Profits for support and construction services group Interserve have jumped to more than £1.3bn following the acquisition of Rentokil’s facilities services division, a news report in the business media was able to reveal.
The company recorded strong organic growth, particularly due to the improving demand in the UK construction market.
A local council in Hampshire has managed to secure £1.3m in government funding for building in excess of 100 new affordable homes in the area, a news report in the local media was able to reveal.
One of the UK’s best-known restaurant chains has opened its first airport venue at at London Gatwick’s South Terminal, creating 135 new jobs in the process, a news report in the local business media was able to reveal.
The jobs created at Nando’s airport branch range from cashiers, grillers, assistant managers to a newly created Barista role.
The restaurant, which will be the first Nando’s to serve a new breakfast option, can seat up to 220 customers.
A new teaching and learning facility worth an estimated 30 million pounds is being built at Southampton Solent University’s East Park Terrace campus, a recent news report on the matter was able to reveal.
The building will include teaching and learning spaces, as well as new conference facilities and exhibition space that will also be available to local business and community groups. Construction group Interserve is the main contractor for the project.
A local business partnership in the South East of England has managed to strike a £46m growth deal with the UK government and will use the money in order to bolster the number of homes being built in the area, while also creating new jobs in the process.
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) has vowed to use the funds it has managed to secure as part of this deal to create 200,000 jobs and build 100,000 new homes.
Up to 100 highly skilled engineering jobs in Portsmouth have been secured after BAE Systems has been awarded a £70m contract for the maintenance of Royal Navy ships, a news report in the local business media was recently able to reveal.
The agreement will run from July 2014 until the end of November 2016 and will handle the support, maintenance and upgrade of Type 45 Destroyers at the base and on operations in the UK and globally.
Growth in the manufacturing sector across the South East could be held back by skills shortages, data published in the BDO’s latest “Employment Index” has suggested.
Plans for a new defence training college for the armed forces have been approved by defence minister Dr Andrew Murrison, with construction set to begin in late 2014, a recent news report in the local business media could reveal.
The £250m college of logistics, policing and administration will provide world-class facilities for the armed forces and will bring together the training for key support roles from each of the services onto one site for the first time.
A Maidstone-based childcare management services provider has managed to secure a six-figure loan under the government-backed Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFG) with the aim of further developing its business and creating more jobs in the process, a news report in the local media could reveal.
An independent hospital in Canbrook, Kent, is set to undergo a £45m redevelopment, with Hertfordshire-headquartered Willmott Dixon managing to win the bid for becoming the project’s main contractor, a news report in the local media could reveal.