A family-run grounds maintenance and landscaping company has seen another increase in workforce and turnover during 2016. Beaumont Grounds Maintenance of Aycliffe has seen sales grow year-on-year for the last five years. Beaumont, which specialises in grounds and sports pitch maintenance, also added four new members of staff to its team in 2016, boosting numbers to 15. This year the company has set ambitious targets to grow again with forecast sales of £750,000 while aiming to create more new jobs. Managing Director Alexander Lineton said: “This year we’re looking to continue the growth path that we’re on while maintaining the family values that we offer. Our fantastic team has been essential in the growing success of Beaumont and I would like to thank them for their continued efforts.
“We expect to have completed full accreditation for an ISO integrated management system, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001, and we will be fully accredited by the end of January 2017 enabling us to win new largescale tenders to support our ambitious growth plan. Beaumont was established in 1965 by Steven Lineton, who ran the new business alongside his garden centre based on Beaumont Hill in Darlington. In 1991 Beaumont moved premises to larger premises on Aycliffe Business Park and has since pushed more into the commercial maintenance sector. It’s now headed up by the third generation of the Lineton family, with Alexander M.D. and his sister Sophie as accounts manager, while their parents – finance director Mark and company secretary Sally – continue to play crucial roles. In 2016 the company was named Service Business of the Year at the annual Aycliffe Business Park “Make Your Mark” awards. Alex added: “During its 50th year in 2015 Beaumonts invested £120,000 in new machinery.
We’ve recently invested in new 3G maintenance equipment which has enabled us to explore new markets, and there’s currently only one other company in the NorthEast which provides the same service. “The time, resource and cost involved in 3G synthetic pitches is considerable, with some of our clients spending as much as £500,000. It is therefore essential that all synthetic surfaces have a professional maintenance schedule in place to ensure the carpets play to their highest standard and last as long as possible.” Towards the end of 2016, Beaumont signed a threeyear deal with leading Teesside independent commercial property surveying practice Dodds Brown.
The company is now maintaining 11 Dodds Brown-managed properties across the region, while Beaumont also won a number of new school maintenance contracts, including Thornaby Academy and Our Lady and St Bede’s Catholic School in Stockton. Beaumont now has a growing list of 150 contracted sites across the whole of the North-East, down to the Yorkshire and Humber areas and across to the Cumbria region. These include a range of public and private sector contracts – various commercial premises including factories, hotels and premises run by national property management companies as well as more than 50 schools around the North-East region. Find out more at www. b e a u m o n t g r o u n d s maintenance.co.uk or give them a call on 01325 301379
in photo: Beaumont management team (front, left to right) accounts manager Sophie Lineton, financial director Mark Lineton, company secretary Sally Lineton and managing director Alexander Lineton with some of their staff at their site on Aycliffe Business Park
