Well after 25 years – it is finally time for me to move on!
I have enjoyed my career with Certex immensely. It goes without saying that I will miss the many friends and colleagues whose company I have enjoyed so much over the last two and a half decades. Like any business, we have had our fair share of ups – not to mention downs – and just as with any ‘family’, we have celebrated triumphs together and supported each other through difficult trading times, and even some personal tragedies along the way.
I have been fortunate to have worked with some fantastic people over the last 25 years, many of whom have assisted me on route, and I am confident that I leave behind a Certex team made up of some exceptionally talented individuals.
I have also enjoyed some positive and life-affirming business relationships with many of Certex’s clients and will certainly miss learning about their various business endeavours. It has been a pleasure to be able to offer solutions that I hope have helped them in a small way to become even more commercially successful.
Certex, like many companies, has experienced some tough times during the ‘credit crunch’, but is now emerging stronger than ever and is in an advantageous position to be able to offer an outstanding portfolio of products and services to its customer base, delivered, as always, with excellent customer service and attention to detail.
Certex’s core business of product sales has had a fruitful year during 2011 and with the emerging wind energy market building on its highly successful offshore service business, the future looks exciting indeed.
It means that I can now move on in the comforting knowledge that the company is in good shape and has the right foundations in place, that, if steered correctly, will ensure its safe future for decades ahead.
This is my last blog entry with Certex and I thank-you all for reading and wish all the very best with your respective futures. Meanwhile, from January onwards, Certex’s Managing Director Tony Stringer, will be blogging on behalf of the company.
