RGF round three winners announced
NXP Semiconductors UK based in Hazel Grove, Stockport are one of twenty one projects in the North West to have received a share of a total of £88m in the third round of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund.
Nationally there were 130 successful bidders sharing £1bn. The Government said that for every £1 of taxpayer money spent, the fund would leverage £6 of private sector investment.
The successful round two bidders in the North West were:
Aircelle, BurnleyAstraZeneca, Macclesfield; Atlantic Container Line UK, Liverpool; Bentley Motors, Crewe; Computionics, Wigan; Sci-Tech Daresbury; Eli Lilly & Company, Liverpool; Erlson Precision Components, Skelmersdale; Vauxhall Motors UK, Ellesmere Port; Jaguar Land Rover, Liverpool; James Cropper, Kendal; Kilgour Metal Treatments, Thornton-Cleveleys; Lakeland Arts Trust, Bowness-on-Windermere;Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineNovartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Liverpool; Pentagon Chemicals, Workington; PMT Industries, Bolton; Redx Pharma, Liverpool; S Cartwright & Sons (Coachbuilders), Altrincham; Unilever UK Central Resources, Port Sunlight
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