On the 2nd and 3rd April we held aviation training at Head Office whilst maintaining social distancing.

We have been busy with online presentations and tenders via the all-new way of communication, Zoom! We have also won new contracts this month to start later this year. Even though our events are all cancelled for now, these have been replaced with new contracts. Our out of hours response vehicles have been extremely busy with alarm calls and property checks also.

Our Head Office continues to be open as usual throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are observing social distancing of at least 2 metres apart but are still open 24 hours and very busy meeting the demands of our clients. Our contracts managers are working from home.

Our Account Director Gill Yardley had a special milestone birthday, we celebrated with an afternoon tea at Head Office, again whilst maintaining social distancing and only having a small group of staff go down and eat cake together at the same time! Some of our girls at Head Office baked a cake each and every one of them was delicious! We wanted to make it special for Gill and it was a lovely afternoon had by all. Happy Birthday again Gill!

We want to thank all of our officers and staff again for working hard and staying positive throughout the pandemic. We know it’s still a very challenging time and we have a long way to go before things can resume back to normal, but we have noticed the general attitude and spirit of everyone has been very positive, so we thank you for that! We are all in this together.

The 13th February saw us install our brand new MAN Commercial pool table at Head Office, the pool table is in Iain’s office and for every game played, a donation will be requested and at the end of the year all donations will go to Hall Green Boxing club to support them.

On the 21st February, Maria our Office Manager went to Mercury Training who are our training providers in Birmingham, to celebrate the learners graduation! The learners have completed and passed their 5 week security course and all are now able to apply for their SIA badge to start their new and exciting careers in security! West Midlands Combined Authority and Job Centre Plus were also in attendance on the day. It was great to watch each of the learners collect their certificates and celebrate their success. Some of them have already secured jobs at MAN Commercial, we are looking forward to having them on board!

We held a presentation for our long-serving continuous employees on the 28th February, there were 5 employees in total. Darren Hodges, Ian Smith, Darren Bray, Mark Houlihan and Steve Tysall. Our Quality Director, Chris Smith has also been with us over 20 years. It was a great morning with the guys, chatting and reminising about the old times over breakfast butties and a cuppa! We wanted to show our appreciation for their hard work, dedication and loyalty over the years, and hopefully we all work together for many more years to come! All the long-serving employees were awarded with a certificate and a bottle of champagne.

Numerous contracts have been won with jobs starting in March and April across the UK, we have also been to do many presentations and have expanded our Head Office staff again, particularly in our HR/Vetting and Sales departments.

MAN were also back providing security at the home of British boxing at York Hall in Bethnal Green this month, for a show which was live on ITV and BT Sport.

Our events team are getting set up for another busy year which a number of sports, music and boxing events coming up in the next couple of months.

MAN Commercial have started the year as we mean to go on! We have held two training days at our Head Office for HR processes and Partner Patrol Training.

We were also at Meggitt in Coventry on the 28^th January to sign the official contract for the provision of man guarding security services for Meggitt’s Coventry and Ansty Park locations. We are delighted to win this prestigious contract and look forward to a long and lasting working relationship together.

We held our monthly management meeting at Head Office where all of our contract managers and directors meet up to discuss new contracts and business development. 

A number of client presentations were held at Our Solihull HQ, We have been awarded new contracts as we continue to grow as a business in our 27th year of trading, We have also secured and retained new events for 2020 in Music, Corporate and Sport .

We have been very busy throughout November and December securing contracts for the new year. On Monday 9^th December we had our annual secret santa and Christmas jumper day, we also had the MAN bulldogs in for the day for heir annual Christmas card shoot in front of the tree! Our Christmas party at the NEC was brilliant again this year, and lots of fun was had by all of our head.

We have had our main meeting wall redone with an official photo of us guarding Tyson Fury’s comeback fight at MEN Arena in Manchester on the 9^th June 2018! We are also making various other updates and changes to our head office, more to come in the new year so keep your eyes peeled…

We have also passed our quality audit again for another year, a big well done to our head office team! We have now transitioned from ISO 18001 to 45001.Our events team have been busy again with firework displays at Chelmsley Wood and boxing across November and December. Over the Christmas period we have been doing events at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham. We are culminating 2019 at the London embankment for the New Years fireworks!  

As the year draws to a close we are looking forward to a brand new decade here at MAN Commercial, after an extremely successful and exciting year we are excited for what lies ahead. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our clients, employees, friends, family and everything else in between a very Merry Christmas and happy, healthy New Year!

In July the team attended the British Security Awards 2019 in London on the 10^th where we were put forward for the national awards after winning ‘Best Team’ in both the Midlands and the North West. Even though we didn’t win nationally in our categories it was a brilliant day celebrating excellence in the industry and we would like to say a big congratulations to all the winners on the day!

We also recruited a new contracts manager and two operations support officers for a large new guarding contract we are currently mobilising.

Continuing on with our busy Summer our events team have been busy with events up and down the country such as Classic Ibiza, Godiva Festival, Tom Jones, Ruddells Stateley Homes and Lambeth Country Festival.