§ Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a list of each company involved in job creation projects in Wales during 1990 together with the number of jobs created in each case.
§ Mr. David Hunt[holding answer 23 May 1991]: Information relating to all job creation projects is not held centrally. In the context of inward investment, Wales secured 142 projects from overseas and the rest of the United Kingdom during 1990, promising nearly 16,000 new and safeguarded jobs and a capital investment of almost £640 million.
A list of the companies concerned, excluding those which have requested confidentiality, are shown in the table. For reasons of commercial confidentiality, individual details of investment and jobs are not disclosed.
PROJECTS SECURED 1990
NORTH AMERICA
Company
- AMG Resources
- Activeair
- Agrisence BCS
- Alberto Culver UK Ltd.
- Alcoa Extrusions (UK) Ltd.
- Borg Warner Automotive
- Britcair Ltd.
- Britcair/Merck
- CBS
- Campbell Chilled Foods
- Dexter Packaging
- Dow Chemical
- Dow Corning
- Dow Corning
- Elac/Harmon
- Electro Craft
- Electrocatalytic Ltd.
- Eriez Magnetics
- Eurofoil Ltd.
- Hoover
- Inco (Europe) Ltd.
- J. R. Freeman & Sons
- Kimberly Clark
- Kimberly Clark
- Lion Laboratories MPD Inc.
- Miles Labs
- Optical Fibres
- Owens Corning Fibreglass
- Rubery Owen-Rockwell
- Silent Channel Products
- Strategic Systems Industries
- Superjet Services
- TRW Cam Gears
- Viskase
- Westminster Health Care
PROJECTS SECURED 1990
UNITED KINGDOM
Company
- Abbey National Plc
- Abbey National Plc
- Allen Ind
- Allied Dunbar
- Avana Bakeries
- BBC
- Bantex (Flint) Ltd.
- Benison Nursery Care
- British Aerospace Ent Ltd.
- British Airways
- British Coal Liquification
- British Steel
- British Telecom
- Brown & Jackson
- Caring Production Ltd.
- Chartered Trust Comp. Centre
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- Chivers Book Sales Ltd.
- Collective Leisure Ltd.
- Conran Roache
- Cornelius Electronics
- Deeside Colour Direct
- Domglade
- Dunn & Bradstreet
- Elite Optics
- Envelopes Direct
- Flexigraphics
- Guiness Bros Plc (Luxi)
- Holtron
- Inland Revenue (Swansea)
- Inland Revenue (Wrexham)
- Jan Roberts Ltd.
- K. D. Products Ltd.
- Kilroe Pipeline Services Ltd.
- Lloyds Bank
- Lloyds Bank (St. Mellons)
- Lucas CBS
- Memory Lane Cakes
- Oakdale Batteries Ltd.
- Penn Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
- Peters Savory Products
- Qualtex Industries Ltd.
- Rygor Holdings
- Scottish Amicable
- Sedgewick (UK) Ltd.
- Solaglass
- Spirolit UK Ltd.
- Star Products
- Swift Catering
- Techlok Ltd.
- Travers Morgan Consulting Gp
- Ultimate Design
- Vanessa Ltd.
- Victoria Cabinets Co.
- W. A. Turner
- Willis Wrightson
- Windsor Die Castings Ltd.
- Wirral Print Finishers
- Wrexham Mineral Cables
- JAPAN/FAR EAST
- Gooding Sanken
- Kintetsu Express
- Matsushita Electric (UK) Ltd.
- Matsushita Electric (UK) Ltd.
- Meiki (UK) Ltd.
- Orion Electric (UK) Ltd.
- Panasonic
- Sekisui
- Sharp Manufacturing
- Takiron
- Yuasa Battery (UK) Ltd.
AFRICA/ASIA/ROW
Company
- Boral Ltd.
- European Fine Blanking
- Prestar/Camford
EUROPE
- Autophon (UK) Ltd.
- Avangard
- Belscan Ltd.
- Castle Cement
- Coopers Filters
- Cray Valley Products
- DAS Legal
- Ensinger Ltd.
- Ferrero Manufacturing Ltd.
- Finnbhus AB/Andrew Scott Ltd.
- Fram Europe Ltd.
- Golden Ltd.
- Interceram Manufacturing Ltd.
- Isringhausen (GB) Ltd.
- Kronospan
- Label Image Ltd.
- Lansing Linde
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- Solaglas
- Spring Industries Ltd.
- Spring Industries Ltd.
- Todo (UK) Ltd.
- Triumph International (UK) Ltd.
- Stilexo Ind. (UK) Ltd.
- Valeo Climate Control Ltd.
England Wales Year of application Applications Successful applications Applications Successful applications 1987 2 2 1 1 1988 — — 1 — 1989 3 3 1 — 1990 2 2 1 —