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How does a company like Cwmtillery Glass get to a point where it is making 3,000 units a day without having a dedicated salesman on the road? Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell went to find out. There was a moment of realisation on Cwmtillery Glass owner Paul Hayward’s face when he told Glass Times that his company near Ebbw Vale...
Unique Window Systems was ranked 21st in the 2016 Real Business Hot 100 last month, which reveals the 100 fastest growing UK SME private companies in the UK. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited joint managing director Sunil Patel and sales director James Raven to find out how the company managed to achieve such an accolade. Unique’s turnover is reported...
According to some, Brexit has cast a shadow over the industry’s growth prospects in 2017. We ask Emplas and customer BJH Windows and Conservatories if it is time to call time on traditional models of manufacture? “We just got to the point where the model wasn’t working for us,” Alan Hamilton, managing director of BJH Windows and Conservatories, said. “We...
Yale’s sales and commercial director Paul Atkinson describes how it has brought together its range of high-security hardware components to launch the ultimate door and window package. With 98% brand recognition, Yale is heralded as the leading home security brand throughout the UK. Fabricators and installers can now capitalise on this with ‘The Complete Door and Window Package’ that is...
By The Window Outlet The Window Outlet is celebrating the end of a landmark 2016, which has seen it launch an array of new products, secure award nominations, and surpass £2 million turnover in its second year in business. Originally founded by Ben Warren and Clive Uppington in 2014, the Bristol firm has risen to become a significant supplier of...
The Master Fitter Challenge (MFC) has become one of the FIT Show’s more prominent regular features at the three-day event. Managed by the industry’s specialist qualifications awarding body, GQA Qualifications, the challenge invites professional installers to compete against each other. GQA director Mick Clayton explains how the competition is more than just entertainment. Our involvement at the FIT Show came...
Pioneer’s Danny Williams answers your questions. This month: “I probably know your answer to this but I am interested in what you have to say. We are based in the East Midlands, install around 250 frames and associated doors etc per month and I am seriously considering manufacturing my own casements and growing it from there. What do you think?”...
Newview Windows & Conservatories has released its State of the Economy and Construction Market Report 2016, which provides an insight into the current landscape of the construction market and highlights expectations for the future. Newview commissioned Insight Data to manage the process and questioned 15,000 installers, housebuilders and architects. The EU Referendum result looks to have had an impact on...
