Brims Construction hopes to save around 150 jobs in moves to rescue the Teesside operations of beleageured building contractor Tolent.
The Sunderland company is working with the former chairman and founder of Tolent, John Wood, to bring some of the collapsed firm’s sites back into action, just over a week after administrators were called into to the Team Valley business. The business, which had bases in Teesside Industrial Estate, Thornaby, and Shotton Colliery in County Durham, appointed Interpath Advisory on February 13 with the immediate loss of 313 jobs, citing big losses on the £85.5m Milburngate development in Durham for sparking the chain of events that led to its demise.
The plan will see Tolent’s previous Teesside management team re-employed by Brims, along with staff, operatives and members of the supply chain, whose aim will be to ensure minimum disruption to clients. Some sites already returned to work last Monday. Brims will not be taking on responsibility for reimbursing any of Tolent’s creditors.
