100 jobs created at town firm

Dec 18 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Jobs boost as deal is struck

A HUGE jobs boost came today with news of a major land deal for a Huddersfield firm.

FMG Support have agreed to buy a former car park from Kirklees Council – and confirmed plans to take on 100 extra staff when the deal goes through, with hopefully more to come.

The land deal, in St Andrew’s Road, will enable the firm to expand and take on scores of extra workers.

Council chiefs have also vowed to ensure that parking spaces that will vanish in the new build will be replaced.

The Cabinet met in private to approve the sale the land to enable a new headquarters to be developed in Huddersfield for the district’s largest private sector employer and on a prime site that will boost the economy of the town.

To meet its new expansion plans, FMG Support is proposing to build a new headquarters of a minimum of 50,000sq ft and a potential of 80,000 sq ft of top quality office accommodation, over four floors.