RESHORING CASE

Clearview Traffic Group

Company details
Code: 
Clearview
Company name: 
Clearview Traffic Group
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Number of employees: 
37
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
04/03/2014
Starting implementation date: 
March, 2014
End of Implementation : 
December, 2014
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location of affected unit(s): 
Bicester
Location code: 
UKJ14
Reshored business function: 
Production
Estimated job gains: 
49
Reasons for reshoring: 
Government support to relocation
Streamlining of supply chain
Case narrative: 

Clearview Traffic Group is based in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The company is the market leader for intelligent solar powered road studs which offer 10 times greater visibility of the road ahead than traditional ‘cat’s eyes’. With the support of a £4 million Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) grant, Clearview Traffic are relocating the manufacture of the product from overseas to Britain. This is part of a £6 million project to streamline their supply chain, strengthen intellectual property and boost overseas sales. Working in partnership with two other British businesses, Zeta Specialist Lighting Ltd and AEV Ltd, the project will lead to 49 jobs being re-shored and 37 existing UK jobs being safeguarded.

 

Sources: 

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, 04/03/2014

Offshoring details
Offshoring date: 
2006
Offshoring location: 
Poland
Offshored business function: 
Production