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Preston team takes to two wheels
What started as a casual conversation between colleagues on their coffee break at our Preston site has turned into a pretty serious cycling crew with a charity bike ride weekend now organised as well!
The group, consisting of Wayne Potter, Mick Walsh, Martin Thompson and Phil Flanagan, take various routes including the New Longridge Loop, Cromwell Bridge in Hurst Green, and around the Guild Wheel and this regular cycling group enjoys the time to catch-up, unwind and stay active outside of work.
Our team leaders complete training programme
Team leaders at our Preston and Eurocentral sites have completed another phase of their Leadership Development training.
Finalists at Women in Packaging Awards
We are delighted to announce that two of our colleagues at our Coalville site have made the final shortlist at the inaugural Women in Packaging Excellence Awards.
Tia Betton, Business Improvement Manager and Laura Stanaway, Business Development Administrator have been shortlisted in Packaging Operations Excellence, Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence and Rising Star categories respectively.
A warm welcome to our new Head of HR
At the start of April, we welcomed Claire Butler to Board24 as our new Head of HR.
With 20 years of HR experience, Claire has a wealth of knowledge developed in a plethora of sectors from transport to Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) to manufacturing, offshore wind and most recently waste-to-energy.
Meet the Team – Jordan Bridges
Currently in Coalville as Interim Production Manager, Jordan Bridges is usually located in Preston as a Corrugator Team Leader.
Whilst in Coalville, Jordan oversees 5 shifts on 2 corrugators, pallet line and the reel stores. Jordan is being kept busy – he’s involved in several projects including corrugator improvement and waste reduction. Jordan commented, “I’m enjoying my time at Coalville, I feel welcome and part of the team.”
Fundraising extravaganza for Mason
Many people come and go through our lives but when you spend a lot of time at work some of those people you get to know pretty well.
This is the case with the team at Menzies, our third party logistics partner, responsible for delivering our finished goods across the country. With many of the team working together on a daily basis, it was a terrible shock to our team when they learnt of the child of one of the colleagues being diagnosed with Leukaemia at just three years old.
We are winners!
Last night the team attended at the Made in the Midlands Awards and were delighted to win the award for Manufacturing Future Talent.
Originally shortlisted for Manufacturer of the Year £25m and over, and two apprentices, Reggie Willars and Alex Hill for Apprentice of the Year, the team were very pleased to have the investment they make in their future team recognised amongst fellow Midlands manufacturers.
Keeping it in the family
The team at B&P (Leicester) – one of our sister companies – are big supporters of the cities YMCA and most recently, they provided 75 specially designed ‘sleep out’ boxes for a charity sleep out at Leicester City King Power Stadium.
We were delighted to support them by supplying the board to manufacture the person sized boxes at their Leicester site before they were delivered to the football ground for the fundraising event.
Finalists at Made in the Midlands Awards!
We are delighted to announce we are finalists at this years Made in the Midlands Awards hosted by Insider Media!
And it’s not just in one category! We’ve made in the shortlist in Manufacturer of the Year £25m+, Apprentice of the Year for Reggie Willars and Alex Hill and Manufacturing Future Talent
National Careers Week – Abby Melling
As National Careers Week gets underway we meet one our new apprentices, Abby Melling.
Abby is our Transport Administration Apprentice and is based at our Preston site.
Abby joined the team just over 3 months ago and is a welcome addition, making a difference to the transport department at this site.
