Moonpig factory to feature on national TV this evening
GUERNSEY will appear on national television this evening, as the island’s Moonpig production site is being featured as part of BBC One’s Made In England series.
A BBC film crew spent eight days filming in the island for the 29-minute episode called Greetings From Guernsey, which shows the process of cards being created online at moonpig.com, to being posted through the recipient’s letter box.
‘It’s about the process of the card arriving through the door, but also about the people who make it,’ said Alan Rimington, operations director at Moonpig.
‘It focuses on the work-life balance of Moonpig employees, and what we do in our down time.
‘I row and so they filmed some of that, one of my colleagues is a drummer in a band, and so they followed him to a band practice to capture that part of it as well.’
Made In England visits factories and manufacturers around the UK to unpack how they succeed as global brands, made locally by local people.
More than 30 people work at Moonpig in Guernsey, and the branch produces on average 50,000 cards a day. This rises significantly ahead of peak celebrations throughout the year.
The Guernsey factory contains printers which can produce up to 3,000 cards an hour, and across all printers, about 20,000 cards could be produced per hour if required.
There are also machines which place the cards into envelopes mechanically, labelled and stamped correctly.
The staff have a strict deadline for completing the day’s work for the cards and gifts to be collected by Guernsey Post to be on the last flight of the day to provide next day delivery.
Mr Rimington said that it was often a race against the clock, and a large TV screen which counts down the number of cards remaining each day is featured prominently in the episode.
. The episode airs on BBC One at 7.30pm, or can be watched afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
