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Multi Million Pound Investment
Roberts Mart & Co Ltd, the UK’s leading independent manufacturer of flexible packaging, has just invested a further £2.5m in new plant machinery to boost production capacity at its two facilities in Leeds. With the company’s order books growing, this significant investment is expected to have a substantial spin off in jobs with the creation of a potential 25 new posts planned for 2013 to cope with increased production requirements, following the purchase of a stat...
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It's all in the Family
Roberts Mart & Co Ltd is celebrating 160 years in business and puts the secret of its success down to family, not just because it’s a family-run business, but the company’s ability to attract several generations of employees’ families to the workforce as well. Since its humble beginnings as a paper merchant, the Yorkshire company has survived World Wars, a General Strike and several recessions to become one of the UK powerhouses of the flexible printing and packag...
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Print supervisor celebrates four decades of service
Long-service awards are getting scarcer in today’s workplace where longevity is more often measured in months but at Roberts Mart & Co. Ltd, a leading flexible packaging and printing business, an employee has just clocked up more than 40 years service. Alan Wintersgill has been with Roberts Mart all his working life since walking through the doors of its Bank Mills factory in Leeds in 1970 as a nervous fresh-faced 16-year-old ready to start his first day as an apprentice. ...
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Energy Savings
Energy Efficiency Loans help Roberts Mart shrink its energy bills by £129,000. Following expansion, Roberts Mart sold its main premises, a Victorian mill in central Leeds in 2004. As a result, it was able to develop a purpose built factory to accommodate its expanding business. Built on a tight budget, the new factory included light fittings which were cheap to install, but expensive to run and not very versatile. This became particularly obvious after the company m...
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