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27

Aug 2020

Last Updated: 27/08/2020
Knaresborough
Knaresborough

Camping pod manufacturer moves into Knaresborough

by Suzannah Rogerson

| 27 Aug, 2020
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Anthropods & Co Ltd has moved to its new premises in Knaresborough, at the Hambleton Grove industrial park. The company made the move in order to increase its production and hire new staff.

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A Yorkshire glamping pod manufacturer has expanded into Knaresborough with a new warehouse space of 4,000 square foot.

Anthropods & Co Ltd's new premises - its largest yet - is on Hambleton Grove industrial estate in Knaresborough. The company's previous warehouse was in Killinghall, but it needed more space to keep up with its orders.

Over lockdown, the company had to suspend production for four months. Its return to production comes as people are favouring staycations and working from home and the company hopes its range of products will suit the surge in demand.



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Doug Adamson, executive chairman of Anthropods & Co Ltd, said:

"We are manufacturing from the plot now - we moved in a couple of weeks ago and we are now set up. We have expanded the workforce too. The reason to move was because we required more space to up production capacity and grow our workforce. We managed to just get the site - we wanted to stay in the Harrogate district.
"We had to shutdown for four months but luckily we didn't lose any orders. Now the staycation market is growing so rapidly, it may be beneficial for us, but there is normally quite a long period of time between enquiries and final production as people are making a big investment with us."


The company hopes to increase production within the new estate, where it took the last remaining unit of a total of seven units.