Dandys Top Soil set for expansion, new 6 acre facility on Deeside Industrial Park
Sealand topsoil business hopes for Deeside expansion.
Jun 17 2010 by Dave Goodban, Flintshire Chronicle
A GROWING family firm is looking to create a dozen jobs after getting the go-ahead to expand to new premises in Deeside.
Garden supplies company Dandy’s Topsoil, based on Sealand Road, has won planning approval from Flintshire County Council to open a new centre at Fourth Ave on Deeside Industrial Park.
Managing director Adam Dandy, whose great-great-grandfather founded the business in 1826, is now hoping for funding from the Welsh Assembly Government to confirm the relocation and set the wheels in motion.
He is hoping the grant will be confirmed within the next two weeks and wants the new centre to open to the public on August 1.“It would be a huge step for us,” said Adam.“We’re looking to create 12 new jobs and the money would also mean we can safeguard the existing 20.”
Adam wants to appoint four new sales reps, two additional HGV drivers and an admin officer. He also hopes to take on a new commercial manager and a new transport manager and to also create two new customer support jobs and a new quality control position. He said: “We’ve had a fantastic year with sales of rock salt and aggregates, so much so that we’ve outgrown the old site. We need the new premises to be able to meet customer demand.”
Dandy’s would continue using the Sealand site, its home for 20 years, to store soil, but would move all of the other stock and the retail and e-commerce aspects of the company to the proposed site in Deeside.
Sealand councillor Chris Jones said: “It’s a long-established family business and it’s been an excellent operator in Sealand.“This move would give them a bigger site to operate from and I hope it will help them go from strength to strength.”
