Sam Metcalf

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Home / East Midlands / SMEs / Named and shamed – the East Midlands companies who failed to pay the minimum wage A host of East Midlands companies have been named and shamed after failing to pay some of their staff the minimum wage. The East Midlands workers affected are part of nearly 60,000 staff who have been left out of pocket and have been repaid over £7.4m, the Government has announced. The employers and businesses named today have since paid back what they owe to their staff and faced...

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Home / East Midlands / People / New Midlands commercial director at Willmott Dixon Contractor Willmott Dixon has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with Catherine Payne appointed as the new commercial director for the Midlands, succeeding Stephen Keach who is retiring after a 31-year career with the company. Keach joined Willmott Dixon as an assistant project surveyor in 1994 and progressed through the business, before being appointed to the board as a commercial director in 2008. He...

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Home / East Midlands / Property / March Developments launches major new industrial scheme March Developments, the company set up by Mark Bielby and Charles Smyth, has launched Swanwick Park, near Junction 28 of the M1. The scheme will be made up of build-to-suit industrial and warehouse units from 30,000 sq ft to 100,000 sq ft which will have 10/12 metre eaves, dock level and level access doors, PV ready frame, EV car parking spaces and good delivery/service yards. FHP Property Consultants...

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Home / East Midlands / Property / Property deal brings expansion for training firm Buxton Training Enterprises, a training provider supporting students primarily in Years 9 to 11, has expanded its operations with the acquisition of a new facility in Arnold, Nottingham. The expansion comes as part of a quick-fire property deal brokered by NG Chartered Surveyors. The company has moved into Unit 2 Catton Road, a refurbished industrial warehouse located next to its existing premises at Unit 4...

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Home / East Midlands / Retail / Frasers close to buying retailer in ‘significant distress’ Shirebrook-based Frasers Group is close to a full take-over of stricken Norwegian sportswear retailer XXL – but has admitted that the company was facing an uncertain future. Frasers Group, which owns Sports Direct, first revealed in March that it would make an offer for the remaining share in XXL that it didn’t own after it upped its stake past 30%. The new offer would see Frasers own 92% of the...