Goldteam's Blog

Entrepreneurial spirit alive and well in Slough

Posted by Karen Furminger
I was very proud to see our Managing Director Naveed Ahmed win the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Slough Chamber Gala dinner last week.  One of the reasons I joined Goldteam was because of the ethical approach to business Naveed has.

This was underlined by the regional audit partner of Haines Watts who said that this award recognised Goldteam’s commitment to providing employment to local people. Goldteam deals with a low skilled candidate group but have been able provide ongoing temporary work to 700 people from the local economy. By providing this low skilled group with free training in the areas of hygiene and health and safety, we have been able to ensure continuous assignments for what is usually an underprivileged section of our local economy as well as ensuring that they have the necessary skills to be able to secure work. This is a win/win situation providing local employment and obviously at the same time facilitating Goldteam’s growth

The award also recognised Naveed’s vision to grow the business to £100m turnover by 2016 whilst achieving an unrivalled reputation for compliance, ethics and innovation. “I want to do this in order to set a benchmark for our industry as a company that not only cares about making money – but which also cares about how that money is made – a quality I find sadly lacking in our industry today”, he said.

Hear Hear Naveed – and very well done!