The first few days in April made for a very busy Easter Break here at MAN Commercial as we started a record-breaking 12 new contracts. After a lot of preparation throughout March to mobilise the various sites across the country, it was rewarding and exciting to finally take over and welcome over 100 new members of staff to our team. Our Contracts Managers and HR team have enjoyed visiting the new locations country-wide which include Entertainment Centres in Norwich, Bath and Newcastle and busy Distribution Centres in Doncaster and Middlesbrough.
Our events team have been working hard as ever, covering 3 days at Aintree Festival including the extremely busy Grand National Saturday. We have also had teams at top sporting events such as the London Marathon and the Tyson Fury Press Conferences to mark his return.
Behind the scenes we have been focusing on our continued preparation for the new GDPR regulation, as well as various other training and development. We ran a 2 day Recruitment & HR Processes course at Head Office which was a great opportunity to get Managers and Supervisors from a mixture of sites and locations together to learn and share ideas. We are also putting a big focus on utilising our Apprenticeship levy to develop our existing staff, and have signed up several of our team for higher training over the next 12 months.
MAN Commercial have also been featured in this month’s BSIA Spectrum Magazine who ran an article on our history to mark our 25th anniversary this year.
We completed our BS 50001 Audit for ESOS and commenced a new guarding contract in the city of London and another in Coventry. We provided teams for two prestigious events at Warwick University and have further guarding contracts secured for September start.
Staff were deployed in Birmingham for Armed Forces Day and on the music side we supplied staff for 3 nights at the Isle of Wight Festival, the Wildfire Festival in Brighton, One Direction at the Millennium Stadium and Elton John show in Gloucester.
MAN continued to be busy in March with presentations and mobilisations along with new guarding and key holding contracts secured for May and June starts. As a company we celebrated in the month of March 22 years of trading and we have come a long way since March 1993. We look forward to moving the company forward over the next few years.
We supplied staff for Queensberry promotions and Frank Warren promotions at The 02 Arena London, Liverpool Echo and the York Hall Bethnal Green for championship boxing. Over at the Genting Arena staff were supplied at Crufts and two nights of Mcbusted.
We increased our Key Holding and Mobile Response portfolio based from our Head Office Control Centre during the month with new clients being added to our growing base.
