John Henry COMMUNICA Issue Three | Page 8

COMMUNICA | No.3 Picture: Communica Magazine Looking back at ANGA COLOGNE, GERMANY - Thousands of people once again visited the popular ANGACOM festival in Cologne, Germany, in June this year. As Europe’s largest festival for broadband and content, ANGACOM annually attracts industry leaders from telecoms companies across the world, including Asia and USA ANGACOM, held at Cologne’s Koelnmesse exhibition centre, showcases the latest technologies and construction methods to help contractors, ISPs and other businesses install and deliver next-generation telecoms networks. Steve Henry, John Henry Biscomm’s Fibre Director and Steve Farrell, John Henry Group Chief Technical Director journeyed to the festival, to hunt for new technology and ideas to bring back for use or demonstration with our UK clients. “Each year the exhibition brings noticeably bigger and newer technologies as the European markeplace continued to develop new ideas and products,” said Farrell. 8| Seeking excellent people UNITED KINGDOM - Having experienced 40 per cent growth over the financial year of 2015/16 John Henry Group is set to undertake a major recruitment drive. Having also celebrated private investment of more than £23 million in mid-2016, to secure the company’s rapid expansion, several new roles are now available within the group, explains the company’s commercial director David Scott. “We are looking for people to share in these exciting times for our business,” he said. “The company has celebrated both investment and is growing and upscaling to meet larger contract demands for our clients, all of which means some fantastic opportunities across the UK, particularly in the South of England and Scotland.” Currently the John Henry Group is a national partner to telecoms companies including Virgin Media, Vodafone, CityFibre and GTC, as well as offering contractual construction services to BT Openreach and many smaller ‘Alt-Nets’. The business is also working alongside highways authorities in the East of England to support major infrastructure and highways schemes. Current opportunities within the group include apprenticeships, management trainees, as well as specialist telecoms roles based across the UK. A full list of career opportunities can be found at John Henry Group careers centre at www.johnhenrygroup.co.uk/careers centre. You can also speak to John Henry Group’s central HR team on 01954 288011. “We are looking for people to share in these exciting times for our business”