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Following the Raymond Brown Group’s Investors In People (IIP) Accreditation in February last year, Raymond Brown have successfully passed an interim review with IIP Practitioner, Dorothy Shrivell. Dorothy visited the Raymond Brown head office to meet with Steve Clasby, Chief Operating Officer and Gemma Taylorson, HR Manager to see how the group businesses are progressing […]
The first part of the Phase One Area at Copyhold Quarry has now been fully restored with mixed woodland. The area, which sits next to the recycling facility is approximately 3.42 hectares in size and has seen a considerable agricultural restoration scheme undertaken over the last two years, which have included the planting of 4,700 […]
Accompanied by Sustrans, we took one of our HGV tipper lorries into Fairisle Junior School in Southampton, to increase knowledge of cycling, scooting and walking participation in the local area and to demonstrate ‘Blind spots’ etc as part of road safety for the children. The children were invited to walk around the Raymond Brown lorry, […]
Over 170 employees and guests across our businesses joined us for our 2017 Christmas Party at the new Solent University Spark Building in Southampton, which was decorated in an Enchanted Forest theme, with snowflakes floating down the walls, green lighting and wintery props and accessories, including a giant white unicorn surrounded by Christmas trees in […]
Last year, we introduced three Core Values to the business: Passion, Responsibility and Engagement. As part of the Employee Satisfaction Surveys this year, we asked employees to nominate their colleagues under each of the core value categories. As a result of these nominations, four individuals were recognised at the Raymond Brown Christmas Party earlier this […]
On 1 September, Roke Manor Quarry had the delivery of a new Bell B30E Dump Truck, a much improved, safer and more economic model. It features a tailgate, wider tyres, rider control (to make it more comfortable for the operator), an onboard weigher, a device to restrict the tipping and telemetry, which updates daily to give the following information: loads tipped, […]
Raymond Brown are celebrating as Kerry Smith, Communications and Marketing Manager was announced winner of the Venus Hampshire Marketing and PR Award on Saturday 11<sup>th</sup> November in front of over 350 guests at the Venus Hampshire Gala Dinner, held at Solent University’s new Spark Building. The prestigious Venus Awards were founded in 2009 to recognise, […]
The business is pleased to announce that as of November 2017, Martin Wooldridge has been promoted to Quarry Manager at Brickworth Quarry. Martin has been with the business for almost five years, managing the Marchwood Wharf site in Southampton and has 20 years’ experience in the quarrying and aggregates industry. Brickworth Quarry’s existing Quarry Manager, […]
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) ‘Quarries & Nature 2017 – Appreciating Assets’ event took place on Thursday 19th October at The Royal Society, London and was presented by BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today presenter, Sybil Ruscoe. Expert speakers included a number of current issues related to nature conservation. They were Stephanie Hilborne OBE, Chief Executive […]
Brand new 800m long conveyor belts have been installed at Roke Manor Quarry to transport the aggregate from the excavation area to the processing plant. Extracted material at the quarry will now be transported to the processing plant by new overland conveyors to reduce impacts from the heavy plant movements. The conveyor was installed over […]