Shredall/SDS bids for Post's Small Business title
WITH nationwide clients ranging from financial institutions to NHS trusts, Shredall/SDS is one of the UK's largest secure document shredding and storage independents.
Working on clients' sites, it has purpose-built shredding trucks that can process two tonnes of paper an hour – while a static machine at its Bestwood headquarters can deal with half as much again.
The business is growing so rapidly that its recently expanded 60,000 square feet of secure underground document and data-storage facilities – intended to cope with demand for the next eight years – may soon have to be enlarged.
The current climate of heightened demand for increased information security by organisations as diverse as councils, banks and governments is helping fuel that growth, which is expected to hit 20 per cent this year.
And the family-owned and run business is also a finalist in the Nottingham Post's Experian-sponsored Nottinghamshire Small Business of the Year Award.
But it wasn't always on such a roll.
Launched 15 years ago by Lloyd Williams, it had one employee and one lorry.
Today it has 14 trucks, a van fleet, 40 staff and purpose-built premises while the founder's children, Lucy and Nik, are both directors – having worked in the business for ten years.
With the company now a national operator through its depots in Glasgow, London and Nottingham, Nik is group sales director. His sister has run the SDS (Shredall Data Storage) arm of the business from its infancy – powering its growth to more than 60 per cent last year and almost 40 per cent the year before.
Recently winning a nationwide contract from a Nottingham-based law firm, SDS now stores over 165,000 boxes of documents plus 30,000 deeds, and is to receive 16,000 from new clients along with 1,500 a month from existing ones.
Lloyd said: "I never envisaged my children would work for me, let alone become my co-directors. What they are doing makes me extremely proud."
The company has gained a reputation in confidential waste destruction – now including destroying electronic data.
The business is growing so rapidly that its recently expanded 60,000 square feet of secure underground document and data-storage facilities – intended to cope with demand for the next eight years – may soon have to be enlarged.
The current climate of heightened demand for increased information security by organisations as diverse as councils, banks and governments is helping fuel that growth, which is expected to hit 20 per cent this year.
And the family-owned and run business is also a finalist in the Nottingham Post's Experian-sponsored Nottinghamshire Small Business of the Year Award.
But it wasn't always on such a roll.
Launched 15 years ago by Lloyd Williams, it had one employee and one lorry.
Today it has 14 trucks, a van fleet, 40 staff and purpose-built premises while the founder's children, Lucy and Nik, are both directors – having worked in the business for ten years.
With the company now a national operator through its depots in Glasgow, London and Nottingham, Nik is group sales director. His sister has run the SDS (Shredall Data Storage) arm of the business from its infancy – powering its growth to more than 60 per cent last year and almost 40 per cent the year before.
Recently winning a nationwide contract from a Nottingham-based law firm, SDS now stores over 165,000 boxes of documents plus 30,000 deeds, and is to receive 16,000 from new clients along with 1,500 a month from existing ones.
Lloyd said: "I never envisaged my children would work for me, let alone become my co-directors. What they are doing makes me extremely proud."
The company has gained a reputation in confidential waste destruction – now including destroying electronic data.
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