In Brief: Polypipe, Young Accountant of the Year, and more
MANUFACTURER Polypipe has moved its banking facilities to Lloyds Bank Wholesale Banking & Markets in Sheffield.
Lloyds Bank has taken over as the provider of Doncaster-based Polypipe’s standby revolving credit facility.
The facility will provide the business with flexible access to working capital and acquisition funding as and when required.
Polypipe designs, develops and manufactures the UK’s widest range of plastic piping products with more than 20,000 product lines available.
The Lloyds Bank facility includes foreign exchange and trade finance solutions to support Polypipe’s international operations.
The business, which has a turnover of £286m and 2,000 employees, operates from 17 locations across the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East.
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FINANCIAL recruitment specialist Sharp Consultancy has launched the Young Accountant of the Year competition for 2013.
The competition, which was established in 2000 and is run in conjunction with West Yorkshire Society of Chartered Accountants, recognises the best of the region’s accountants who are either training to be qualified or have been qualified for up to two years.
Potential winners can be nominated by their colleagues, peers or senior managers and will have to satisfy a number of criteria including exam record, leadership and initiative. Last year’s winner was Meghan Gallagher of Baker Tilly.
Lee Sweeney, regional director at Sharp Consultancy, said: “We are delighted to be launching the thirteenth Young Accountant of the Year competition and with each event the standard of entries continues to increase demonstrating the breadth and depth of talent we have within the financial and accountancy industry in the West Yorkshire area.”
Entries must be received by December 31. For further information and for a nomination form visit www.sharpconsultancy.com or email contact@sharpconsultancy.com.
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LAW firm Dickinson Dees has been appointed to advise the Education Funding Agency (EFA) on a new school-building programme in the North and Midlands.
Dickinson Dees, which has an office in Leeds, will be providing full legal services for the construction of schools which will be built over the next two years from the Midlands to the Scottish Border as part of the Government’s Priority School Building Programme.
The Education Funding Agency (EFA) is an executive agency of the Department for Education and the successor body to Partnerships for Schools.
Kevin Robertson, a partner in the public services team at Dickinson Dees, said: “The Priority School Building Programme is a new schools building programme which has the purpose of rebuilding and renewing 261 schools across England over a five-year period.”
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NORTHERN Gas Networks is investing £430,000 to replace more than 2km of ageing metal gas pipes in Whitby.
In total, improvements will take place in around 13 streets in the town.
It is anticipated that the work will be completed by Easter 2013.
Northern Gas Networks’ Gary Farnhill said: “This year we are investing £91.5m to replace old cast iron gas mains and we will be doing everything we can to keep disruption to an absolute minimum. We appreciate the cooperation of the public and look forward to bringing a more robust and reliable gas supply to Whitby.”
