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Tidy growth means more investment for cleaning company

A Darlington cleaning firm is using its recent contract wins to invest heavily to help with its growth in the coming year.

MJF Cleaning Services provides a range of commercial cleaning services for businesses and organisations such as bars, offices, restaurants, hospitals, doctors and dentists’ surgeries, schools and building companies.

The business recently clinched new contracts with some prestigious names including Shepherd Construction, Darlington Council and St George’s Park, the home of the National Football Centre and is now making major investment as it plans to expand into the North West and create around 80 jobs in the coming year.

MJF has recently renovated its headquarters in Darlington town centre and increased the space to 100 square meters.

In addition, it has invested heavily in its marketing operations, such as its website, and taken on four new staff including an HR manager, two sales executives and a telesales operator.

MJF’s expansion will not only secure jobs for its team of over 100 staff and create around 80 new positions in the coming year, but also see a new office open close to the M62 in 2014.

Darlington entrepreneur, Martin Ferguson, established MJF Cleaning Services in 2006 whilst working as a domestic window cleaner. Since starting with just two members of staff, MJF has gone on to create around 125 jobs as it secured prestigious contracts with companies such as Shepherd Construction, Rockliffe Hall, Narec, JD Wetherspoon, Cleveland Cable and Tolent Construction.

As well as daily office, commercial and specialist industrial cleaning services, MJF carries out large and small scale cleaning projects such as carpet and upholstery cleaning, window and high-level cleaning and clean-downs on construction sites ahead of handovers to clients.

Speaking about the investment, Martin Ferguson said: “Our biggest investment will always be in our staff- all of whom are local- as they are the most important part of what we do and keep our business growing. The new HQ offices needed a revamp as we’ve got more staff than we anticipated at this stage in our development and the marketing investment is essential if we want to continually seek out new contracts and compete on a national scale.”

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