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KICKSTART WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY
» THE WINDOW COMPANY ( Contracts ) took on Oliver Dixon and Adam Harman under Kickstart and , at the end of their six months , both have now been offered permanent jobs as Trainee Window Fitters . Now , more than three months after the deadline passed for hiring unemployed 16-24 year olds , Katie Thornton , Director of Compliance and Administration has asked why a scheme with so much potential failed to deliver in anything like the numbers it promised .
Adam Harman ( left ) and Oliver Dixon ( Right )
Kickstart provided employers with 25 hours a week of subsidised wages at National Minimum Wage for six-month work placements and £ 1500 towards providing employability training , yet only 100,000 of the 250,000 targeted places were filled by the March 31 cut-off date .
Kate said : “ Kickstart certainly had the potential to become a pipeline to attract young people who might never have considered a career in fenestration onto apprenticeships or higher-level training courses . However , it has been replaced by a Way to Work employment matching scheme , which carries none of the subsidies or training grants which made Kickstart a useful way of giving young people on Universal Credit a real chance .”
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Acquisition of designer , manufacturer and supplier
ASSA ABLOY has acquired Caldwell Manufacturing , a designer , manufacturer and supplier of hardware for the fenestration industry . The acquisition includes Caldwell Hardware UK , based in Coventry , England but excludes Cotswold Architectural Hardware Limited .
» ASSA ABLOY IS AN INTERNAtional group with 51,000 employees and sales of SEK 95 billion . In the UK , ASSA ABLOY is best known for the Yale and UNION brands and has its Head Office and main manufacturing centre in Willenhall .
” Caldwell Hardware UK have been providing a comprehensive range of spring balance and associated hardware for vertical sliding ( sash ) windows in the UK and Ireland since 1973 ,” says Harry Warrender Senior Vice President and Head of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK and Ireland . ” Their
Business as usual following hardware acquistion
ASSA ABLOY has finalised the acquisition of the entire share capital of Arran Isle Limited , a leading designer , manufacturer and distributor of door and window hardware in the UK , Ireland and Europe .
» THE ACQUISITION HAS UNDERgone full regulatory approval by both the Competitions and Market Authority ( CMA ) in the UK and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ( CCPC ) in Ireland .
Arran Isle has some 560 employees , with operational activity at sites in UK , Ireland , Europe and China . Arran Isle has a varied portfolio of products primarily trading under the brands of Carlisle Brass and Mila .
ASSA ABLOY is an international group with around 48,000 employees portfolio is a complementary addition to our own ranges and delivers on our strategy to extend the ASSA ABLOY product and service offering for the fenestration industry in the UK and Ireland . I look forward to welcoming the Caldwell Hardware UK team to our organisation .”
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and sales close to € 8.4 billion . In the UK , ASSA ABLOY is best known for the Yale and UNION brands and has its Head Office and main manufacturing centre in Willenhall .
The Arran Isle management team will report into ASSA ABLOY UK & I ’ s executive team with immediate effect and the intention is for the business to run very much ‘ business as usual ’ to focus on continuing to deliver customer service excellence .
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