- Position
- Syston Nursery Manager
- Telephone
- 0116 241 2115
From the age of 19 (with an 8 month break) James has been with Coles across all aspects of shrub production.
Joining in 1996 at Thurnby, James worked in shrub production, dispatch then moved to Gaddesby before returning to Thurnby to spend 9 years working in Prop under the manager.
After a brief break, James returned in 2001 to co-mange the Syston unit.
As part of a company wide review of roles, James became the full time Nursery manager of Syston in 2013, appointing his own assistant a year or so later.
James is also part of the production managers group that meet with the production director to discuss both the range and also technical matters relating to production.
In May 2017 James was featured in an article for "The Commercial Greenhouse Grower", detailing our production developments and also, our in house staff development scheme that James along with Ian Edwards manages.