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TAK CHEMICALS
In order to rationalize and increase administrative efficiency, Takdu st Products Ltd and Tak Clans Auto Products Ltd, both operating from Hayes Lane, Lye, Stourbridge, Wares, have merged to become Tak Chemicals Ltd. The address remains the same.
STENOR
Stenor has moved to modern premises little more than a mile from Its previous headquarters at Kew Foot Road. Stances new premises, c.omprising 55,000 sq ft floor space, are on the Lyon Industrial Estate, Mortlake Road, Kew.
AC-DE LCO The AC-Oelco Replacement Parts Operation, which incorporates the sales promotion department, is now trading from its new address at Stag Lane, Kingsbury, London, NW9 0tH. The new warehouse at Kingsbury will, by the end of May, contain all AC-Delco products made at the Liverpool and Dunstable plants, and by the •end of the year will include all stocks of filters at present at the Southampton plant. The engineering equipment sales and service departments will be remaining with General Motors Ltd, at Dunstable,
GEORGE HAPAMOND
An office and warehouse complex is being built for George Hammond and Co (Shipping) Ltd at Limekiln Street, Dover, within a quarter-mile of the Granville and Wellington Docks, The warehousing development will comprise 35,000 sq ft and is due for completion by early November 1971.
APPLE YARD
Turnover of the Appleyard Group of Companies for the year ended December • 31 1970 amounted to £29,842,000 11969: £25,414,108), group trading profit £1,068,916 11969: £B08,7831 and group profit before taxation E503,810-previously £314,697. And the 1969 figures were records. Looking to the future, the report says that the prospects are brighter than for six years; in the past year an irrecoverable total of £215,000 was paid out in SET, and the halving of this burden followed by its abolition in two years' time must be beneficial.