AB Agri

AB Agri, Associated British Agriculture is the Agriculture Group of Associated British Foods plc. Associated British Foods is a diversified international agriculture, food, ingredients and retail group with global sales of £8.2bn, and 96,000 employees in 44 countries. The group has within its portfolio a number of market leading businesses and brands, these include Twinings, Mazola, AB Mauri, Capullo, Ovaltine, Bergen and British Sugar.

Action Mailing Services

American mailing company Action Mailing Services opened its first UK office in Fengate, Peterborough, in July 2004 to take advantage of the city’s central location and its excellent transport links.

Established in 1967, Action Mailing provides mailing solutions for companies in a variety of sectors including financial, manufacturing, insurance and advertising/marketing. The company uses automated equipment to handle both small and large mailings and uses a number of technologies, such as variable data laser imaging, to meet clients’ requirements.

Base Commercial Mortgages

Base Commercial Mortgages is a newly launched commercial mortgage lender which has recently opened its doors for business on the business park at Lynch Wood. The company focuses on servicing selected mortgage brokers and intermediaries. Its new processing centre is staffed by a dedicated team of underwriters and processors who service a national team of business development and lending managers.

Base uses a fully integrated online system and leading edge information technology to link brokers, valuers and solicitors with underwriters at the Peterborough office from anywhere in the UK. The IT solution was provided by another Peterborough company, Sibson based Advanced Business Solutions. Advanced Group provided all the necessary systems and support to help maintain Base’s business.

BNP Paribas Securities Services

BNP Paribas Securities Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, provides a wide range of securities services and investment operations solutions to issuers, financial intermediaries and institutional investors worldwide. The company employs nearly 5,000 professionals worldwide, with around 1,200 in the UK, 240 of whom are based in Peterborough.

The securities services division of BNP Paribas relocated some of its personnel to Peterborough to take advantage of its excellent location and transport connections to attract new clients.

EINSA

Spanish company EINSA designs, manufactures and maintains civil and military airside equipment. The company has secured a Ministry of Defence contract to maintain and repair weapon loaders at RAF bases in the UK and worldwide.

The company opened its first international office outside Spain in Orton Southgate, Peterborough, and the office currently employs seven locally recruited engineers and administration staff.

Peterborough proved to be the ideal location for EINSA as it is close to a number of RAF bases in the East of England and has good transport connections to other bases around the UK. It is also close to Stansted and Luton airports, enabling staff to travel to a number of international locations.

Law-Denis Engineering Limited

To customers all over the world, the name Law-Denis Engineering has become one of the most respected names in the grain machinery industry, and is synonymous with high quality robust equipment. Law-Denis engineers have been at the forefront of dryer design for many years.

Law-Denis's extensive experience was founded in the early 70s when they were the first company to introduce the mixed flow principle dryer to the UK. The company rapidly became established as the market leader, backed up with an extensive range of ancillary equipment, such as cleaners, elevators, conveyors, silos, augers etc. Law-Denis has also developed a successful export business which now provides a significant part of our turnover.

MENCAP

National learning disability charity Mencap, which works with people of all ages with learning disabilities and with their families and carers, recently opened new offices in Peterborough. It employs 50 staff in Peterborough, with HR and finance functions amalgamating here from offices in London and Bury St Edmunds.

Park Inn

Peterborough’s Park Inn hotel opened in 2008. Focused on helping guests sleep well and live well, Park Inn hotels deliver clean, fresh rooms, upbeat service and key amenities like complementary high speed Internet access that ensure every stay is memorable. Operating within the upper economy and midscale categories, Park Inn hotels offer consistent, affordable accommodations that celebrate the individual personality and local colour of the area.

Schippers

Schippers UK launched in early 2008 making it the newest branch of the Schippers group, which has been supplying European farmers for over forty years. Schippers is already known throughout Europe as one of the largest service suppliers for the intensive livestock farmer. Schippers employs many product specialists with specific knowledge of particular product groups. The company is active in pig farming, poultry and cattle.

St John's Ambulance

The new St John’s Ambulance National Distribution Centre has recently relocated to Peterborough.

The modern, purpose-built centre supports the company’s corporate identity, projecting a professional image and cohesive brand to customers, suppliers and competitors, marking the company out in the highly competitive first aid and health and safety markets.

The Peterborough facility boasts over 900 pallet storage spaces, which enables St John’s Ambulance to stock many more products, meet orders faster and offer a higher standard of service to both internal and external customers.

The consolidation of warehouse and fulfilment facilities has created many improvements and efficiencies. St John’s Ambulance will be able to modernise its order fulfilment technology and have use of a much larger space for storage of key products. In addition, large vehicles are able to access the new site, benefiting suppliers. International customers and overseas suppliers benefit from Peterborough’s excellent travel connections and close proximity to the port of Felixstowe.

Improvements in premises and facilities also allow the company to enhance its commitment to sustainability, reducing energy usage
and carbon footprint.

Traxe Global Services

TRAXE is an engineering services company providing solutions and services to the telecommunications and IT sector. Providing first-line maintenance, deployment and logistics services for a number of blue-chip companies in the UK, Traxe offers a range of maintenance, installation and commissioning, project management, logistics, support and other technical services in a flexible and rapidly scalable manner.

Tritin

Tritin Limited, which supplies machinery and blades to the food processing industry, has relocated its office facilities to its factory site in Orton Southgate, Peterborough, to bring all departments under one roof.

The company set up the factory and test kitchen facilities in Peterborough in 2000 to take advantage of the city’s central location and its proximity to companies within the food processing industry.

VFM Services

VFM Services (Volume Fraud Management), which provides fraud prevention services for insurance and finance companies, has relocated the majority of its workforce to Peterborough following a period of growth and expansion.

VFM Services was established in 2000 by managing director Bill Jackson who, while working at Peterborough-based travel giant Thomas Cook, developed a new process for dealing with claims for lost or stolen travellers cheques. The process was created to help telephone operators discourage people from making inappropriate or false claims.

Following the success of the process, VFM was created to provide similar services and training for insurance and finance companies

The majority of VFM’s 75 staff have been relocated to Peterborough which has a highly-skilled workforce essential for the company. A number of large, established companies within VFM’s target market are based in Peterborough.