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SEPTEMBER 2014 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
National
Plastics
Appoints
New National
Sales
Manager
National Plastics has appointed Nicholas Stone to National Sales Manager.
Nicholas took on his new role on 1
August.
SLINGSBY’S LATEST
‘MAGALOGUE’ IS HOT
OFF THE PRESS
LEADING workplace equipment supplier, Slingsby has launched its 2014
edition of Work-It, a free publication that contains a wide range of legislative
updates, interviews and informative articles as well as an extensive
selection of the company’s best selling products and special offers.
This year’s 64 page ‘magalogue’,
aptly named because it successfully combines the best features of a
catalogue with a magazine, is available free of charge in a digital format
throughwww.slingsby.com.
The company, the largest independent trade
counter network in the UK, has seen unprecedented growth in recent years, and shows no
signs of slowing down, with new acquisitions,
new products, and even more exciting plans
in the pipeline.
Managing Director Geoff Foster said: “Nick
has been with National Plastics since 2007
and has played an integral role in the success
of the business to date. “We had a number of
very experienced applicants, all of whom had
to go through an extremely rigorous interview process including external assessments.
It was particularly pleasing that Nick’s experience, commitment to the business and the
potential he brings, enabled us to identify the
ideal candidate from within the business.”
Nick says, “I’m thrilled to have been selected
for the role and very excited to work with
an established team and drive sales forward
across the entire business.”
Highlights from the latest issue include
interviews with Alex Botha, CEO of the British Safety Council, and BOTT, the leading
producer of workplace storage solutions, as
well as a number of case studies including
Centre Parcs and the Southern Universities
Purchasing Consortium.
INFORMATIVE GUIDES
In addition there is a diverse range of
informative guides on everything from accommodating employees who cycle to work
and new legislation surrounding the storage
of chemicals to energy efficiency and the
Corporate Manslaughter Act.
Lee Wright, Marketing Director of Slingsby,
which supplies more than 35,000 workplace
www.nationalplastics.co.uk
products to businesses and organisations
across all industries, says: “This is the fifth
time we have produced Work-It and each
time it gets bigger and is read by a wider
audience than the previous issue. Combining topical articles and thought-provoking
interviews with seasonal products and
special offers is a hugely successful formula that is well received by businesses and
workplaces across all industries and this
issue is no different.
“We are also delighted to secure high-profile interviews with Center Parcs, which has
just invested £250 million in a brand new
state of the art holiday park at Woburn, and
Alex Botha of the British Safety Council
which continues to save lives and improve
safety in workplaces throughout the UK and
beyond.”
For further information about Slingsby,
or to download a copy of Work-It, visitwww.slingsby.com or call 0800 294 4440.
Glazerite Calls On Installers To Back New Veka Approved Scheme
Glazerite Windows Ltd,
one of the UK’s largest
independent trade fabricators, is urging all
installers to get behind
the newly-launched
VEKA Approved Installer Scheme to reassure
householders of their
quality and integrity.
The scheme now gives
quality installers an extremely powerful ‘twotier’ choice alongside the
industry leading Network
VEKA organisation and will
open up the opportunity to
a much wider field of competent operators, according
to Glazerite Director Jason
Thompson: “It is completely free to join and has no
geographic boundaries.
Any installer simply has
to live up to a number of
quality standards and buy
from a Scheme Approved
VEKA fabricator such as
Glazerite. In return, they
gain a credibility that will
put them ahead of their
competitors, not only
from the VEKA Approved
Installer logo for their
vehicles and showrooms
but also from an exclusive
range of bespoke marketing literature and support
for web design. “They will
also have access to direct
homeowner leads generated via the dedicated VEKA
Approved Installer website
so they can see virtually
instant returns as well as
the long-term benefits of
membership.”
Glazerite is not only the
UK’s biggest VEKA fabricator, it’s customers represent
a large proportion of the
Network VEKA membership, many of whom are
regular award winners a nd
have long been regarded as
one of the most proactive
supporters of the organisation. Jason continued: “Network VEKA is one of the
best things ever to happen
to our industry. We believe
it has changed the way
consumers choose their
home improvements. So it
is very exciting that VEKA
has chosen to add this
second quality accreditation scheme to support our
installation partners and
we are sure it will complement the existing Network
offering by spreading the
VEKA quality message even
further and helping many
more installers to be a part
of that message.
“There is also another
long-term benefit of joining
the scheme via a fabricator that is also a Network
VEKA member, such as
Glazerite, because once
they see the gains from the
Approved Installer Scheme
they can then go one step
further by combining the
benefits of both and apply
to join Network VEKA.”
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