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Eureka

David Baggaley — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:51:44 +0000

Good to see a well-earned and extended piece on a regional television news programme for fast-moving Leeds healthcare star Surgical Innovations (BBC Look North Leeds Sunday February 14). Having invested a further £1m in new product development, the company’s unique instruments for non-invasive surgery continue to lead the market at home and abroad and even had a Government Minister trialling them on camera.

Listen to Some Good News

Ian Williams — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:08:02 +0000

It’s often said that the UK media tends to be interested only in publishing bad news. A theory we might have subscribed to after three years of knocking on the Look North door in Leeds with a stream of Leeds Manufacturing good news tales that were scoring in the Financial and Sunday Times and on Working Lunch.

So it’s hats off to Harry, Christa and the gang for recently highlighting the ubiquitous Sound Leisure and its range of impressive jukeboxes that continue to buck the recession. The company designs and manufactures a wide range of audio and video products for the leisure and retail sectors and its extensive product range have established it as the UK’s leading supplier of classic and digital jukeboxes.

This week, Sound Leisure threw open its doors for two days of technical training and awareness: “Over the 31 years we have been manufacturing jukeboxes, we have probably trained more engineers than any other manufacturer in our industry,” said managing director Chris Black.

In addition to training, the sessions gave bench and service engineers and business development staff time to discuss products and technologies with trained Sound Leisure personnel.

Welcome to the Leeds Manufacturing blog

David Baggaley — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:52:19 +0000

A little over three years ago, we launched our Leeds Manufacturing media relations campaign and it has met with conspicuous success, achieving media coverage far and wide.

This is not so much due to our skills in recording the continued progress of the city as a centre of manufacturing excellence, but more to the rich and innovative variation of companies and their products.

In a recent tour of a selection of these firms, the Financial Times’ UK business editor was literally ‘gob-smacked’ and kindly accorded us a half page of words and pictures on the subject.

Our website showcases many of these companies and with the digital revolution continuing to gain pace, launching a blog to celebrate the achievements of manufacturing in Leeds is another great way of spreading the word.

I’ll be doing my best to keep you up to date with ‘all things manufacturing’ in the city, helped by other members of the team including my trusty PR consultant, Duncan Greenwood, who is often out and about visiting sites so that he can make journalists aware of the great work that is going on in the region.

The other purpose of the blog is to stimulate the flow of news and views and start a dialogue. So please, let us have your comments on topics we’re blogging about and also tell us about any other manufacturing stories you come across or issues you would like to raise.

We look forward to hearing from you.