In praise of Leicester businesses

[Soar Fox]

11 hours ago, VLC86 said:

Cool as Leicester does a great job of promoting businesses in the area.

Ooooh friends 

[Stadt]

Noble Automotive 

[Wolfox]

22 hours ago, Stadt said:

Round Corner, Mount St Bernard’s, Charnwood and Braybrooke are genuinely excellent breweries.

 

Every time I’m at train station I look out for a Gent’s clock.

 

Fred Perry polos are made in Leicester. Admiral and Gola were established here.

 

I’ll write some more up tomorrow.

 

21 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

I do the station clock check too

I work for Gents who are still going strong, we have a big R&D department based out of Carlton Park, Narborough with  lots of talented engineers and we are continuing to kick it when it comes to innovation.  We sell our fire safety kit all over the world…. Me and two other Leicester based guys are the co-inventors of this (invented by Gents)…

 

https://buildings.honeywell.com/gb/en/brands/our-brands/gent/solutions/gent-self-test

I love being associated with a really old Leicester brand…. 

 

 

 

[Wolfox]

10 hours ago, davieG said:

Gent don't make clocks anymore probably not since the 80/90s. They don't manufacture anything in England either it's all made in Europe.

 

You used to work there of course… I know a few people who remember you!

 

The factory shut down in Covid and everything went out to Romania sadly…

 

We continue to be the centre for innovation though… 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Wolfox said:

You used to work there of course… I know a few people who remember you!

 

The factory shut down in Covid and everything went out to Romania sadly…

 

We continue to be the centre for innovation though… 

All good memories hope 😉

I'm surprised there’s anyone still there who knows me. Got any names?

[Wolfox]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

All good memories hope 😉

I'm surprised there’s anyone still there who knows me. Got any names?

Of course!!!

 

Daksha for one…. There are plenty of others who are time served that you’d remember !

[SemperEadem]

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