Welcome message from Martin Heathcote

Welcome to the first edition of the Heathcote Holdings In the Loop newsletter. The newsletter has been a success in Countrystyle and we believe it’s a way of bringing all the group together to share news, accomplishments and improve engagement.

Heathcote Holdings has driven some great success stories, with more collaborative working across companies, better customer understanding, wider knowledge, better efficiencies but also a better culture. It’s lovely to see and hear people talking together and working as a team.

We still have a distance to go with Heathcote Holdings to really release the opportunity both culturally and financially.

We are a larger business now, in an ever changing world around technology. In some areas more than others we see the increased pressure to develop our customer offering to a more IT literate interface including apps and portals. Embracing this is a must if we want to keep developing to move forward. We have always invested heavily back into the group on machinery and assets, we now believe there is a bigger push to invest in our systems and technology. This will allow us to get almost real time data enabling us to make the right decisions, e.g using the data to give more visibility of what is going on as well as expecting accountability.

We must be sustainable and our environmental impact is something we are working to improve on, recruiting a company called Planet Mark. We want to get our baseline and focus on how we improve our own carbon footprint.

We have seen some charity work take place across the group. We can only ever do more of this. Thank you for the people who have been helping to organise these events.

People are what allows us to keep growing at pace. We see more young people today engaged and passionate about the business which is lovely to see. But don’t forget the experience that is the guiding light developing and motivating our people.

We believe we are involved in great sectors across the group with large growth potential, unlocking this potential is all down to engagement, strategy and implementation.

The opportunities are coming at us thick and fast across every sector, and we are in a position to capitalise on the right ones. So let’s get together, inspire, help, push each other and see what we can create for our next generation

I will finish by saying a big thank you for your constant hard work and commitment, thank you for trusting us, thank you for making us proud of seeing where we have come and watching so many people develop as needed to drive on for the future.

Now let’s drive on and have some fun!