A South Lanarkshire Council enterprise assist grant has helped a Clydesdale firm develop additional.
James A Cuthbertson Ltd, primarily based in Biggar, has been in enterprise for greater than 75 years and is the one Scottish designer and producer of vehicle-mounted winter upkeep tools.
The corporate confronted difficulties just a few years in the past and confronted falling into administration, till native agency Atlas purchased the corporate and saved it.
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The brand new administration crew labored exhausting to rebuild the corporate and sought assist from the council’s Financial Improvement Crew to assist buy specialist lifting tools.
The Financial Improvement Crew was concerned all through early growth levels of the mission in addition to colleagues from Planning and Constructing Management and Enterprise Gateway Lanarkshire who offered one-to-one assist to ensure all the things went easily.
Now, the administration crew stays one of many largest employers within the native space, with 12 new staff and three apprentices being taken on.
James Barr, the corporate’s built-in administration techniques coordinator, stated: “The Enterprise Help Crew was very useful and guided us by means of each stage of the method of making use of for the funding for the brand new crane we wanted for the workshop.
“It's such a useful instrument and can permit us to hurry up many elements of our processes together with becoming our specialised tools rapidly and effectively to the lorries that want changing and becoming.”
Councillor Robert Brown, chairman of the council’s neighborhood and enterprise assets committee, stated: “Enormous alternatives exist for companies to adapt and develop throughout South Lanarkshire.
“I'm delighted that the council crew have been in a position to help this well-known native firm to thrive as soon as once more and construct on years of expertise supplying important specialist tools to not simply our personal council however native authorities throughout Scotland and now the UK.
“Having the ability to faucet into very important funding assist has proved as soon as extra that a little bit specialist assist on the proper time could make all of the distinction to making sure continued success for thus many firms in our space.”
The Enterprise Help Crew can assist any sort of firm and might be contacted by emailing: enterprise.assist@southlanarkshire.gov.uk.
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