Freeport East is expanding its team with two key hires to build local and national awareness of the opportunities in the areas, strengthen international relationships and drive local economic growth. Jacinda Love joins Freeport East this month as the new communications and marketing manager. With a strong background in destination marketing, she previously promoted Essex…
A Suffolk hotel group is offering a new four days on, three days off approach for new chefs recruited to work at five of their properties giving a better quality work-life balance. Under the new initiative, salaried chefs recruited by The Hotel Folk will be working 186 days a year and having 179 days off…
Freeport East and East Midlands Freeport have announced a new partnership to support a green freight corridor that will help decarbonise transport and drive enhanced skills and employment initiatives along the length of one of the UK’s most important transportation routes. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by Freeport East CEO, Steve Beel and…
A Suffolk PR agency is celebrating after being shortlisted in three categories of a prestigious industry award scheme. Woodbridge-based Satsuma Group has been recognised in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Pride awards for the Anglia, Thames and Chiltern region. It has been shortlisted for a trio of accolades including Small PR Consultancy of…
Ipswich-based probate research firm Anglia Research has been shortlisted for a national award at the prestigious National Paralegal Awards (NPA) 2022. The firm, based in Museum Street in the town, is one of three finalists for the category of Probate Research Firm of the Year. With nearly half of its employees holding a Paralegal Practising…
A proposal from an Ipswich architect will bring together two out-dated meeting rooms in the Town Hall and transform them into one romantic wedding venue. The application submitted to the council by Nicholas Jacob Architects will update and refurbish the Pickwick Room and the adjacent Reading Room – making them much more attractive for marriage…
Members of Ashtons Legal’s Corporate and Commercial team have recently advised and assisted three clients on the sale of their businesses. Senior Associate Mark Watson led a team who worked with marine engineering specialist AR Peachment Limited in the sale of the company to a member of the Alliance Marine Group, a French recreational boating…
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum, a rare and much-loved working tide mill on the banks of the River Deben in Woodbridge, Suffolk has been given full accreditation status. Administered by Arts Council England on behalf of the UK Accreditation Partnership, Accreditation is the benchmark for well-run Museums and Galleries. It means that Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum…