Type
Business expansion
Country
United Kingdom
Region
West Midlands; Herefordshire; Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Location of affected unit(s)
Oldbury
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Furniture
31 - Manufacture of furniture

300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
15 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

300 jobs will be created under plans to open a bed factory in Worcester. The 84,000 sq ft (7,804 sq m) Dreams site on the Granada Trading Estate in Oldbury will be able to make thousands of beds every day. It is four times the size of the company's current factory in Perry Barr, Birmingham. The beds will be sold in more than 120 stores across the UK owned by Dreams, which has a turnover of £125m.


Sources

  • 15 September 2006: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2006), Dreams, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64087, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64087.