2. Afonwen Laundry
Linen hire and laundry | Established in 1935
Afonwen Laundry is a linen hire & laundry business that is exclusively focussed on the Hotel market place. It supplies over 30,000 hotel bedrooms throughout Wales, the North West of England, Yorkshire, West Midlands, South West England and along the M4 corridor from Cardiff to as far afield as London, Oxford and Southampton. The company supplies many of the leading hotel brands in the four star corporate hotel market place as well as the fast growing budget hotel sectors.
Processing all of the linen through highly efficient, state-of-the-art production facilities, Afonwen Laundry buys and rents all of the linen it processes to enable it to operate highly efficiently in offering a pooled stock of high quality linen which is shared between all of its customers in order to manage the service as efficiently as possible.
The company now employs 360 people and opened in Cardiff in the summer of 2008 following a £6m investment supported by Welsh Assembly Government and Finance Wales with a commitment to create 64 jobs over three years. After two years of trading in Cardiff, its South Wales business turnover is over £7million a year on a standalone basis employing over 160 people. The company and staff are very proud of achieving this in two years since opening and its Cardiff production facility is now almost the same size as the orginial business based in Afonwen, Pwllheli.
1662.8% growth between 2007 and 2009