Silentnight records record sales in 70th year

By Dean

02 Aug 2016

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Silentnight has recorded a record sales performance as the Lancashire based company celebrates its 70th year as a bed manufacturer.

Operating profit was also up 26 per cent on last year, growing to £8.3m.

“This vision has helped us to engage and energise every colleague across all departments with total focus on market leading quality – first class customer service and continuous innovation. “The benefits of which are now being enjoyed by our trading partners and their customers as sales across all our brands continue to strengthen further into 2016. Our recent Which? Best Buy awards and the growing number of five star consumer reviews across our brands are recognition of all the hard work every team member puts into making our brands the most know, most recognised and bestselling in the UK market.”

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