A young man who joined leading Welsh food supplier Harlech Foodservice as a teenage part-time van driver\u2019s assistant is the new Warehouse Manager for the rapidly growing multi-million pound business.<\/p>\n
Ten years ago Morgan Jones was a 16-year-old schoolboy from Chwilog looking for a summer job and now he has a key role as the firm expands its operations throughout Wales and the border counties.<\/p>\n
He is one of four new promotions announced by Harlech at their headquarters at Llanystwmdwy, near Criccieth, with Tomos Owen, a new HGV Class One driver, and Jason Martin, Class Two, and Shane Parker joining the Business Support Team from telesales.<\/p>\n
Morgan, who has bought a home in Nefyn, said: \u201cThe company have been fantastic and have really given me the chance to progress and build a career with them \u201cI started part-time while I was still in school, helping drivers load and unload and then came back from university and started full-time as a van driver before the company put me through my HGV Class One and I worked as a driver through Covid.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I was made Transport Supervisor and then Transport Planning Manager and now I\u2019ve moved out of transport and into the warehouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s not just me. All four of us have been given opportunities by Harlech and we all live really close to the business headquarters and have been given the chance to progress and build careers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason, from Trefor, worked in the company\u2019s butchery department for ten years before moving into the warehouse and retraining\u00a0 as a driver and has just gained his HGV Class Two.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI just wanted to progress and do driver training and its worked out very well for me. It\u2019s been a real bonus being given the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomos Owen, 26, from Nefyn, originally trained as a chef and he said: \u201cI worked locally but was looking for a change of career and I joined Harlech in February and re-trained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve passed my HGV Class One and have started driving and am really enjoying it \u2013 the hours are a lot more social than as a chef and it\u2019s a good job for getting out and about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shane Parker, 42, from Llanystwmdwy, began in telesales in November and he<\/p>\n
said: \u201cI enjoyed that and I live so close that I can walk to work if I like and now I\u2019m moving up to work in IT in the Business Support Team, looking after the website and tracking rends and patterns in sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur job is to support the sales and purchasing teams here in the office and out in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harlech Head of Operations Ian Evans added; \u201cAs we have grown we have realised we needed these kinds of IT skills and support right across the range of the company\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese four new appointments are another good example of how the company promotes from within and how there are opportunities to develop new skills and build careers here with Harlech and that is so important in an area like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harlech Foodservice which was founded in 1973, now operates from bases at Criccieth, in Gwynedd, Chester, Merthyr Tydfil and now Carmarthen.<\/p>\n
Between the four locations, the company is increasing employment to 250 staff and running a growing fleet of vehicles to deliver up to 5,000 product lines to caf\u00e9s, restaurants, pubs and public sector customers across the whole of Wales, Shropshire, the Midlands and the North West.<\/p>\n
For more on Harlech Foodservices go to https:\/\/www.harlech.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n