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18March 2011
Dear Mr/Ms Hartley
Request for Information – reference 4917
In your request you asked for:
“ the official data on the amount of funding granted to printing companies for Capital Expenditure in Wales since 1999 with particular reference to
S & G Magazines; HSW Print; Zenith Print & Packaging and Zenith Media”.
The information that you requested is attached at Annex 1.
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Annex1
Since May 1999, there has been a total of 153grant offers to projects within the following schemes: Assembly Investment Grant (AIG); Regional Selective Assistance (RSA); and Strategic Investment Fund (SIF), where activity has been classified as Sic Code 2222 (printing). The total value of these grant offers was £14,144,275.
The following table provides a breakdownof these figures by financial year and scheme:
AIG / RSA / SIFOffers / Value (£) / Offers / Value (£) / Offers / Value (£)
1999-2000 / - / - / 4 / 145,000 / - / -
2000-2001 / - / - / 4 / 515,000 / - / -
2001-2002 / - / - / 8 / 850,000 / - / -
2002-2003 / 25 / 839,728 / 5 / 3,955,000 / -
2003-2004 / 21 / 633,528 / 3 / 565,000 / - / -
2004-2005 / 24 / 764,100 / 5 / 635,000 / - / -
2005-2006 / 11 / 347,500 / 6 / 2,715,000 / -
2006-2007 / 8 / 245,600 / 1 / 100,000 / - / -
2007-2008 / 14 / 402,750 / 2 / 295,000 / - / -
2008-2009 / 3 / 100,800 / - / - / 1 / 113,000
2009-2010 / - / - / - / - / 8 / 922,269
2010-2011 / - / - / - / - / - / -
Totals: / 106 / 3,334,006 / 38 / 9,775,000 / 9 / 1,035,269
Offers to the specifically named companiescontained in your request:
Company / Grant Type / Offer Date / ValueHackman Printers Ltd t/a HSW Print / AIG
RSA
RSA
SIF / 16/08/2004
15/03/2002
08/11/2006
06/08/2009 / £50,000
£100,000
£100,000
£150,000
Stephens & George Ltd / RSA / 12/05/2003 / £3,600,000
Zenith Packaging Ltd / SIF / 20/05/2009 / £400,000
Zenith Print & Packaging Ltd / SIF / 13/01/2009 / £500,000