Hereford company bucks economic downturn (From Hereford Times)
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Hereford company Animal Search UK bucks economic downturn
9:00am Tuesday 24th January 2012 in Business
Tom Watkins (left) welcomes new recruit Jaimes Wall (right) to Animal Search UK.
ONE Hereford company is bucking the trend and beating the economic downturn.
Animal Search UK is opening a new office and call centre in the city and has just recruited another full time team member in Jaimes (crrt) Wall.
Tom Watkins, founder and former police officer, said: “We’ve grown from a small business set up in my dining room to the largest organisation of our kind in Europe.
"We carry out police style door-to-door enquiries, searches of outbuildings in the community where, for example, a missing cat was last seen."
Every year over the last five the company has taken on more staff and deals with up to 100 reports a day of lost and found pets.
These are reported via its free website at www.animalsearchuk.co.uk where owners can publicise their pet with up to four photos free.
