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FLEXIBILITY AT VBH
HELPS CUSTOMERS
Hardware specialist VBH has reduced
its minimum order value to just £10 per
order to give fabricators and installers
the flexibility to place smaller orders
while they ‘get their ducks in a row’
following a return from lockdown.
VBH remained open during
lockdown, with a reduced number
of staff covering key functions
from home and a vastly reduced
warehouse team coming in to the
Kent site as and when required to
satisfy urgent orders.
VBH kept their customers
informed regularly about the
situation and the best means
of making contact as the crisis
developed.
Now that much of the industry
is returning to work, the reduced
warehouse team’s hours have increased
and the team are keenly
observing all the proper working
practices to keep themselves and
staff from VBH’s partners safe.
Managing Director Simon
Monks states “We were quick
to pull our sales team off the
road and instruct them and their
office-based colleagues to work
from home from the week before
lockdown. Since 1st April we’ve
had a skeleton crew across the
business keeping things moving
and working on a number of
exciting new product developments
and services for later in
the year.
“Our customers are working
strange hours at the moment.
We would recommend that
those who don’t already use
the VBH24 online shop to place
orders and check stock consider
doing so, as that service is
available to them whatever hour
they’re working.”
www.vbhgb24.com
HERITAGE TRADE
FRAMES BECOMES
STELLAR FABRICATOR
Heritage Trade Frames is
one of the North West’s leading
trade fabricators. Founded in the
late 1980s the business set out a
clear objective to manufacture and
supply quality PVC-U windows,
doors and conservatories. Thirty
years later, with over a million
products successfully supplied
and installed in homes and offices
around the North West, the company
is now expanding to take
advantage of the opportunities in
the retail aluminium market.
Phil Cresswell, Sales and
Marketing Manager at Heritage
Trade Frames, said: “The superb
aesthetics of Stellar completely
raise the bar in aluminium system
design. First impressions are that
it will be quicker and easier to
fabricate than other traditional
aluminium systems. But more
importantly for our customers, it’s
an installer’s dream.”
Stellar is a double G
Award-winning British system
designed by a specialist in-house
team of designers. And as Phil
says, it’s been designed to make
life easy for fabricators and installers
alike.
Installers see quicker installation
thanks to the patent-pending
knock in beads that make the
process of glazing a window
very straightforward and has the
additional advantage of being
pre-gasketed thus reducing installation
time even further.
When it comes to the aesthetics,
Stellar has clean lines and
is a genuine fully-flush system,
something that’s unique to the
market. Its frames are slimmer
than those of its closest competitors,
so based on a GGF standard
window, it means Stellar delivers
extra glass area which is perfect
for the light-filled spaces today’s
homeowners love.
www.stellaraluminium.co.uk
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