Welcome to the 2019 edition of Gloucestershire’s 100 Biggest Employers
This is no list plucked from Companies House – we built it ourselves with the help of the county’s business community. What makes this year’s edition special is this – hidden is the following pages are some signposts to more than 450 jobs, and that is a conservative estimate. That’s not including the NHS intake or the other 100 plus mentioned within this article. That is because this year we also asked whether firms thought they would recruit this year - whether they
currently looking for six new electricians. Huffkins , the Cotswold-based quintessentially English cafe and cake maker which already has 70 staff, is looking to employ 70 more in the county as it expands. Simplicity , in Mitcheldean, already employs 75 staff and is looking to take on more. Printwaste , which has 75 staff, hopes to recruit "for several roles". Avon Metals Group , which has 76 staff, said it could be looking to take on staff, as is Stonehouse-based Xograph Group , which has 78 staff. Procurri UK Ltd , which employs 92 in Cirencester, is looking to increase headcount by 10 to 15 per cent. Cheltenham-headquartered SoHo Coffee took on 40 new staff between May and December last year, and "estimation is that this figure will be around the same for 2019". Gloucester Cathedral will continue its apprentice intake. GET (Gloucestershire Engineering Training), ERMIN, Quattro Design Architects all said they too would be taking on staff. Forge Motorsport, Severn Controls Ltd (and Severn Rewinds Division) and Severn Rewinds Division DKM Sheet Metal , Stonehouse, could all take on staff. As are Intamarque Ltd, Mekufa (UK) Ltd, Brunsdon Financial, GCSD Accountants, Cass Stephens and Hydraproducts . Severn & Wye Smokery Ltd , with 123 staff, came in too late to be included. How we did it: We asked businesses and organisations to confirm their headcounts, promoted this on our daily email newsletter, tweeted and shouted about it on social media. And made lots of phone calls. If you want to be involved next year, please email us news@moosemarketingandpr.co.uk l
would create jobs or apprenticeships. “Seventy five per cent of firms in our Top 100 said they would be taking on more staff this year. Another seven per cent said they could not rule it out,” said Mark Owen, the editor of Punchline- Gloucester.com. “We had companies declaring some major recruitment drives of 10, 20, 30 or 40 staff and many confirming their commitment to apprenticeships and a graduate intake. “This was across sectors – from manufacturing and engineering to finance, retail, food, education, health, logistics and packing and construction. BIGGESTEMPLOYERS
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“Even going by a conservative estimate, the Top 100 firms declared a possible 450 jobs should be created this year. And then there are another 150-plus roles in those firms which did not make the list.” Shurdington-based accountants and business experts Randall & Payne LLP , with 55 staff currently, said it remained committed to its training programmes, which includes school-leavers. Allcooper , with 71 staff, declared it would be looking for up to 10 service and installation engineers. Tanner Bennett said it would continue to take on between three and five apprentices annually and was
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