Jan Gilbert, for example, spent over 43 years being office-based, processing orders from customers at the oil and lubricants manufacturer before retiring recently.
The company's history is vast. Company founder, James Kent Morris signed the lease on 7 Frankwell in 1869 and the first Morris shop, a grocery business and candle factory was born. Four years later, the company's first major contract was secured to supply oil and greases to the Sentinel Waggon Works, Ditherington, Shrewsbury.
"That's the key driver we have here, to basically ensure this business is ready for whatever is thrown at it around the corner." "We have an extremely competent management team who are able to adapt what we do to suit the economic and market conditions."And, despite many changes on the horizon for the industry, Mr Goddard is confident that the long-standing company will continue to succeed. The key to business is, of course, to adapt.
"It's a multi-million pound investment that’s designed to future-proof us and preserve the long-term success of this company, trading in Shropshire.""Who knows what the future of the lubricants industry is, in its present form?" adds Mr Goddard,"especially with emissions changes and the birth of the electric car and hydrogen vehicles.