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Suffolk Business Awards 2023 – Open for Entry!

Suffolk Business Awards 2023 – Open for Entry!

We are proud to be sponsoring these awards again for 2023 and our category is Director of the Year. The awards are your chance to shout about your Suffolk business, to celebrate the achievements of your team and become one of the top winning businesses in the region....

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Furniture Village Opens at Stane Retail Park

Furniture Village Opens at Stane Retail Park

The UK’s largest family-run furniture retailer, Furniture Village has opened a brand-new store at Colchester’s Stane Retail Park, taking its store portfolio to 55. Located in a prominent standalone location at the front of the park, the new store will offer customers...

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And the winner of Director of the Year is….Olly Magnus!

And the winner of Director of the Year is….Olly Magnus!

And the winner of Director of the Year is....Olly Magnus of Magnus Group Ltd!! We were proud to sponsor the Suffolk Business Awards 2022 once again and as always the judging process meant we got to meet so many talented people running and working in incredible...

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Mountain Warehouse joins the line up at Stane Retail Park

Mountain Warehouse joins the line up at Stane Retail Park

Mountain Warehouse has become the latest store to open at Stane Retail Park. Mountain Warehouse will be taking the approximately 10,000sqft Unit A5 next to Marks and Spencer and Superdrug. Founder of Mountain Warehouse Mark Neale commented “We’re proud to be opening a...

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Marks and Spencer at Stane Retail Park opens

Marks and Spencer at Stane Retail Park opens

Marks and Spencer has today opened its new store at Stane Retail Park, Stanway. The exciting new store with 62,000 sq ft of trading space will offer local customers in Colchester a bigger range of M&S products than ever before, with new Foodhall and Clothing &...

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Finalist announced for Suffolk Business Awards 2022

Finalist announced for Suffolk Business Awards 2022

Excitingly the finalists for the Suffolk Business Awards 2022 have been announced today. As sponsor of Director of the Year we have met some incredible business people who make Suffolk a great place to work and live. Our congratulations to everyone who made the...

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Exciting new tenants announced at Stane Retail Park, Stanway

Exciting new tenants announced at Stane Retail Park, Stanway

Stane Retail Park in Stanway is to become the home of a new Superdrug and Mountain Warehouse. Superdrug will be taking the approximately 5,000sqft Unit A4 in the terrace next to Marks and Spencer. Nigel Duxbury, Property Director at Superdrug said, “We are thrilled to...

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Greggs opens at Stane Retail Park

Greggs opens at Stane Retail Park

Greggs opened its doors to the people of Colchester at Stane Retail Park yesterday. The 1840sqft store opened in one of the Kiosk units, next to the already trading Cook. A spokesman for Greggs said the chain was very happy to have opened its doors to customers at the...

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M&S ANNOUNCES NEW COLCHESTER STORE AT STANE RETAIL PARK

M&S ANNOUNCES NEW COLCHESTER STORE AT STANE RETAIL PARK

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has today announced that it will be opening a new, larger M&S store in Colchester at the Stane Retail Park in Stanway. The exciting new store will offer local customers in Colchester a bigger range of M&S products than ever before,...

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COOK opens at Stane Retail Park, Colchester

COOK opens at Stane Retail Park, Colchester

COOK, the award-winning UK frozen food company, opened today at Stane Retail Park, selling its hand-prepared meals and puddings. Rosie Brown and Ed Perry, joint CEOs and siblings, said: “It’s pretty much 25 years to the day since we opened our very first shop and...

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Chesterford Research Park – Upcoming Developments

Chesterford Research Park – Upcoming Developments

The Newnham Building at Chesterford Research Park is now home to Microbiotica, Isomerase and Oncologica and the Emmanuel Building houses Superdielectrics, Illumina and two exciting new additions to the Park yet to be announced. Julian Cobourne, head of Regional...

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Nando’s opens at Stane Leisure Park

Nando’s opens at Stane Leisure Park

Nando's has today opened its doors at Stane Leisure Park creating new jobs for Stanway. A spokesperson for Nando's said “We are delighted to be opening a second store in Colchester to serve the Tollgate area and we are very much looking forward to building on the...

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Churchmanor builds its future

Churchmanor builds its future

The Churchmanor Estates Company PLC, a key player in the region’s commercial property market, has its eyes firmly on the future with plans to expand its services supporting the retail, leisure, mixed-use, industrial, business parks, research and development and office sectors.

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Starbucks opens at Stane Leisure Park

Starbucks opens at Stane Leisure Park

The first Starbucks drive thru in Colchester has opened today at Stane Leisure Park in Stanway, creating 25 new jobs for the local community. The store team held a ribbon cutting ceremony, where the Mayor, Councillor Peter Chillingworth and Priti Patel, MP for Witham...

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Stane Leisure Park completed!

Stane Leisure Park completed!

The new £12million Leisure Park in Stanway located opposite Sainsburys on the Western Bypass is set for practical completion today, 13th August 2018.

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Archaeologists unearth finds in Ipswich

Archaeologists unearth finds in Ipswich

The discoveries in the Lower Brook Street development visible from Turrett Lane were found in the middle of the assumed location of the historic St Peter’s Priory, later becoming Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s College.

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