Aycliffe Today Business Aycliffe Today Business Issue 35 | Page 23

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Aycliffe cleaning
firm smashes
target as growth
up 30%
N
ewton Aycliffe-based cleaning firm
Diamond Commercial Cleaning is
celebrating an impressive period
of growth after smashing its
turnover target.
The firm’s managing director, Beverley
Wardrop, aimed for 10% growth during
a 12-month period, but her business has
surpassed that when it reported a hike of
more than 30%.
Beverley runs her business with the
assistance of a strong management team.
Regional contracts manager Stephanie
Harker works alongside Beverley in the day-
to-day running of the business while liaising
with the company’s area managers Dawn
King and Carol Millward.
The firm’s head office, at Technology Court
on Aycliffe Business Park, was launched in
October 2005 by Beverley and started out
with just six members of staff.
The team has since grown to 70, with
12 new employees joining the firm in the
last year, two of whom have already been
Diamond Commercial Cleaning managing director Beverley Wardrop
(second right) and regional contracts manager Stephanie Harker
(second left) with area managers Dawn King and Carol Millward.
promoted to supervisor roles.
Diamond Commercial Cleaning services
a wide range of businesses across the
North East, from medical to food hygiene,
engineering to office environments and
factories to aviation.
It has also taken on large projects including
outdoor events and offshore cargo ship.
Diamond regularly supports a number of
construction firms in the area by carrying out
cleaning of the property once their projects
are complete.
Beverley said: “The growth of the business
has come from our excellent reputation for
high cleaning standards.
“We always put the customer first and will
go that extra mile to make sure we have full
customer satisfaction.”
Contact Diamond Commercial
Cleaning today on 01325 301000,
by email to [e-mail] or
go to www.dccne.co.uk
Thrive Marketing director
Johnny Woods.
Thrive
Marketing
successfully
launches
new
branding
process
As a multi-talented agency, complete with design,
development and content marketing expertise, you could be
forgiven for thinking Thrive must have a weak spot.
H
owever the team is continuing to
push the boundaries and in spite of
its long term status in the creative
and marketing industry, it is still ahead of
the curve, thanks to its implementation of
HubSpot and the organisation’s desire to
offer a strategy behind all they do.
In the last issue of Aycliffe Today
Business, Thrive Marketing director
Johnny Woods spoke to us about
their passion for offering a free branding
consultation, from which they’ve had a
number of fantastic enquiries.
Johnny said: “It’s fantastic to see
businesses engaging with one another
on the park and being able to offer our
knowledge and experience to deliver first
class, tangible results for businesses of all
sizes, in all sectors.”
Behind the scenes, whilst we were
printing the last issue, the team were
busy repacking their branding services and
creative processes to deliver cutting-edge
results for clients.
Senior graphic designer Tom Mather has
taken the reins to reinvent the organisation’s
branding and design services, reflected
in the recent redesign of the company’s
website service pages.
Tom said: “Working at Thrive for almost
six years has been a fantastic experience,
I’ve been able to learn so much from our
directors and to now be in a position to
deliver up-to-date and popular creative
solutions is a very positive thing, not just for
me and the company, but for our existing and
prospective clients too.”
Indeed, Thrive has just started its new
branding process for another client, in the
technology industry, and has delivered one of
its newly desi