A report released this morning lists the 17 top businesses based in Hull and Hessle by staff numbers and turnover. Business Editor James Burton profiles some familiar names and other less well-known ones HULL has long played host to some major names, from engineering firms to food manufacturers. Two of the biggest were consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser and medical goods maker Smith & Nephew. Although they have both long since moved their headquarters elsewhere, a huge range of other businesses continue to make their home in the city and neighbouring Hessle. A study by finance firm BDO has now revealed 17 of Yorkshire's top 250 companies are headquartered in the area. They are ranked here by number of employees worldwide. 1) Fenner: £821m turnover, 5,272 employees 2) Cranswick: £995m turnover, 4,627 employees 3) KCOM Group: £371m turnover, 1,907 employees 4) William Jackson Food Group: £229m turnover, 1,729 employees 5) Arco: £249m turnover, 1,443 employees 6) City Health Care Partnership: £67m turnover, 1,181 employees 7) MKM Building Supplies: £163m turnover, 704 employees 8) Scaid Investments: £102m turnover, 682 employees 9) AAK (UK): £279m turnover, 465 employees 10) JR Rix and Sons: £490m turnover, 425 employees 11) Broomco: £70m turnover, 371 employees 12) Sewell Group: £125m turnover, 355 employees 13) Ideal Standard (UK): £137m turnover, 255 employees 14) Andrew Marr International: £504m turnover, 246 employees 15) F Smales and Son: £83m turnover, 203 employees 16) Interbulk (UK): £107m turnover, 131 employees 17) Seagold: £82m turnover, 49 employees Full details... http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Reve...ompanies/story-26663004-detail/story.html?001
Is Fenners still on the go in Hull?? Dont get up Marfleet very often. Thought it all moved to Wales, staff an alI. I started my first job there, left after a week after a misunderstanding...
Good to see the Freddie Smales business doing well, in a bittersweet sort of way. He and my grandad both started out at about the same time in the fish business but while Freddy was able to step back and let his sons take the business forward, my grandad couldn't because his son (my uncle) wasn't in the same league so the business went into terminal decline. Sad really...
Simon. Him and another mate used to go and I tagged along and got hooked. I still see them both in the Premier Club pretty much every game.
Simon & Lee are both the sons of the late Colin Smales (Fred's Son) You're thinking of the Rose clan.
You're right, I'm having a 'moment'. Tim and Fred were one and the same! I don't know of the Rose clan.
Big turn-over but relativly small amount of staff, they'd be about mid table but aren't in Hull so don't qualify.
No wonder it went downhill, me and you Polly kinell. I was a YOP. Hated it there. Clocking in with a card. Seem to remember at about 2pm they allowed the radio on for a couple of hours.
Me too! Engineering apprenticeship 1980. Got laid off during the miners strike. Not much call for conveyor systems in 1984.
