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In praise of Leicester businesses

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Stadt

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Food & beverage 

KP Snacks - Ashby

Walkers - Beamount Leys

Cofresh - Leicester

Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe - Melton

Long Clawson Dairies - Long Clawson (surprisingly)

Pukka Pies - Syston 

Jason's Sourdough - Barrow

Rothley Wines - Rothley

Charnwood Brewery - Loughborough 

Braybrooke Brewery - Braybrooke, Northamptonshire/Leics border

Round Corner Brewery - Melton

Chaiiwala - Leicester

Frankie & Benny's - Leicester

Grounded Kitchen - Leicester

Mount St Bernard's Brewery - Whitwick

Leatherbritches brewery - Smisby

Tollgate Brewery - Ashby

Langton Brewery - Church (?) Langton 

Everards Brewery - Enderby

 

That's all I can think off of the top of my head. Bryter Moon Deli at Silver Arcade does a fantastic job stocking lots of the smaller brand's stock.

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kenny

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Aggregate industries, Ibstock Brick and Breedon Group are all massive in the quarrying sector and from Leicestershire and have their HQ here.

 

Next is a big retail success even in the current market.

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Stadt

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1 hour ago, kenny said:

Aggregate industries, Ibstock Brick and Breedon Group are all massive in the quarrying sector and from Leicestershire and have their HQ here.

 

Next is a big retail success even in the current market.

Barratt are the largest home builders in the country too. We have a pretty strong construction sector central location and no designated green belt help.

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Greg2607

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you are all basically listing my old Business Development List from when I was in Agency Recruitment. lol

 

You've missed Davidson Homes though which is Headquartered in Ibstock. 

kenny

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43 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Barratt are the largest home builders in the country too. We have a pretty strong construction sector central location and no designated green belt help.

Yes, although that is from the David Wilson Homes buyout which is a Leicester company. Davidsons now build over 1000 houses a year and is based in the same office.

 

Bloor Homes is from Hinckley and builds 5000 or so houses a year. Funnily enough, J Bloor also owns Triumph Motorcycles which are now manufactured in Hinckley.

 

 

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Unabomber

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Just now, kenny said:

Yes, although that is from the David Wilson Homes buyout which is a Leicester company. Davidsons now build over 1000 houses a year and is based in the same office.

 

Bloor Homes is from Hinckley and builds 5000 or so houses a year. Funnily enough, J Bloor also owns Triumph Motorcycles which are now manufactured in Hinckley.

 

 

They’re not at the same office. 

Paninistickers

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Are Triumph motorbikes still made at Hinckley? 

 

Gone but not forgotten; 

 

Sketchley dry Cleaners 

Wilko's 

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Edit to add the old Thorn Lighting site on Melton road and fox's glacier mints 🥲

 

 

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grobyfox1990

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17 minutes ago, kenny said:

Yes, although that is from the David Wilson Homes buyout which is a Leicester company. Davidsons now build over 1000 houses a year and is based in the same office.

 

Bloor Homes is from Hinckley and builds 5000 or so houses a year. Funnily enough, J Bloor also owns Triumph Motorcycles which are now manufactured in Hinckley.

 

 

Bloor is Measham, not Hinckley. Good story though, left school at 15 and now worth over a billion

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kenny

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15 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

They’re not at the same office. 

Davidsons are in Wilson House which was the address of DWH before the buyout I believe.

Harboro

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1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

Are Triumph motorbikes still made at Hinckley? 

 

Gone but not forgotten; 

 

Sketchley dry Cleaners 

Wilko's 

Premier Drum

Imperial Typewriters

 

 

Coombes bakery is the one I miss

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Stadt

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Every space mission (I'm assuming Western) since the 70s has featured kit manufactured in Leicestershire. Not sure which companies but it's something I think about a lot.

Paninistickers

Paninistickers

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2 hours ago, Stadt said:

Every space mission (I'm assuming Western) since the 70s has featured kit manufactured in Leicestershire. Not sure which companies but it's something I think about a lot.

I'm guessing that was connected with the wonderful old Marconi site on scudamore road. 

leicsmac

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2 hours ago, Stadt said:

Every space mission (I'm assuming Western) since the 70s has featured kit manufactured in Leicestershire. Not sure which companies but it's something I think about a lot.

 

6 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm guessing that was connected with the wonderful old Marconi site on scudamore road. 

And more recently components and entire robotic missions out there have been conceived and designed at the University of Leicester Space Research Centre

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kenny

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1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm guessing that was connected with the wonderful old Marconi site on scudamore road. 

I did a tour at the space research centre and it's to do with the lenses and mirrors being made here. In the early 1900s it was a big industry here apparently.

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