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A number of professional, light industrial and commercial undertakings
are well established in Princes Risborough, including construction,
printing, packaging, pharmaceutical research and production, civil
and mechanical engineering and furniture manufacture. The town is
also well provided with service industries and has an active and
collective business voice.
The efforts of all the local businessmen, together with continuing
new developments planned for the town centre and surrounding business
areas, have ensured that the town continues to have a very low rate
of unemployment. The plan for the Chinnor rail link to Princes Risborough
will also introduce greater commercial activity and access to the
area helping to provide local employment. The well-known manufacturer
of quality furniture, Ercol, who opened a state of the art factory
in 2003, has recently agreed to make some of its site available
to act as an Enterprise Gateway for the development of young and
growing businesses in the furniture and allied trades.
Risborough Area Business Group (RABG) An amalgamation of the previous
Chamber of Trade & RizBiz, RABG is a voluntary organisation
comprising some 90 industrialists, traders and businessmen in the
town and surrounding district.
RABG aims are generally to:
- Promote, protect and improve the general interests of all local
business.
- Maintain a good business environment locally and to attract visitors
to the town.
- Study National, Regional, County and Local legislation and plans,
to ensure that they give due recognition to the interests of the
local commercial organisations and the local business community,
and to disseminate information to users.
The combined activity of the businessmen and businesses in the area
provides the public with a resource and voice that is able to help
influence local policy. RABG can thereby deliver public benefit
by seeking to protect and further the public interest by having
an influence on improvements to services, facilities, job opportunities
and quality of life, generally helping to promote the welfare and
prosperity of the Risborough district.
Princes Risborough has one of the most compact shopping areas in
the country, with two large car parks adjacent to the High Street.
The Business Group welcomes all visitors and newly established businesses
and hopes you will enjoy visiting Princes Risborough. We will, of
course, be only too pleased to help anyone who may require advice
or who experiences difficulties locally.
Please visit our website for more information www.rabg.org.uk
Communications can be addressed to any of the officers listed below:
Chairman: Mr G Wiles, IFC Group, 20 Park Street,
Princes Risborough Bucks, HP27 9AH Tel; 01844 275500 Email; graham.w@intfire.com
President: Mr L Adlam, 6 Salisbury Close, Princes
Risborough.
Tel; 01844 345423 Email; l.adlam@lance-adlam-architects.org.uk
Treasurer: Bill Bendyshe-Brown, B3, Brambles, Skittle
Green, Bledlow, Bucks, HP27 9PJ Tel; 01844 275002 or 275605 Email;
bill@b3csl.com
Secretary: Pam Pitcher, Sandicot, Cadsden Rd, Princes
Risborough HP27 0NB
Tel; 01844 275209 Email; pam@pamuk.demon.co.uk
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