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Mayor visits award-winning JD Cooling

UK: Contractor JD Cooling Group, recently named by the London Stock Exchange as one of the UK’s most dynamic SMEs, has received a visit from the local mayor.

During the visit, the mayor of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, councillor Nick Daubney, officially presented the prestigious award to JD Cooling Group’s MD, John Dye in front of members of staff at the company’s headquarters on the North Lynn Industrial Estate.

In May, JD Cooling was named as one of the 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain – the London Stock Exchange’s annual celebration of some of the fastest-growing and most dynamic SMEs in the UK.

Multi-award-winning JD Cooling Group is a leading independent supplier of bespoke cooling systems to the fresh produce, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. The company has gone from strength-to-strength since its founding in 2000 and now employs over 100 people across five regional offices across the UK, including King’s Lynn, Manchester, Fife, Bristol and Kent.

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