{"id":923,"date":"2015-09-28T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=923"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:32:16","slug":"visit-to-the-darent-wax-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Visit to The Darent Wax Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-15-101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-936 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-15-101-974x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Fallon with Anthony Ward and Louis Finlayson-Green\" width=\"625\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-15-101-974x1024.jpg 974w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-15-101-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-15-101-624x655.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday,\u00a0Michael visited The Darent Wax Company Limited in his Sevenoaks constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was shown around the site by Anthony Ward, who founded the business in 1984, and manager Louis Finlayson-Green.\u00a0 They discussed how as the local MP he could support the company\u2019s desire to expand into new premises elsewhere in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was particularly impressed by the hardworking team, many of whom live locally and whose skills the company are keen to retain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-931 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-01-46-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Fallon Darent Wax tour\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-01-46-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-01-46-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-25-09-2015-16-01-46-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The company is a leader in the wax industry with its head office and production facilities based in the Sevenoaks constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;It was a great pleasure to be shown around Darent Wax by Tony and Louis today.\u00a0 Small- and medium- sized businesses like this are the lifeblood of our local economy, creating more jobs and prosperity, and I will be supporting future expansion in any way I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the visit, please visit <a title=\"Darent Wax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darentwax.com\/news\/visit-michael-fallon-mp-takes-a-factory-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darent Wax&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday,\u00a0Michael visited The Darent Wax Company Limited in his Sevenoaks constituency. Michael was shown around the site by Anthony Ward, who founded the business in 1984, and manager Louis Finlayson-Green.\u00a0 They discussed how as the local MP he could support the company\u2019s desire to expand into new premises elsewhere in the constituency. Michael was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visit to The Darent Wax Company&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8,7,436,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}