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Article: Impressive record over creating jobs.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2006
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Doncaster takes the honours as South Yorkshire's biggest job creator with no fewer than seven of the region's 15 biggest employers in the town.
But Sheffield, with five companies among the top 15 employers, tops the table thanks to Hillsborough-based Sig.
Most, if not all, the companies at the top of the table have operations around the UK, if not the world, which increase their numbers but companies like Forgings International Holdings, First South Yorkshire and Outokumpu Stainless can lay claim to having most of their workforce within South Yorkshire. While highly acquisitive and expansion-minded Sig has increased the number of people it employs by ...