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Raft of promotions and new hires at Coat Facilities Group


FM provider, Coat Facilities Group, has bolstered its senior management teams as part of its ambitious growth plans.

Recently acquired by Tendra Technical Services, Coat comprises of five companies, each specialising in a specific area of facilities management. The group aims to scale its revenue by 100 per cent within the next five years, and to that end has recruited two additional managers and promoted five existing team members to higher leadership positions.

Having worked within Coat for almost seven years, Luke Yates has been announced as the new Managing Director at Diamond Facilities Support. Established in 2010, Diamond was the first business launched within the group and provides planned, reactive, compliance and project works services to clients across a range of sectors including hospitality, retail, care and education.


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Raft Of Promotions And New Hires Strengthen Coat Facilities Group’s Growth Plans


Leading facilities management provider Coat Facilities Group has strengthened its senior teams as part of its ambitious growth plans.

Recently acquired by Tendra Technical Services, Coat comprises of five companies, each specialising in a specific area of facilities management. The group aims to scale its revenue by 100% within the next five years, and to that end has recruited two additional managers and promoted five existing team members to higher leadership positions.


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Directors’ summit


Skills shortages, spiralling wage costs, energy price hikes…and the growing promises and threats created by Al. Yet somehow business leaders press on with guarded optimism about the opportunities ahead.

Insider convened its first Directors Summit, where we brought together leaders from radically different sectors – from funerals and facilities management to manufacturing and marketing – to look at what shared challenges and prospects they face, and to reveal of the solutions and strategies they’ve developed to not only survive, but thrive.


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Campaign, Train, Retain: Overcome FM Recruitment…

Adam Atkins, Group Chief Executive at Coat Facilities Group, looks at ongoing challenges with recruitment in FM, why the sector needs to take clear action to address them and provides some insight into key solutions. 

The future of the facilities management industry depends on a steady influx of new talent which can be honed to produce the leaders of tomorrow, alongside the retention of already skilled staff trained to provide the very best service. Yet there are ongoing challenges which see FM leaders struggling to recruit into vacant roles; there are no overnight fixes, but it is clear that the sector as a whole must act now to salvage the situation and ensure continuity, compliance and competence are maintained and that the standard of service provision does not decline.


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