A LEADING Worcester company has revealed it will manufacture its new product in the UK next year with the creation of more than 100 jobs.
Spetchley-based Gtech will unveil the latest addition to its range in the autumn and company CEO and founder Nick Grey said the multi-million pound project would ‘represent an entirely new approach to vacuum cleaning’.
“One piece of feedback I get repeatedly from the British public is ‘Nick, why don’t you manufacture your products here?’, so we have designed the product to be manufactured here in the UK.”
“Currently Gtech products are built in China and transported to the UK in shipping containers which are unloaded into a warehouse. They are then individually picked and delivered to consumers.
“Instead the new product will be built on the day of dispatch and collected from the end of the line by the courier. Consumers visiting Gtech’s shop will also have the option to collect their products directly from the line saving packaging.”
As part of the recruitment drive to support this, 80 members of Gtech staff including Nick, made their own charity rap video.
“We made a Christmas video in 2016, but I thought we’d give it a miss this year,” he said.
“Then the staff said ‘let’s do another, bigger and better’. So, we did. It was a great day and loads of people got involved to support St Richards Hospice, a very worthwhile local cause.”
