SDL Minorfern News Dec

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News from behind the counter

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Welcome to the last ‘News teammates access to I’m also delighted to announce
from Behind the Counter’ company information and the publication of our values.
of 2021, a year that has communications. When Julie asked you all to
seen a lot of change and And we’re improving the way contribute the words you
development, a year that has we communicate with our believed described us and what
brought a lot of challenges customers and how we link to our customers thought of us it
but one where the resilience our local communities in all our was great to see how consistent
of our people and the strength branches, and you’ll soon see these were. This says to me
of our business has shone much more activity on social that we are already living these
through. media and in on and offline values and we should check in
We go into 2022 with real publications celebrating the regularly with them to see we
confidence and with some successes of our business and our doing our best to uphold
exciting projects already our people. them.
planned for the New Year. I’d like to welcome all our New Finally, and most importantly
Our Warehouse Management Starters to the SDL Minorfern I’d like to wish you and your
System, currently in operation team, our greatest strength will families a Very Merry Christmas
in Clay Cross and Leeds, will be always be our team which is and a Happy New Year.
rolled out to all branches making why we are investing in training
our business more efficient in all and development, I have put the Nick Holland
areas. health and safety of our people
We’ll be rolling out new at the top of our agenda and
information portals to all further strengthened our HR
branches enabling all team.

WHAT’S INSIDE... P5 - Barnsley Celebrates 10
Year Anniversary
P2 - Salvation Army donation P6 - New Starters
P3 - Christmas Jumper Day P7 - Andrea Wyatt
P4 - Leeds Celebrates 1 Year P8 - And Finally
Anniversary

5000

reasons to celebrate Christmas

For the last couple of years we have made
a charity donation of £5,000 to The Salvation
Army instead of buying our customers gifts.
Today I had the privilege of meeting Captain
Carl and his wife from the Salvation Army,
we talked about how much a donation of
£5,000 means to them and who they are
trying to help.

In the new year we are going to go and see
some of the work they do and look at how
we could help them further, anyone who is
interested in supporting us in giving back
please let me know.

Julie Havenhand - HR Manager

CHRISTMAS
JUMPER DAY

CUSTOMER PRIDE
1ST
TRUST PASSION
RELIABLE RESPECT

COMPANY VALUES

TRUST CUSTOMER 1ST RELIABLE PASSION RESPECT PRIDE

Reliance on the Being before all others with That may be relied A strong or To hold in esteem The state or
integrity, strength, respect to importance, on or trusted; extravagant or honour; to feeling of being
ability, surety, etc., time, order, rank, etc. dependable in fondness and show regard or proud – highly
achievement, enthusiasm honourable or
of a person or accuracy, for something. consideration for.
thing; confidence. honesty, etc. creditable.

Sometime ago I asked you to think about Over the next few months you will see the values
three words that would best describe our popping up around your areas and branches in
business and three words that you thought the shape of posters etc. You will also see them
our customers would use to describe us. Your appear in job adverts, job descriptions and used
responses have been a huge help in defining throughout all that we do as a business. Please
what our Company Values would be. help us to make them part of who we are.
Julie Havenhand
Company values are important for lots of reasons, HR Manager
to help ensure that we are all working towards
the same goals but also to support the company OUR COMPANY VALUES
vision and shape its culture, becoming the
heartbeat of the business, reflecting what we TRUST CUSTOMER 1ST
stand for.
RELIABLE PASSION
Along with our values we also have our vision and
purpose, again both of these give us a common RESPECT PRIDE
goal, a way of working together to achieve them

Values help us to communicate who we are,
why does the Company exist and ultimately
why should our customers buy from us.

With all of this in mind I am excited to share with
you the SDL Minorfern Values which you have
all helped to create.

0-£7,000 per day
in 12 months

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LEEDS CELEBRATES ITS 1 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY
Nick Patterson, Branch Manager said;
Our Leeds branch opened on the 7th December
2020 and has grown steadily since. There’s still “When I took this role on last November, getting ready
lots of work to do but progress has seen the to open in December, I could not have predicted the
branch establish itself in the premier league of challenges and ups and downs of the year we have
vehicle parts suppliers much like the football just had.
team.
We’ve grown steadily through the year and the future
looks bright. The whole team in Leeds is really strong,
I work with great people, a growing list of loyal
customers and I’m really looking forward to 2022.”

A BIG thank
you to Jordan

As you may be aware its been a difficult couple
of weeks for IBT drivers getting to Castleford and
Ossett. I do feel for each of them, its not fun sitting in
traffic when you know you have to get the job done.
However I feel Jordan is by far the most relax driver.
He turns up when he turns up never moans about
time or if he is late, he simply says “it is what it is”
always with a smile. It can be stressful knowing the
vans are going to be late for everyone in branch, and
sometimes tensions can be running high. But when
we all smile and pull together it makes for a brighter
day.

Paula Sutcliffe – Castleford Branch

Barnsley celebrates

In September Barnsley celebrated its 10 year
anniversary with Chris Armitage at the helm
for just over 8 years.

Chris Armitage Wrote: Mark Smith wrote:

I was set on by Peter in 2011, My interview was quite I have been with SDL for 9 years now, I have seen
interesting to say the least, I was interviewed in a then a lot of changes personally in my time here as the
very empty cold sales office with one small table in company keeps on growing.
the middle and two suited and booted men in Peter
and Nigel, they started by making me feel at home I started as a counter sales assistant and within a
by mocking my thick Barnsley accent and my love for very short time we had our manager leave, Chris was
Barnsley FC. And I still remember the words coming promoted to branch manager and myself to assistant
from Peters mouth ‘You’re the type of person were manager.
looking for son’ This will live with me forever, I felt like
Peter saw something in me and I was going to get a I feel I grew my confidence and leadership under
chance to prove myself in a then potentially growing the leadership of Chris, I eventually had a chance of
business. becoming a manager myself when we opened the
Ossett branch in 2018 I tried to emulate the same
From a small town in South Yorkshire we have some format from here at Barnsley.
great relationships with our customers, I have always
tried to drill into my sales teams that people in Shortly after I had my own health issues and I would
Barnsley just want honesty and want companies to like to thank SDL for the support through my difficult
try their best for them and that’s what we try to do. time in this period, I would probably not have got
through this without the help from Julie, Chris and
In my tenure I have been lucky enough to have some Darren.
fantastic sales teams who have worked really hard to
gain results over the years, some members of staff I am looking forward to a new year with a whole new
have even progressed up the ladder into management team slowly building here in Barnsley
roles which I am really proud off.
Steve Turnbull wrote:
A great achievement I am particularly proud of is
when the branch of the month was introduced in I joined SDL Barnsley on 3rd March
October 2014, we managed to win 24 awards in just 2012 and have now been with the company
over 60 months, In 2019 Branch of the month was 9 years and 9 months, During my time I have
introduced to the Warehouse and drivers teams, we seen many changes but I believe everyone
managed to win all four quarters that year. has contributed to making it one of the best

We have a whole new team building here after a very branches in the company.
difficult couple of years due to the pandemic, but I
feel we have really turned a corner this last couple of Here’s to many more!
months and really looking forward to a brighter 2022.

CURRENT VACANCIES
We have a quite a few new vacancies across the If you have friends, colleagues or contacts who
branches this month! you think would enjoy one of these roles with SDL
Please contact the HR department if you are Minorfern please let them know we are recruiting.
interested in applying for any of the roles below.

Branch Job Role Closing Date
Barnsley Logistics Coordinator 14th January 2022
Burton Parts Sales Advisor 14th January 2022
Burton Zero Hours Delivery Driver 14th January 2022
Castleford Delivery Driver 14th January 2022
Chesterfield Parts Sales Advisor 14th January 2022
Chesterfield Warehouse Operative 14th January 2022
Clay Cross Parts Sales Advisor 14th January 2022
Derby Parts Sales Advisor 14th January 2022
Ilkeston Dispatch Operative 14th January 2022
Ilkeston Zero Hour Driver 14th January 2022
Leeds Customer Relationship Manager 14th January 2022
Leeds Delivery Driver
Head Office 2 x Implementation Assistants 14th January 2022
(12 months Secondment)
Sheffield Parts Sales Advisor 14th January 2022
Sheffield Customer Relationship Manager 14th January 2022

NEW STARTERS...

NEW STARTER BRANCH DATE STARTED

Tony Grayston Ossett October 2021

Jessica Grayston Ossett October 2021

Susan Guise Clay Cross October 2021 NEW STARTER BRANCH DATE STARTED

Darren Jones Leeds October 2021 Jamie Liebreck Buxton November 2021

Colin Arabski Castleford October 2021 Owen Harrison Derby November 2021

Jake Lenton Barnsley October 2021 Karl Jackson-Dale Barnsley November 2021

Ellie Jordan Head Office October 2021 Dean Mitchell Castleford November 2021

Gillian Smith Head Office October 2021 Conor O’Driscoll Chesterfield November 2021

Scott Marshall Derby October 2021 Aiden Brooks Distribution November 2021

David Schofield Castleford October 2021 Jason Clark Distribution November 2021

Julie Benford Distribution October 2021 Mahi Udin Ossett December 2021

Richard Thompson Ilkeston September 2021 Terence McGreavy Leeds December 2021

Andrew Collins Ossett November 2021

MY STORY...

Andrea Wyatt
HR Advisor

This is me….I thought because you’ve all put up Above Sir Thomas Bloodworth and below me….
with me and my jokes for a whole year, I’d tell you
a bit more about me. Like jokes ….
I started the biggest rock
I class myself as a Yorkshire Lass with my roots firmly
from Sheffield, but with a family name of Bloodworth band in the galaxy.
which I later discovered could have come from a little We’re called the Asteroid Belt.
village called Blidworth in Nottingham some might
disagree. My family name goes on to play a part in If you want to share your story,
the great fire of London too. please get in touch.
See you soon
I cannot see any family resemblance, which is
probably a good thing because on the 2nd of Andrea Wyatt (HR Advisor)
September 1666 a year after the people of London
had survived the plague. The lord mayor of London,
Sir Thomas Bloodworth was woken up to be told
about the fire raging outside, he took one look and
replied “Pish, A woman might piss it out” and went
back to bed… Charming. The only fires I have started
have been metaphorically!!

As most of you know I started at SDL just over a
year ago to join Julie in her quest to bring in a fully
functioning HR team (refer to my face in this picture).

What a journey it has been so far from introducing
the Bodet clocking in system to collating and pulling
together all your personal files. I am sure from your
point of view I’ve been very nosey but there is always
a method in my madness from making sure we
don’t get fined for not having the right information
in place to designing easier more effective ways of
communication like this newsletter and much more
(Watch this space).

When I am not at work, you will probably find me at
a rock gig \,,/ \,,/ or up on the Northumbrian coast
walking our mad border collie. My favorite TV is
either Star Wars or Marvel related and love a real
ale so cannot wait for the beer festivals to make a
comeback. I will be out and about shortly so please
say hello if you see me, HR isn’t on the Dark Side we
are here for the good stuff too.

...AND FINALLY! What kind of OUR BRANCHES
bike does
What do snowmen BARNSLEY
eat for lunch? Santa Claus ride?
Icebergers Unit 12 Beevor Ind Est,
A Holly Davidson Beevor Street,
Hoyle Mill S71 1HN
I’ve just seen a sign Two snowmen stood
in Tesco’s saying in a field, ones says to TEL: 01226 327 430
Turkey £29.
the other can you BURTON ON TRENT
That’s £300 cheaper than smell carrots
Thomas Cook. Dale St,
Burton-upon-Trent
…I’m here all week Staffordshire DE14 3TE

Who is Santa’s TEL: 01283 507 890
favourite singer?
BUXTON
Elf-is Presley
Staden Lane Business Park,
If you think these are bad you should Buxton SK17 9SZ
see the ones we rejected...feel free
to send in any for the next issue. TEL: 01298 72569

If you would like to contribute any articles, stories, CASTLEFORD
jokes or anything else to the minorfern mail please send
Carr Wood Road,
to [email protected] Castleford WF10 4SB

TEL: 01977 800 300

CLAY CROSS

Holland House,
Furnace Hill,
Clay Cross,
Chesterfield S45 9NF

TEL: 01246 864 800

CHESTERFIELD

2 Foxwood Road,
Dunston Trading Estate,
Sheepbridge S41 9RF

TEL: 01246 459 525

DERBY

14 Cranmer Road,
West Meadows Industrial Estate,
Derby DE21 6JL

TEL: 01332 376 600

ILKESTON

Barker Gate,
Ilkeston DE7 8DS

TEL: 01159 316 816

LEEDS

20 Felnex Close,
Felnex Trading Estate,
Leeds LS9 0SR

TEL: 01138 314 111

MANSFIELD

Unit 6,
Bradder Way,
Mansfield NG18 5DQ

TEL: 01623 626 254

SHEFFIELD

Unit 2C,
Parkway Industrial Estate,
Nunnery Drive,
Sheffield S2 1TA

TEL: 0114 276 5335

OSSETT

146A Wakefield Road, Ossett,
West Yorkshire WF5 9AR

TEL: 01924 666 770