Brighton institution Infinity Foods plans 100-job expansion (From The Argus)
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Brighton institution Infinity Foods plans 100-job expansion
2:10pm Wednesday 4th July 2012 in News
Scores of jobs are to be created at a food exporting firm.
Infinity Foods has applied to convert the former Edwards factory in Shoreham into a new warehouse and distribution unit.
The firm exported health foods and goods worth £1.5 million worldwide last year from its Portslade warehouse. It also has a retail outlet in North Road, Brighton.
But it believes moving from Portslade to the factory in Dolphin Road, Shoreham, will allow it to expand and take on up to 100 more staff.
Councillors say a road safety audit on the site is needed before the firm can move in.
Adur District Council’s planning committee has agreed to delegate a decision to officers to approve.
Dom Ferrari, from Infinity, said the move would create 50 new jobs immediately with the potential to create up to 100.
The firm currently employs 52 people at its 43,500 square feet site in Norway Street, Portslade.
The Portslade site has been earmarked for mixed-use development in the Brighton and Hove City Plan.
The City Plan will be the council’s key planning document and will provide the overall strategic vision for the future of Brighton and Hove to 2030.
Infinity Foods has agreed to sell the site to a major national housebuilder for around £1.5 million.
Stephen Owen, the managing partner at commercial property agents Graves Son and Pilcher, said terms have been agreed between Infinity Foods and the housebuilder.
He said: “The legal formalities are progressing. There was strong interest in the property from education groups, religious organisations and developers.
Mr Ferrari said: “If all goes to plan we should be able to complete the sale within a month.”
The 70,000 square feet property in Dolphin Road has been empty since technology group Edwards left the site.
More than 100 people were laid off when the group moved its manufacturing base to South Korea and the Czech Republic in January 2010.
Comments(16)
RickH
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2:22pm Wed 4 Jul 12
BiggerH
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3:12pm Wed 4 Jul 12
It makes No Sense!!
Ligand Fields
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3:25pm Wed 4 Jul 12
BiggerH wrote:No sense? It fits perfectly with their grating "more valid than thou" attitude, just one more thing for them to scorn you for when you are caught Doing It Wrong.
more importantly, when is the 'exit only' door on North Road going to become 'entrance and exit' ? It makes No Sense!!
Hove Actually
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3:48pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Translation
Portslade firm relocating as unable to grow in our area 50 to 100 job opportunities lost to locals.
ShorehamBeachcomber
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4:18pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Hove Actually wrote:It's 10 mins drive away/2 train stops if you can't be bothered with that then you're no loss to anyone
Brighton institution Infinity Foods plans 100-job expansion........
Translation
Portslade firm relocating as unable to grow in our area 50 to 100 job opportunities lost to locals.
Telscombe Cliffy
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4:28pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Ligand Fields
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4:30pm Wed 4 Jul 12
billy goat-gruff
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4:53pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Lostandaway
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6:30pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Bad for Portslade as it is losing another profitable business in exchange for "educational groups, religious organisations ( tax soaks) and the developers( more houses?)
Perhaps when we get Local Government changes Portslade should consider pulling away from Brighton and returning to it's own Local Town Hall and government.
HJarrs
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8:38pm Wed 4 Jul 12
The only sanctimonious about Infinity Foods is in the heads of the inverted snob posting above.
Reflect on your post
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9:23pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Archie Bun
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11:00pm Wed 4 Jul 12
Ligand Fields
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10:22am Thu 5 Jul 12
HJarrs wrote:lol you clearly work for them. Try harder, Infinity shill.
Good luck to Infinity foods, I hope that this leads to more shops and more shops stocking their products. This is a successful company supported by local people and I bet creates more local employment pound for pound than the big supermarkets. The only sanctimonious about Infinity Foods is in the heads of the inverted snob posting above.
Spx
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11:29am Thu 5 Jul 12
Ligand Fields
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11:31am Thu 5 Jul 12
Ligand Fields says...
2:16pm Wed 4 Jul 12