RAY OF SUNSHINE FOR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.

HOUSING UNITS


PRESS RELEASE



January 5, 2010.



RAY OF SUNSHINE FOR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.



You wait ages for a holiday to come along – and then all of a sudden two come along at once.



For no sooner had Ray Neville, from Newton Heath, Manchester, booked himself and wife Margaret on a winter break to sunny Spain, than he found himself being presented with a £2,000 holiday voucher as Housing Units’ 2009 Employee of The Year.



“My wife’s got the brochures out already, but we reckon our second holiday of 2010 will be a trip to New York,” said Ray, 57, who works in Customer Collections at Housing Units in Failsworth.



“It was shock enough being nominated in the final twelve and getting a bottle of champagne, but I was absolutely knocked out when my name was announced and I was called up to be named Employee of the Year.



“It’s the first thing I’ve ever won, but it was extremely exciting – a bit like being IN The X-Factor, what with the build-up and then the announcement itself.



“My wife is retiring this Christmas, so we treated ourselves to a bit of winter sun and booked a trip to Spain in January.



“We went on holiday to New York around ten years ago, but it was only a long weekend – we always said there was far more to see that we didn’t, and now we have the opportunity to go to all the places we couldn’t squeeze in last time round.”



Nick Fox, director of Housing Units, said: “There was a total of 170 nominations which were whittled down to 12. From that, the judges had a very difficult decision, but some of the comments made about Ray really gave him the edge: ‘nothing is too much trouble’; ‘helpful to customers and colleagues alike’; ‘a credit to the company’; ‘an outstanding contributor’.



“But, in fairness, Ray is representative of all of our staff, every one of whom we’d like to give a pat on the back.”



Housing Units – known for its top-hatted doormen - was established in 1947. It is a family-owned furnishings retailer based in Wickentree Lane, Failsworth, Manchester M35 9BA, next to Junction 22 of the M60. It stocks 30,000 high-quality lines across a range of departments in two buildings and prides itself on its unique style of customer service, the value of its goods and the shopping experience it provides.



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Further information:

Iain Macauley

0161 929 0446/07788 978800

im@pressrelations.co.uk

www.housingunits.co.uk