Hemming Group Limited

About Hemming Group Limited

Hemming Group has a rich 130+ year history of serving specialist markets with the news, views and connections to improve lives and grow professionally.

From exhibitions, conferences and awards to magazines, directories, data and digital publishing, we strive to find innovative ways to connect businesses and professionals while providing insightful news, analysis and comment.

At Hemming, we are a family business and believe in delivering safe, secure, and sustainable jobs for our growing workforce. This is what drives us. To make this a reality we must be commercially successful by constantly pleasing our customers

The Hemming Group Limited are the owners of Builders’ Merchants News magazine and the longest running merchant awards, Builders’ Merchants Awards, both of which work closely with the industries federation and the many buying groups.

Company culture

We believe that the strength of the relationships and friendships we build through work helps determine our success and happiness.

Hemming Group’s mission is to be a profitable, independent business, offering a creative environment where talent grows and prospers in order to deliver quality for clients.

1. Ethical – We are a decent and honorable company to work for and do business with and we understand the importance of supporting mutual growth.

2. Sustainable – We strive to achieve the triple bottom line of People Profit Planet and our ability to balance the needs of all three.

3. Innovative – We value and nurture creativity; investing in it to create innovative, ground breaking solutions for our customers and markets.

4. Collaborative – We respect each other’s workloads and time scales and understand the importance of working together to meet common goals.

5. Strategic – We have a clear idea of where we want to be in five years and a road map of how we intend to get there.

The Hemming Group is always interested in hearing from talented, creative individuals looking to work with us. If you want to work in events, publishing or digital, please get in touch. We are always interested to hear from anyone who thinks that they can bring something to the organisation.

Employee benefits and perks

Hemming Group is a family company. We encourage a healthy work/life balance in our staff. The company offers its employees competitive salaries a generous holiday allowance and comprehensive benefits. We are an equal opportunity employee and our staff are central to our business.

The Hemming Group offers generous holiday allowances, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid bereavement leave, private health and a pension as well as interest season loan ticket.

We have a motivating and encouraging office in central London that is full of dynamic individuals and provide flexible working arrangements.

We care about our staff and their wellbeing and in our offices we have lounges, yoga classes and more.

We strive to offer on the job training and development for all our staff and work closely in product driven teams, so our people live and breath the industries they work in.

Career development and growth

Hemming Group extensively work with all our staff on career development and implement a range of training course to suit each individuals needs and the roles that carry out.

Management training, sales training, accounts training are all offered as well as apprenticeships where relevant to those staff that will find the courses beneficial.

EDI (equity, diversity & inclusion) initiatives

The Hemming Group recognises the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing a working environment that is free from discrimination.
HGL will seek to promote the principles of equality and diversity in all its dealings with employees, job applicants, clients, customers, suppliers, contractors, recruitment agencies and the public.

All employees and those who act on the Company’s behalf are required to adhere to this policy when undertaking their duties or when representing the Company in any other guise.

Unlawful discrimination of any kind in the working environment will not be tolerated and the Company will take all necessary action to prevent its occurrence. Specifically, The Hemming Group aims to ensure that no employee or job applicant is subject to unlawful discrimination, either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of gender, gender reassignment, race (including colour,
nationality, caste and ethnic origin), disability, sexual orientation, marital status, part-time status, pregnancy or maternity, age, religion or belief, political belief or affiliation or trade union membership or any other protected characteristic.
This commitment applies to all aspects of employment, including:

1. recruitment and selection, including advertisements, job descriptions, interview and selection procedures
2. training
3. promotion and career-development opportunities
4. terms and conditions of employment, and access to employment-related benefits and facilities
5. grievance handling and the application of disciplinary procedures
6. selection for redundancy

Equal opportunities practice is developing constantly as social attitudes and legislation change. The Company will review all policies and implement necessary changes where these could improve equality of opportunity.
Career development while positive measures may be taken to encourage under-represented groups to apply for employment opportunities, recruitment or promotion to all jobs will be based solely on merit.
All employees will have equal access to training and other career-development opportunities appropriate to their experience and abilities.

Sustainability / environmental stewardship

The Hemming Group is committed to sustainability and it is one of our core values to strive to be as sustainable as possible in all our practices.

We strive to achieve the triple bottom line of People Profit Planet and our ability to balance the needs of all three.

As a publishing and events organisation company wherever possible the decisions we make are with sustainability at the heart of our processes.