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Elaine Watson Food Manufacture 31 Jan 11
Willenhall-based AF Blakemore has pumped £3.5m into a new temperature-controlled fresh meat cutting plant in Hilton Cross, South Staffordshire.
The business has been relocated from the Long Acres Industrial Estate in Walsall and would allow the firm to sock a wider range of products and improve efficiencies, said trading director Richard Brownjohn…
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Advertiser 21 Oct 10
Staff at a firm in Walsall have leant a green-fingered hand to help create three raised flower beds at a Chuckery centre which cares for disabled children.
Employees from FedEx volunteered at Action for Children’s Walsall Resource Centre, which offers a range of day care services to children with disabilities, as part of their FedEx Cares Week…
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The YamYam 18 Dec 09
After donating over 100 Christmas gift boxes to victims of domestic violence in Walsall, staff at AF Blakemore & Son Ltd in Willenhall volunteered to redecorate a local community church.
Thirty employees at the wholesale grocery distributor spent 2 days sprucing up communal rooms at St John’s Community Church in Scarborough Road, Pleck, and even found time to put up some Christmas decorations. The Blakemore group supplies over 700 SPAR stores across the country and operates more than 200 convenience stores through its Tates subsidiary. Over the last 2 years, Tates raised £300,000 for the NSPCC.
The company is part of the Cares Business in the Community network of more than 350 companies that address social issues in communities by volunteering their employees’ skills and time during business hours. Cares is a national initiative to increase the impact of employee volunteering in communities of greatest need and tackle social issues including education, employability and economic renewal.
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Express & Star 17 Jun 09
It was a vision for the future which has now become a reality – the new multi-million pound development at the Wolverhampton Beacon Centre for the Blind is unveiled, boosted by a donation of £20,000 from food distribution firm AF Blakemore & Son Ltd based in Willenhall…