A BROMSGROVE-based company is making an investment of hundreds of pounds, which is expected to create a number of new jobs.

A £500,000 investment is being made to purchase warehouse on Unit A on the Harris Business Park, creating 12 new jobs, with 50 in the pipeline.

Family-owned Poplar Carpets has been operating for 50 years. Its main store and headquarters is at Rubery and it holds stocks of more than 250,000 metres of flooring at any one time.

There is a warehouse on the Saxon Business Park, Bromsgrove, and a contract arm, Contract Flooring Solutions, which has all the major house builders as clients.

“We never subscribed to the recession when everyone else did,” said managing director Steve Day.

“Business just kept climbing all the way through.

“We want to boost turnover from the current £10 million to £15 million by the end of our 2015/16 financial year.

“That will probably create around another 50 jobs.”

Family-owned Poplar Carpets has been operating for 50 years with Mr Day in charge for the last 20.

Its main store and headquarters is at Rubery and it holds stocks of more than 250,000 metres of flooring at any one time.

There is a warehouse on the Saxon Business Park, Bromsgrove, depots in Crawley and Peterborough, and a contract arm, Contract Flooring Solutions, which has all the major house builders as clients including Barratt Homes, Bellway, David Wilson Homes, Bovis Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Kier Homes.