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Jobs and investment in Hinckley welcomed

The MP for Bosworth has welcomed a national flooring company to Hinckley at the official opening of the firm’s headquarters in the area.

David Tredinnick MP cut the ribbon at UK Flooring Direct’s new HQ at Hinckley Commercial Park and welcomed the firm’s commitment to creating dozens of new jobs in the area.

The company, which moved from Exhall to Hinckley, recently announced that it was creating 20 new jobs initially with a further 50 to follow – and already 12 posts have been filled by the firm, which sells a range of flooring to customers across the country.

Mr Tredinnick was welcomed to the business by CEO Jason Ashby, who founded the company in 2005 and is aiming to take it to £100 million turnover in the next four years.

The MP said: “It is great to visit a company that has moved into Hinckley, is investing here and creating jobs.

“Jason and the team are doing a great job and are expanding quickly. I was particularly interested to hear how they are striving to take on new staff and are working hard to make it a great environment for the team.

“This area is thriving at the moment and the challenge for many businesses is finding ways to attract the best staff – UK Flooring Direct certainly seem to be going about it in the right way.”

Jason said the company was ambitious in its plans to grow and was prepared to invest in technology and people to put the firm on a sustainable footing.

He said: “We were very grateful to David for coming along to officially open the new HQ here in Hinckley and it was great to give him an overview of what we want to achieve over the next few years and beyond.

“He really understands how times have changed when it comes to employment and could see the efforts we are going to, to make this a great place to work.

“Only recently, we’ve given staff additional holiday days and have reduced the weekly working hours slightly because we know that staff need a balance in their lives.

“To get the best people, you have to offer a great working environment because you want your staff to be happy. That’s certainly what we believe and we will be bringing in more and more people over the next few months to fill the roles available here.”

UK Flooring Direct is recruiting for a number of positions – from telesales and marketing staff through to project managers and customer services – to push through the 100 staff mark before the end of 2018.

For more information on UK Flooring Direct go to www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk or email recruitment@ukflooringdirect.co.uk to find out more about the roles available.

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