South West
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Hall to open £17.5m Gloucestershire greenfield plant
Hall Engineering is opening a £17.5m greenfield factory in Gloucestershire in a joint venture with Takao Kinzoku Kogyu. It is hoped the project will encourage car manufacturers to outsource body…
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Ushers seeks to raise £40m in floatation
Ushers wants to raise about £40m to cut its £68m debts, expand its pubs and possibly its brewery. The Trowbridge-based company, in the West Country, could earn the directors profits…
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Currys pays record rent for Cribbs Causeway shed as Asda unveils plans for new superstore
Electrical retailer Currys is understood to have paid a record rent for the former Homebase units at Prudential’s Cribbs Causeway retail warehouse park in north Bristol.
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AT Mays links with ARTAC WorldChoice to form UK’s largest travel agency
AT Mays has linked with ARTAC WorldChoice. The deal doubles A Mays’ distribution network. The partnership crates the UK’s largest travel agency with 1,000 outlets.
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Salmon Harvester buys Gloucester retail warehouse for £3.8m
Salmon Harvester has paid Shell Pensions Trust £3.8m for a retail warehouse let to Homebase in St Oswalds Road, Gloucester. Homebase occupies the 3,558 sq m (38,259 sq ft) building…
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Unigate to close St Ivel factory at St Erth
Unigate is closing its St Ivel factory at St Erth. Production will be transferred to other factories in Somerset and Devon.
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Forest rejects Anderson £13m bid as Burford boss enters fray
Nottingham Forest football club sareholders have rejected a £13m bid from the Sandy Anderson Consortium. Competitor bids have come from Grant Bovey, chief executive of Watershed Pictures, with £20m bid…
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Exclusive Stadco shortlists Arlington site for huge new factory
Manufacturing company Stadco has shortlisted two sites for a huge new factory in the south west. It is looking at 7ha (15 acres) at Arlington’s 113ha (280 acre) site at…
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Storm over Honda’s plans for car depot in rural Wiltshire
Honda is about to find itself in the centre of an environmental storm. It has applied to build a car depot on 20.62ha (51 acres) on the outskirts of Warminster…
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Arcadian buys Chilston Park for £4.4m
Arcadian has bought Chilston Park, which owns Chilston Park Hotel, a 38-bedroom hotel near Leeds Castle, in Kent for £4.4m. It is being developed into a 53-room hotel with increased…
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Exclusive Sun Life could redevelop 180,000 sq ft in Bristol
Sun Life Group could redevelop 16,722 sq m (180,000 sq ft) of offices in Bristol city centre following the company’s move to a new headquarters.
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Haslemere buys industrial and sells offices.
A Rodamco UK subsidiary, advised by asset management arm Haslemere Estates, has paid Shaftesbury £8.04m for Eastern Avenue Industrial Esate in Gloucester as part of a strategy to invest in…