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MID Communications CEO, Danny Simpson, feeling good about the new Stakehill Head Office

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MID Communications CEO, Danny Simpson, feeling good about the new Head Office.

We made a brilliant leap forward with our new Home and Head Office, Link House.

We are nearly ready to move into our new head office, Link House, on Stakehill Industrial Estate.  This week in preparation for our completion of the top floor, we held a business event for the local businesses on Stakehill.

We invited all the local businesses from the estate, along with Rochdale council, and Rochdale development agency.

We had some amazing support from Carol Hopkins and her team, so huge thanks to them for their support.

The event was led by Emma Robinson who is a project officer for the Rochdale Development Agency.  It was a great breakfast event which had a solid turn out for its first time.

We had a fantastic range of speakers which included Manchester Transport to the towns CCTV management and Northwest Highways, all speaking about the positive changes proposed for Stakehill.

We also spoke about the exciting upcoming Rochdale Business Awards, which are now open for nominations, especially the retailer of the year category.

This is our award category we have constructed this year for Rochdale’s independent retailers to shout about how amazing they really are.

Please look at the categories here and get your application in, a great opportunity for any business to showcase your business and your amazing people.

It was great to host this in our newly constructed Training room when we complete we will be offering out to local businesses on the estate to use for free.  This is a great meeting or training facility, to help support local businesses.

Official Opening Coming Soon.

I am excited to host our official opening of the building sometime in August, as we attempt to bring a host of the Boroughs networking groups together to meet each other to make more new connections.

A few to mention who have shown their support early for the event already are, Rochdale football club business club, Oldham Business 100, Rochdale Development Agency, Rochdale Council, The Rochdale Ambassadors, with social media partners #rochdalehour.

I am proud to confirm Newly Elected MP Tony Lloyd attendance, along with the New Mayor of Rochdale.

It is so exciting, and fantastic to have such great support locally, this shows again that Rochdale’s public and private sectors along with local politician are all supporting new growth and businesses in Rochdale.

This is great to see, the town really does start to come alive with a whole host of positive events to come.

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O2 Rochdale feeling good about festival

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O2 Rochdale feeling good about festival

Digital communications chain O2 Rochdale is backing this summer’s Rochdale Feel Good Festival.

The O2 store, based in Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre will be an official festival partner, promoting the event to their customers across the region and having a presence at the festival itself, welcome O2 Rochdale!!
During the festival, O2 Guru’s will be on hand to give free tech advice to festival goers and they’ll be demonstrating the very latest in virtual reality technology. The deal will also see O2 Rochdale’s logo on festival marketing.  The team will be running an exclusive competition during the event to win tickets for other top music gigs which you can enter by sharing your festival photos on Twitter using #FEELGOODGURU

Danny Simpson, Chief Executive of O2 Rochdale who is a resident of said: “It’s great to support this amazing local event for our store, and our customers. It gives me an immense amount of pride, growing up in Rochdale was great, and I am now able to give back to the town and our amazing customers, by our organisation supporting this amazing Event.  We will be getting the public excited about tech, with our Digital Wizards, our Guru’s from our store Team, to showcase VR, tech, and offer free and impartial help, advice, on all things Tech.”

“We’re very excited about this year’s festival which is a superb event for the area. O2 Rochdale is committed to the local community and is pleased to support this event which is bringing over twenty acts and stacks of family entertainment into town.”

Councillor Janet Emsley, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, community and culture at Rochdale Borough Council who visited the O2 Rochdale store to meet the team this week said: “Local investment and support from our partners such as 02 Rochdale helps the council deliver this fantastic event, and provide an opportunity for thousands of families to come and enjoy performances that will appeal to young and old alike.”

Rochdale Feel Good Festival returns on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 August, for another showcase of entertainment, food and culture.

The festival which is celebrating its 10th birthday will include live music across indoor venues, the main stage sponsored by The Flying Horse Hotel, a quality food court and family entertainment.

The main stage will be headlined by Razorlight, on a packed two-day line-up which also includes Manchester’s Baked A La Ska, RedFaces, Pacific, Daft Punk The Tribute, Marbelhead Johnson,  plus more to be announced.

The festival is funded by the Council together with sponsorship from The Flying Horse Hotel, Rochdale Football Club, Metrolink, O2 Rochdale, The Royal Toby, Rochdale Town Centre Management and Rochdale Sixth Form College.

For more visit, www.rochdalefeelgoodfestival.co.uk, go to www.facebook.com/feelgoodfestival or connect with the festival on Twitter @FeelGoodFest @MIDCOMMS @dannyMIDsimpson

O2 and McDonald’s Franchisors seek Social Media Superstars

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O2 and McDonald’s Franchisors seek Social Media Superstars

Two of Manchester’s leading franchisors are looking for social media apprentices to join their Manchester based teams.

McDonald’s franchise, McDonald’s Manchester City Centre and O2 franchise, MID Communications, are looking for young people from the local area to help establish their social media accounts.

A selection boot camp for the roles will be held at The Juice Academy, the UK’s first industry-led social media apprenticeship programme, on the morning of Tuesday 18th July in Manchester.

As part of their day-to-day role, the chosen apprentices will play a vital part in social media and digital strategy for their franchise, bringing to life lessons learnt from the training programme.

Danny Simpson, CEO of MID Communications, said: “We are really excited to welcome our new apprentice, who we are sure will help us work towards our goal of being a leader within O2 franchise in the UK.

“This will be a great opportunity for any young person, to help us drive the MID Communications Brand along with the exciting, national family loved O2 brand, with its award winning product and services. We can’t wait to meet them at the boot camp.”

Apprentices will receive a package including a £9,000 salary and a graduation bonus of £2,500 while gaining a level 3 qualification in Digital Marketing, as well as a level 4 award in Digital Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. They will also be given coding lessons from Northcoders.

Alongside this, the apprentices will gain sound industry advice and insight from PR and marketing specialists while training concurrently at The Juice Academy.

There are 22 other employers attending the boot camp, including Manchester Airport, events space Victoria Warehouse and football betting site, Redarmybets, and more businesses wanting to join.

For more information or to apply for the apprenticeship, please visit www.juiceacademy.co.uk or email georgia.fitzgerald@juiceacademy.co.uk

Twitter: @Danny Simpson

MID Communications Makes E3 Final

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MID Communications SHORTLISTED for 2017 E3 Business Awards along with their Head of HR & Operations Jennifer Hulme  

Manchester based Telecoms O2 franchise MID Communications, and their Head of HR & Operations, Jennifer Hulme have been shortlisted as finalists in the 2017 E3 Business Awards, which will be held at the Macron Stadium in Bolton on Thursday 13th July 2017.

The company, which is one of the largest Independent O2 Franchises in the Northwest was selected from amongst hundreds of nominees to become finalists in the prestigious Customer Service category.
Jennifer, a member of MID Communications leadership team, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Outstanding Women in Business 2017 category.

Speaking on behalf of the company, CEO Danny Simpson said: “We are all really pleased that the business has been recognised in the category of Customer Service. The team work hard to ensure we offer the best possible service with excellent in-store customer experience every day.

We are passionate about the service we provide in a challenging retail environment and have pushed ourselves to be different on the high street to really set us apart from our competition.  To get the recognition for this by making the final is a huge honour”

 

He went on to comment on Jennifer Hulme’s selection “Jennifer is a massive part of our business.  She works diligently every day driving for results for our business.

Jennifer is an amazing and strong professional person who has made a huge impact on our business, and continues to strive for excellence.

Jennifer is a great leader both in an out of MID communications.  The CIPD, and the institute of HR are fortunate to have such a strong ambassador for the profession and the role.

I know she will make a great role model for all future women in business and HR professional’s.  I wish her all the luck for the night.”

 

“Each year, it becomes more of an achievement to win a finalist’s place,” said Mubarak Chati, Managing Director of 1 Events Media, who host the E3 Awards.

“Every year since we’ve started, we’ve seen an increase in nominations and a corresponding increase in quality. This year, across all seventeen award categories, we’ve seen an increase of around 18% on last year.”

“We’ve had nominations from throughout the North West and we’ve seen real strength in all areas. One of the big surprises has been the number of entries from new businesses and women in business.

 It’s always been a key purpose of the Awards to celebrate the achievement of all parts of the community – not just the mainstream –  women, charities and social enterprises coming forward in such numbers is very gratifying indeed.”

 

“Given the number and the high standard of entries, we certainly gave the Nominations Panel a difficult job. They have risen to the challenge, though, and their final selections represent the very best of the whole North West region.

For MID Communications and Jennifer Hulme to have been named as a finalist’s for 2017 is an achievement of which they should be very proud.”

 

More information about MID Communications and Jennifer can be found on its website – www.midcommunications.com – or by calling 0161 683 5771.

More information about the E3 Business Awards, including a full list of finalists, can be found at www.e3businessawards.co.uk.

Danny Simpson New CEO For MID Communications Ltd

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Manchester-based telecommunications provider MID Communications Limited has announced the appointment of Danny Simpson as their new Chief Executive Officer.

Danny Simpson, who lives in Rochdale, took up the newly-created role from April 1 after being part of MID Communications for almost eight years.
Danny started his career as a Regional Sales Manager, before being promoted to Sales Director in 2011.

During this time he has achieved incredible growth within the company, increasing the business from the original five stores and 43 employees with a £4 million turnover to a company today which is on target to achieve a turnover of £20 million next financial year.

Danny said: “I am honoured and privileged to have been given the opportunity to move to the role of CEO.

“I have enjoyed working and growing the business and I love to see our amazing people grow and move forward within the company.

“It is so rewarding to be a part of a fun, passionate and ambitious business that’s very customer centric, while remaining persistent in everything we set out to achieve.  We have developed a business plan with some exciting growth opportunities for MID Communications over the coming years.

“We want to launch the MID Group soon as we gear up to expand and diversify. I am fortunate to have an energetic and focused workforce who deliver amazing results every day and I am proud of all our team.

“Seven Years ago I created the mission statement ‘build a leading franchise that is people and customer centric’. This is still at the core of our decisions now and will remain as we go forward.

“I love what I do and love the people I do it with.  Work doesn’t feel like work. I want to continue to build this culture as we continue to grow.”

MID Communications is an independent franchise of Telefonica UK which is a Manchester based O2 franchise, with 15 O2 Stores across Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside and the Fylde Coast, in addition to a Manchester-based call centre.

It is one of the largest independent O2 franchises in the North West and employs over 160 people.
MID Communications was established in 2006 by directors Andrew and Ian Murray. The brothers were responsible for recruiting Danny to their management team in 2009.

Compliments For Danny Simpson

Managing Director Andrew Murray said: “Danny has made a massive contribution to our business since he joined us in 2009 as a Regional Sales Manager.

“We quickly recognised his talent and commitment which was why we invited him to join the board as Sales Director in 2011.

“His drive, passion and enthusiasm have enabled the business to grow and, thanks to his vision and leadership, both the company and staff have developed over recent years to put the business in the strong position it is in today. The decision to promote Danny to CEO greater reflects his key central role in the continuing growth and development of the business.”

Mr Murray added: “I know Danny wants to keep the business growing and competing as it continues to be a great place to work and strives to become an employer of choice.”

Mark Boyle, HSBC Corporate Relationship Director for Greater Manchester, said: “We have had the pleasure to work closely with Danny to organise a funding package that supported the expansion of the business.

“Danny has a clear vision for the direction of MID Communications and we look forward to working with him in the future and watching as the business continues to flourish.”

The Second Half of 2016, The Company Grew By An Additional Six Stores And 50 Employees.

MID Communications has also recently acquired new head office premises as it relocates to Stake Hill Estate Rochdale. This has doubled its office space to over 6,000 square feet.

For further information, contact Press@midcommunications.com or www.midcommunications.com

or call 0161 683 5771.

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