Facilities management firm celebrates success of last 12 months

A COMPANY is celebrating its success as it looks back on its success in 2022.

Citrus Facilities Management has gone from strength to strength over the last 12 months – and has plans to grow even more.

One of the biggest things that it achieved last year was branching out into another country, after acquiring Newport, Wales-based waste management firm, WasteFetch.

It is the first of potentially many acquisitions for Citrus, as it has plans in the pipeline to take over more this year, including one in London, where it already has two offices.

The Fratton-based business grew its team by around 70 staff, increasing its turnover by 34 per cent.

Alongside this, it also supported many local causes to give back to the community, including sponsoring the Mindset Maintenance Live event, the regeneration of a basketball court in Fratton and youth football team Shirley Tornados.

It also donated £5,000 to the NHS to go towards a concert for staff.

As well as community initiatives, the team have also done their bit to support environmental causes, such as switching to uniforms made out of recycled plastic bottles and collecting milk bottle lids to be donated to Chestnut Children’s Hospice to be reused and recycled.

Founder Daniel O’Brien said: ‘It’s important to us that as we grow as a company, we do more and more to give back. Whether it’s something small like collecting bottle lids or donating financially, our goal is to help as many people as possible and we’re in a position where we are able to do so, so it is something that we will naturally always do.’

He said that he is proud of how far the company has got in the last 12 months and hopes that the next 12 allow even more growth.

He said: ‘We ticked a lot of things off our list last year, we rebranded, brought on a whole host of new services to expand our offering, continued to work hard internally to make staff feel valued and appreciated, whether it’s providing them with better training systems or taking them on days out to Goodwood like we did last year. This year is going to be no different. I’m incredibly proud of the team and how hard they have worked to enable us to get to this point.’

Daniel plans to increase the company’s turnover by another £1m, open two new offices in London and develop the security side as well as planting 100 trees and taking on a project to help the environment.