The Workplace: Equipping Starbank for the future
Starbank is a highly successful company. Started in1976 by Gordon and Kathleen Darbyshire, Starbank began as a supplier of furniture components to the caravan industry. It later expanded to service a growing number of industries who required a reliable and quality outsourcing service for the fabrication of high pressure laminates and wood based panel products. Starbank continued to grow organically with an average growth of 20% per annum nearly reaching a £10m turnover and 108 full time employees in 2008.
Phil Darbyshire, the son of the founders, joined the business after college in 1988 and in 2002 took sole control as Managing Director heading up the family firm that employs many close relatives. Starbank now operates from a 3-acre manufacturing base with over 70,000 square foot of production floor space and is one of the UK’s largest laminate panel manufacturers.
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