Pittards celebrates career spanning 54 years
Long-serving Pittards employee Diana Turton has retired from the UK leather company after joining in 1967 “just for a week to see if she liked it”.
From wrestling with the telex machine and reels of computer tape to modern day comms, CEO Reg Hankey said: “Diana has been a constant at Pittards throughout a significant and fast-changing period in our history.
“We should perhaps not be surprised that Diana decided to stay after that first week, the leather industry tends to fire a passion in people. It might be an anomaly in this day and age to remain so long with one company but both Pittards and the wider leather manufacturing world continue to value and nurture this ideal.”
Pittards was established in Yeovil in 1826. It owns tanneries in the UK and Ethiopia and makes leathergoods, gloves, apparel and footwear.
