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Tanfield was thought about, conceived and developed in the North East, and there’s nowhere else in the world where we could have done what we’ve done. And that’s because of people.
The people here are great, their attitude to work is fantastic and their work ethic is brilliant. You can’t want for anything other than that, and with the right funding and the right support, you’ve got a good chance.
I’ve worked with some outstanding, unbelievable individuals. When you go into a meeting and see how they operate, it’s a bit like watching George Best on the football pitch.
I’ve always had the attitude that you recruit as early as you can the people that you can’t afford. I look for people who aspire for good things in their own lives, and they in turn are prepared to invest in order to get rewarded.
The team here is home grown; they’ve all lived and raised their families in the North East, and they’ve all had a lot more tread on the tyre than the original job they were hired to do. I looked for people who had quite high bandwidth.
A lot of the people who are here now came in when we were £10m turnover business and we were local to the North East. Now, it’s all over the world and we’ve got two facilities in America, one in Kansas and one in California, and we’ve got facilities in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
These guys are now managing the whole entity- they had big bandwidth when I first hired them, so it was fortunate to get good people.
Roy StanleyTanfield Group Plc
