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Secondary Industry EndeavoursSecondary Industry Endeavours

Year 9 CaracalsYear 9 Caracals

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JAM FACTORY

Speciality jam

made with local produce

Alex Morhen yr9 caracals Geography week21&22

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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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WHAT MY FACTORY WOULD LOOK LIKE

The Product

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Proposed Site of Factory

A2 links with M2. Access to

London and the costal ports .

•good for delivery trucks.

Site of food distribution

centre

Local market and

shops

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Proposed site of factory

Food distribution centre

Railway line

Nature Reserve

Easy access

onto wide main road with good

view of traffic

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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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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 internationally.

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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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Location maps

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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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My FactoryBy Helen Dandridge

My factory will be situated in Milton Keynes and will produce racing carsfor 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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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.

Location…

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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.

Why Milton Keynes?

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SILVERSTONE(Track and

Technology Park, possible location for

Factory)

MILLBROOK (Testing Ground)

M1

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Jade x

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I am going to build a factory for my new strawberry

yoghurt brand, Magnifique.

Emerald Street, Huddersfield.

Proposed site.

Extra room if I want to expand!

2.5 acres

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The proposed site for my factory is near the town centre.

There is a strawberry farm

nearby!

There are many supermarkets nearby!

There are a few dairy farms nearby!

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Crossley Farm Dairy

Leeds Road / A62My factoryMy factory

A629

Delph House Farm

It would take a lorry only 15 minutes to transport the milk from either one of the

two farms to my factory.

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Wakefield Road / A642

My factory

Bently Grange

It would take a lorry only 20 minutes to transport

the strawberries from Bently

Grange to my factory!

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Alder Street

ASDA

My factory

As I said earlier, there are many supermarkets

nearby.

For example, ASDA is only 7 minutes away

from my factory!

ASDASaving your money

everyday.

TESCOEvery little helps.

SAINSBURY’STry something new

today.

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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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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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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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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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Jonah’s Resin Factory

• Key:• Black =

entrance road from motorway,

• Blue = main production building,

• Brown = refinery,

• Red = storage rooms,

• White = waste silos,

• Light green/blue = open area for expansion (2nd production building)

• Green = car park,• Yellow = manager’s office building,• Orange = power generator,

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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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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 offer.

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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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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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• 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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• 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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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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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 – which was a surprisingly simple task.

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Factory Layout

Bird’s eye view of the factory. The building is not complete.