2. JAM FACTORY
Speciality jam
made with local produce
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Alex Morhen yr9 caracals Geography week21&22
3. MY FACTORY
There are a lot of fruit orchards in this area
Available fruits in this area: apples, pears,
cherries, strawberries, plums and raspberries
People like to buy local produce and there is no
place around here to buy locally produced jams.
Only half a mile down the road is a food
distribution company, which I can use to
distribute the jams around the country and even
abroad.
So my factory will make Jam.
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5. Site of food
distribution
Proposed centre
Site of
Factory
Local market
and shops
A2 links with
M2. Access to
London and the
costal ports .
•good for delivery 5
trucks.
6. Nature
Reserve
Food
distributio
n centre
Proposed
site of
factory Easy
access onto
wide main
road with
good view
of traffic
Railway
line
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7. MY JAM FACTORY
I am going to build a jam factory.
The fruit and pectin ( natural thickening agent)
will be purchased from local fruit farmers and
brought in by lorries.
Sugar will be from a national supplier and
delivered in big tanks.
Glass jars supplied by a UK company which
specialises in recycled glass and brought in by
lorry.
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8. My site is about ½ mile west of Faversham on the A2.
Just 1 mile north of the M2, a major route between
Dover and London. So transport links are very good.
The site is easily accessible to delivery lorries.
There are no rivers nearby, so no chance of flooding.
Unemployment is high so getting workers will not be
a problem and no specialist workers are needed.
I may get grants from the government because I will
be using local produce and recycled materials.
My product will be sold from a shop on site and in the
local shops as well as being distributed 8
internationally.
9. Designer Birthday Cakes by Amelia
• My factory is going to be placed on Knowle Lane, Fair Oak,
Hampshire. Currently there is a stone place there but I will
buy the land a build a factory that makes birthday cakes. I
have chosen this area because there is great access for
large lorries and it is also very close to the village square
where there are many shops. I also think that many people
around would apply for jobs here and there is enough room
to expand if needed. The money side of things I wouldn’t
think the government would fund it. The Fair Oak council is in
favour of my factory as there are many people unemployed
in this area and this idea would create many jobs. Down the
road there is a few pubs which I would happily supply with
cakes if wanted. It also has easy access to the M4 and M25
meaning transport would be easy to arrange. It is only 1hr
30mins away from London.
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11. Chloe’s Bakery
• The raw materials flour, sugar etc. will be brought in with
lorries from local mills and other local suppliers.
• My factory will be on St James Street West in Darwen town
center as there is an old factory that was a bakery and is
now falling down and is an eye sore. I will re-build it and
have it restored. It is in the town center so getting the
produce out to the stores won’t be much of a problem. There
is an old style market a few streets away where fresh bread
would sell well and there are many cafes and a few deli’s
opening up so there would be lots of buyers in the immediate
area.
• The area has high unemployment so there will be no
shortage of workers.
• As it such an eyesore I may be able to get some funds from
the council as I shall be re-building it.
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12. My Factory
By Helen Dandridge
My factory will be situated in Milton Keynes and will produce racing cars
for private teams and drivers to buy.
I have chosen this particular product as Milton Keynes is within easy reach of supply
companies which have all grown up around the Midlands motor manufacturing industry.
Birmingham was the hub of this with companies like MG Rover, Lucas and Dunlop.
Numerous smaller companies grew up acting as suppliers for the much bigger firms and,
whilst many of these are no longer trading due to the bigger firms moving away, quite a
few of them still exist and supply motor industry related customers nationwide.
Milton Keynes offers many opportunities for businesses to establish themselves with land
having been set aside in the city plan for commercial development rather than housing.
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13. Location…
Milton Keynes itself boasts the headquarters of Mercedes Benz UK, VW UK and Suzuki UK,
and Nissan’s European engineering centre is based near Cranfield.
Testing facilities are conveniently available at Silverstone, Millbrook testing ground (which
belongs to Vauxhall and is rented out to various customers), Rockingham and numerous
local dis-used airfields. Silverstone also has a technology park which houses various
motorsport companies and a range of potential suppliers.
There are many notable motorsport related companies in the area such as Prodrive in
Banbury; Mercedes Grand Prix in Brackley; Force India Grand Prix at Silverstone; Red Bull
Grand Prix in Milton Keynes; and Cosworth Engineering in Northampton (whose engine
has won the most F1 races by far). As a result, numerous smaller specialist suppliers and
teams have established themselves in the surrounding area to take advantage of the
availability of resources, eg components, skills, intellectual capital and facilities.
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14. Why Milton Keynes?
The M1 gives direct access to London but also to Birmingham (for suppliers). It’s a great
location because the M1 also allows easy access to the majority of UK motor racing
circuits. And, because of the history of motor industry and motorsport in this area, many
people with experience, knowledge and skills are more readily available here than
elsewhere.
Buying components is easy because the number of similar companies based here means
that the suppliers will probably already be delivering to this area – which probably also
makes it a more cost effective proposition (thus promoting higher profit margins). Getting
machinery is not a problem either due to the pre-existing companies in the area and it may
even be possible to buy a business, along with their machinery. Mercedes Grand Prix once
bought Honda’s Grand Prix, which is another way to grow your company (known as
growth by acquisition versus organic growth).
Motorsport today is seen as a very important industry for the country, so there are many
funding opportunities, but the business would mainly be funded by sponsorship of the car
companies, eg Ford, Mercedes, etc, and also from advertising sponsorship.
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17. I am going to build a factory
for my new strawberry
yoghurt brand, Magnifique.
Proposed site.
2.5 acres
Emerald Street,
Huddersfield.
Extra room if I want
to expand!
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18. The proposed site for my factory
is near the town centre.
There are a few dairy There is a
farms nearby! strawberry farm
nearby!
There are many
supermarkets nearby!
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19. Crossley Farm Dairy
My factory Leeds Road / A62
My factory
A629
It would take a lorry only 15 minutes to
transport the milk from either one of the two
Delph House Farm
farms to my factory.
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20. My factory It would take
a lorry only 20
Wakefield Road / A642
minutes to
transport the
strawberries
from Bently
Grange to my
Bently Grange
factory!
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21. As I said earlier,
there are many
supermarkets ASDA
nearby. Saving your money
everyday.
For example, TESCO
ASDA is only 7 Every little helps.
minutes away
ASDA
from my factory!
SAINSBURY’S Alder Street
Try something new
today. My factory
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22. My factory is so near the raw materials it
requires. This ensures that the milk and
strawberries won’t spoil.
My factory is so near to the supermarkets
too. So the products can be sold almost
immediately after it has been made.
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23. My workers do not have to have a
particular skill and Huddersfield is a rather
large town so finding potential employees
should be relatively easy.
Many machines are required to make the
yoghurt but fortunately, we do not require
a surplus amount of electricity. So we do
not need to be next to a power plant. The
electricity we need can easily be supplied
by the overhead electric cables.
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24. Building a factory is going to be expensive.
Fortunately, we are supported by the
council. I am certain the local council will
assist me as a factory will decrease
unemployment rates, especially when
hardly any qualifications are required.
Watson Diary Consulting will give
me independent advice and
provide project management
service.
Here is a link:
www.dairyconsultant.co.uk
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25. I am going to employ a local
architect called Michael Chow of
Jade3 Architecture (a.k.a. Daddy) to
design my factory.
Here is a link:
www.jade3architecture.co.uk
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27. Jonah’s Resin Factory
• Key:
• Black =
entrance road
from motorway,
• Blue = main
production
building,
• Brown =
refinery,
• Red = storage
rooms,
• Light green/blue = open area for • White = waste
expansion (2nd production building) silos,
• Green = car park,
• Yellow = manager’s office building,
• Orange = power generator, 27
28. Reasons why this is a good site for a resin
factory
• Requirements:
Around 45 workers, two waste silos, and the suitable
machinery required for refining and making the resin.
• The offices will also have 7 computers.
• Cranes and trucks will be needed to load and unload the raw
material.
• Workers:
• The factory’s location near the beach, the ¼ of a mile
distance from a big town (Barnstaple) and nearby
apartments should hopefully attract workers.
• The cranes and truck will need people with driver and
machinery licences to operate them.
• We will also need people with the ability to operate the
refinery but due to the vast building and machinery trade
around Bideford it should not be hard to find the suitable
people for this task.
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29. Reasons why this is a good site for a resin
factory
• Resin market:
• Resin is highly used in the production of miniatures,
Warhammer and many other toys and collectibles.
• That industry is booming in North Devon because of the
decrease in the primary industry.
• There are many shops and businesses which I know will be
happy to accept my resin as their other suppliers have shut
down giving me an excess of potential buyers.
• Funding:
• Funding, I am planning on getting from investments from
companies who wish to buy my resin.
• I will be offering anyone who invests in my company a 13%
discount and stock share of 15% of my company’s earnings.
• I will only be accepting 2-3 investors to stop a surplus of
investors wanting shares and it will also create an exclusive
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30. Kane’s Bakery
• What is it going to be?
• My idea is to open a shop which produces
(bakes) fresh bread and distributes it within
the inner city. This would provide fresh bread
for everyone in Inner London, and if the shop
gained a reputation it could become very
lucrative.
• Wheat from farm in rural England > Delivered
to shop in Central London > Bread is made >
Sold immediately > Profit.
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31. Location maps
• I will place it in Kingston upon Thames, I’ve put a
Google Map location below.
The reason for this
placement is
because it’s not too
far into Central
London for the
congestion charge to
apply, but it’s not too
far out. Basically a
farmer from an area
outside London that
grows wheat would
be able, without a
horrific drive, to
deliver it to Kingston
where it would be
baked on site.
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32. • Why is it going to be there?
• As I just stated in the last paragraph, the main
reason for this is there is no fresh bread which
is for sale in the city. It’s all produced at a farm
somewhere in England, brought to the city and
by that time it’s not warm. By placing my shop
in Kingston, it would enable me to bring in
wheat, bake it on site (with easy access to
electricity, machinery etc) and distributed as
soon as it’s taken out the oven.
• The rents in Kingston are not too high
compared to the rest of London, which would
require the shop to not make a huge return;
allowing a larger profit margin. There’s no
competition in the area too (as I live around
there), so if something like this opened up it
would be completely unrivalled.
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33. • Product:
• Ultimately fresh and hot bread, it would be
packaged like this:
This is only a brief
idea though, obviously
the company’s logo
would be on it.
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34. Terry’s Paper Factory
• The factory will be located in the North of England on the
outskirts of Darlington sine the land would be much cheaper
than if it was built in the town.
• The site would be 1 2/3 miles South of the town and 3 miles
West of the A1 so it is ideal importation-wise.
• The raw materials (wood) will be chopped down by
lumberjacks and imported by the shipping company “ship-it”
until we build up enough money to hire our own importers.
• The factory will not require a big labour force, but we will
definitely need to hire a few workers – which will not be a
problem due to the current economy situation, however they
will need to be trained to get accustomed to the machinery
and such.
• The only main problem would access. It is likely that potential
workers would be reluctant to travel so far from their homes
to work although I suspect it would only be a minor problem.
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35. Terry’s Paper Factory
• The packaging will display our company logo
(Papyrus) with a papyrus textured background and
a pen as the “y”. As already mentioned above, the
raw materials will come from lumberjacks either
hired by the company or by a separate
establishment – it is undecided as of yet.
• Energy supply may be a minor problem.
• We have a small budget to lay the foundations of
the business and a paper manufacturing factory
would require a lot of machinery to compress the
wood, clean the bark, etc. Not to mention the
kitchens for the workers and the lights to keep the
place lit up. The reason we have a small budget is
because we are not actually paying for it. We
managed to get hold of a grant from the government
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