Far from the realm of building and construction being a man’s world, Baggeridge Brick has recently welcomed two female area sales managers to its team.

Sara Farbrace and Nea Barrett will be responsible for sales in the West Midlands and Kent, Surrey and Sussex respectively, and are already relishing the challenge.

Sara, who lives in Leicestershire, has ten years experience within the building profession. She commented: “I’m excited at the challenge of working for Baggeridge, it’s an interesting time for brick manufacturers what with many issues arising from current legislation, but brick continues to be in high demand.”

Sara enjoys working in the manufacturing side of the business after also experiencing working for brick factor and builder’s merchants. She continued: “Manufacturing is where it all starts, you have more control over what goes out to the marketplace and I like that. Despite the traditional stigma of the industry being male-dominated, I haven’t found this to be an issue at all and in fact there seems to be more female buyers on the scene too.”

Nea began her working career in recruitment but her interest in property development soon saw her move into the construction industry. “I’ve always been interested in building and property”, says Nea, “and after working for building contractors and a national builders merchant, moving to Baggeridge has given me an opportunity to utilise this experience with one of the UK’s leading brick manufacturers.

“I think that more and more women are seeing the attraction of working in the building industry as there are plenty of opportunities regardless of sex.”

Both new recruits are tasked with driving sales within their region and with four brand new brick products set to be launched, the orders will be coming in thick and fast. The Trinity Cream Gilt and Trinity Cream Multi Gilt lends itself to residential developments in the East and South East of the country, the Light Russet Sovereign Stock has been manufactured for UK-wide residential development , specification and refurbishment projects while the Ochill Greystone Smooth has been developed primarily for architectural work.

October 2006