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Major international sporting events contracts have been won by an events scaffolding business which will also be expanding in China.
RIM Scaffolding Events Services which is based in Leeds has won the contracts to provide specialist access scaffolding for the ongoing test events for the London Olympics, and for golf’s Omega World Cup in Mission Hills, China.
RIM Scaffolding has created 18 new jobs this year and a total of 65 staff with a £3.5 million annual turnover.
The company provides scaffolding structures including TV camera towers, seating grandstands, marquee sub structures, commentary boxes, bridges, scoreboards and LED screen supports for customers which include the BBC.
The joint managing directors William Irish and Peter Madden are launching a new office in Guangzhou China with plans to open a office in United Arab Emirates to expand its services in the Middle East
Mr Irish said: “We achieve 85% repeat business on annual events and are currently heavily involved with the Olympic test events which is a good indication of our involvement with the London 2012 Olympic Games.
