Electrical services company Drewlec has installed a specialist fire alarm system at a plating factory. The system was installed at the Twickenham Plating Group premises in Poole over two weeks.
After a 1m project for a South Korean company, a Devon-based thermal engineering company are anticipating staffing expansion. The company, GRE, has been developing systems for the South Korean smart energy market, and they have forward orders valued at 2m. Currently they employ 22 people, and after their success they are hoping to increase this.
Sponge, a digital learning and technology company with a Plymouth HQ, has opened a new office in Bristol. The office at CityPoint in Temple Gate is the fifth location for Plymouth-headquartered Sponge, and its second in the South West. As part of its ongoing expansion, Sponge is planning to increase employee numbers to 300 within the next five years and to open more offices in Europe and in the US. Sponge’s clients i
A report from the HR website XpertHR shows that median sickness absence rates in the South-West were 2.8% in 2017, which is joint with the North-West and only beaten by Wales at 3%. (The others were the North East and Scotland jointly with 2.5%, South East at 2.3% and London at 2%.) Absence rates are highest in large organisations and in the public sector. The survey was based on responses from 287 organisations with a combined workforce of 398,453 employees.
Companies that are relocating in order to enable further business and staff growth should also take the time to review their existing time and attendance arrangements, and decide whether they are still suitable for new premises – or whether an upgrade might be indeed required.
A private healthcare company has announced plans to build a new 54-bed mental healthcare facility on the site of a school in Exeter, a news report has been able to reveal.
Plans for building a 21-storey student block and hotel in Plymouth have been given the green light by the city’s council, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
Plans for building a 340 apartment scheme in Bedminster near Bristol have been announced by a well-known property developer, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
A local authority has revealed plans to build 37 homes on a 3.5-acre plot of land located very close to the city centre, a news report in the local media has revealed.
Plans for building 41 new homes on a development near Weston-super-Mare are set to receive the green light after council officers recommended its approval, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
