Specialist toy slime manufacturer Slime Party UK has upsized its operations with a move to larger premises in Barnsley, and plans to increase its workforce by two thirds.
The novelty sensory putty retailer has taken 14,291 sq ft of industrial and warehousing space at Unit 19 Redbrook Business Park in the town, and will expand its staff with ten new jobs this summer.
The expanding business had outgrown its existing unit on Industry Road in Carlton, Barnsley, and is now using its new base to make and distribute its range of 16 collectible sensory putty.
Agents Knight Frank, acting for landlord Industrials, secured the new unit for the company, which was started in the town in 2018 by Ruby Sheldon, and has since made more than 800,000 pots of putty to customers worldwide.
Ruby said: “I set up Slime Party UK after the craze hit the UK in 2017 and my kids were trying to make it. I then devised a special compound for our products which means there’s the fun of slime, without the mess. Since then our business has grown. In 2022 there were three staff, now it’s 16 and the move will bring 10 new jobs later this summer.
“Our former unit in Carlton had become too small and this new base offers racking space, the offices we need, further recruitment plans and allows easy access for distribution.”
Slime Party UK supplies toy shops and stores across the world including Fenwicks, British Garden Centres and Toytown with the most distant clients being 13 toy megastores in The Lebanon.
