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Manufacturing (31) Manufacture of furniture 31 - Manufacture of furniture 31 - Manufacture of furniture
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
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://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64087.