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Nationwide logistics business offering distribution, warehousing, added value and consultancy services


Employees

We are extremely proud of the people who work with us. The quality of our staff at all levels helps the business achieve on every level of activity and performance. Good people thrive at Great Bear.

Where possible we will always promote from within, ensuring that any progression is both right for the individual as well as the company. A large number of our employees have progressed through the business in this way and we continually strive to create opportunities for those deserving of advancement.

Great Bear Employees
Great Bear Employees

There is great affinity within the business between our people and the company. Whilst large enough and sophisticated enough to provide solutions to some of the biggest brands in the world, we still retain the ethos, values and individual care towards our employees often demonstrated by smaller companies. It’s critical to our success for our employees to share our passion for developing the business, and for us to be equally passionate about their welfare.

Great Bear Annual 5-a-side Football Competition

The 2009 event took place on Saturday 27th June at The JJB Soccer Centre Derby.

  • Winners were Skelmersdale "A" (for the second year running) with Skelmersdale B coming in as runners up…
  • Melksham DC were wooden spoon winners (and travelled furthest !! )
  • Tony Powis was the leading scorer (captain of the losing finalists)
  • Special guest attending the day and evening bbq –
    Michael Simpson from Burton Albion
5-a-side Winners 2009 - Skelmersdale A

Skelmersdale winning team - Tomasz Bednarek, Gregor Kozlowski, Marcin Kozlowski, Pawel Wiatkowski, Pawel Pochec, Ivan Lucas, Radoslaw Wiatkowski (c).

The competition was entered by teams from the following sites:

  • Desborough (2)
  • Skelmersdale (2)
  • Basildon (2)
  • Ashton in Makerfield
  • Deeside
  • Port Sunlight
  • Melksham
  • Sandycroft
  • Tattenhall (Head Office)

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s a bear on a bike!

Great Bear’s Paul Goring and David Ashby have just returned from the French Alps, where – as part of the Team Giffers – they successfully competed and completed the 2010 Pass’portes Du Soleil mountain bike challenge. More in the news article here.

The Great Bear/Giffers Team
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