Unipart wins Jaguar Land Rover packing services contract extension

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Unipart Logistics has signed a new contract with Jaguar Land Rover to retain packing services for a further four years.

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Unipart Rail up for two HR industry awards

Unipart Rail graduates

Unipart Rail has been shortlisted for two Personnel Today Awards 2019.

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Unipart Logistics Rolls Out New Temperature Controlled Trailer Fleet

Unipart Logistics introduces new fleet of temperature managed trailers

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Unipart joint venture wins five-year extension to Sydney Trains contract

UGL Unipart Rail Services Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Australian company UGL and Unipart, has secured an approximate $900m, five-year contract extension with Sydney Trains.

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Unipart engineering director awarded University of Huddersfield professorship

Steve Ingleton, Engineering Director at Unipart Rail has been appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield, within the Institute of Railway Research.

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Unipart Rail leader wins everywoman award

Kelly Pepper everywoman award

Unipart Rail Head of Business Development Kelly Pepper was one of 14 winners at the annual everywoman Transport & Logistics Awards 2019.

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Unipart secures government funding to scale up UK battery supply chain

Unipart has secured a significant funding award as part of the government’s Industrial Strategy to advance the UK’s low-carbon automotive capability.

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Unipart in India wins two Tata Motors awards

Unipart in India has won two awards for the aftermarket service it provides to Tata Motors.

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Unipart agrees five-year Sicut deal in Australia and NZ

Unipart Group Australia has signed a five-year exclusive distribution agreement with Sicut Enterprises Limited to sell Sicut Composite Railway Sleepers in Australia and New Zealand.

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Unipart announces 2018 results

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consulting businesses, has announced its financial results for the year ending 31 December 2018.

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Two Unipart Rail leaders named everywoman Awards finalists

Kelly Pepper and Karen Beardsley

Karen Beardsley and Kelly Pepper are shortlisted in the Supply Chain category at the 12th annual everywoman Transport & Logistics Awards.

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Unipart wins ecommerce award

A Unipart website has won a prestigious ecommerce award at the annual Magento Imagine conference in Las Vegas.

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Unipart International wins EDF Energy nuclear contract

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Serck, a division of Unipart International, has won a £3.8m contract to design, manufacture and install heat exchangers at a nuclear power station.

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Coventry University collaboration extended

The Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering

The Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering has received more than £5m of funding following success training graduates.

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Unipart extends Three UK contract

Unipart Logistics has extended its contract with Three UK to provide logistics and distribution services until 2023.

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Unipart Rail acquires Westcode UK and Westcode Inc

Unipart Rail has acquired Westcode bringing the highly technical and skilled workforce into its wider operations.

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‘Follow me’ robots improve warehouse productivity

Humans and robots are working together to take laborious manual handling time away from the warehouse and speed up processes.

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Nuneaton team seeks to eliminate plastic packaging

As a result of their problem solving approach, the Virgin Reverse team in Nuneaton has designed new packaging that can eliminate 95.5% of all single use plastics from the Repair Packs.

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Unipart Rail and McCulloch Rail Form Partnership

Unipart Rail has formed an alliance with McCulloch Rail

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Unipart Logistics and McLaren Automotive win Aftermarket Award at Automotive Global Awards

For the third time Unipart Logistics have won the Aftermarket Award at the 2018 Automotive Global Awards – this time with a key customer, McLaren Automotive.

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A new joint venture offers virtual digital workforce

Unipart Group and Voyager Solutions are to work together to provide transformation services for back-office processing, client service administration and operational reporting using software robots

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Unipart helps Strathclyde University -Video

Five years ago Unipart Expert Practices began working with the University of Strathclyde to build a culture of continuous improvement in the University.

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UNIPART AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS HEALTH AND SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AWARDS

Unipart now has amassed a total of over 50 Swords of Honour over eight years.

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Unipart signs Armed Forces Covenant

Unipart Group has signed a covenant with the Armed Forces aimed at recognising the value to the community and the country that comes from the armed forces.

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Unipart Logistics team raises over £15k for bowel cancer charity

The Unipart Logistics London-Amsterdam Challenge involved cycling nearly 360 miles through four countries

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Roadshow marks National Recycling Week

Unipart Logistics marked National Recycling Week with an environmental roadshow and activities across Unipart Logistics sites

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Boeing contract seals record year for high-flying technology specialist

MetLase, which is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Unipart, has been announced as the tooling and fixture partner for the world’s largest aerospace manufacturer’s new Sheffield facility in a deal that will initially increase the workforce by 15%.

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Unipart and Volkswagen sign 5 year contract

Unipart Logistics has won a new five-year contract with Volkswagen Group to run their UK aftermarket supply chain.

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Unipart Logistics launches Operational Apprenticeships

Unipart Logistics is launching a new Apprenticeship Programme based in its operations functions

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Unipart and Williams launch new JV

Williams and Unipart form joint venture creating around 90 new jobs

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Five stars for UL in British Safety Council Audits

Unipart Logistics has scored five stars in the first year of British Safety Council audits for the Division.

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New contract to centralise delivery services

Unipart wins logistics contract for new NHS Supply Chain

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Unipart wins second Princess Royal Training Award

Award marks lasting impact achieved by successfully linking skills development needs to business performance

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Unipart Logistics to sponsor Chinese trade event

Unipart Logistics is sponsoring the 6th SME China Forum event in the UK

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Taking control of electronic assets

The Unipart Operations team at Nuneaton utilised an innovative digital technology to manage their hand held kit making it available when it's needed

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Unipart Fleet Management to benefit from new telematics

Unipart’s UK transport operations team will use a full suite of reports giving an understanding of where tractors, trailers and other assets are .

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Unipart Logistics Donates Defibrillators To Help Save Lives

Unipart Logistics has secured new defibrillators for our sites and donated three to the St John's Ambulance Service: all of which could help to save lives both within our business and in the local community.

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Unipart Logistics Signs New Contract with Plastic Omnium

UL has signed an extended contract with Plastic Omnium to the end of 2020.

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Fictional theme park unites Unipart and students at digital day

Robots, artificial intelligence and joint working on a fictional theme park in Oxford brought Unipart Group’s leaders of the future and 120 Year 10 students from Oxford Academy together recently.

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Unipart Outstanding Employment Award 2018

Our congratulation to the winner, runners-up and all those who entered the Unipart Outstanding Employment Award 2018, as part of Business in the Community's Responsible Business Awards 2018.

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Unipart Rail set to ‘revolutionise’ Africa’s rail supply chain

Unipart Rail, one of Unipart Group's key subsidiaries and a supplier of products and services to the global rail industry, has signed a partnership agreement  with Gear Rail, leaders in rail safety and control solutions in Africa.

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Unipart honoured at global safety awards

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, was awarded a number of accolades at this year’s British Safety Council’s International Safety Awards, which celebrate and reward organisations from around the world.  

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Unipart launches support for SUGAR SMART Campaign

Unipart has got behind SUGAR SMART

Unipart Group has got behind SUGAR SMART, a new campaign to help reduce sugar in our diet led by the charity Sustain.

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New 5 year deal with Sky

Unipart Logistics has achieved a five-year contract extension with Sky.

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Unipart wins Liberty Global contract

Unipart Logistics named European Reverse Logistics Partner for Liberty Global.

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Unipart wins supply chain award

Logo Supply Chain Excellence Award 2017

Unipart Logistics, a leading provider of logistics and supply chain solutions, received a top award, for innovation at the recent Supply Chain Excellence Awards.

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Unipart in the news

Colleagues exploring VR

Unipart is devoting significant resources to equip our organisation to be among the leaders in our sector at embracing and deploying these technologies.  The BBC came to a recent event that Unipart put on for their leaders to see this in action.

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Unipart wins Responsible Business in the Digital Age award

Unipart Group has been named the winner of the ‘Fujitsu Award for Responsible Business in the Digital Age’ at the 2017 Responsible Business Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London

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Unipart in the news

Unipart is devoting significant resources to equip our organisation to be among the leaders in our sector at embracing and deploying these technologies

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Unipart win award for outstanding safety achievement

The British Safety Council’s International Safety Awards celebrate and reward organisations from around the world.

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Unipart Goes Digital

For the first time in history, technology is improving faster than people can use it. But according to Unipart Chairman and Group CEO John Neill, that’s a double edged sword.

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Unipart & partners to make batteries in the UK

Unipart Group and a major consortium of industrial partners have won funding to build a high performance, low volume flexible battery manufacturing facility in the UK

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Unipart Cyber Security up for Best Computer Forensics Solution

Unipart Cyber Security, part of Unipart Group, has been shortlisted as a finalist with its Zero Day Detection (ZDD) solution in the SC Europe Excellence Awards for Best Computer Forensics Solution.

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Siemens present supplier award to Unipart Rail

Unipart Rail have been awarded the Customer Focus and Collaboration Award by Siemens Rail Systems at their recent Supplier Recognition event

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Unipart receives highest number of safety accolades

Unipart received a record breaking number of accolades in this year’s British Safety Council Sword and Globe of Honour awards.

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Unipart Manufacturing Group wins innovation award

Unipart Manufacturing Group, MetLase and the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) beat a host of high profile organisations to secure the ‘Technology Innovation’ title at the Cotswold Life Engineering Manufacturing Innovation (EMI) Awards.

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CBI backs Unipart commitment to unlocking its productivity potential

CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn visited The Unipart Group headquarters in Oxford on Friday 26 August to learn about how the firm is unlocking its productivity potential through ‘The Unipart Way’

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Unipart programme wins top training award

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, has received a Princess Royal Training Award in recognition of its in-house management training and development programme

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40 new jobs as Unipart pumps fuel rails to China

Unipart Manufacturing has secured a seven-year contract to supply engine components for Ford cars being produced in China. The contract will create 40 new jobs in Coventry.

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Racing champion revs up support for charity driving team

British Touring Car Championship star, Tom Ingram, who is sponsored by Unipart Autoparts, visited Unipart head office in Oxford on Tuesday to show support for a team of employees who are taking part in a 2000 mile trip for BEN, the automotive industry charity

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Unipart Group scoops coveted wellbeing award at Responsible Business Awards

Unipart Group, one of Europe’s leading private manufacturing, logistics and consultancy companies, was last night named the winner of the Bupa Wellbeing at work award in Business in the Community’s 2016 Responsible Business Awards held at the O2 in London

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Unipart features on Talking Business

Unipart recently featured on BBC’s Talking Business in a programme about tackling productivity. In Talking Business, Chairman and Group Chief Executive, John Neill, spoke to Tanya Beckett. The programme is available on iPlayer until 11 July

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Unipart Manufacturing Group MD appointed as HRH The Prince of Wales’s Ambassador for Industrial Cadets

Six prominent industry leaders have been appointed by HRH The Prince of Wales as Ambassadors for the Industrial Cadets initiative, a workplace experience accreditation which assists the future skills supply to UK Industry, especially the manufacturing and engineering sectors.

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Unipart featured in new report on future of UK business

A new report called UK Business: What’s Wrong? What’s Next? has been launched featuring a video interview with Unipart Group Chairman and Chief Executive John Neill

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Growing a sustainable business

Corporate responsibility is at the heart of Unipart's business. Watch the video to find out why

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Turning the tide: Unipart turns water utility from worst to best

In the case of a water business, you'd expect that to cause some serious spillage. But when Unipart got involved, a significant cash leak was plugged

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Driving performance improvement in NHS patient pathways

How can the NHS drive a 20% improvement in performance? Unipart Expert Practices (UEP) doesn't have the answer to everything that needs to be addressed in the NHS, but it has delivered that sort of efficiency in one part of an NHS Trust

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Team manager translates his role into one that inspires others

When a warehouse team manager was asked to translate documents into Croatian, he stepped into a different world

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LEDs shed light on savings for rail network

In 2005 LED running lights were just a cool design feature; today Unipart LED technology is saving £millions for the UK's rail network

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Order throughput cut by over 80% when Unipart helps fashion retailer expand in US

Expanding quickly into a new market may sound like a tall order, but Unipart improved order throughput from 50+ hours to eight hours by bringing a little bit of Britain to Atlanta for fashion retailer Long Tall Sally

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Tesla turns to Unipart for Growth in China

Few cars run smoother than a cutting-edge all-electric Tesla. But when it comes to keeping those cars on the road in China, the key was deployment of proven, reliable and scaleable aftermarket supply-chain processes developed and evolved by Unipart

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Faster, better. cheaper – Unipart cuts rail repair stock by 95%, and improves performance

The natural reaction to being prepared for the unexpected is to over-stock, just in case. Unipart helped Balfour Beatty reduce stock by 95%, while also improving availability of stock and increasing delivery performance

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How to boost British productivity and save the NHS all at once

Unipart boss John Neill reckons he has the answer to the UK’s industrial doldrums. So he’s off to Davos to tell everyone, George Osborne included

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John Neill, Unipart chairman and CEO explains how The Unipart Way is equally applicable in the public sector

Unipart teaches a business philosophy rooted in the efficient production methods of Japan's car industry. John Neill, its chairman and CEO tells Lawrie Holmes why this is equally applicable in the public sector

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Corporate responsibility verification report

Unipart’s 2014 report ‘Corporate Responsibility the Unipart Way and 2014 Performance’

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Read our corporate responsibility report

Unipart Group is proud to have ranked amongst the top 6 performing companies in the UK - achieving 5 Stars in the Business in the Community (BiTC) Corporate Responsibility Index (the UK’s leading benchmark for responsible businesses)

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Find out about Unipart’s winning formula

At the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards we won Best Logistics Company in Europe, best at running Retail and E -tail Supply Chains and the overall award for the best European Supply Chain, in partnership with Waterstones

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How Unipart Tackles Productivity

Financial Times business editor Peggy Hollinger took an in-depth look at how Unipart tackles productivity in this video from the FT Business series

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Lottery or certainty? Unipart launches new ad

When you win the lottery, you win big. Mostly, of course, you don’t win at all. The lottery is not a business model. Business needs certainty. The certain knowledge that an action will result in a predictable improvement in that most basic fundamental: productivity

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We Might Surprise You

When many people think of Unipart, they recall a company that revolutionised the automotive aftermarket in the 1970s

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7 Ways to Make Your Company a Safer Place

Safety is at top of the agenda for almost every business leader in Britain. They’ve recognised that removing risks from the shop floor keeps employees engaged and saves money for the organisation

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Unipart’s CR Index Report 2015

Unipart was pleased to achieve a score of five stars (99%) in the 2015 CR Index. Only six other companies achieved such a score

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Interested in an Apprenticeship in Unipart Logistics?

Unipart Logistics is part of the Unipart Group - a leading provider of manufacturing, logistics and consultancy services - and developing young talent is vital to our current and future success

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Unipart reverses losses to hit highest profits in a decade – The Telegraph

Unipart Group, the manufacturing, logistics and consultancy business spun out of the beleaguered car manufacturer British Leyland more than 30 years ago, has reported its strongest financial performance in a decade

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Productivity puzzle is UK’s greatest task – Daily Mail

The recently installed government has a very valuable opportunity: it has the realistic prospect of a ten-year term

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A UK productivity evangelist with eyes on £300bn prize – Financial Times

John Neill bristles at the suggestion that he is the leader of a cult. But he is messianic about the need to save British companies from their benighted ways

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Nurturing Engineering Talent Can Re- Energise Manufacturing

Technology is developing so fast it is changing how the automotive manufacturing industry does business. Companies are no longer just looking at developing factories around the world but creating joint ventures on British soil so they can respond quickly and adapt to these changes

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Professor who saved Venice joins AME

The Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) has secured a major coup by appointing Steve Jones as its Professor for Welding and Joining Sciences

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AME is runner up in Guardian University Awards

The university developed a partnership with Unipart, a UK-based manufacturer operating in the automotive, oil and gas, aerospace and rail sectors, to address the UK’s manufacturing skills shortage and to accelerate the commercialisation of innovation and R&D

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Watch and learn: what the NHS has got to learn from other industries says Health Service Journal

It’s all too easy to assume that working methods that are successful in other industries may not be applicable to healthcare but, just as with people skills, some systems are transferable, says Matthew Shelley in the HSJ

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UMG Featured in Sunday Telegraph Made in Britain Supplement

Historically the trend has been for British car manufacturers to form links with global suppliers and have identical factories around the world

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Download free business continuity toolkit

Unipart hosted a business continuity conference in association with Oxfordshire County Council. The aim of the conference was to provide businesses with a toolkit to be better prepared for winter crises

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How to Fix Britain: Could a system developed by Unipart boost productivity?

Everyone should be doing 'The Unipart Way' as car components supplier's boss seeks answer to Britain's weak productivity

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How Can Employees Be Empowered to Contribute to Business Success

Unipart Chairman and Group CEO John Neill contributes to the CBI's Great Business Debate with the attached article

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Unipart Productivity Case Study in Latest CBI Report

Unipart has been featured as a case study in productivity through employee engagement in a recent report by the CBI titled A Better Off Britain

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Productivity Pays – Unipart featured in CBI publication

At the strategic level, there are only three enduring sources of competitive advantage for a business: operational excellence, customer engagement and innovation,” says John Neill, founder and CEO of Unipart Group. “And all of those depend on growing and developing people.”

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The changing face of Unipart Group

Unipart Group’s Global Industrial Logistics Director Bernard Molloy explains how a company known for its manufacturing arm actually extends far further

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Top industrialist says productivity must improve

Firms must stop blaming the strong pound for weaker profits and focus on improving productivity, one of Britain’s most respected industrialists has warned in the Daily Mail.

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Second Corporate Ad Appears in National and Regional Press

Our second advertisement features a range of ‘Hello’ statements that indicate the breadth of our offerings and our customer base

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Driving Coventry’s Closer Links with Manufacturing

Professor Michael Fitzpatrick joins the engineering faculty at Coventry University as it launches an innovative collaboration with Unipart

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China Expert Outlines Growing Opportunities In China

Changes in China will bring increased opportunities for UK businesses according to a director of China's largest independent business school

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Unipart invests in UK automotive manufacturing and skills

Unipart Group has announced three major manufacturing developments in the Midlands including two new manufacturing facilities and a joint venture with Coventry University to create an engineering and manufacturing institute

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Unipart Invests in UK Automotive and Skills

Unipart Group has announced three major manufacturing developments in the Midlands including two new manufacturing facilities and a joint venture with Coventry University

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Unipart Way can provide NHS with route to culture change

"The Unipart Way can provide the NHS with a proven route to culture change"

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Unipart To Partner In £110m Training Programme For Aerospace Suppliers

A programme that will raise the capability of UK aerospace suppliers and protect and create at least 5,000 new jobs is seeking 40 UK companies to share in a £110 million training and development programme

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Unipart Scoops Second Major Supply Chain Award

Unipart has scooped a second major supply chain award in one month. Unipart Aftermarket Logistics won the Automotive Supply Chain Global Award 2013 for Aftermarket Parts Logistics

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Unipart Scoops Two Awards at European Supply Chain Excellence Awards for 2013

Unipart Aftermarket Logistics, part of the Unipart Group, has won two awards at the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards for 2013

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2013 Sir Robert Lawrence Award winner John Neill on logistics and the consumer

Unipart Chairman and Group Chief Executive John Neill, who received the 2012 Sir Robert Lawrence Award for his contribution to logistics and transport, is interviewed by ITN

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Ministers are investing almost £8m in a new £32m link-up between Coventry University and Unipart to create a “faculty on the factory floor”

In the first move of its kind, a new university department will be built at the company’s Coventry base

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Mark in Action Featured in Sunday Telegraph

Employee engagement has hit the agenda in UK business and politics – even government is now focused on involving and motivating employees as part of an organisation.

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Better Way to Deliver Culture Change

A recent survey of UK CEOs found that over half of them believe consultants fail to deliver on culture change programmes

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John Neill talks about Leadership at Cranfield

Unipart Chairman and Group Chief Executive John Neill has been featured in several video interviews at Cranfield University School of Management

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The Power of 10,000 Experts

Unipart is using its experience of transforming its culture and productivity to help other organisations to do the same, says chairman and CEO John Neill.

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Unipart Invests Over £300k in Community Activities

Unipart Group has invested over £270k in community activities during 2012

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John Neill is interviewed about synchronised supply chains in The Times

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Businesses will have to go beyond internal collaboration to a new frontier of wider joint ventures to drive efficiency in the chain, as Nick Allen reports.

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DAILY MAIL INTERVIEW: The ‘Unipart Way’ has saved the taxpayer £440million

If anyone had predicted, back in the 1987, that someone could take a bit of the old British Leyland and transform it into a world-leading company and a beacon of employee ownership, they would probably have been dismissed as mad.

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Beyond the Numbers: A Practical Approach for Individuals, Managers and Executives

A new report -- “Employee Engagement Research Report: Beyond the Numbers: A Practical Approach for Individuals, Managers and Executives” -- indicates that there are large gaps in engagement between men and women in a number of countries

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