Grannies receives £300k investment
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Nearly £300,000 is to be invested this year into Grannies Heilan Hame Holiday Park at Embo.
Owners Parkdea Resorts – the UK’s largest holiday park operator – has announced a spend of £290,000 to upgrade accommodation by introducing six new caravans to replace old fleet at the popular destination
This is part of an £80 million investment in its business across Britain.
Grannie’s Heilan’ Hame employs more than 50 staff in season, and the Park is currently hiring for a number of seasonal roles across sales, food and beverage, and housekeeping. For more information about jobs, visit facebook.com/GranniesHeilanHamePDR or call 01862 811676.
Parkdean Resorts is the UK’s largest operator of caravan, lodge, cabin, glamping and camping holiday resorts, and was named Best UK Family Holiday Company 2019 at the British Travel Awards. The company’s most recent financial results showed like-for-like revenue for 2019 at Parkdean Resorts was up five per cent to £453.2million, enabling the company to invest £80 million back into the business to stimulate future growth.
Steve Richards, chief executive of Parkdean Resorts, said: “We’ve made great progress in the last year and our success is down to the passion of our teams in helping to deliver great holiday experiences for our customers. We want to build on momentum in 2020, so we’re on the lookout for vibrant people to join our teams at our Scottish parks.”
The investment in Grannie’s Heilan’ Hame Holiday Park is part of the company’s largest ever annual investment in its estate. In total, £5.8 million will be invested in 2020 in a pilot "parks of the future" initiative in four locations to create state-of-the-art amenities including accommodation, park facilities and kids’ activity-based entertainment such as the Bear Grylls Survival Academy.
Parkdean is also investing more than £13million to provide free high-speed Wi-Fi in every caravan and lodge across all 67 of its parks across Great Britain – an industry first.
