About Brother UK Ltd

They hold annual Health & Wellbeing events, where colleagues can access a variety of services and information relating to their personnel health and wellbeing. These are very popular in the company, and are well attended and supported events. Amongst the things that are accessible to staff are head & neck Massages, advice on quitting smoking, advice on weight loss, taster sessions of sports and activities, advice and samples of healthy food, sight and hearing tests, help and advice on personal safety, help and advice on motoring/driver safety, blood pressure checks, access to help and advice on men’s and women’s health issues and many more depending on colleague requests, and relevant topics. As a result of their various activities on Wellbeing they were awarded a special recognition from Investors in People.

They work closely with other organisations to make their community engagement more meaningful, and frequently get involved in their activities and fundraising, from a financial and practical point of view. Where they have most success though is where they provide time and resources to help community organisations, who would otherwise not have access to such facilities. The MD donates a lot of his own time in a unique way, he is regularly approached to make speeches and presentations for business events. Their Infrastructure & Shared Services Director is Chair of the Pride of Tameside Business Awards and a member of the local Authorities Prosperous Board which is about sharing the resources and knowledge of a large employer in the local region with smaller businesses, to generate growth and investment in the local community.

Mission, Vision and Values are produced at Global level at our company headquarters, which are then cascaded down to local level, with a version produced in the UK specifically for Brother UK staff to relate to. The global group produce a lot of collateral to communicate these too colleagues all over the world, with visuals, videos and training sessions and workshops. Locally they reinforce them by referring to them in monthly team talks, annual and quarterly colleague meetings and half year reviews. They have a colleague reward scheme (PRIDE) which allows managers and peers to nominate each other, and these nominations link back to the core principles to provide a library of examples of how these principles are being deployed.