Bedmaker Silentnight hails record performance in 70th year
SILENTNIGHT has enjoyed record sales up 10% on the previous year to £137.5m, as it celebrates its 70th year as a bed manufacturer.
Sales across the Barnoldswick, Lancashire group’s Silentnight, Sealy and Rest Assured brands increased by £12.3m for the year to the end of January 2016, while pre-tax profits grew 18% to £3.9m. Operating profit increased to £8.3m – a 26% increase on last year.
Latest accounts filed at Companies House also show that headcount grew by 5% to more than 1,000 staff to meet incaresed production demand.
Steve Freeman, managing director, said: “The major driver behind our sales and profit achievement is our business vision which we developed and launched across our company – to be the home of the most trusted sleep brands.
“This vision has helped us to engage and energise every colleague across all departments with total focus on market leading quality – first class customer service and continuous innovation.
“The benefits of which are now being enjoyed by our trading partners and their customers as sales across all our brands continue to strengthen further into 2016.
“Our recent Which? Best Buy awards and the growing number of five star consumer reviews across our brands are recognition of all the hard work every team member puts into making our brands the most know, most recognised and bestselling in the UK market.”
