A company which provides clothing to the mature market has moved to new, purpose-built premises.

Keighley-based Pauline May has relocated in response to an urgent need for additional space as the company continues to grow.

The firm has outstripped its 1,700 sq ft premises in Worth Way, Keighley, and has now transferred into a new-build 8,500 sq ft unit in the town's Valley Road.

The new headquarters incorporate extensive reception and warehousing facilities, while visitors can buy clothing direct through the company's catalogue.

People are also being encouraged to bring in their elderly relatives, who will be offered special help and advice on their requirements.

Easy access and other facilities catering for the elderly and infirm have been provided in the premises.

Pauline Sargeant, 55, started the company in the garage of her Keighley home in 1991 with £1,000 savings - and a vision for the future.

She said: "For many years, I had realised that clothes for older people were far more difficult to source than readily available younger fashions, coupled with the fact that elderly or infirm people often have difficulty in getting to the shops to buy them "They were the forgotten generations and I soon recognised that there was a whole new marketplace out there for purpose-designed, ready-made clothing ranges for mature men and women.

"The whole aim was to provide a service that would make a real difference to people's lives."

Sixteen years down the line, Pauline May has progressed from garage to world market.

Its clothing ranges are now sold to thousands of nursing and residential home residents through a growing UK-wide franchisee network, direct to housebound people, via an international mail order catalogue business and through an online shop at www.paulinemay.com The business has developed extensively as a one-stop-shop for mature men and women. The design and manufacturing process - all production is UK-based - remains unique to Pauline May, as does the company's non-conventional eight-to-30 sizing system, suitable for people weighing from six stones up to 36 stones.