Shredall increases its Scottish business in the first quarter

Pictured above, Shredall founder Lloyd Williams and Managing Directors Nick Willams and Lucy Shipley. 

Shredall, headquartered in Nottingham, U.K., says it has grown its business in Scotland by 50 percent year on year after recording its best ever quarter at its South Lanarkshire, Scotland, location.

The company turned over $338,000 (£250,000) during the first four months of 2015, up from $223,000 (£165,000) for the same period last year. Shredall credits this increase on a sales strategy focused on the local area within a 50-mile radius that covers Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The firm also has welcomed three new staff members in 2015, including an apprentice from the local area.

Jamie Biggar joined the company full time June 15, 2015, as the first member of the company’s newly established apprenticeship scheme. His six-month training initiative has been established to provide training and financial backing for young, local talent and is being funded in part by the Routes to Work scheme, which offers support and advice for unemployed Lanarkshire residents. Shredall will provide grant-funded training for its newest team member in his first job.

Confidential Waste Manager for Shredall Scotland Brian McCulloch says, “We’re rooted in Lanarkshire, and many of our longstanding customers are based just a few miles from our headquarters. The latest growth figures show that our business plan works.

“We’re also conscious that this area suffers from a high youth unemployment rate, and the apprentice scheme is our way of giving something back to the community and boosting the local economy,” McCulloch says.  

“Jamie has settled into the Shredall family really quickly, and we hope that he will continue to develop skills here at Shredall that will benefit him for the rest of his working career,” he adds.

Shredall recently invested in the local sporting economy by sponsoring Hamilton Park Racecourse, one of South Lanarkshire’s most popular sporting venues.

Lloyd Williams founded Shredall Scotland in 2007 with one truck and one driver. Today the company employs nine people at its site in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, serving its customers using five vehicles.

The company also is the only secure shredding service provider in Scotland to be NAID AAA Certified.

With offices in Glasgow, London and Nottingham, Shredall is one of the U.K.’s largest independently owned shredding, document storage and document scanning companies.