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Chess go to the Movies

Alderley Edge based Chess recently held its annual Summer Conference for their 230 strong team, filling an entire screen at the Printworks in Manchester.

The movie inspired conference saw Chess’ Senior Management hit the stage to outline the businesses successes in 2013 and their strategy for the rest of the year, looking to achieve ‘Peak Performance’ by using the businesses unique Passion, Energy, Attitude and Knowledge.

Chess Chief Executive David Pollock commented, “2013 has been an outstanding year for us so far. We’ve been re-listed as a Sunday Times Best Company, completed 5 major acquisitions and hired another 35 people taking our head count to over 220. The success we’ve achieved over the last few years has been down to our people and their commitment to our business, tirelessly going above and beyond for our customers. We challenge ourselves every day to be the best of the best and the conference outlined our ambitions for the rest of the year and how we’re going to do it.”

Chess also gave away three holidays as part of their Gimme5 competition. Andrew Slater, who works in the Sales Support team at Chess, won the grand prize of a £2,500 international holiday to a destination of his choice.