TALARIS CHOOSES BASINGSTOKE FOR HQ IN NEW OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AT MEPC CHINEHAM PARK

Talaris, the leading provider of cash handling solutions to financial institutions and retailers worldwide, has chosen South 60 at Basingstoke’s Chineham Park as its corporate head office. This letting underlines Chineham Park’s position as Basingstoke’s premier office location – with Talaris joining other high-profile occupiers that include Motorola, Ericsson, Regus, and Canon.

A three-storey building, South 60 provides approximately 11,000 sq ft of office space and is located at the entrance of Chineham Park. The landmark new office development is designed to optimise workplace flexibility, reduce energy consumption and minimise running costs. Constructed with energy efficiency in mind, South 60’s flexibility is provided by the planning grid and innovative cooling system which facilitate excellent space planning.

Rupert Batho, Managing Director of Chineham Park, comments: “We warmly welcome Talaris to Chineham Park and we are especially proud that this new company has chosen our park for its headquarters. Activity on the park has been good over the past year and this is currently a very exciting time for us. In the next few weeks we will also be launching our newest and Basingstoke’s largest new office building Central 40. We are anticipating an equally high amount of interest for this development.”

The former De La Rue company that is now part of The Carlyle Group plans to relocate its employees to the A-grade office building in January 2009.

Tracey Graham, Chief Executive Officer at Talaris says, “We have sought offices that not only offer high quality features but encompass the environmental principles that are in line with our own. MEPC Chineham Park offered the perfect solution and we are looking forward to the move. Talaris is the cash solution partner of choice for Financial Institutions worldwide and we wanted our new headquarters to be welcoming for all our partners.”

The three-storey building provides offices on the first and second floors, a ground floor reception with further office space and onsite parking for 40 cars. With high ceilings and excellent access to daylight, it gives occupiers a light and modern workspace. South 60’s design also maximises energy efficiency which could reduce CO₂ omissions by approximately 10 tonnes a year when compared to a traditional four pipe fan coil air conditioned building of similar size.

CHINEHAM PARK OCCUPANTS AND EMPLOYEES RIDE THE WAVES AT SUMMER BEACH PARTY

MEPC Chineham Park held their annual fun day on Friday 18^th July with the theme of a beach party, complete with an authentic Caribbean BBQ, steel band and a surf simulator.

The event, in the Spindlewood area of the park, was free to attend for all occupants and employees at the site, of which 500 turned up on the day to enjoy the festivities. Rupert Batho, Managing Director of Chineham Park said: “Chineham Park is home to over 40 organisations and so we see it as a community; we would like all who work here to feel as though they belong. Organising the annual fun day is our way of giving something back to them to thank them for making it such a great place to work.”

Even the weather was in support of the party, with the rain holding off until after the party had finished. The party-goers listened to the music of a steel band and enjoyed a BBQ by Caribbean Cookpot, a company who specialise in providing authentic Caribbean catering services, with chefs from both Barbados and Jamaica. The guests then spent the afternoon trying out the surf simulator to see who could stay on the longest! Donna Williams, a recent newcomer to Chineham Park and Call Dispatcher – Hardware for Kofax UK Ltd, said: “It was lovely to feel part of something bigger than just one company and great to network with other people working on the park.”

More photos from the event will be available on the MEPC Chineham Park website at www.mepc.com/chinehampark/

SELECTA UK EXPANDS TO CHINEHAM PARK

Selecta UK, who are part of the Selecta group which is the largest food and beverage vending services operator in Europe, are the newest residents of Chineham Park.

The company, who are headquartered in the Daneshill area of Basingstoke, are continuing to expand and needed extra space for their distribution and service functions. They have moved into the Beechwood area of Chineham Park and now have 5,022 sq ft of warehouse space that had recently been refurbished by MEPC.

Martin Trenter, Area Service & Facilities Manager for Selecta UK said: “Our previous property could only be used for office space whereas our new site at Chineham Park gives us enough space for our offices and warehouse. Being part of the community here at Chineham Park also allows us to network with other businesses.”

As the largest European vending operator, Selecta is present in over 24 countries across Europe, with 20,000 point of sale vending machines in the UK and serves more than one million items every day from their vending machines in schools, colleges, workplaces and public places such as railway stations and car parks.