insideKENT Magazine Issue 27 - June 2014 | Page 11

NEWS

WINNING STREAK FOR THE TUDOR PARK GOLF TEAM
Tudor Park golf team is on a winning streak. Just a month after scooping
a national award for having one of the best golf teams in the country, the
hotel and country club in Bearsted, has been named as Golf Country Club
of the Year by its owners, Marriott.

Tudor Park’s leisure and spa team also won Marriott UK Most Improved
Spa Revenues and Billy Doherty, who looks after the sales side of the golf
business, won the award for Most Improved Sale, beating Marriott’s 10
other Country Clubs.

In winning the top title, Tudor Park beat some of the big Marriott Golf and
Country Clubs around the country, including Forest of Arden in Birmingham,
Dalmahoy in Edinburgh and Hanbury Manor in Ware, Hertfordshire.

Maybe Tudor Park’s winning streak can be put down to the fact employees
are happy in their work. They have just recorded a montage of images of
staff going about their duties around the hotel while dancing along to Pharrell
Williams’ hit song “Happy”. Check it out on YouTube by typing `Marriott
Tudor Park Happy’. www.marriotttudorpark.co.uk

“We are very excited about this. It has put a smile on everyone’s face and
makes all our hard work worthwhile,” said Golf Club manager, Fraser Liston.

STRONG YEAR FOR LOCATE IN KENT
Locate in Kent, the county’s investment promotion
agency, helped create or retain almost 3,000
jobs in the county last year, latest figures reveal.
Set a target of 2,750 jobs either directly created,
retained or indirectly created, for the year to the
end of March 2014, the agency recorded 2,762.
Of those, 1,398 were new jobs, with 917 being
jobs retained. They came from 56 companies
committing relocate to or expand in Kent.
Significantly, 820 jobs were as a result of Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) – overseas companies
setting up operations or expanding in the county.

Paul Wookey, cheif executive of Locate in Kent

Locate in Kent has worked to increase the number
of FDI projects coming into its pipeline by signing
a Memorandum of Understanding with UK Trade
& Investment (UKTI) and by appointing agencies
to identify leads in France, Germany and the
USA.
The figures also revealed that the highest number
of successes came in the high value ICT (16%)
and Life Sciences (11%) sectors, with 37 active
Life Science projects in the current pipeline, more
than any other sector. Environmental Technology

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projects have also increased very steadily over
the last few years.
“This year’s figures are encouraging and reflect
the increased confidence and growth in the UK
economy,” said Paul Wookey, chief executive of
Locate in Kent.
Mark Dance, Cabinet Member for Economic
Development at