Bed of roses for family-run firm

Burgess Beds staff celebrate their win

AN Oldham couple are celebrating after the family business was voted Bed Manufacturer of the Year 2013 at the National Bed Federation exhibition.

Burgess Beds, now based in Haslingden following a relocation from Manchester, is owned by Andy and Rose Jackson, from Grotton, where they have lived for 26 years.

The business also employs the Burgess’s two children and a grandchild, all of whom live in Oldham — and many Oldham employees moved to Haslingden when the business relocated.

Judges
The award was presented to sales director Jodi Schofield, from Saddleworth, by broadcaster Gyles Brandreth in a ceremony at the exhibition in Telford, acknowledged as the best Industry event on the calendar.

Burgess Beds was picked as the winner by an independent panel of judges consisting of editors from the industry’s trade journals — George Cooper from Cabinet Maker, Richard De Melim from Furnishing Report, Paul Farley from Furniture News, Andrew Kidd from Interiors Monthly and Jonny Westbrooke, the clerk of Furniture Makers, a trade body.

Burgess Beds has been making handmade, bespoke beds since 1927 in the North-West, moving seven years ago to its manufacturing site in Haslingden, Rossendale Valley.

Since relocating, Burgess Beds has more than doubled its turnover.
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