Today (1 October) occupational health providers Abermed is to open a new clinic in one of Norwich’s busiest business areas.
The clinic will be open for business at the Norwich Research Park where staff will provide a full range of occupational health services including offshore medicals, drug and alcohol screening and travel health advice and vaccinations.
Abermed is part of the International SOS group of companies and Ross Haworth, Abermed/International SOS’ General Manager, Medical Services for Northern Europe said: “We are delighted to be part of a thriving science and innovation business park that ensures Norwich is at the heart of research and scientific excellence. Abermed has a strong presence in Norwich and the new centre only emphasises our reputation as a premium provider of occupational health services.”
Staffed by an experienced clinical team, the Norwich Abermed unit will also offer health surveillance, medical assessments, sickness absence and rehabilitation and offshore medicals among other occupational health services.
Abermed’s national expansion was further emphasised today with a refurbished clinic opening in Edinburgh.
Strategic, digital and offline marketing experts, Full Mix Marketing, have begun the new year with another strong addition to their team as they plan to build on their 2017 success.
The Future50 recognised agency have welcomed Sarah Waterhouse as their latest Marketing Executive to help with the expanding portfolio of clients they’re helping to grow through marketing.
“We’re delighted to have Sarah and her skills onboard” says Sarah West, Managing Director. “We’re building a business packed full of diverse talents and Sarah is a key part with her strengths in copy writing and experience in strategic and digital marketing.”
A graduate of English, Sarah Waterhouse joins the firm from the UEA where she marketed their careers service to over 17,000 students. In her new role, she’ll help with the development and delivery of client’s marketing plans, as well as taking key responsibility for specific customers.
“It’s great to join a team so dedicated to their clients” says Sarah Waterhouse. “Too often marketing agencies focus on providing activity rather than delivering the methods and messages that create success. It’s rewarding to be working in an environment so focused on delivering results”.
Sarah’s addition marks the end of a highly successful year for the agency and the beginning of ambitious plans for 2018. “2017 was great” recalls Sarah West, Managing Director of Full Mix Marketing. “We took on some superb staff, moved to larger offices and won some fantastic clients, often against tough competition. Having Sarah further boost our team is the perfect way to start a year in which we intend to work tirelessly to ensure we, and our clients, continue to grow”.
Full Mix Marketing provide all the strategic, digital and offline marketing businesses need, ranging from single elements like advertising and social media, through to becoming a company’s fully outsourced marketing department. In 2017, they clients in sectors including manufacturing, engineering, IT, professional services and logistics. In December, they were announced as one of the Future50 businesses to watch in Norfolk and Suffolk.
More details about Full Mix Marketing can be found at www.fullmixmarketing.co.uk
New flights and holidays to Dalaman for East Anglia holidaymakers TUI adds Dalaman, Turkey to summer programme from Norwich Airport TUI (formerly Thomson) the UK’s largest holiday brand, has today announced a new route to Dalaman, Turkey for summer 2018 operating out of Norwich Airport. Holidaymakers from East Anglia will now have even more choice when it comes to booking a summer holiday, with TUI adding a new weekly flight to Dalaman. Flights start in May 2018 and will operate every Saturday. The decision to add Dalaman to the network is part of the holiday company’s plans to offer as much choice as possible, ensuring customers across the UK can fly from their local airport and stay at the best hotels TUI has to offer. As well as new flights to Dalaman residents from in and around East Anglia now have a wide choice of destinations to choose from when booking their holidays this summer with another new route to Heraklion in Greece already on sale. Karen Switzer, Director of Aviation Planning for TUI UK & Ireland, said: “We are delighted to be adding Dalaman to our programme from Norwich Airport for summer 2018. We will be flying to two new destinations this summer with the addition of Dalaman and Heraklion to the network. In total we have 10 destinations for customers to choose from when booking their holidays from Norwich Airport. Holidaymakers in East Anglia now have wider access than ever before to our diverse collection of destinations and hotel concepts.” Richard Pace, Managing Director of Norwich Airport said: “We are delighted TUI has taken the decision to add Dalaman, Turkey to their summer programme from Norwich Airport increasing the range of destinations available for 2018.”
Peerless Plastics and Coatings are one of the leading lights in applying protective hard coatings to plastics.
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Abate Pest Management, based in Morley St Botolph near Wymondham has recently been supported by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, which is partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
Abate who predominately works with commercial businesses, has been growing throughout the Eastern region with advanced service work and specific projects such as the bird proofing of buildings.
A grant was awarded to support the purchase of a new trailer for a 9 metre scaffolding tower which has resulted in a better service being offered to customers. Managing Director Jon Blake said: “Getting equipment to a job at the right time is vital so it doesn’t hold up the schedule and cause client disruption. Now we have a trailer with the tower, we are totally in control.” In addition, following the expansion of the Head Office last year, a new CCTV system has also been purchased and installed thanks to the scheme.
Jon continued, “It was really nice to receive expert advice from the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. The grant has helped us with the continued growth of the business.”
According to Ibis World, Pest Control is valued at over £320m per year in the UK. More and more companies are being proactive in the prevention of pests due to the issues rodents, insects and birds cause.
Abate Pest Management offer free surveys and can be contacted on 0800 980 9767 or via their website.
Flagship Group Chief Executive David McQuade has said goodbye to his beard in aid of The Helping Harry Trust. After one year of growth, the impressive facial hair has been replaced with a “almost” clean-shaven face. The action was live streamed from the @_FlagshipGroup twitter account and will also be available via www.flagship-group.co.uk. Although many people liked David’s hairy look, equally as many are pleased to see his face once again – especially his wife and family. The Helping Harry Trust was set up to support two year old Harry Charlesworth. Harry suffered strokes prior to being born which left him with severe brain damage. As a result, Harry has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, breathing difficulties and is tube fed. David said: “I’m delighted to be able to do something for such a worthy cause. Harry is a brave boy indeed. Any money raised will help Harry get the essential equipment, treatment and care he needs to have the best future possible.” Harry’s mum Hayley said: “We have been overwhelmed by the amount of support we have received for Harry and delighted David has decided to raise money for our cause. Despite the challenges Harry faces, he is such a happy little boy and as a family we are still coming to terms with this new reality but we are growing stronger and more resilient each day.” To sponsor David and support The Helping Harry Trust please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/2ptcczw including the reference: DAVID-BEARD. The “beard off” has also marked the start of Flagship Group’s 2018 Charity League where teams across the business will raise money carrying out various activities for their chosen charity throughout the year.
Award-winning PR agency Lexia Media,which hasoffices in both Norfolk and Suffolk, is celebrating a very successful summer which has seen the team win six new clients.
The agency was chosen after a competitive tender process to run the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust ‘Wellbeing Wednesday’ event this October.
It has also been selected by New Anglia LEP to handle the event management and PR for their upcoming conference and Top 100 event, taking place at Wherstead Park on 22nd October.
The team has been taken on a retained contract by UKTI (East) to handle all PR and case study writing.
Other client wins include national recruitment agency Jark, the Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre, and local GP surgery Stowhealth, which has commissioned the Lexia team to provide a library of patient information videos.
Deborah Watson, of Lexia Media, said: “We are delighted to have been taken on to provide PR and event management services for both New Anglia and the new Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust which strengthens our position as a pan-county agency. The work with Stowhealth also adds to our growing portfolio of health clients. The team are looking forward to a busy autumn and winter period.”
AFI KLM E&M subsidiary is delighted to announce the signing of airframe maintenance contract for 2018 with West Atlantic UK Limited.
A European leader in the regional jets & narrow body aircraft market and having an internationally acknowledged expertise on the Boeing 737, Embraer 170/190, BAe146/Avro RJ, Fokker 70/100 & Airbus A320 Family, KLM UK Engineering is delighted to confirm its contract with West Atlantic UK Limited.
KLM UK Engineering will commence airframe maintenance checks with West Atlantic UK Limited on their Boeing 737 Freighter fleet in January 2018.
Ian Bartholomew, Director Business Development & Sales commented “We are deligthed to have been selected by West Atlantic UK Limited to carryout their heavy maintenance checks in 2018. We have been supporting West Atlantic UK Limited for a number of years and look forward to further developing our relationship”.
Philip Law, Technical Director West Atlantic UK Ltd – “Having been a customer of KLM UK Engineering’s for a number of years, we are very pleased to reach an agreement regarding our forthcoming heavy maintenance programme. We look forward to this being the start of a long-term relationship with respect to the on-going heavy maintenance support of our expanding fleet of Boeing aircraft”.
About West Atlantic UK Ltd
West Atlantic UK Ltd is part of the West Atlantic group which is one of the largest European cargo operators with customers throughout EU. The UK airline operates a fleet of 18 x 737-300 & 400 freighter aircraft and is the launch customer for the 737-800BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter) with the first of four aircraft arriving early in 2018.
About KLM UK Engineering
KLM UK Engineering Limited is a leading regional aircraft and narrow body MRO, wholly owned by KLM and member of the AFI KLM E&M Network. Services include base maintenance, line maintenance, technical training and disassembly/recycling of Boeing 737’s, Airbus A320’s, Fokker 70/100, BAe146/Avro RJ’s and Embraer E170/190. KLM UK Engineering has been based at Norwich International Airport for 40 years and employs 380 people, plus has a complete network of UK line stations. KLM UK Engineering prides itself on having an experienced and skilled work force, delivering a superior service and high quality product at a competitive price whilst being enhanced with the deployment of Lean Six Sigma throughout.
The technical training college has been in operation for over 30 years, and in this time has directly trained staff and successfully run an in-house apprenticeship scheme. It is currently offering a virtual learning environment product for EASA licenses as well as several Airworthiness courses. KLMUKE is promoting these to the market, both for commercial and military operations. The college has been working with universities & colleges to deliver a foundation course in aircraft engineering & BSc Hons Aircraft Engineering and is part of the new International Aviation Academy – Norwich, which opened in April 2017.
At Tudor Lodge Consultants, we are hugely proud to announce that we are now working with the brand new, regulated lending platform Stepstone Credit. Stepstone is an innovative way of using short term credit via online and mobile application use. Unlike traditional and existing payday and short-term credit options, Stepstone is a credit facility as opposed to a loan. This means that users of their service apply for a credit facility of up to £500 and are only required to pay back what is actually used.
Additionally, because they use bank scrape technology that, with the borrower’s permission lets Stepstone view 3 months of bank transactions, one’s financial past doesn’t dictate their future. Borrowers who are financially sound, but may have a CCJ or small grey area on their credit history are not automatically rejected as with other lenders, as Stepstone looks at overall affordability rather than rudimentary credit pasts.
Also, due to its nature, Stepstone can be used to improve credit ratings by demonstrating responsible borrowing; something looked upon very favourably by credit providers. However, Stepstone have previously had no online presence and have therefore not been found online at all.
What We Are Doing
Unique to Stepstone as a credit provider, is their use of ‘bank scrape’ technology, making for more accurate lending decisions. For example, someone may take out a facility of £500, yet only spend £200. In such cases, the borrower would only repay the £200 plus interest, with the remaining £300 there for as and when they need it. We have been working with the development team at Stepstone Credit to create a website that is fit for purpose and fully functional and discoverable by potential users online.
Initially, we carried out the ‘discovery’ phase of the project, researching what other short term lenders are around in the UK and which search terms are being targeted through Google Search. Having compiled a comprehensive list of terms and targets for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) targeting, our content team set about planning a range of landing pages; rich with content and engaging information for users and online customers.
Further to the landing pages produced, we have created and implemented a number of additional content pages; fully SEO-compliant to help increase Stepstone’s online rankings.
We have also updated the website code, including that of their Schema mark up to allow for efficient and accurate crawling of the Stepstone website by search engines. Fully optimised and Google friendly meta data has also been implemented throughout the website on all pages. We are also beginning a focused link building and online PR strategy to push out Stepstone’s product and brand to increased numbers of users.
We also continue to work very closely with Stepstone Credit’s development and online design teams to ensure the website in all areas is kept up to date and fully optimised for online and search engines alike.
What We Have Achieved
In the short time since commencing our work with Stepstone, we have seen them climb online for many terms including some highly competitive terms such as ‘short term loans’ and ‘payday loan alternative’ amongst other, hugely competitive terms. We are also seeing increased in brand related terms for Stepstone, allowing returning users to find and engage with this exciting product and brand.
We look forward to progressing further into 2018 with the team at Stepstone Credit.
The Eastern region’s only world-class commercial data centre has been chosen as one of the 50 most exciting and promising businesses in Norfolk and Suffolk to watch over coming years.
Norwich-based MIGSOLV have joined the Future50 list of bold and bright businesses chosen by local publishers Archant and sponsors including Barclays, the UEA and Lovewell Blake.
“This is great recognition for our whole team” says David Manning, MIGSOLV’s Managing Director. “They’ve worked hard to deliver a first-class service, allowing our customers to achieve their own goals, whilst we protect their data. It’s a well-deserve accolade for everyone.”
MIGSOLV’s Gatehouse data centre in Norwich is the region’s only purpose-built commercial data centre, providing space, power, cooling and physical security for organisation’s computer servers and IT equipment. Renovated at a cost of £12 million in 2012, it helps businesses increase their resilience by protecting their data against threats including terrorism, power failure and extreme weather.
The Future50 list details companies large and small who stand out as the most innovative and ambitious in the region. Those on the list will gain access to business support and become part of an exclusive group of businesses aiming to help each other succeed. MIGSOLV joins a number of digital and creative businesses demonstrating the growing technology sector in Norwich and Norfolk.
“As well as technology businesses, our region is home to companies of all types simply using IT to do what they do better” adds David. “We give their data the safest and most flexible home whilst they get on with being successful and contributing to the local economy.”
Primarily used for colocation, the data centre is home to computer servers and hardware owned by businesses themselves. As part of MIGSOLV’s 2018 plans, they are looking to launch a range of managed services providing ‘pay-as-you-go’ data storage so smaller businesses can protect and grow their data with ease.
“Future50 is a great opportunity to gain exposure and showcase what businesses in the East can do” concludes David. “As our role is to protect business’s critical data, we’re looking forward to helping ambitious businesses both on and outside Future50 to realise their own goals with peace-of-mind.”
All of the team at Tudor Lodge Consultants including our content, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), design and development teams are pleased to announce our partnership and work with the exciting team at Secured Loans and their website. We are working across their website, lead generation and digital marketing, with a large emphasis being placed upon their SEO and organic search results; targeting new and existing audiences and search traffic for this established website and brand.
Established and set up online in 2001, Secured Loans provides applicants the chance to acquire secured loans against property and other higher value assets at rates starting from as little as 5.25% APR. With hefty amounts of experience in the finance world and offline marketing, Secured Loans saw an opportunity to move into the online space and has been working with our various teams at Tudor Lodge Consultants for the last 6 months.
The Online Challenges Faced
Although the Secured Loans website has been live for over 15 years, having gone live and remained so since 2001, there has been very little work performed on the site and there has been no digital marketing around the brand or its products. Although over the years Google has given increased credence to domains that demonstrate a greater degree of establishment and permanency, algorithms have shifted from being purely technical to focusing on the user journey and experience.
This has left an otherwise successful and exciting brand languishing much lower down Google than it ought to be; with Secured Loans starting from around page 10 for the key term ‘secured loans.’
Lying lowly on Google, we identified a number of issues and outstanding factors that needed addressing for the website and this has included taking into account numerous important SEO ranking factors such as:
· How the site is crawled [read] by Google and other search engines
· How users interact with the site
· The application processes
· Link profiles; both internal and external
· Content opportunities to address effectively
What we Have Done So Far
In the short time we have been working with the team at Secured Loans, we have carried out various crucial SEO actions to be able to ensure the site can rank properly and effectively. Firstly, we attended to the design and layout o f the site, using our talented design and development teams. We overhauled the homepage, landing page templates and contact forms. This has allowed Secured Loans to boast a much-improved look and feel. We have also overhauled and improved the branding on the site, making it much clearer who the brand is, what exactly it does and the brand message required.
We have also paid specific attention to the meta data which is one of the first factors that Google assesses when analysing a site. Through thorough keyword and competitor research, we identified the areas within the secured loans and finance industry where Secured Loans are best suited and where their core services lie. This has lead to their main terms of ‘secured loans’ climbing 4 to 5 pages in the first 6 months alone, which it is continuing to do on a weekly and monthly basis.
Further to the research and competitor analyses, we have also created the templates, designs and content for landing pages for the site. These pages are specifically designed to rank highly on Google and other search engines to capture more relevant users. Upon ‘landing’ on the pages, users are then taken through the ‘funnel’ and their journey, being guided to the end-point; the contact point.
We have also been undertaking a strong, targeted and focused approach with regards to the link profile and online PR of the brand and website, being featured in various well-known online publications and websites to the benefit of the Secured Loans website.
With great progress already made and with many more exciting developments and pieces of content and work to come, we are very excited for the future of Secured Loans and we cant wait to see what 2018 holds in store for this promising and exciting brand and website.
Warehouses can be very busy places, especially if they operate a cross dock operation where goods are coming in throughout the day and sorted for outgoing distribution or for future storage. With this type of logistics operation, doors are generally open and closed throughout the day. This is when warehouses are likely to see the introduction of birds leading to harbouring and nesting. You need a solution to prevent this happening, especially if you are dealing with product within the food chain.
Over the Christmas period, Abate Pest Management sent a team of technicians to Bretts Transport near Wisbech to proof a warehouse that is used for cross docking to help reduce the risk of the sparrows looking to harbour and nest up close to stored foodstuffs.
The team installed sparrow netting using a framework of steel wire fixings, strainers, clips and guide brackets to hold approximately 2400 square metres of netting. Sparrows can often live within the buildings where they may contaminate products with faecal and nest materials.
The new installed bird solution will help Bretts Transport comply to BRC standards and demonstrate that they are showing a pro-active approach to pest control to prevent the risk of encountering any problems before they arise.
Bretts Transport near Wisbech is a certified in BRC Global standards for storage and distribution. The company is now a nationally recognised name specialising in ambient deliveries to the retail, food service and food manufacturing sectors, typically delivering in excess of 4000 tons of canned food and other grocery products along with 5000 pallets of food grade packaging each week.
If you require any help with bird proofing give Abate a call on 0800 980 9767 or visit their pest control website at https://www.abateltd.co.uk