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“More than 900 workers applied for voluntary redundancy after the company was put into administration by the High Court in Dublin in March.”
“The company is shedding 900 staff at locations on both sides of the border including Navan, Cavan and Dublin.”
“In Northern Ireland 200 jobs are to go at Enniskillen and Derrylin.”
“On Monday the company also confirmed that Macquarie Merchant Bank has been appointed to manage the sale of Quinn Insurance Limited.”
“The Quinn Group has agreed that Quinn-healthcare will also be sold as part of this process.”
“Quinn Insurance Ltd can confirm that following the suspension of the performance related bonus schemes in April all schemes across all employee levels are being reintroduced from 1st July 2010.”
“His dismissal in February last year was triggered by this and a 'failure to perform his duties', according to the company.”
“Mr Innes, who had almost a decade's service with the energy supplier, was awarded £38,068 in compensation.”
“In Scotland, electricity generation will reach a cliff-edge in the next 10 to 20 years, when all major power stations are set to close.”
“In Scotland, electricity generation will reach a cliff-edge in the next 10 to 20 years, when all major power stations are set to close”
“Economic growth has been the stated top priority of the last two devolved Scottish administrations”
“Stancombe Quarry, run by Tarmac, produces limestone which is used for concrete, building blocks and asphalt.”
“We currently know that women are employed in only 1 in 5 of the top jobs in sport.”
“Chair of the organising committee Lord Coe has said that 'extraordinary progress' has been made and preparations are within budget and ahead of schedule.”
“create 185 jobs over three years”
“has taken on 39 staff so far”
“there were an estimated 24m people in the UK without income protection insurance in the UK, despite one-in-six being at risk of long-term incapacity due to illness or injury”
“An insurance firm says it hopes to create 185 jobs over three years when it begins operating from its Cardiff base this week.”
“The firm, which has taken on 39 staff so far, is backed by the assembly government's Single Investment Fund.”
“It is particularly good news to hear the company has already taken on a significant number of staff and plans to create many more well-paid and highly-skilled jobs in the future.”
“Pure Options said there were an estimated 24m people in the UK without income protection insurance in the UK, despite one-in-six being at risk of long-term incapacity due to illness or injury.”
“Two Nottinghamshire pubs face temporary closure after serving a 15-year-old who later killed a man nearby.”
“The plans were to build 552 modernist flats on the 12.8-acre site, which the Qatari Diar CPC consortium bought for £959m.”
“Lord Grabiner QC, for Christian Candy, said the Qatari Diar would have had to pay £81m to Mr Candy's company CPC for breaching the contract if it was revealed that the application was withdrawn because of the Emir's meeting with Prince Cha…”
“Meanwhile, franchise systems in countries such as Germany and Sweden have reportedly led to cost reductions of between 20% and 40%, it found.”
“Waste management company Viridor wanted to build the £7m site in Portobello.”
“Viridor has committed to the challenge by announcing investment of up to £800m in Scotland over the next five years.”
“It includes a £500,000 upgrade of the town centre and the £130m Parkway development, involving 64 new shops, a department store and new homes.”
“The provisional liquidator is very happy to meet with the consortium to listen to its proposals.”
“He would not be drawn on speculation there would be cuts of at least 20% at Ofcom.”
“a national superfast network could add £18bn to the GDP and create at least 60,000 new jobs.”
“This comes after more than 100 jobs were lost when Alford based engineering firm Finnveden closed in March.”
“Dozens of jobs have also gone at Horncastle clothing manufacturer Tayberry and at Skegness ball-bearing factory Minebea in the past year.”
“It is very difficult to see industry of that type coming back into the area as they were there for historical reasons. There are some opportunities for engineering on which we can piggy-back but we need to be realistic that we are not goin…”
“What I am pleased about is so many of the people from Finnveden have bitten the bullet and gone off on their own as electricians, painters and so on.”
“A couple of the local shops are being redecorated, so somebody is going to have a go and reopen.”
“The business survey index (BSI) of sentiment at large producers rose to 10 in the April-to-June period, from 4.3 in the previous quarter, a joint survey by the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet Office's Economic and Social Research Insti…”
“"Sentiment is gradually improving both for underlying conditions and the outlook," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist for the Norinchukin Research Institute.”
“Strong demand from Asia has meant that, so far at least, demand for Japanese exports has recovered despite weakness in other markets such as Europe and the US.”
“the amount of carbon dioxide saved by the same-day collections was the equivalent of planting 500 trees a year.”
“cost it more than £1m.”
“more than 1,000 flights had to be grounded in April and May.”
“about 63,000 passengers were affected at East Midlands Airport.”
“passenger traffic was down 31%.”
“East Midlands Airport has revealed flight cancellations caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud cost it more than £1m.”
“Brian Conway, the Castle Donington airport's head of external affairs, said more than 1,000 flights had to be grounded in April and May.”
“Mr Conway said about 63,000 passengers were affected at East Midlands Airport.”
“Most of the disruption was caused through April, so when we look at the figures compared with the previous year - passenger traffic was down 31%.”
“Mr Conway said there should be a compensation deal for all European countries affected. "The compensation we're looking for is a Europe-wide package," he said.”
“Mr Obama had previously visited Louisiana on three occasions.”
“This is Mr Obama's fourth visit to the oil-affected area.”
“BP saw its shares fall by some 9% in afternoon trading in London.”
“Earlier, BP said the cost of cleaning up the oil spillage had risen to $1.6bn (£1bn).”
“BP placed a containment cap on its damaged oil well earlier this month; by last week, it was collecting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day.”
“It is estimated that some 40,000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) of oil a day might have been gushing out before the well was capped.”
“The engineering firm Weir Group is to buy a Malaysian company for £138m.”
“Under the deal, the Glasgow-based company will assume £19m of debt but it said it would start paying for itself by 2011.”
“Weir Group employs 9,000 people worldwide mostly in the mining and oil and gas sectors.”
“Linatex's established manufacturing capability, particularly in Malaysia and China, and its extensive customer network, provides an excellent platform for growth.”
“A £1m plan to redevelop a Dumfries and Galloway town hall has secured national backing.”
“Dumfries and Galloway Council agreed to transfer the hall to the trust for £1 last year.”
“In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the successful Jimmy Dean Meat Company.”
“sold the company in 1984 to Sara Lee Foods but continued to be its chairman and TV spokesperson.”
“Mo Ibrahim set up the $5m (£3m) prize for African ex‑leaders to encourage good governance on the continent.”
“The winners receive $5m over 10 years, and then $200,000 a year for life.”
“Botswana's former President Festus Mogae won the prize in 2008 after two terms at the helm of one of Africa's least corrupt and most prosperous nations.”
“Charles Lambie has donated £250,000 to keep Canterbury's Westgate Tower Museum open”
“I bought the adjoining building, which is an old jail, several years before.”
“The investment would be used to improve access to the museum and jail and provide a cafe”
“in the hope that visitor numbers would then be boosted enough to stop the attraction from losing any more money”
“All the shirts were laundered free of charge by Sunlight Laundry at Bishop Auckland in County Durham.”
“They will be demolished and replaced by 377 houses and apartments.”
“20% of which will be affordable homes.”
“Construction work is due to start in October and is expected to be completed by 2018.”
“Resolution, which wants to become the UK's biggest provider of life insurance, said it hoped to be able to announce an agreed deal this month.”
“If the sale went ahead, Axa would keep its other UK businesses - Wealth Management and Direct Protection.”
“In its statement, Resolution said the deal would lead to cost savings, particularly in the areas of sales and marketing and support costs.”
“new orders contracting for the 27th consecutive month and at their sharpest rate since March 2009.”
“with the rate of inflation accelerating to the most marked in nineteen months.”
“Majestic bought Lay & Wheeler in March of last year”
“Since last year, its customers can buy a minimum of six bottles, down from 12.”
“It added that the move to a six-bottle minimum purchase had seen the number of its customers rise by 54,000 to 472,000 across its 153 outlets.”
“Majestic also announced that chairman Simon Burke would be standing down in August after 10 years on the board.”
“The company plans to open a further 12 outlets during this financial year, with an eventual aim of expanding the group to 250 shops.”
“contracts worth £750,000 allocated locally.”
“They say this year alone would be worth about £1m to local businesses and over the next five years the event would bring 100,000 university students to Carmarthenshire.”
“Around 1,000 will be employed running the festival with 15.5 miles (25km) of security fencing erected around the stages, activities and campsites.”
“The project aims to place 350 students and graduates in businesses”
“The initiative aims to place 350 people with firms over the next three years.”
“The Business Trends survey from accountants BDO fell to 97 in May from 103.3 the previous month - the largest drop since the survey began.”
“The accountancy firm forecasts that economic growth will remain below an annualised 1% in the final three month of this year.”
“Government forecasts for growth in 2011 should now be between 1.5% and 2.5%, well below the 3% to 3.5% that the previous government estimated, the firm said.”
“BDO's survey is compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research and covers 11,000 companies from a range of industries.”
“Mr Goeldi, the manager of an engineering firm, was held along with Rachid Hamdani, who works for a construction company.”
“Now the Taiwanese company has said it will more than double the wages of staff by October.”
“has just been given a 30% pay increase, with a promise of a further 70% to come”
“Analysts believe the 30% hike alone will reduce company earnings by a fifth this year.”
“Officials there say they are one of 40 lingerie firms in the city of Foshan.”
“The very fact that Foxconn needs to raise wages by 70% to stabilise its workforce, shows how low paid the workers were there," he says.”
“China's pay packets are on average still just a quarter of the size of those in Brazil for example.”
