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Beth Joins the Family

It may be Beth Parry’s first year work anniversary, but she felt right at home from the moment she sat at her desk; that’s because she was joining her cousin, Holly Bailey and Auntie, Joanne Bailey (Holly’s mum) at family-owned Swansway Motor Group.

Beth explained, “I did a week’s work experience in the Marketing team at Swansway when I was in sixth form, I really enjoyed it, especially working with Holly and Jo, but there were no jobs going at the time and I was in the middle of my A levels”.

But, her enthusiasm during her work experience hadn’t gone unnoticed and when the Marketing team needed some temporary help with a database project, they called on Beth; then the team was looking for Maternity cover and Beth was their first thought and whilst doing this, she was offered a permanent role in the team.

Beth, who lives in Nantwich and is still only 19, now works in the CRM & Database Management team, but also helps out across the full range of marketing activities, as she explained, “I love my new expanded job role, it means I’m learning loads of new things, like how to put new pages on the website, how to add pages to the blog, how to help our website rank better on Google, all-sorts to be honest”!

“It makes the day fly as my work is so varied; I can’t believe I’m celebrating my first anniversary in the job and though I really joined the Marketing team almost by accident, I know this is what I want to do”, added Beth.

Beth isn’t the only person to work with her family at Swansway, the group is run by the Smyth family; father Michael is chairman and his sons David, Peter and John are directors, son-in-law, Chris Chatfield works in the business too.

And, there are many other families working for the family business including spouses such as Accountant Kath Bradbury and Master Technician husband Warran Bradbury as well as Dad and daughter, Dave Pullar in Group Fleet and daughter, Tara Verling in the HR team.

Beth commented, “It does give work a nice family feel, not just because you’re working a family business, but because there are quite a lot of families working in the business too”.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Karen Walker .