Councillor Gibbons with George Walsh-Waring
Export expansion
for Acorn
Acorn Stairlifts is increasing its export sales team
by almost 50 per cent in order to continue its
success and growth abroad.
Five new sales positions at the Steeton office
takes the export team to 16 to support the
company’s expansion into the markets of
Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Curator Helen Farrar, the inspiration behind the
exhibition, explained: “The aim is to promote
the Bradford College Textile Archive as valuable,
current, relevant design inspiration resource
across all arts disciplines, thus reaching a new,
wider audience.”
Acorn has won two export awards in the last two
years and just last month triumphed with a third,
taking Exporter of the Year at the Insider Media
‘Made in Yorkshire’ awards.
Since 2012, export revenues have doubled from
£35.5 million to £71 million. The company exports
over half of its stairlifts to more than 100 countries
worldwide.
Acorn’s group HR manager, Kate Gledhill, said:
“Acorn employs over 500 staff in the UK, most of
them here in West Yorkshire, and we are regularly
looking for new staff for the business.
"The fact that we are looking to increase our
multilingual export sales team so dramatically
demonstrates both our recent successes and also
our determination to export even more Acorn
Stairlifts to Europe.”
Top of the Shops
Bradford’s Lord Mayor
was on hand to help
celebrate the city’s new
shopping centre reach
its highest point during
construction recently.
Councillor Mike
Gibbons placed the
final bolt into a frame
around a lift-shaft,
which will serve the top
level of the car park.
Around 100 dignitaries,
journalists and
construction staff
gathered at the formal
topping out ceremony
to celebrate. The
scheme is on course
for completion in the
autumn.
Broadway shopping
centre in December
last year. Development
director Duncan Bower
said that the scheme
was the biggest retail
development on site in
the UK.
Developer Westfield
started work on its
35 is casino’s lucky number
CIT-sys
Napoleons Casino & Restaurant in Bradford
celebrated 35 years of business in October last year.
Complete IT Systems
announced at the end of
last year that, at the point
of filing its year seven
accounts, the company
showed a rise from
just under £9 million
turnover to £12 million
and a record profit of
£600,000.
Jane Dodd, general manager, said: “A lot has
changed in the last 35 years both on the gaming and
dining side, and we’re proud to still be going strong
and maintaining a firm place in Bradford’s leisure
offering.”
Anniversary rebrand
Bradford based Envirocare Technical Consultancy
Ltd, officially celebrated a new brand image with
clients and contacts in October. The lunch reception
was held in conjunction with the company’s 20th
anniversary celebrations at Bradford University’s
recently opened Re:Centre.
That’s rally
rather good!
The rebranding exercise came after a period of
expansion for the business, and will see the company,
now known as just Envirocare, implement a new
visual identity, tagline of ‘Your Industry Experts’, and
refreshed online presence to support its future plans,
evolution and growth.
The Peregrine Print Rally
took place as a support
event of the 11th annual
Roger Albert Clark
Rally. The event started
in Sunderland taking
in seven stages before
reaching the finish near
Carlisle.
Peregrine Print once
again sponsored the
Roger Albert Clark Rally
in November 2014.
A not so risky business
Online training provider, Virtual College has worked
closely with NHS England’s Safe Medication Practice
Team to develop its latest patient safety online
course, ‘Omitted and Delayed Medicines in Hospitals’.
This new addition will take the total number of its
courses in The National Patient Safety Suite to eight.
A further five safety courses are due for release
throughout the course of the year.
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BRADFORD MEMBERS
Pick
and
Mix
Bradford College Textile Archive has received
an Arts Council Grant for the Arts. The grant will
enable a group of 20 contemporary artists to
take inspiration from the Bradford College Textile
Archive collections and create new art works in
eclectic media. This will be for an exhibition to be
held in the Bradford College’s Dye House Gallery
in 2015.
Bradford
Chamber of
Commerce
The new works will be exhibited in the Dye House
Gallery alongside the original inspiration pieces.
Jane Vanroe
Royal link for Balbir
Stage Management
gets top billing
The Chairman of PEC Building Services, Balbir
Panesar, has been made a Deputy Lieutenant for
West Yorkshire.
Audio and lighting firm, The Stage Management
Company, worked w ]H