In Brief: Gratterpalm, PPS, Jack Wolfskin, Bling Rocks
A NUMBER of students and graduates have been given the opportunity to kick-start their careers at advertising agency Gratterpalm.
The company, which is based at No.1 Leeds, has enrolled four new recruits onto its ‘G Academy’ programme.
Now in its third year, the G Academy is an extensive four week internship which runs bi-annually and gives recent graduates the opportunity to work on advertising, marketing and digital campaigns for some of the UK’s biggest names in retail, including Asda, Viking and Greggs.
Chosen from 65 applicants, the successful candidates who will work as trainee account handlers are: Victoria Cawkwell, a recent graduate from Leeds Metropolitan; Sean Featonby, an advertising and media graduate from Northumbria University; Lauren Hume, who previously worked for Jet2Holidays; and Ben Jobson, who has come from the publisher Sensis in Australia.
As well as the G Academy recruits, Gratterpalm has also taken on three placement students: Abigail Saleem, Alice Frazer and Natasha Chopra.
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PROJECT Plan Services (PPS) has been selected by Yorkshire Water to assist with a major IT project.
PPS will provide consultancy and training for team members at Yorkshire Water.
PPS’s client solutions manager, Richard Rymill, said: “We were delighted to be awarded the contract and welcome the opportunity to work with one of the Region’s most important organisations.
“PPS, being located regionally in Leeds are able to provide nationally accredited expertise and experience on a cost effective basis.”
The work will enable Yorkshire Water IT to migrate its existing projects, resources and reports onto a new software platform.
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OUTDOOR clothing, footwear and equipment retailer Jack Wolfskin is launching its latest store at Oakgate Land’s Trinity Square development in Leeds.
The store will be run by Mountain Paw-Print, Jack Wolfskin’s franchise partner.
Oakgate Land was advised by Savills and Dresler Smith.
Richard Webster, of Sanderson Weatherall, which acquired the unit on behalf of Mountain Paw-Print, said: “Leeds remains a buoyant retail destination and two major schemes in the pipeline – Trinity Leeds and Eastgate – reinforce the city’s reputation as a major retail destination in the North of England.”
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A MUM is celebrating after her online jewellery design company won a number of celebrity clients.
Katie Price and Danielle Lloyd have both been customers of Bling Rocks, the Leeds-based company run by Nikki Walls.
Mrs Walls has moved from being a physiotherapist for the NHS to set up the business and is hoping to take the business international.
