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Grain is moving into new towns and cities across the UK including Whitley Bay and Thornaby in the north east, Blackpool in the north west and Tonypandy in Wales.
To facilitate this expansion, the company is creating hundreds of new jobs, with engineering and sales roles available across the country, as well as office-based jobs at its headquarters in Carlisle, Cumbria.
CFO Roland Barzegar, said: “Our accelerated build programme has allowed us to get to many of these new areas sooner than we expected.”