Cooke Aquaculture opens new Scotland office
SCOTTISH salmon farmer Cooke Aquaculture has opened a new Scotland corporate office.
It is located in Avondale House in Strathclyde Business Park in Bellshill, close to the main motorway serving Glasgow and Edinburgh – Scotland’s two largest cities.
The office has been completely refurbished and equipped with new energy-efficient equipment throughout to create premium office accommodation for more than 30 staff making up Cooke’s UK sales, supply chain, communications, finance, IT and sustainability teams.
Cooke said the office is powered with renewable electricity from Blantyre Muir windfarm near Hamilton and has electric vehicle charging spaces outside.
At just over 5,000 square feet the new corporate office provides more than double the square footage of Cooke’s previous office accommodation in Strathclyde Business Park. Not only will this enable staff to socially distance, it is equipped with “hot desks” for staff who are not normally based in Bellshill.
Colin Blair, Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Managing Director said: “It’s been 20 months since we took the decision to enable those staff who could to work from home. Back in March 2020 no-one could have predicted how long the disruption to the business would last, nor foresee the effect Covid-19 would have on our working and personal lives.
“So today’s opening of our new corporate office, and the return of all our office-based colleagues across the country, feels significant.”
The move coincides with the company’s decision for all office-based staff to return in a phased approach to their normal places of work.