Our Story

Hi, My name is Carole Aldred (that's me in the picture!) and I am proud to say I'm a Lancashire Lass through and through! I founded Red Rose Directories over five years ago after working for many years in the corporate business world.

I was searching for a business idea and, after working up and down the country for many years, I decided I wanted to work on a local basis and help local businesses achieve the success they so much deserve.

My previous experience as a corporate business consultant highlighted to me just how much local businesses can struggle against these large organisations and I knew I had the expertise to help them - perhaps more than most.

How Red Rose Directories Began

With this in mind, I decided to launch a local magazine for local businesses to advertise their products and services. I thought it best that the magazines were hand delivered to ensure maximum readership.

In May 2005 'The Bromley Cross Directory' was born and, to be quite honest, at this stage I had no idea I would launch any further area magazines!

The initial response from this magazine was phenomenal! It exceeded all my expectations and, after only a couple of months, businesses from neighbouring villages had heard about it and were asking if we would launch a similar magazine for their area!

To satisfy this demand, in July 2005 we launched a second magazine in Bradshaw & Harwood (The Bradshaw & Harwood Directory) and it wasn't long before news of this one was out and we were on our way to a third! Long story short.....due to demand, we now have a total of 15 magazines all working extremely well for small and medium businesses in the areas.

Our aim is to support Local Businesses by not only providing a means of advertising at low cost but to give help and advice on the content and wording to ensure that your advert really works.

As demand has proved, RED ROSE DIRECTORIES REALLY DO WORK! Local people, by far, prefer to use local products and services and our Directories have proved a great source for this.

The Directories have proven to be well received within the local community and the response from residents has been fantastic. Many of our Advertisers tell us they receive more response from our magazines than any other form of advertising!

We are a truly local, independent, family run business (my husband, Andrew also works in the business) and pride ourselves in providing and maintaining the 'Personal Touch' we have become recognised for.

Launching these Local Directories is our way of helping and supporting local businesses....just like you.

What do our advertisers have to say?

The Beauty Lounge has gained lots more customers as a direct result of advertising in RED ROSE Directories. We now advertise regularly in a number of publications because we know they really do work!
Angela Close, The Beauty Lounge, Bolton

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