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An ‘astonishing’ £14.3m worth of Timberlook heritage windows and doors has been quoted via Tommy Trinder’s Framepoint app, Affordable Window Systems has announced. Launched by Lancashire-based supplier, Affordable Window Systems in 2017, the Timberlook range is designed to capitalise on the trend for PVC-U window and door systems that replicate traditional timber designs. According to Affordable Window Systems, the range...
Business Pilot has been announced as a returning exhibitor at the FIT Show 2025. The company says it will be unveiling new integrations and exclusive market insights that promise to transform the way installers manage their businesses. Amongst the launches will be new system integrations designed to streamline operations and give installers even greater control over their customer journeys, from...
The Tommy Trinder quotation software app is to be rolled out in the US, with a launch to the Eastern Seaboard on Valentine’s day. “American window and door software seems to suffer from familiar problems; the tech is built to serve manufacturers not installers,” said Tommy Trinder CEO, Chris Brunsdon. “It’s great for running factories, but not so great if...
Keystone Market Research has released its Winter 2025 Consumer Fenestration Trends Report, which offers a highly detailed analysis of homeowner preferences, buying behaviours, and market trends. The report builds on previous publications and explores material preferences, glazing styles, energy efficiency priorities, and the implications of the upcoming Future Homes Standard. This year's report is made possible through expanded sponsorship, with...
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. January’s figures reflect a market slowly regaining momentum after the December slowdown, though broader economic pressures continue to shape the outlook for installers. Positive indicators such as increased leads and sales suggest a strong start to 2025, but upcoming economic challenges posed by rising labour costs could impact future performance. Leads saw a...
Performance Doorset Solutions (PDS) Doorsets has launched a new website designed and built by the team at BM Group company The Consultancy. The Northern based business services residential, commercial and trade customers across the UK with bespoke fire and non-fire doors. The development brief from PDS was that the website needed to work effectively for trade and commercial customers –...
Access Marketing will be exhibiting for the first time at FIT Show 2025, offering free access to marketing support for visitors and exhibitors. The consultancy, which is headed up by fenestration industry marketing expert, Sioned Yates, will be on hand to provide fabricators and installers with free help and advice on marketing opportunities that could help businesses ‘thrive, rather than...
For the past four years, Four Seasons Sunrooms and Windows has partnered with Production Software Technology (PST), using the specialist’s vsHome software. PST’s vsHome sales and surveying software allows users to design, visualise and price a wide range of products including windows, doors, conservatories and garden rooms. Features such as the software’s 3D editor, drag and drop tools and preset...
Lead 2 Trade has reported a significant increase in consumer enquiries for double glazing, with a 62% surge in 2024 compared to the previous year. Leads 2 Trade has also seen revenue from these enquiries rise by almost 40%. Andy Royle, managing director of Leads 2 Trade, said: “While solar enquiries dropped quite considerably last year due to economic pressures,...
By Nick Bailey, head of sales, BM Group. Business Micros now has more than 4,000 unique company users of our flagship Touch online ordering and quoting software. We have so far installed Touch Portal systems powered by real time production data at more than 35 of the UK’s leading fabricators and, in turn, 4,000 of their trade customers have signed...
European software provider Forterro has continued its expansion into the window, door and façade industry, with the acquisition of BM Group. Founded in 1979 and operating from offices in Scotland and England, BM Group’s products include Evolution, the widely used PVC-U order processing and fabrication solution, and Touch, its web-based management platform, which covers all sectors within the windows and doors market:...
Tommy Trinder’s Annual Colour Trends survey has shown that 2024 was ‘alright for white’. After years of losing the battle to foils like Chartwell green and agate grey, 2024 has seen a resurgence in smooth white as the finish of choice for PVC-U windows; 65% of all PVC-U casements in the year were unfoiled. The Tommy Trinder Annual Colour Trends...
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. Month-on-month figures for December follow an established seasonal pattern. You don’t need us to tell you that sales fell away in November with a 42% drop, to an average of 29 in December compared to 50, the previous month. Leads dropped by the same percentage, from an average of 99 in November to 57...
Direct Window Supplies (DWS), manufacturers and suppliers of windows and doors, is using Podfather logistics software to streamline and automate its delivery service. Serving trade installers across the south-west of Britain, DWS makes around 700 deliveries of PVC-U and aluminium products a month. Using Podfather’s planning, route optimisation and ePOD solution, DWS is reported to be saving hundreds of man...
Business Pilot has partnered with Blink Payment to launch a new payment integration feature. Ryan Schofield, director at Business Pilot, said: “This is an impressive new feature which adds to the extensive list of benefits that Business Pilot brings to installation companies. The API connects Business Pilot and Blink Payment for seamless payment and finance integration. “When an invoice is...
Tommy Trinder has reported a 40% increase, year on year, in quote volumes via its quotation software. "It’s bonkers to think that installers have quoted 135,000 homeowners via our platform over the last year – that’s equivalent to a town the size of York!” said CEO Chris Brunsdon. The number of firms using Tommy Trinder for quoting has also continued...
Full-service marketing agency, Purplex Marketing, is reported to have helped fire door specialist Fire Doors Complete achieve significant growth through a comprehensive digital marketing strategy. The campaign, which focused on establishing Fire Doors Complete as the sector's go-to authority, is said to have delivered ‘outstanding results’, including a 64% year-on-year increase in organic traffic and a 71% increase in online form...
Carlisle-based installer, Sawyers Windows & Construction, has reported that its turnover has increased by more than 30%, thanks to a new sales closing tool Leads 2 Trade. The scheme, which is exclusive to Trusted Local Supplier (TLS) Discounts within the home improvements market in the UK, is designed to allow installers to offer substantial discounts of up to 20% to...
Sawkins Double Glazing, an installer based in Kent, is said to have discovered Production Software Technology (PST) through a recommendation from one of its suppliers who also uses PST’s services. The team at Sawkins Double Glazing decided to explore what PST had to offer and has now been using the vsHome software for around two years. According to PST, vsHome...
November marked the last of five open training day events run by CRM and business management software specialist Business Pilot, and the final event in Manchester saw five installation companies join the team for a deep dive into the Business Pilot system. The Manchester event followed sessions in Birmingham, London, Bristol and Newcastle where Business Pilot training duo Rebecca Taylor...