Grant offers accepted July September 2010
Grant offers accepted July September 2010 (RSA) is the main national scheme of financial assistance to industry. It provides discretionary grants to investment projects that will create and safeguard employment in the Assisted Areas areas designated for regional aid under European Community law. It also includes Tier 3 assistance in other designated areas where we can offer support to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), delivered under the EC s General Block Exemption Regulations. The attached table details the RSA offers accepted in the three months to end September 2010. In this period 32 businesses in Scotland accepted RSA grant offers totalling over 14.8 million. These offers relate to projects with planned investment of over 42.4 million, aimed at the planned creation and safeguarding of nearly 2,000 jobs. Tier 3 accepted offers are marked with an *. Payment of RSA is made in instalments, typically over several years as job and capital expenditure targets are met. Not all projects will proceed, and nor do all accepted offers result in full payment, as projects are sometimes scaled down or abandoned before payments are made. The figures quoted in the tables, therefore, represent the maximum grant potentially payable if the project is satisfactorily completed, and not the amount actually paid to date. All job numbers given in this report are firms forecast figures, and are subject to change depending on future economic conditions and other factors affecting the businesses concerned. For more information on RSA go to www.scottishbusinessgrants.gov.uk or contact: Scottish Enterprise Enquiry Service Spectrum House 1a North Avenue Clydebank Business Park Clydebank G81 2DR Telephone 0845 607 8787 E-mail rsa@scotent.co.uk October 2010 2
Company Name Location Project Activity New Jobs Safeguarded Jobs Grant Offered 5 p.m. Limited Development and promotion of internet booking systems 20 0 150,000 A G Brown Limited Glenrothes, Fife Specialist welding for the renewable energy sector 15 0 100,000 Agripa Solutions Limited Manufacture and supply of patented advertising system attached to large vehicles 7 0 40,000 Arran Aromatics Limited Dundonald, Ayrshire Manufacture of high quality toiletries and candles 4 14 52,500 Bees Nees Media Limited Provision of TV and Radio production services 5 0 70,000 BOC Limited Motherwell, Manufacture and supply of industrial, medical and speciality gases 2 44 750,000 Brodie Engineering Limited Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Engineering services to the railway industry 14 0 180,000 Carclo Technical Plastics Limited Shotts, Design, manufacture and sale of plastic injection moulded products 20 0 100,000 Clockhouse Furniture Limited Clydeview Fabrications Limited North Berwick, Edinburgh and Lothian Clydebank, Dunbartonshire Manufacture of bespoke furniture 4 12 121,000* Provision of metal fabrication services 15 0 110,000 Culzean Medical Devices Limited Prestwick, Ayrshire Design and production of medical textiles 40 0 200,000 Curtainwise (Scotland) Limited Cumnock, Ayrshire Commercial manufacture of bespoke, made to measure curtains 10 7 65,000 Eaton Limited Financial shared services centre servicing the Group s European, Middle Eastern and Asian divisions 0 96 300,000 Express Microbiology Limited Linlithgow, Edinburgh and Lothian Microbiological testing of food and environmental samples 17 0 110,000* * Tier 3 Offers 3
Company Name Location Project Activity New Jobs Safeguarded Jobs Grant Offered GCH Precision Engineering Limited East Kilbride, Specialist precision engineering services 7 2 135,000 Hounddog Technology Limited TBC, Tayside Development of remote monitoring management systems for IT support companies and managed service providers 18 0 175,000 HP Enterprise Services UK Limited Erskine, Renfrewshire Delivery of applications, development, maintenance, support and integration services 721 0 7,000,000 IM Wealth Services Limited TBC, Edinburgh and Lothian Provision of advanced custody and corporate action solutions software for the global securities services industry 43 0 400,000 Jet2.com Limited Inchinnan, Renfrewshire Provision of maintenance, repair and overhaul services to the Jet2. com fleet 9 0 150,000 Level Four Software Limited Dunfermline, Fife Software development, sales and related consultancy 16 0 250,000 McCallum Bagpipes Limited Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Manufacture of bagpipes and associated musical instruments 3 0 20,000 Mint Digital Limited Software development for the media industry 6 0 70,000 Missiles & Space Batteries Limited Coatbridge, Design and manufacture of advanced thermal battery systems 0 73 150,000 Morrison Bowmore Distillers Limited Bottling of single malt, blended and grain whisky 0 73 190,000 O-I Manufacturing UK Limited Alloa, Forth Valley Manufacture of glass containers for the food and drink industry 0 112 1,300,000 Rest Eazy Limited Expansion of customer contact centre 17 0 120,000 Silberline Limited Leven, Fife Manufacture and supply of high quality pigments for coatings, paints, inks, plastics and textiles 5 25 225,000 4
Company Name Location Project Activity New Jobs Safeguarded Jobs Grant Offered Tilly Confectionery Limited Alva, Forth Valley Manufacture of confectionery products 11 3 220,000* Torishima Service Solutions Europe Limited Coatbridge, Repair and fabrication of Torishima and other pumps 36 0 200,000 TRAK Microwave Limited Dundee, Tayside Design and manufacture of components for the space and defence industry 5 4 60,000 Vertex Data Science Limited Provision of Business Process Outsourcing services, including call centre services, client management, billing and cash collection 368 0 1,700,000 Vets Now Emergency Limited Dunfermline, Fife Provision of head office support functions to the company s operational sites 15 0 105,000 * Tier 3 Offers 5
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