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Amazon is locating a second Mississippi fulfillment center in Olive Branch. The company will create 500 new full-time jobs at the facility, according to a Mississippi Development Authority news release.

“Amazon's decision to locate a second consumer goods fulfillment center in North Mississippi is a tremendous milestone for DeSoto County and our entire state," Gov. Phil Bryant said in the release. "This announcement serves as a shining example to industry leaders around the globe that Mississippi plays to win. We offer a supportive business climate and integrated transportation network so companies with shipping needs, such as Amazon, can reach their customers in rapid time and remain a step ahead of their competition."

In December 2018, Amazon announced it was locating a fulfillment center in Marshall County, creating 850 jobs over three years. The DeSoto County fulfillment center will be located in Legacy Park in Olive Branch. The company is leasing a 1-million-square-foot facility from which employees will ship large customer items, such as sports equipment, patio furniture, fishing rods, pet food, kayaks, bicycles and larger household goods.

The Mississippi Development Authority and the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors are providing assistance for public road improvements surrounding the site and park. DeSoto County also will negotiate a fee-in-lieu agreement in support of the project, according to the release.

“In just 10 months, Amazon has announced two Mississippi locations creating 1,300 careers for the people of North Mississippi. Amazon's new DeSoto County location is evidence of the fact that the Mississippi team works together to support extraordinary companies, enabling them to achieve their goals in our state,” MDA Executive Director Glenn McCullough, Jr. said in the release. “The Mississippi Development Authority, along with the DeSoto County Economic Development Council, DeSoto County and the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors, is proud to once again support one of the world's most innovative companies as Amazon brings another 500 career opportunities to Mississippians."

A new dairy formula plant has been opened in Carrickmacross in Co Monaghan, which will create 60 jobs over the next three years.

The €20m Newbaze Ireland Nutrition Food plant, which trades as Ireliffey, specialises in the production and packaging of high quality nutritional dairy powder products.

The new plant is supported by the Department of Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, through Enterprise Ireland.

Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys said the opening of the new plant is a strategically important investment for Ireland and Monaghan by a leading international dairy formula manufacturer.

"Ireland was the first choice for the Shanghai-based Newbaze Industrial Group to establish a production facility outside of China. This is due to Ireland's long-standing reputation of having a developed dairy infrastructure with a safe milk source," the minister said.

"The Newbaze Group's decision to invest and open this facility further places Ireland internationally as a location that offers quality raw dairy materials combined with a highly educated and skilled workforce.

"It is a major signal of confidence in the border region and the future and quality of the Irish dairy industry."

Ding Wei, General Manager of Newbaze Ireland, said the company's future growth plan is to provide high-quality milk powder products to consumers in the Chinese market and emerging markets such as Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East by 2020.

Cybersecurity company Forcepoint is to create 100 jobs over the next three years in Cork as it focuses on new product development.

The company, which opened its centre of excellence in the city on Thursday, said it would concentrate on the cloud and endpoint cybersecurity technology space, creating the majority of the new roles in the first year in this area of the business. The products developed will integrate across the Forcepoint Human Point System portfolio.

“This centre of excellence will be pivotal in the development and operation of market-leading endpoint security, cloud services and applications, as we scale to meet the needs of millions of Forcepoint users,” said Heath Thompson, senior vice-president and general manager of commercial security with Forcepoint. “By drawing on Ireland’s strong talent pool we will add to our skilled teams across the world and accelerate our mission to understand human interactions with data across users, machines and accounts.”

Safety giant Arco is to bring nearly 200 jobs in its home city of Hull with the opening of a new customer engagement centre. The family-owned business plans to have the new centre up and running during the first week of July at the WORX development created by Allenby Commercial at the junction of Beverley Road and Spring Bank in Hull. 

Arco revealed earlier this year that it planned to bring its customer engagement services together under one roof, with 190 trained and equipped customer service specialists operating in the centre. The investment programme will see the creation of 90 new posts in the region.

A recruitment drive has been launched for the UK’s biggest permanent indoor inflatable theme park which opens in Newcastle in the new year.

Fun Shack Group is set to create 100 jobs with the opening of InflataSpace at the Benfield Business Park in February, which will also have a new pirate themed Fun Shack indoor play centre.

Fun Shack Group are the owners of premier trampoline parks Jump 360 and Fun Shack indoor play centres, and this latest venture will be the biggest permanent indoor inflatable theme park in the UK and the first in the North East.

The park will be space themed and visitors can expect to enjoy sliding down extreme rocket drop slides, bouncing on giant inflatable planets, suiting up in inflatable sumo wrestling rings, taking on the challenge on the gladiator podium with battle sticks and more.

The 70,000sqft park is set to open in February 2018 and is part of a £2.5m development which will transform a large, empty warehouse in the east end of Newcastle into a giant indoor adventure park.

As many as 140 new jobs are being created with the opening of seven new Travelodge hotels across the UK in the next six weeks.

The pre-Christmas expansion represents a £68 million investment for third party investors and will boost the budget chain’s network to 559 hotels.

A further 200 sites have been identified for further expansion of the brand.

The new hotels include two in London at Brent Cross and Harrow; others in Bath, Liverpool, Newcastle and Inverness and the seventh Redhill, Surrey.

Six of the hotels are new-build developments, apart from Liverpool John Lennon Travelodge, which is an acquisition of a former Holiday Inn Express hotel.

A Dubai based packaging firm is creating more than 250 jobs in Wrexham - moving into part of the Sharp site alongside the electronics giant. Hotpack Packaging LLC is expanding its operations into North Wales following support from the Welsh Government and the Development Bank of Wales.

Economy Secretary Ken Skates announced that Hotpack Ltd has completed on the purchase of property and land at the Llay Industrial Estate with a view to creating 250 manufacturing and warehouse jobs on the site over the next three to five years.

After 22 years of expansion in the Middle East, the Hotpack management team had been looking for a suitable location to manufacture in Europe and chose Wales ahead of continental rivals.

The firm will be sharing the site with Japanese firm Sharp who are already located there.

Dundee’s manufacturing sector has received a major shot in the arm with more than 100 new jobs being created at fuel pump maker Tokheim UK.

The company, which is part of diversified global manufacturer Dover and which will officially rebrand as Dover Fueling Solutions UK within the next few weeks, is currently building a £14 million extension to its factory at West Pitkerro Industrial Estate.

The new space extends to the size of several football pitches and will allow the company to maximise efficiency in the fuel pumps production process and increase output.

The site is also set to take on a new line as it begins assembly of payment products for Wayne, a sister-brand within the Dover portfolio.

In total, 140 new jobs are being created, 100 of them on a permanent, full-time basis.

The increase will take the total workforce at the factory to about 640, the highest it has been since the business started operating as Dunclare Dispensers back in 1983.

Ctrip, the owner of Edinburgh-headquartered travel site Skyscanner, has announced plans to open a customer service call centre in Edinburgh which will create up to 200 jobs in the city over the next few years.

The Edinburgh call centre aims to provide a high-level customer service experience across time zones and languages.

While the call centre will be separate to Skyscanner, Ctrip will learn best practice from Skyscanner’s experience in providing online service to customers from all over the world.

Ctrip, which is China’s largest online travel agency and the second largest travel agency in the world, acquired Skyscanner in December 2016.  Ctrip director Coley Dale said: “Ctrip’s leadership team has visited Edinburgh several times since the acquisition of Skyscanner at the end of last year. It is clear to us that there is considerable talent in Scotland and the city makes an ideal base for Ctrip to open a dedicated call centre.

The Ctrip customer service office will be located in central Edinburgh and is set to open early 2018, with recruitment starting towards the end of 2017. Successful candidates will undergo between one and a half and three months of training.

An engineering factory mothballed in 2014 is to re-open following a £9.6m investment that will create 130 jobs over the next five years. The Sapa Components UK plant in Bedwas will make components for a new zero emissions capable London cab.

EasyJet plans to hire more than 1,000 staff in the largest cabin crew recruitment drive in its 21-year history.

Over 1,200 men and women will be given permanent and fixed-term positions at the budget airline. This will increase its total number of cabin crew from more than 6,900 to 8,100.

The Luton-based carrier revealed earlier this year that it was recruiting more than 450 pilots and providing opportunities for its first officers to be promoted to captaincy roles.

The airline, which operates more than 270 aircraft on over 880 routes in 31 countries, will offer new cabin crew positions across almost all of its 28 European bases.

Three hundred jobs will be created at a new train and tram factory that is to be built at Newport.

Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) is investing £30m in the new plant, described as a centre of excellence for the manufacture of UK rolling stock.

More than 100 locations in the UK were considered for the plant, with the Celtic Business Park in Newport chosen from one of four potential sites that were short listed.

First Minister Carwyn Jones said: “Today’s announcement is a major coup for Wales and a big vote of confidence in our manufacturing industry. We are, once again, competing and beating others on the world stage to secure significant investment to Wales.

“This £30m investment is a major economic boost that we hope will kick-start the growth of our rail sector and create hundreds of highly skilled, very well paid jobs.”

BBC bosses have announced 200 new digital jobs at the corporation’s Salford Quays base.

The national broadcaster is on the hunt for new talent to work on some of its major digital services, including BBC Sport as well as children’s, education, and its web homepage.

The move is part of a major expansion of the BBC’s roles in Salford, making it one of the largest tech employers in the north.

MediaCityUK is already home to BBC, ITV, the University of Salford and a wealth of small and independent firms.

The 200 new jobs will include engineers, product and project managers and UX designers.

Chief technology and product officer Matthew Postgate said: “The BBC has a huge history of innovation - from colour TV to Ceefax, from BBC iPlayer to delivering world class live events online.

“Our team in Salford has already delivered audiences an award winning digital sport service, cutting edge innovation through our Research & Development teams and world-leading apps and digital services.

“We’re now going to reinvent the BBC for a new generation and we want the best team in Salford to help us get there. ”

BBC North opened in Salford Quays in 2011 and now employs 3,000 staff.

The roles will see staff working with content teams to design, create and test new technology, as well as helping build new apps, games and websites.

Heritage British footwear brand Clarks is set to create 80 jobs as it returns its manufacturing operation to the UK.

A new manufacturing unit is set to be opened in Clark’s Somerset headquarters, where it started 200 years ago, where it will produce the brands iconic Desert Boot.

Although the retailer said it would continue to source its flagship Desert Boot from its supply chain in India and Vietnam, its new robot-assisted facility will be able to produce 300,000 pairs a year.

Clarks is also poised to expand production across US, Europe and Asia with similar facilities over the next few years.

It plans to implement infrastructure allowing faster response to global trends and consumer demand.

The Scunthorpe-based crisp-making firm of Golden Wonder announced it would be creating 60 new jobs.

The news comes as the 300 employees on the Colin Road site are celebrating 70 years of production in the town.

Martin McElhinney, the operations director for owners at the Tayto Group, said "During the last few years, we have upgraded machinery and added new equipment, increasing our production capabilities and bagging capacity. The Group is growing at an accelerated pace and we are currently recruiting people for 60 vacancies at the Scunthorpe site. These range from unskilled to skilled positions and include production operatives, a night shift manager and engineering supervisors."

Citrix announced that it will create 150 new jobs as part of an expansion drive at its Dublin office, which is based in East Point Business Park, adding 26,000 square feet of office space to the current footprint. This project is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland. The job creation comes as a result of a decision to centralise Citrix’s Inside Sales activities in Dublin, combined with an increased focus on Customer Success services and the growing adoption of cloud technologies by businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  The new jobs will primarily consist of Inside Sales and Technical Support Services roles to support Citrix transition to a cloud model. Citrix’s current office facilities will also be upgraded to provide a state-of-art work environment, which encourages open collaboration and social interaction. The expanded office will provide workspaces for over 400 employees and will host the EMEA Inside Sales and Tech Support functions and other support roles.

Energy industries advanced inspection and asset integrity service company Sonomatic has built a new £4million North Sea HQ in Aberdeen and says its expansion drive could generate as many as 200 more jobs.

For now Sonomatic has created about 20 new full-time jobs at the new Core business park bringing the current headcount to around 40.

Up to 70 new full-time jobs near-term are initially forecast. Further posts depend on the success of various initiatives.