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Signs are positive for Bradford

businesses

By Chris Holland,

Business Reporter

Madeline Wolfe, Taylors of Harrogate's export sales administrator, with Chamber

International's Mike Strawson

Business Reporter Chris Holland rounds up recent key business

developments

The boss of Morrisons’ new online grocery operation said this week’s

launch of deliveries to the Bradford-based retailer’s heartland would put

it nearly halfway towards reaching 50 per cent of UK households by the

end of the year.

Delivery vans started rolling out from the Birstall depot on Monday to

households in Bradford, Skipton and other parts of Yorkshire.

Simon Thompson, head of online food at Morrisons.com, said the Birstall

hub would supply about eight per cent of Morrisons online sales and the

expansion into Yorkshire would see it achieving about 40 per cent of its

intended coverage for 2014.

The roll-out in

Yorkshire has created

nearly 100 jobs for

delivery staff.

Mr Thompson said:

“We have been most

encouraged by sales

over the first three

weeks which have been

better than expected.”

Oxford-based

property investor Ray

Withers has sung Bradford’s praises, predicting it would become a

magnet for savvy investors.

Mr Withers, chief executive of Property Frontiers, which is selling buy-to-

let apartments in the £45 million Aspire Citygate development on

Manchester Road, said regeneration of the city would attract more

demand for luxury apartments through people returning to the district.

He said: “Bradford offers a good, yet affordable

standard of living and its migrating population

has made the city one of the UK’s top residential

property hotspots for 2014.

“House prices in Bradford are, on average, one

third less than London and half the price of the

South-East. However, the growing demand in the

area is pushing up prices in the property market,

making it an excellent location for capital growth

investments.”

Export officials from Bradford-based

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2/7/2014 Signs are positive for Bradford businesses (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

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accused of ‘protectionism’. Chamber International warned that the

‘country of origin’ labelling dispute could become an EU-wide issue.

The dispute revolves around the definition of the ‘substantive change’ in

a tea product which is used to determine its country of origin.

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our view, this is a clear case of protectionism on the part of the South

Korean authorities. It could be the thin end of the wedge and, if not

resolved, this dispute could affect all blended teas exported from within

the EU.”

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remains confident about future prospects.

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from £3.1 million to nearly £4.6 million while turnover rose by five per

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