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Author: Steve Riley Date: 06 Mar 2009 Kenneth Clarke tours Progressive’s new building and visits The HeathShadow Business Secretary Kenneth Clarke this week visited Progressive's impressive new building going up at the The Heath Business and Technical Park in Runcorn, saying that the facility was creating the kinds of jobs needed for Britain’s future. Mr Clarke commented: “To find this kind of company thriving and the new building going on is very good and fills me with enthusiasm.” Progressive’s shared home at The Heath business park houses more than 185 organisations and 2,000 jobs, from dressmakers to government forensics, with a good number of creative and IT companies amongst our neighbours. Mr Clarke also viewed work being carried out to further extend the park’s facilities and discussed plans to replicate the venture’s success at other locations across the country. Mr Clarke warmly praised the achievements at Runcorn. “I am bound to be impressed because it is an amazing transformation from the days when it was ICI’s headquarters,” he said. “The businesses I have seen are the kinds of businesses that I think are going to be the economy of the next few decades.”
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