The move will increase Hague’s current head office footprint by around 1,000sqm to 3,484sqm incorporating an office and warehouse complex. The new development will support the firm’s long-term growth strategy, with space for 40 staff, and its commitment to environment and sustainability goals.
Group marketing manager, Katie Blagdon, said it would accommodate twice the amount of storage as well as the company’s growing marketing and design team and will feature a new custom-designed fulfilment area.
She added: “Sustainability is one of our core values, the move is providing us with the opportunity to rethink and redesign our work space – we will have a larger area for [solar] panels and more charge points for electric vehicles, [as we] continue to work towards making the site carbon neutral.
“We have also embraced the hybrid working philosophy for employee wellbeing and are designing collaboration areas for meetings when teams are in the head office.”
Hague Group managing director, Graham Wain, said: “We are intent on building a facility that will meet our growth ambitions and add efficiencies of service to our clients.
“Our ongoing commitment to reducing our carbon footprint is at the forefront of this development decision, as well as providing office space that our colleagues will enjoy working in.”
Between 2018 and 2019 Hague underwent an intense acquisition run that began with buying East Riding-based Contrac’s print management division in January 2018 followed by rival print management firm Venture Business Forms in October, West Midlands-based print management firm Triform in January 2019 and finally Cardiff firm iCom Printworks in April that year.
The business now has nine sites across the UK and one in Melbourne, Australia – an addition it made after buying out Schinners Business Forms in 2017. Recent growth and acquisitions have boosted Hague’s turnover to around £28m with a workforce of circa 105.
Hague Group is currently on a recruitment drive, looking for six sales and account managers, having seen a number of retirements of long-standing staff in the past year.
Founded in 1980, Hague Group supplies security documents, security labels, holographic foils, cheques and certificates in more than 50 countries.
With the help of employees Hague is planning to plant 2,000 trees on the site of its new head office, including hedgerows and native species to encourage wildlife.
