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Caterers' recipe for success BUSINESS LIFE
Warwickshire firm Catermasters, a runner-up in last year's Evening Telegraph Business Awards, has made great strides forwards in the decade it has been trading. Business Editor ALISON WILLIAMS talked to the firm to discover its recipe for success The pair started Catermasters 10 years ago, with just themselves as staff. They had given up jobs as chefs in other contract catering firms. Even today, they still roll their sleeves up from time to time and get stuck in in the kitchens when they areshort-handed at a particular site. Caption: SWEET SUCCESS: Catermasters managing directors [Nigel Johnson] and [Richard Moody], who celebrated 10 years in business by taking a cake along to Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, with Adam Nousarka and nurse Jackie Moore
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LASER SHOW IS HOT STUFF BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 2001
People from Europe are already coming to Coventry to be trained at the salon which has been working with Italian laser removal equipment makers Depilase for the past 18 months. The couple are both medically trained, with Mrs Ward having been a nurse at Walsgrave Hospital and Mr Ward worked for 20 years in pathology departments at Walsgrave, Gulson and Coventry and Warwickshire hospitals. TO THE POINT: Going under the laser. Pictures: CHRIS RADBURN; SKILLED BUNCH: Jason Cowley, Depilase sales director, with (from left) [Stuart Ward] and Ann Ward, and trainee laser practitioners Eve Belton and Sinead Hinley, from Ireland
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JURY'S OUT ON ROVER BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 2001
It was feared job losses at Rover itself and the supply chain across Coventry, Warwickshire and the wider Midlands could top 20,000 as the shockwaves rippled out across the region. Land Rover became part of Ford's Premier Automotive Group alongside Coventry-based Jaguar. Nick Matthews, of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, said: \"From the point of view of Coventry and Warwickshire suppliers, it is good news in a sense in that both Jaguar and Land Rover seem to be doing quite well under Ford and Land Rover is looking tosell in America and Japan.
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NEW SHORT-TIME BLOW FOR MASSEY Union officials in crisis talks with bosses
HUNDREDS of workers at a Coventry factory were today dealt a massive blow when bosses told them they were going back to short- time working. It is feared that either a day or half a day a week will be chopped. Roger Maddison, regional officer for the AEEU engineering union, also confirmed the unions had been in talks with the company to encourage bosses to offer better early retirementpackages to some older workers to trim staff numbers and allow the remaining workforce to get back close to full- time hours. UK bosses were today holding meetings in Coventry with envoys from the American parent company.
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Jobs hard to fill in the bread line Baking industry in recruitment drive
Douglas Ross, divisional manager at [Barker Ross] at its office in Corporation Street, Coventry, said: \"Bakery is perceived as a craft, and the majority of young people who would perhaps be tempted to become bakers are probably more excited by the prospectof becoming the next 'naked chef'. \"The Coventry and Warwickshire area is teeming with sandwich factories and bakeries that all supply to major food retail outlets, satisfying the public's demand for pre-packed sandwiches and breads of a hundred varieties.\"
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Mail order firm on course for growth BUSINESS LIFE
Aims Direct, which was founded 10 years ago, has moved from the business park in Honiley, near Kenilworth, to Charter Avenue, Canley, Coventry. The move was only completed in the past month, with Mr Bannister's team choosing to move in December, traditionally its quietest month. But the end of 2000 turned out to be the firm's busiest invoicing month yet. JAMES BALFOUR; AIMING TO GROW: [Ray Bannister] (centre) with the firm's operations manager, Nicola Adams, and warehouse productions manager Adam Bannister.
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Firms learn that it pays to get matey
The bosses on the Bayton Road industrial estate are also taking the neighbourly concept further by adjusting their security cameras so they not only patrol their own premises, but sweep over neighbouring buildings to collectively work to reduce crime. About a dozen firms on the estate, where many companies have traditional heavy engineering, manufacturing and the automotive industry in common, are linked into the network, which was devised by environmental consultancy Pro Enviro, of Longford,Coventry.
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New frontier opens up for auto dealers Polish delegates seek suppliers
Isabella Moore, Chamber president who helped to host the visit, said: \"Through speaking to the Polish regional development agency, we discovered they were extremely keen to provide opportunities to automotive suppliers in the West Midlands. It was led by Mrs Moore, a native Polish speaker, Chamber director Nigel Gaynor and special projects officer Ajay Desai, as well as Rob Worrall from Coventry City Council. FORGING LINKS: Malcolm Vaughan (second left) and Ajay Desai (far right) outside the Chamber offices with Katowice delegates Andriej Braksator, Boguslaw Hajda, Krystyma Sulima Kurek and Pariusz Nowak Nova
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Learning firm sets up first UK training site Company invests pounds 1m in city project
A COVENTRY distance learning company which helps students from all over the world to achieve management qualifications is setting up its first UK training centre in the city. RDI has links with professional organisations and several UK universities to deliver its Professional Pathways learning programmes. It has around 70 staff worldwide after setting up its first learning and support centre in Hong Kong five years ago. RDI managing director John Holden said: \"In the past two years we have opened centres in Ghana, Italy, Malaysia, India, Poland and Thailand and we are delighted to announce a new centre in the UK.\"
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