Travel agency named best employer
Barrhead Travel has been named ‘best employer’ at this year’s Scottish Business Awards.
The Scottish travel group, which employs over 550 staff across Scotland and Northern Ireland, fought off competition from Everything Everywhere (Orange and T Mobile), Pertemps, Optima Solutions, Servtech, Motherwell Bridge and Dron Dickson to claim the award.
Chief executive Sharon Munro said: "Barrhead Travel has enjoyed a strong period of growth in recent years owing in no small part to the enthusiasm and dedication of our staff, trainers and managers.
"As a company we place great emphasis on staff development and creating a positive working environment and it’s great to have our hard work recognised at a national level."
Barrhead Travel reported a period of high growth in recent years, with turnover increasing 30% between 2011 and 2012, despite ongoing difficult market conditions.
The company also recently launched a nationwide youth development initiative to complement an ongoing drive to recruit experienced staff and support future business expansion.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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