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Henchman plugs gap left by Government! Read more about our national campaign and download your free booklet. Had an accident involving a ladder? email us
New for 2008!
Hi-Steps Maxi and Minor join Safe Hedge Cutting platform range. Rain Catchers join the Water Recycling range.
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The company
Our company - joint owned by family and staff - has moved on in the 15 years since my father first used my GCSE woodwork project - a hedge cutting platform - to cut his hedges. I scraped a pass and the hedges got cut quicker and with out a repeat of the ladder diving trick the old boy pulled the year before.
Having discovered there was no such thing as a safe hedge cutting platform in the market, real engineers began the hard graft of designing a product that worked as perfectly as possible. Even this year we continue to improve and add to the range to suit varying applications and customer requirements.
The name ‘Henchman’ has become pretty well known. We have changed our company name from Haygate to Henchman Limited in 2008, in order to embrace all areas where our product solutions can help you in the garden and home. Same company –same people!
We remain a small family company, and even with our combined experience of over 40 years in supplying carefully designed product solutions to householders and professionals, we continue to learn important lessons in how to serve you better. Please keep your helpful feedback coming in.
We are personally very excited that our product range is naturally growing into interesting fields such as rain water harvesting and recycling. We're not generally a politcally minded bunch but it is engaging to be involved in fields of interest that are of present and future relevance.
Our People
Managing Director -Tom Kitching
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Post university Tom gained a qualification in teaching to allow him the long sort after opportunity to travel and work abroad. He started his fulltime Henchman career in the workshops during the winter of 2000, testing and packing Henchman platforms (having done ad hoc sales and manual roles for the family business prior to this) - Not forgetting his role in the bringing to life of the Henchman safe hedge cutting platform invention while at school.
Eight years on he is experienced in all aspects of the business and has been running the company for 2 years since Mike Kitching took a non executive role as Chairman. |
Marketing Manager -Tom Dorich
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After studying Business Administration at Newcastle University Tom went into catering management for a few years and at the end of 2003 joined Henchman. As with all our staff Tom started Henchman life in the workshops gaining vital product knowledge.
Tom has been involved in most areas of the business from administration to managemnet of European distributors and is in his second year of managment of Henchman's marketing. |
Administration Manager -Nina Tanner
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Nina has previously worked in a number of companies, in roles including administration, sales and customer services.
Nina has been fulfilling the role of day to day administration and operations manager since joining Henchman in November 2003. Even Nina did not escape a decent stint in the workshops getting familiar with Henchman's product range!
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Product Manager -Al Jameson
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Al's degree in sports science led him to work in the liesure industry until the realisation of long hours and poor pay motivated him to seek experience elsewhere. Al fulfilled sales roles in the buildings industry, before redudancy struck in 2001.
Fortunately Henchman came knocking shortly after and Al started in the workshops for Henchman just like everyone else. Al has also gained experience in most areas of Henchman's business from sales to shows management and has managed product supply since 2005. |
Non Executive chairman -Mike Kitching
Mike has recently earnt semi retirement having spent the core of his career at the heart of the development of the computer industry. Decades of experience across a multitude of business disciplines and different business' turned out to be the ideal foundation for starting his own in his late 50's.
A fall from a ladder inspired the concept of a safe hedgcutting platform, the idea for which was scribbled onto the back of an envelope and handed to son Tom. Mike started the Henchman business in 1994 and has tried to bring the benefits of a safe alternative to ladders to gardeners across the UK and Europe. |
Finance Manager -Shane Dowling
The bulk of Shanes career has been within the banking industry, largely corporate banking.
Shane now specialises in finance management within small companies and joined Henchman part time at the beginning of 2006. |
