive to cut unemployment and boost skills across the five counties that make up two Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas – the New Anglia LEP (Norfolk and Suffolk) and the East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock LEP.
First Parenting is pleased to announce the first of their: '"Back to You!" Careers and Recruiting Events to be held at Park Inn Hotel, North Stifford.
This conference marks the launch of the recruitment side of their business, that links their clients, professional mothers with children under 12 years old looking to return to work with leading employers, because to these women 'parenting comes first.'
In a black tie ceremony with around 600 entrants and presented by Natasha Kaplinsky the event showcased the best companies in Essex. Their award for innovation put them up against some stiff competition but in the end all the hard work and time spent on developing the Mobile Explorer over the years paid off for Matt Harris and the team.
Caroline Thomas from Sales Scene knows exactly how you feel and so organised a Thurrock Jelly: an event where individuals can come together to discuss, brainstorm and develop new alliances. YT has noted with interest the number of people who have cropped up in the borough proclaiming to be "Social Media" experts. We suspect they got the title out of a christmas cracker! Caroline however, is the real mccoy, and with years of experience in sales can help you traverse a number of rocky marketing paths.
IF THERE was ever evidence that the regeneration agenda was turning from "idealisation to realisation" the it was the gathering this week of the great and the good to see the first turning of the turf for the National Skills Academy in Purfleet.
