Working at Ashley Ann Ltd

Founded in 1986, Ashley Ann is now in its 35th year of trading and is a family-owned-and-run company started by Stephen and Ellen Bremner, and named after their daughter, Ashley. Stephen and Ellen’s sons, Gavin and Scott, are now in the senior management team, ensuring that Ashley Ann will continue to be run in the same caring way it always has been.

Our business has grown substantially over the last 30 years, and we now have 200 employees including those at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Wick, Caithness, in the far north of Scotland.

From our humble beginnings in a small unit in Thurso 35 years ago, we now manufacture around 100 kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms per week, with these being supplied through eight of our own retail showrooms in Scotland, and many independent retailers spread right across the UK.

The scale of growth and advances in manufacturing technology have resulted in many changes to our company over the 35 years, but the family-led values which were at our heart from the earliest days still hold true today.

 

 

At Ashley Ann, we care; we all care – all 200 of us. We understand that our customers have entrusted us with a very important project in their home that needs to be fully cared for. Our culture of care enables us to deliver on our promise, and that is to guide our customers through a skilfully managed journey, from initial design through to a lasting experience after the project is complete.

Without great people there would be no Ashley Ann success story; we know this; we get it. So we invest in our people, trust them, train them and encourage them to grow within our business.

We are an ambitious, progressive and forward-looking company which is family owned and run. We put great value on all our employees, and provide a safe and friendly working environment – be it in our manufacturing facility, offices or showrooms.

Along with competitive rates of pay, we provide an attractive benefits package including, bonuses, pension and six weeks annual leave. As a further measure of the sort of company we are, we have a full and professional management team which supports and takes care of all our colleagues and includes:

Our HR Manager oversees individual performance, colleague welfare, employee relations, compliance of employment law and recruitment.

Our Health and Safety Manager is here to support all our colleagues, ensure new recruit inductions, risk assessments, yearly health assessments, plus ensure H&S is key in making everyone safe at work.

Our Training Manager who ensures all our colleagues have the skills they need. More specifically that our new colleagues have training plans, have regular reviews and sign-off at probationary period end.

We have bright and modern offices within our stunning showrooms, which are all operating in full Covid compliance.