A FLINT-based manufacturer has received an award for promoting health and wellbeing across its workforce.

Recognised by YuLife, an employee assistance programme, sustainable wet-wipe manufacturer Nice-Pak actively promotes use of an app across its business. The app gives employees easy access to a 24-hour GP service and provides tangible employee rewards in return for adopting healthier lifestyles. The company's focus on wellbeing means colleagues benefit from regular physical and mental health initiatives such as walking challenges and training sessions on topics such as men's health, mental health and menopause awareness.

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Nice-Pak, established more than 35 years ago, produces on behalf of major supermarkets and brand owners and employs more than 700 people across operations in Flint, Wigan and Osterweddingen, Germany. Earlier this year Nice-Pak announced 90 per cent of its wet wipes are plastic-free through determined collaboration with customers.

The company has been certified as a Top Employer for the past 10 consecutive years, for its excellence in HR policies and people practices. It is recognised alongside organisations such as Pfizer, Bentley Motors and Reckitt.

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It has a below-national-average gender pay gap of just six per cent and asserts long-term tenure among employees, with more than 60 per cent per cent of workers having more than 10 years' service.

Sammy Rubin, CEO of YuLife said: "Nice-Pak won the Ignite Award because they've done an exceptional job at engaging and igniting their employees to live healthier and happier lives. It's not always easy to bring people together with different offices, factories and shifts, but through their well thought through wellbeing strategy and care, they've not only encouraged more than 20 per cent of their employees to practice mindfulness, they have also achieved engagement rates and a daily step-count well over the industry average. We couldn't be prouder to partner with them."

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Nice-Pak International's human resources director, Deborah Thatcher added: "We are delighted to have been recognised. The app plays a significant part in our overall health and wellbeing strategy as it enables us to measure results in all four pillars of our human relations strategy - physical, mental, social and financial health.

"Over the past three months colleagues have walked, worked out, cycled and meditated to collect over four and a half thousand 'Yu Coin' currency which can be exchanged for vouchers for high street and online retailers or to make social and environmental donations. Nice-Pak colleagues have donated over 74,000 litres of drinking water to Third World countries and planted over 300 trees.

"Our teams can look forward to the activities we have planned for the remainder of the year."