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9:10am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Business By Jo Winrow
A Bradford food manufacturing group has pledged to create 500 jobs within three years in the city as part of multi-million pound plans to build a food factory.
Yesterday Mumtaz, which operates curry restaurants and takeaways, as well as supplying chilled meals and jar sauces to supermarkets, was given the permission it needs to revive proposals for a site it owns at Greyhound Drive, Legrams Lane, Listerhills.
Dr Gul-Nawaz Akbar said the group hoped to begin work on construction by the end of the month. It would be up and running by the end of the year and would turn out 100,000 meals a day, he added.
He told Bradford Planning Panel that while they expected 250 jobs to be created at the new site in the first year, this could increase to 500 within three years.
He added that there had been delays but that a contractor was on board and they were ready to start shortly.
Speaking after the plans were passed unanimously by councillors on the panel, Dr Akbar told the Telegraph & Argus: “It will create a number of jobs and will be a development Bradford can be proud of.
“It’s the biggest single project for the company so far and we hope this is just the first.
“This could make us the largest ethnic food manufacturer in the country.”
Mumtaz has become one of the country’s best-known Kashmiri restaurants with branches on Great Horton Road and one in Leeds. It currently produces its foods at a plant behind the Great Horton Road restaurant and at one in Mytholmroyd. The Legrams Lane manufacturing plant, which would operate on a round-the-clock basis, would bring everything together in one place.
Previous plans for the site were approved by the Council in 2008, but had expired, necessitating a fresh application.
Comments(24)
mad matt
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10:07am Fri 3 Feb 12
Mr Blondе
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10:59am Fri 3 Feb 12
Avro wrote:Random numbers?, much like the Mumtaz tax returns.
Good that something is happening on a vacant site, but talk about changing there story, the other day Mumtaz said the factory MAY create 200 jobs, this time round its EXPECTED to create 250 jobs and could increase to 500, whilst Dr Akbar says “It will create a number of jobs"
I hope there planning is better detailed than the job number!
jonathancrewdson
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11:09am Fri 3 Feb 12
Avro
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12:03pm Fri 3 Feb 12
Patrick Bateman
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2:20pm Fri 3 Feb 12
Pak-Bantam
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2:41pm Fri 3 Feb 12
Mr Blondе wrote:Probably still better than the shyster phil green's.
Avro wrote:Random numbers?, much like the Mumtaz tax returns.
Good that something is happening on a vacant site, but talk about changing there story, the other day Mumtaz said the factory MAY create 200 jobs, this time round its EXPECTED to create 250 jobs and could increase to 500, whilst Dr Akbar says “It will create a number of jobs"
I hope there planning is better detailed than the job number!
I can see clearly now...
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9:02pm Fri 3 Feb 12
webess
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10:48pm Fri 3 Feb 12
jmzeta
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12:11am Sat 4 Feb 12
peterspan
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2:30am Sat 4 Feb 12
jmzeta wrote:are you now
well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured woman
Albion.
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6:23am Sat 4 Feb 12
jmzeta wrote:"coloured"? Green/purple/sky blue?
well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured woman
arshid
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3:57pm Sat 4 Feb 12
peterspan wrote:i guess your not a racist think of it this way all the asians take jobs from mumtaz and it frees up other jobs which asians would have apppied for and gives you the english an opportunity to do something constructive instead of bi.....g i'am assuming you are english and white by the way why is it always about color
jmzeta wrote: well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured womanare you now
Tinybantam
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6:14pm Sat 4 Feb 12
arshid wrote:The quality of your written English language in this comment, and the lack of capital letters and punctuation is absolutely dreadful. In the context of what you have written, it is also you're ( ab. for you are) NOT your. Your spelling of color is also wrong, as it should be the English spelling COLOUR.
peterspan wrote:i guess your not a racist think of it this way all the asians take jobs from mumtaz and it frees up other jobs which asians would have apppied for and gives you the english an opportunity to do something constructive instead of bi.....g i'am assuming you are english and white by the way why is it always about color
jmzeta wrote: well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured womanare you now
Bradford_lad81
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7:29pm Sat 4 Feb 12
arshid
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7:31pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Tinybantam wrote:thank you for correcting me as far as the spelling goes i left england 27years ago and picked up some very bad habits here in new york.england colour. usa color
arshid wrote:The quality of your written English language in this comment, and the lack of capital letters and punctuation is absolutely dreadful. In the context of what you have written, it is also you're ( ab. for you are) NOT your. Your spelling of color is also wrong, as it should be the English spelling COLOUR.peterspan wrote:i guess your not a racist think of it this way all the asians take jobs from mumtaz and it frees up other jobs which asians would have apppied for and gives you the english an opportunity to do something constructive instead of bi.....g i'am assuming you are english and white by the way why is it always about colorjmzeta wrote: well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured womanare you now
Colin Allcars
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9:10pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Outraged Citizen
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1:22pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Avro wrote:They will most likely get free labour by signing-up to the Government's 'Work Programme', whereby unemployed people are forced against their will to work for no pay or lose the State Benefits to which they are rightfully entitled. A number of companies are now doing this, such as ASDA, and many others are eager to jump on the bandwagon. All I can say is don't eat any food if I have been forced to prepare it for no pay! It may contain fag-ends, gob, or LSD ! You have been warned!!!!
Good that something is happening on a vacant site, but talk about changing there story, the other day Mumtaz said the factory MAY create 200 jobs, this time round its EXPECTED to create 250 jobs and could increase to 500, whilst Dr Akbar says “It will create a number of jobs"
I hope there planning is better detailed than the job number!
Outraged Citizen
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1:28pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Pak-Bantam wrote:Yes, and that crook Lord Ashcroft.
Mr Blondе wrote:Probably still better than the shyster phil green's.
Avro wrote:Random numbers?, much like the Mumtaz tax returns.
Good that something is happening on a vacant site, but talk about changing there story, the other day Mumtaz said the factory MAY create 200 jobs, this time round its EXPECTED to create 250 jobs and could increase to 500, whilst Dr Akbar says “It will create a number of jobs"
I hope there planning is better detailed than the job number!
Outraged Citizen
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1:33pm Sun 5 Feb 12
webess wrote:Erm...what "good news"?
Moaning about good news, wallowing in bad news - some things never change on the good ol' T&A comments...
Proudofit
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2:24pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Proudofit
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2:26pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Proudofit wrote:**BUILDERS
WELL DONE MUMTAZ, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, ITS OBVIOUS THERE'S NARROW MINDED PEOPLE ON HERE WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING TO TARNISH AN ASIAN!!!!! THEY TALK ABOUT ISSUES WITH HMRC LIKE ITS ONLY ASIANS WHO FIDDLE WITH THEIR TAXES, AM SORRY BUT I WORK IN A TAX OFFICE MYSELF AND IVE COME ACROSS CASES WHERE PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE WHO ARE NOT HONEST WHEN IT COMES TO COMPLETING THEIR TAX RETURNS WHETHER ITS BUILERS, HAIRDRESSERS ETC!!!!! AND BESIDES JEALOUSY IS A TERRIBLE DISEASE HATE IT WITH PASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Proudofit
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2:29pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Albion. wrote:WELL GUESS WHAT.........??? ASIANS COME IN ALL COLOURS!!!!! HAVE YOU BEEN TO MUMTAZ???? I GUESS YOU HAVEN'T, THEY EMPLOY PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, EVEN ALIENS!!!!!
jmzeta wrote:"coloured"? Green/purple/sky blue?
well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured woman
Outraged Citizen
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12:38pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Proudofit wrote:Would that be the small "Grey" type Aliens, or the tall blonde Nordic types that Adamski met?
Albion. wrote:WELL GUESS WHAT.........??? ASIANS COME IN ALL COLOURS!!!!! HAVE YOU BEEN TO MUMTAZ???? I GUESS YOU HAVEN'T, THEY EMPLOY PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, EVEN ALIENS!!!!!
jmzeta wrote:"coloured"? Green/purple/sky blue?
well will be no jobs for english there thats a promise and im not being a racist either im married to a coloured woman
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Avro says...
9:23am Fri 3 Feb 12
I hope there planning is better detailed than the job number!