More than 19,000 people at 22 JCB plants around the world will not be required to come to work 聽Friday 24th October 2025.
The gesture from Sir Antony Bamford is in recognition of his company鈥檚 80 years of producing construction machinery. In the UK, more than 8,000 employees based at JCB plants in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham will be getting a long weekend.
According to JCB legend, it will be 80 years on Thursday 23rd October since the late Joseph Cyril Bamford started working in a 12 ft by 15 ft lock-up garage in Uttoxeter 鈥� on the very same day that his son Anthony was born. Anthony Bamford took over from his father as chairman in 1975, when he was just 30. In 2013 he was appointed to the House of Lords as Baron Bamford of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and of Wootton in the County of Staffordshire. He retired from Parliament last year.
Anthony Bamford said: 鈥�JCB would be nowhere if it wasn鈥檛 for the efforts of our employees around the world and this extra day鈥檚 holiday is a small token of my family鈥檚 gratitude as we mark our 80th birthday.鈥�
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