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Our sales office manager Helen Webb is a key member of the Ideal Bathrooms team and well known to most customers. She recently reached a significant milestone, with the completion of 25 years service for the company. Considering today’s fast paced job market, it is an increasingly rare occasion when someone reaches such a memorable anniversary.
Helen has always been a key member of the team and has played an important role in the company’s success. Kim Kirby-Earnshaw, Operations Director Helen joined Ideal Bathrooms in 1989 as Sales Coordinator, increasing the sales office team to three in total, compared to the 30 now required to look after the current level of customer orders.
Her highlights over her time with Ideal Bathrooms have been the birth of her son 18 years ago and, on a business front, the May Ball in 2011 in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary.
She has undertaken a number of roles, including working in HR, H&S, training and as internal commercial manager, before taking up her present role 6 years ago. “I love the family feel to the working environment here, where people know and trust each other” says Helen “I’ve made many friends within the company and with customers over the years, and I really am Ideal Bathrooms through and through.”
Operations Director, Kim Kirby-Earnshaw, herself about to achieve the 25 year mark, says, “Helen and I have been part of Ideal Bathrooms together for a large part of our lives. Helen has always been a key member of the team and has played an important role in the company’s success. She is a true professional – always does her job with dedication and commitment and is a pleasure to work with. She embodies all the principles that make Ideal Bathrooms the company we are.”
Helen Webb with some of the Ideal Bathroom team
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Operations Director, Kim Kirby-Earnshaw, was recently nominated for the “Outstanding Contribution to Saint-Gobain Building Distribution” Award. The Saint Gobain 2015 Reference Awards recognise, celebrate and reward the efforts and successes of colleagues in this part of the Saint-Gobain Group who have gone the extra mile and made a difference to their individual business.
Our people are our strength. The “Outstanding Contribution award” acknowledges someone who has contributed significantly to SGBD over a period of time and is, in effect, a lifetime achievement award. With nearly 25 years’ service at Ideal Bathrooms, Kim’s nomination is a rightful accolade as an exceptional member of the group. Over recent years Kim has driven a number of major successful projects including the achievement of an SGBD Diamond Award for Health & Safety performance; the integration of the Glasgow based In -Line Distribution into the Ideal Bathrooms network; the relocation of the Southern warehouse to the new purpose designed distribution centre at Hayes; the remarkable
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John Bagshaw, Managing Director
H&S achievement of 1 million accident free working hours; and maintaining the customer service excellence which is fundamental to our business. “Our people are our strength” says Ideal Bathrooms’ Managing Director John Bagshaw “We are delighted to see employees with long service because our ethos is to promote a friendly, caring, progressive environment that encourages long service. Kim is an example to us all, she is liked and respected by colleagues, customers and suppliers alike. Ideal Bathrooms would like to congratulate Kim on her thoroughly deserved nomination, we’re exceptionally proud of her - that’s ideal!”.
Kim Kirby-Earnshaw at the Saint-Gobain Reference Awards with her fellow nominees and Mark Rayfield Chief Exec SGBD UK & Ireland (centre)
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