News in brief
‘Educaterers’ win business of the year
Midlands-based school caterers, Educaterers, have brought the Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA) ‘Business of the Year’ Award home to Warwickshire.
https://news.warwickshire.gov.uk/blog/2019/07/18/warwickshires-educaterers-win-business-of-the-year/
Alcester based med-tech firm raises £38m
A Warwickshire medical technology company has raised £38m in a first closing of its series C funding round.
Quanta Dialysis Technologies is developing a personal haemodialysis system (SC+) for patient use in the clinic and at home.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/medical-tech-firm-raises-38m
Turnover jumps £150m at tech giant
Turnover jumped by almost £150m at a technology giant which counts Airbus, BT and Stagecoach among its clients during its latest financial year, newly filed accounts have revealed.
Warwick-based Telent, which provides services to the defence, rail, traffic and public safety sectors, has posted a turnover of £542.4m for the year to 31 March 2019, up from £393.9m in the prior 12 months.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/turnover-jumps-150m-at-tech-giant
Mobile gaming firm moves to new base
A Warwickshire mobile gaming company launched by one of the founders of Codemasters has moved into new 10,000 sq ft premises
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/mobile-gaming-firm-relocates-to-new-base
Warwickshire surveillance company wins multi-million-pound contract
Warwickshire-based surveillance technology company Synectics has been awarded a multimillion-euro contract by a Berlin business.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/multimillion-euro-contract-win-for-synectics
Nuneaton & Bedworth set to get 1500 jobs in new development
A total of 1,500 full-time jobs could be created in Warwickshire after plans for a new industrial and storage and distribution park were recommended for approval. The site is owned by an estate behind a country house founded as a monastery in Henry II's reign.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/green-light-tipped-for-1500-job-creating-development
Major investment secured by craft beer maker
A businessman whose backing helped establish Sipsmiths Gin as a major brand has invested in a Warwickshire entrepreneur’s craft beer.
Rupert Hambro, the former chairman of Hambros Bank and Sipsmiths, has invested in a shareholding in Empress Ale which was created by Leamington Spa-based businessman Surj Virk in 2016.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/major-investment-secured-by-craft-beer-maker
Aldi’s job-creating expansion plans tipped for go-ahead
A total of 865 jobs could be created at supermarket giant Aldi's UK headquarters in Warwickshire after plans for new offices and a warehouse were recommended for approval.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/aldis-job-creating-expansion-plans-tipped-for-go-ahead
Return of the milkman in Bedworth
Business is booming at a Bedworth dairy thanks to people moving away from plastic.
Luckett’s Dairy has seen customer numbers soar as the anti-plastic campaign has gathered pace.
Based at Weston Lawns Farm, the business was founded just a few years ago by Bill Luckett.
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/milkman-making-comeback-16552356
Warwickshire solar farm gets go-ahead
A total of 80 acres of land is to be used to house a new solar farm after the proposal was given the go-ahead.
Land at Streetfields Farm, Watling Street, Churchover, Warwickshire has been earmarked for the scheme which will be in place for at least 35 years.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/go-ahead-for-80-acre-solar-farm
UK’s first CAV multi-storey car park gets underway in Nuneaton
Work is underway on the UK's first connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) parking facility in Nuneaton.
Trusted Autonomous Parking (Park-IT) is being delivered by global engineering firm Horiba Mira, in partnership with Coventry University.
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/work-on-uks-first-multi-storey-car-park-for-cav-vehicles-underway
Warwickshire gets plastic-free Aldi
Aldi will be trialling some of its plastic-free products including its luxury toilet paper wrapped in paper rather than non-recyclable plastic.
https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/people/aldi-to-trial-plastic-free-initiative-in-warwickshire-stores-1-8984239