Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will create 20,000 new jobs in the UK over the next two years.

The jobs will be created through a major investment programme in customer service, refreshing existing stores and opening new ones. 

Starting immediately, Tesco said it will invest significantly in additional staff hours and training to boost the customer experience—including on fresh produce, fresh meat, bakery and counter services.

Kraft Foods has opened a £17 million research and development facility at the home of Cadbury in Birmingham.

Facilities at the Global Centre of Excellence for Chocolate Research and Development in Bournville will include innovation labs, a pilot plant and a development kitchen. The centre will also be used to develop new products for other Kraft brands such as Milka and Toblerone.

The investment comes as the company said it will hire an extra 100 R&D staff in the UK, with 44 of those to be based at Bournville.

Dublin Port Company has unveiled its masterplan for the next 30 years, which includes the construction of a new cruise facility to accommodate over 135,000 passengers and almost 90 cruise liners each season.

The masterplan sets out the framework for the long-term development of Ireland’s largest port. Implementing the plan will cost in excess of €600 millionover the next 30 years, with the Dublin Port Company already committing to investing €110 million over the first five years of the masterplan period.

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The importance of health care information systems is to be discussed by Cerner Middle East during the biannual Saudi e-Health Conference, taking place from March 11 to 13 in Riyadh.

A developer of information management systems geared towards health care, Cerner will demonstrate its technologies for surgery/anesthesia, electronic medical records, laboratories and pharmacies.

Britain’s last remaining train factory has been thrown a lifeline with the announcement of the four shortlisted bidders for the Crossrail rolling stock and depot contract.

The Derby-based Bombardier Transportation (UK) factory is up against bids from Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles of Spain; Hitachi Rail Europe; and Germany’s Siemens.

Crossrail will require around 60 new trains, each around 200 metres in length and able to carry up to 1,500 passengers, with key features to be air conditioning and inter-connecting walk-through carriages.

DuPont announced today an extension of its collaboration with the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) to improve the productivity of cereal crops.

The expanded program brings a new focus on advanced cereal breeding through molecular markers, discovery research for agronomic traits and hybrid seed production in wheat.