100-year-old Llanelli hotel acquired

Stradey Park Hotel & Spa, a four-star hotel in Llanelli which is over 100 years old, has been sold for the asking price of £3.2m.

Christie & Co handled the sale. The hotel was acquired by Gryphon Leisure in 2000, and is now being sold to enable the owners of Gryphon Leisure to step back from full-time work and pursue other interests. It has been purchased by Sterling Woodrow Investments.

“Christie & Co are delighted to have had the opportunity to work with the owners of Stradey Park Hotel & Spa and to secure a buyer to take over the helm of this iconic business,” said Corrina Jones, a senior business agent at Christie & Co.

“Our clients, the directors of Gryphon Leisure Ltd and operational director Angela Saunders have worked tirelessly to make the hotel a success since they bought the business over 20 years ago.

“The hotel is well known and loved by local residents and visitors to the area and Angela specifically has been very hands on and taken the hotel from humble beginnings to the only quality four-star hotel and spa in Llanelli but is now looking forward to stepping down from the business and enjoying a well-deserved retirement and focusing on remaining business interests.”

The hotel industry employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which suffers from still using paper timesheets to record working hours, it is this one.

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff using timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets by the deadline and agency staff hand theirs straight to their agencies, meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it.

This means that there is a very real danger of employees falsifying their timesheets; either just by a few minutes here and there, or outright claiming shifts they were never present for.

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance Wales will solve these authorisation issues.

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Supervisors and managers can also check all of the timing data for their assigned team members easily within the software, which gets rid of squinting at bad handwriting and the need to chase late submitters!

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