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A DODWORTH firm has secureda £2.2m deal with Boots theChemist.

J W Boylin Group is supplying35,000 roll cages for the retailer’sstores nationwide. It is the biggestdeal in the firm’s history.

It will take about ten months tomake the cages which are used tostack shelves with goods. First ofthe cages will be delivered thismonth (November 2008).

The firm at Strafford industrialpark, Gilroyd Lane, won the dealafter entering an internet auction.

General manager Stuart Roystonsaid the tendering processinvolved the firm building a proto-type trolley.

He said staff worked closely withBoots for about two monthsbecause the trollies had to passhealth and safety and securitytests.

He said: “I believe we were cho-sen to make the trollies because,among the companies trying towin the contract, Boots found useasiest to work with.”

The company employs about 55and turnover is between £3m and£5m.

Another trolley deal worth£150,000 has been signed withParcelforce. Mr Royston said hehoped this might lead to a £2mcontract in the future.

Other clients includeMcDonalds, Superdrug, BritishHome Stores, Caterpiller Logistics,Wilkinson, Argos, Matalan and TK Maxx.

About two years ago, the firm setup a subsidiary, Beach HutLeisure, which makes buildingsfor gardens. It is collaborating withabout 75 agents nationwide.

J W Boylin Group has a history

that will be familiar with manyBarnsley companies.

It was established in 1954 as astructural engineer making equip-ment for the coal industry andonce employed 100.

The firm was founded by JohnWilliam Boylin, his son Gordontook over in the late 1960s and hisgrandson Johnathan, 37, is nowmanaging director.

After the pit closures, the work-force dwindled to three men inthe workshop and a part-timer.

Mr Boylin said: “The pit closuresleft us high and dry. We had a fac-tory but no one to sell products toso we had to diversify.

“We established ourselves in thematerials handling equipmentmarket in 2000. It was toughgoing but we did it.”

General manager Stuart Royston , left, and managing direc-tor Johnathan Boylin.

Boots trolley deal forDodworth company

TWO women who haveopened a hair and beautysalon in the town centre planto set on staff.

Elizabeth Brown, 19, andVictoria Myers, 23, who runEV Boutique in Royal Street,want to set on at least twopeople soon.

“We want to expand in thefuture,” said Elizabeth.

Elizabeth lives at Silkstoneand attended PenistoneGrammar School. She workedas a ‘Saturday girl’ at a nailsalon in Sheffield and studied

beauty therapy at BarnsleyCollege. She has since workedat a salon in Thurgoland.

Victoria lives at MonkBretton and went to HolgateSchool. She did courses inbeauty and hairdressing atBarnsley College and was astylist at the BarbershopCompany, Hoyland Common,for about two years.

Both of them said they havealways had an ambition toopen a salon. Elizabeth Brown and Victoria Myers.

A DARFIELD technician has been shut-tling between the UK and China to fitequipment for his bosses.

Gary Taylor, 22, who works forAtomising Systems Ltd., has been assem-bling, commissioning and testing equip-ment making solder powder. His latesttrip was in late September and earlyOctober.

ASL has sold five atomising machines formaking the powder which is used in theChinese electronics assembly industry.

In 2007, he went to the Guangzhouprovince near Hong Kong with his firm'stechnical manager Dirk Aderhold to fit acentrifugal atomiser.

This year he returned alone to do cus-tomer support. Gary said the trips hadtheir challenges.

“None of the workers spoke English andthe boss of the company where I wasdoing the work only spoke basic English.But we got by. We often worked 11 hourdays.”

ASL chairman John Dunkley said: “Garywas working in a warehouse but hasfound his feet in a technical role. He hasthoroughly enjoyed visiting China andone a first class job of training local staff.

“We are expanding our operations inSheffield and hope to find more appren-tices of his calibre in coming years.”

Gary joined the firm about three yearsago, He was educated at DarfieldFoulstone School and gained a diploma inmechanical engineering at BarnsleyCollege.

Salon ownersplan to set onnew staff soon

BARNSLEY computer servicesand internet marketing com-pany Lojix has undergone con-siderable growth after gettingsupport from BarnsleyDevelopment Agency.

The Racecommon Road firmsecured a grant to help mar-keting web promotion serviceswhich help firms to attractmore visitors through internetsearch engines such as Googleand Yahoo.

The money will also help the

company to design a businessdirectory website.

Lojix boss John Hinds said:“As a new business, it can behard to find the resources todevelop activities which helpyou to grow. The future is look-ing bright for Lojix and we areexcited about the new oppor-tunities available to us.”

Steve Hawkins, BDAspokesman, said: “It is great tosee a company ike Lojix expe-riencing such success.”

New appointmentFuture looks brightfor computer firm

A PENISTONE wealth man-agement specialist has set upa practice to look after afflu-ent people and firms inBarnsley.

Mark Sims, 43, has beenappointed an associate part-ner of the St James’s PlacePartnership.

He worked for Lloyds TSBfor about 25 years. He joinedas a cashier and later becamemanager of a number ofbranches including one inHigh Street, Wombwell, inthe early 1990s.

Mark, who has lived in

Penistone since March 2007,also worked for Lloyds TSB'sprivate banking departmentand provided wealth man-agement advice.

He was born in Doncaster,grew up on the outskirts ofRetford and was educated atthe Nottinghamshire town’sKing Edward VI GrammarSchool.

St James’s Place has morethan £17 billion under man-agement and was namedDaily Telegraph WealthManager of the Year in 2007.

Darfield to China

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A BRAMPTON firm aims to havereached a turnover of £1m by2010.

Integral Network Solutions atthe Cortonwood Centre alsoaims to increase its profits by 95per cent.

The company, which employsfour and was set up about 18months ago, had a turnover of£326,000 at the end of its firstyear of trading.

It provides cabling for comput-ers, the high-tech equivalent ofschool blackboards and projec-tors.

The firm has won its biggestdeal to date: a contract worth£115,000 at a new college inWakefield.

Managing director Paul Tayorsaid: “We tendered for the con-tract to provide cabling forphones and computers. We

were the most expensive tender-er but, surprisingly, won it onvalue not price.”

The firm has fitted cables atabout 200 magistrates andcrown courts all over the northand has become a supplier to

Wigan Council in a deal worthabout £60,000.

INS was named a regional win-ner of the HSBC Start-Up Starsawards for the UK's most promis-ing new firms. The overall win-ner received £50,000, and wasannounced at a ceremony at TheDorchester Hotel in London’sPark Lane on October 29.

Paul grew up in Wath and WestMelton and attended WathComprehensive.

He spent about 12 years in theinfantry and signals with theDuke of Wellington’s Regiment.

He served in Northern Ireland,Bosnia, the Falklands, Africa.Norway and Denmark.

Paul also worked for aHuddersfield data communica-tions company for about eightyears.

Big turnover plansfor Brampton firm

A PERSONAL computer fixingfirm has seen trade triple overthe last six months.

Cultrix at Kendray BusinessCentre has doubled staff to six tocope with demand.

The firm repairs personal com-puters without having to visit aclient. It uses software whichenables a customer to click ontoa link on its website.

Clients are voluntary organisa-tions such as Age Concern andVoluntary Acton Barnsley.

The company, which was setup in 2002, has received an£18,500 grant for marketingfrom Barnsley Development

Agency. Managing director Shaun

Wilders, who set on KeiraKershaw as a consultant, is build-ing up a portfolio of small busi-ness customers.

He said: “Trade, especiallyfrom small firms, has taken off.Before we set on Keira, businesscame through word of mouth.”

Shaun grew up in Castlefordand, after attending college inWakefield, read cybernetics atBradford University.

The company was originallycalled Barratt and Wilders andchanged its name in September2007.

� Cultrix is Latin for someonewho tends to or takes care ofanyone or anything.

A FORMER Barnsley woman hasbeen approached by a big com-pany to supply fairy items.

Julia Parker, 55, who grew up inPogmoor, has been asked by amajor home and garden firmabout providing fairy-themedgarden furniture for a catalogue.

She sells fairy wings and otheritems online for hen nights, wed-dings and children's parties.

Julia set up

www.offwiththefairies.com abouta year ago and one of her moreunusual requests was to help arestaurant holding an evening onthe theme of ‘A MidsummerNight's Dream’.

She was educated at Raley andBroadway schools and workedfor the NatWest Bank for about30 years. She was a teller andlater a supervisor at branches inMarket Hill and Wombwell.

Julia said: “I have met many dif-ferent types of people. Thingstook off from the moment the sitewas launched. It features a pagewhere people can send their fairystories, pictures and poems.”

Until six years ago when shemoved to Dinnington, nearSheffield, she lived atIngbirchworth for about 20 years.She has also lived in GranvilleStreet, Barnsley.

A BUSINESSMAN from Barnsley haspicked up a second entrepreneur ofthe year award in six months.

John Hayward, 46, who lives offBroadway, has been named as Ernstand Young's business products entre-preneur of the year.

In June, he won Ernst and Young'smanufacturing entrepreneur of theyear.

Mr Hayward picked up his latestaward at a ceremony in London host-ed by the actress Joanna Lumley.

He is chief executive of PressureTechnologies plc and its subsidiaryChesterfield Special CylindersLimited, makers of high pressure steelcylinders for the energy and defenceindustries.

Philip Hilling, Yorkshire senior part-ner of Ernst and Young, said: "Thejudges described John as an'opportunist’ who saw the chance to

bring supply chain managementpractices from the automotive indus-try to a specialist but, nonetheless,traditional metal bashing business.”

Mr Hayward was raised inWorsbrough Common and MountVernon Road and attendedWorsbrough High School.

He read physics at OxfordUniversity and, after a short spell inthe Army, trained as an accountant.His career has included stints at Bootsin Nottingham and Courtaulds inDerby. In 2004, he instigated themanagement buy out of ChesterfieldSpecial Cylinders and moved thebusiness to Sheffield to improve effi-ciency and increase productivity.

The firm had a turnover of about£4m in 2004. It has forecast it willgenerate revenues of £22m in 2008and it is planned to at least doublethat figure by 2012.

A COMPANY producing person-alised presentation plaques for juniorfootballers has been set up atCudworth.

Fan Plaques at Barnsley Businessand Innovation Centre on SnydaleRoad is aiming to get some ofBritain's 18,000 junior football clubsinvolved. It is planned to set on a net-work of agents to market and sell theplaques.

The firm has been set up byGraham Bean who said the plaquesinclude a player’s shirt with squadnumber and name, the name of asponsor, the club crest and list of

team members.The company has a deal with Sky

Soccer and has produced plaques forprofessional clubs includingDoncaster Rovers who won theLeague One play-offs in May.

Mr Bean has taken on Bev Weigertas sales executive.

He said the plaques could be usedby firms for employee of the monthawards and by schools to present topupils. Mr Bean also runs FootballFactors which acts as an advocate forprofessional and soccer players andmanagers facing disciplinary hear-ings.

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Former HQ to be turned into officesA FORMER headquar-ters of a haulage com-pany is being turnedinto offices, factoriesand storage space byrelatives of the founder

of one of Barnsley’sbest-known removalsfirms.

Oliver and LouiseMasters, great granchil-dren of Thomas

Masters, have so farconverted the100,000-square feetformer base of TAPFreight at the MetroTrading Centre, Barugh

Green, into about 20smaller rooms.

Occupants include aroofing contractor, aninjection moulding firmand a truck repair and

MoT company. Spacehas also been taken bypeople who want tostore furniture andother belongings.

The building is ownedby Oliver and Louise’sfather, Robin. It hadbeen vacant since TAPFreight moved toCarlton Industrial

estate. Robin sold afamily company RJMDistribution to TAPFreight about 15 yearsago but kept his stakein the building.

Oliver, 27, runs OTMDevelopments Ltd andLouise, 31, acts as apersonal assistant.

Space on offer ranges

from 75-square feet to12,000-square ft andprices start at about £3per square foot.

Louise said a typicalcompany could look fora space with just a toiletand a roller shutter.

Oliver grew up inRedbrook and attendedWakefield IndependentSchool. He worked forRJM Distribution and hasalso been a roofing con-tractor.

Louise attendedHolgate School and readfashion design atNottingham TrentUniversity. She workedfor about six years as aclothing importer with aLeeds company whichdealt with John Lewisand Debenhams.She also spent aboutthree years running theSpirit cafe and restaurantin Regent Street South.OTM Developments Ltdhas owned the formerGaimsters premises atTown End for more thantwo years.

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Its growth has accelerated sinceit began insuring individuals andbusiness outside the farmingindustry in the 1980s, propelling the company intothe UK's top ten general insurers, with more than730,000 customers, more than half of whom arecommercial and consumer rather than farmingcustomers.

NFU Mutual is keen to celebrate its agriculturalheritage, however, and last year took on the

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A sure bet foryoung DanielleBUSINESSWOMAN DanielleMason has made a journey back towhere it all began.

Danielle, 23, has opened a beau-ty and tanning salon in the premis-es where she started her career.

Her business Inner Beauty, whichemploys two, is at Cemetery Road,Hemingfield where she beganwork at 18 as a beauty therapist ata salon called Beauty Box.

Danielle said: “Beauty Box hadbeen closed for about a year whenI took over the premises in May. Iworked there for about two yearsand I have nothing but good mem-ories.

“I loved Hemingfield and loved itspeople. I have always wanted torun my own business. Setting it upwhere I first worked has beengood.”

Danielle grew up in Barnsley and

attended Kingstone School. Shestudied beauty at Barnsley College.

After leaving Beauty Box, shespent two years as a therapist atLiving Well (now Bannatyne’s),adjoining Brooklands Hotel inDodworth.

She spent six months at a spa inDoncaster and four months at anail bar in Cudworth.

Danielle has received a £3,000loan from The Prince’s YouthBusiness Trust which she has usedto buy products and has spent onadvertising.

She has set herself a target ofachieving a turnover of £17,000 atthe end of the first year of trading.

A man who has fitted a credit cardchip and pin machine has bet herthat her turnover will be between£20,000 and £25,000 by next May.

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ABOUT 15 people who run smalland new firms in Barnsley areattending sessions to learn how to domarketing plans and find and keepclients.

The ‘Free Friday’ workshops arerun by Barry Bassnett who hasworked in marketing for about 25years and is a co-founder of TheSavvy Partnership.

The sessions have been introducedafter being successful in Manchesterwhere about 40 company represen-tatives took part.

Mr Bassnett said: “When I startedin business, there was nobody tohelp me with marketing.

“I had plenty of help with moneyand accounting but not the thingsthat get business and pay the bills.

“Sales and marketing are importantskills that every business needs butfew people know how to do it. Iknow these skills can make a big dif-ference to small businesses.”

Mr Bassnett grew up in BirkenheadDocks and has worked on projectsfor Volvo, British Aerospace,Tetrapak and other businesses. Hemoved to Barnsley after marrying alocal girl. The Savvy Partnership con-sists of Mr Bassnett, David Adams,Helen Freeborough and SimonWharton. The marketing consultan-cy has done work for, among others,the BBC and Vimto. It was set upabout two years ago.� Sessions are held at the Digital

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A PROPERTY developer and entre-preneur has forecast a website hehas set up to make home improve-ments easy will get 2,000 ‘hits’ aweek by Christmas.

Antony Green, 40, who has set upDecision 2 Day HomeImprovements, also expects toachieve a turnover of just under£1m within the next 12 months.

The website puts homeowners intouch with trades people and offersadvice on things like planning andbuilding regulations, energy effi-ciency, do it yourself tips, moneysaving ideas and grants.

It operates in 17 Yorkshire townsand has a potential audience ofabout five million people.

Mr Green said he had been in thebuilding trade for about 22 yearsand said he hoped to end the risk ofpeople employing so-called rogues

and cut uncertainty and potentialunhappiness when people employsomeone they have not usedbefore.

He said: “Finding good, reliabletrades people has always beensomething of a lottery in the past.We want people to make us theirfirst port of call when they need toknow anything about homeimprovements.”

Mr Green lived in GreenfootLane, Barnsley until he was fivewhen he moved to Hoylandswaine.He was educated at PenistoneGrammar School and has beeninvolved in building, plant hire, siteclearance and recycling.

The website lists 35 trades includ-ing builders, plumbers, electricians,landscape gardeners, decoratorsand interior designers.

THOUSANDS of customers havevisited a private gallery openedby a husband and wife.

Lovers of art and crafts fromCornwall and the south westhave been to the Clare WhiteGallery at Elsecar HeritageCentre which is run by lecturerand art historian Andy Pollardand is wife Steph.

Andy is a specialist in Cornishart and has contributed to bookson the subject.

He said: “There is a demand forCornish art in the north.

“A lot of people are familiarwith it and they go on holiday in

the south west. “We are still in the early days

but we are starting to see cus-tomers coming back. We attend-ed the Northern Art Show inHarrogate in March and havehad customers from Leeds andBradford.”

Andy, who lectures at SheffieldHallam University, met the artistClare White when he was 17 anddecided to name the gallery afterher. She lived and worked in StIves most of her life and was afriend of Barbara Hepworth andBen Nicholson.

She travelled the world alone to

paint watercolours in Barbados,Egypt, Yugoslavia and Venice.

Critics regard her as a pioneerin women's art and she has

exhibited at the Paris Salon andthe Royal Academy.

The gallery opened in October2007.

DEMAND from Barnsley andRotherham Chamber of Commercefor nationally-accredited trainingby health and safety consultancyEnviron Safety Management is ris-ing.

The relationship between the twoorganisations began 18 months agowhen it organised training coursesfor the users of alloy towers. Butmore course have been booked.

Chamber spokesman AndrewDenniff said: “The service deliv-ered to our members and othercustomers is always of a high stan-dard and customer feedback isexcellent.”

Environ director Paul Alvey saidcalls from the chamber to bookcourses was increasing almostdaily.

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Andy Pollard and his wife Steph.

Director of Simon Blyth estate agents David C Robinsonand Decision 2 Day Home Improvements managingdirector Antony Green.

To advertise telephone (01226) 734666 Chronicle Business, Friday, November 7, 2008 – 7Advertiser’s Announcement

Your Local Chamber OfficeBusiness Innovation CentreWilthorpeBarnsley S75 1JL

e-mail: info@brchamber.co.uk

Telephone: 01226 217770

BARNSLEY ECONOMY

Call01226 217770

or01709 386200

to book aplace at one of

our events.

Region’s businessesstand up to difficult times The countdown is now

on to one of thehighlights of theChamber calendar -the prestigiousBarnsley BusinessAwards ceremony.

The awards night will see thebest of business in townhonoured at Brooklands Hotelon Friday 21 November. Theceremony will be hosted bytelevision broadcaster ClareFrisby and Chamber membersare encouraged to book theirplaces as soon as possible toavoid disappointment.

Talent Services werecrowned as the Best Barnsley Business last timearound and an air of anticipation is now gatheringover who will take the 2008 overall title, and theidentity of the winners in the other categories.

Tickets are priced at £50 plus VAT per person –you can book your place now by visitingwww.brchamber.co.uk.

Call 01226 217770 or 01709 386200 for more information

The recent BCC Quarterly EconomicSurvey recently outlined the fact thatthe UK is at serious risk of recession.The survey, which received a recordresponse of over 5000 businessestaking part, saw results hittinghistorically low levels in many sectors.

Although these are undisputedly difficult times forthe UK, the results from our region differ from thetrend, and in fact South Yorkshire business as a wholehas remained constant. Indeed in certain areas,particularly manufacturing and exports, we have seensome strong performances.

The fact that some businesses continue to performabove the norm is testament to the innovation androbust outlook that the region is renowned for.

The overall position is, nevertheless, concerning asthere may be a temptation to raise business taxes tobalance the deficit; it is hoped that government do nottake this option as this would not only restrict growth,but it would also hit the customer hard.

CHAMBER POLICYA cornerstone of our activity“Policy is at the heart of everything theChamber does – that is why businessesjoin a Chamber of Commerce”, saidDavid Frost, Director General of theBritish Chambers of Commerce.

The effectiveness of our policy work can best bemeasured in:• Whether members feel the Chamber is fully

representing their views• In advocating and lobbying, are we engaging

properly with our partners and others?• Are the results of this work providing effective and

appropriate change?In order to be as effective as possible with our

lobbying, it is key that we focus on the areas where wecan most effective and which are of most importanceto the membership.

The results of our work will be communicatedthrough the Chamber website, Chamber Bulletinmagazine and media releases – including articles likethis.

It is imperative that members feed back to usthrough the various surveys we issue – for example ourrecently circulated membership survey and the BCCQuarterly Economic Survey. It is only with their supportand engagement that we will continue to do the jobthat is expected of us.

For more information on Chamber policy, callAndrew Denniff on 01709 386200.

BARNSLEY BUSINESS AWARDS - SHORTLISTThe shortlisted companies for the Barnsley Business Awards are as follows:

Business Growth Award(sponsored by Barnsley Chronicle)• Stagecoach• Billington Stuctures • Lavender Int NDT Consultancy• Haigh Pettican Ltd

Business Start Up Award(sponsored by Business LinkYorkshire)• Travel Empire• Integral Network solutions• Sushi Sushi• Absolute Fire & security

Diverse Workplace Award(sponsored by Barnsley Work &Skills Board)• Stagecoach Yorkshire• Fosters Bakery• Brooklands Hotel

Education Links Award(sponsored by Business & EducationSouth Yorkshire)• Ardsley House Hotel• Brooklands Hotel• The Take 2 Centre

Skills Award(sponsored by Barnsley Work &Skills Board)• Brooklands Hotel• Doyle Consultants• Windowstyle UKInward Investment Award(sponsored by Barnsley DevelopmentAgency)• Dantone Precision Engineering

Ltd• MED-EL UK Ltd• FlexsealHealthy Workplace Award(sponsored by Barnsley PrimaryCare Trust)• Pilkington AG • Barnsley Premier LeisureInnovation Award(sponsored by South YorkshireInvestment Fund)• HJC Design • Merlin Software• Haigh Pettican• Flipt Concept

Best Overall BusinessAward(sponsored by Royal Bank ofScotland)• Fosters Bakery• Hickton• Digital Media Centre• Active Voice & DataEnvironment Award(sponsored by Barnsley MetropolitanBorough Council)• Tarmac Ltd• Kiveton Park & Wales Village

Hall• Pentagon Toyota• DTS Environmental Ltd

Business Woman of theYear Award(sponsored by HSBC)• Sarah Brabbin – Glo• Cassandra Brown – MED_EL

UK Ltd• Elizabeth Walker – House of

Beauty

Business Awards Looms Fast

FORTHCOMING EVENTSTuesday 11 November – South Yorkshire Chamber Networking BreakfastVenue: Brooklands Hotel (7.30am start)Price: £19.99 plus VAT (Members), £40 plus VAT (Non Members)

Friday 21 November – Barnsley Business AwardsVenue: Brooklands Hotel (from 7pm)Price: £50 plus VAT per person

Friday 28 November – Women in Business go Wilde with Carl WildeVenue: Ardsley House Hotel, Barnsley (2.30pm)Price: £15 plus VAT (Members), £30 plus VAT (Non Members)

8 – Chronicle Business Friday, November 7, 2008 To advertise telephone (01226) 734666