The company is headquartered in Scotland, and currently has 37 trade centres across the UK. Most of these new centres will be located in southern England. 

 

The new premises will create up to 50 jobs, as well as hopefully having the desired effect upon Stevenswood’s turnover. 

 

Managing director Joe Trueman is the driving force behind this ambitious expansion plan. He said: "In the past year, we’ve continued to fine-tune the business, expanding the product range available to our customers and creating the platform for future growth by investing in our infrastructure and systems.

 

"Going forward, our strategy will shift towards organic branch opening. In the coming months we will finalise new locations but expect the majority to open in the South of England. In addition, we will be looking to expand the range of services we provide our trade customers, using technology to make it easier to buy and collect our products."

 

The windows and doors distributor was acquired by Cairngorm Capital in November 2016. It has since been merged with three other companies. 

 

Neil McGill, managing director of Cairngorm Capital and board member of Stevenswood, added: "Stevenswood has grown into a key player in the sector and is one of the largest distributors of doors and windows in the country.”

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

_______________

 

 

When there is significant expansion of both working space and employee numbers, as is planned for Stevenswood’s new centres, it is important that business make sure their time and attendance systems can deal with the challenge.

 

Monitoring attendance is often only quantified in companies with a large number of temporary or full-time waged staff, but all companies would benefit from making sure their method of recording attendance is efficient. 

 

Recording attendance in a computerised form is best practise even if it is not necessary for payroll, because it means that the data is easily available for HR and admin departments should they require it. 

 

If you use a clocking in and out system which does not record exactly who has just clocked in or out irrefutably, you are leaving yourself open to time fraud in the form of “buddy punching”, where employees swap cards, PINs or passwords to log in as each other. 

 

If this is a problem you are suffering from, the most secure method of attendance management is biometric clocking in and out. It is much more difficult to fool biometric stations, requiring advanced knowledge and technology as opposed to just swapping information. 

 

At Time and Attendance South East we sell fingerprint scanners and hand scanners for biometric time and attendance management.