26th March 2021

March Edition of Trade Counter News.

CONSERVATORY OUTLET CHIEF HITS OUT AT SCOTTISH COVID-19 DISPARITY AS £MILLIONS OF ORDERS PUT ON HOLD

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The company maybe more familiar with plated steel, but it will be silver all the way for UAP Ltd in 2021 as the hardware specialist celebrates its silver anniversary after 25 years in business. UAP first started trading as Universal Imports in July 1996 with a single product – a door knocker – and a makeshift bedroom office. By 2000, the company had moved to its HQ in North Manchester and changed its name to UAP. These days, it has grown to a £22 million business, selling more than 3,000 products across 25 countries with a portfolio of brands including Fullex, Locking Systems, Intelligent Hardware, TradeLocks and Firemongery.

There was a rosy glow amongst the team at hardware specialist, UAP Ltd, on Monday, as the team dressed in red to support World Encephalitis Day on 22nd February for the Encephalitis Society. Thanks to the pandemic, the UAP team has largely been working from home for the past year but social distancing couldn’t stop the fun with many of the team getting their four-legged ‘office assistants’ involved!

International Women’s Day on the 8th March celebrates the achievements of women across the globe and champions inclusivity. This year the theme is ‘Choose to Challenge’ and that is something that the women who work at VEKA plc and the wider industry and beyond do every day. VEKA has spoken to several women leaders on their roles and the inspiration they have taken throughout their careers. Anda Gregory, Managing Director of the Commercial Group, Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF), spoke of being a senior figure in the glass and glazing industry.

After completing hundreds of projects over the last three decades to an exacting standard, AJS Windows of Smethwick, Birmingham has more than earned its reputation for delivering high-quality products and unrivalled customer service. In 2019, AJS’ Managing Director Scott O’Sullivan was contacted by one of the company’s biggest clients, new build developer Kendrick Homes.

Shrewsbury-based Heritage Glass has become the latest high profile installation company to become a Kubu installer, adopting their pioneering smart-sensors on a range of doors in a newly refurbished showroom environment, that’s also been supported by their manufacturing partner CWG Choices.

Installers and builders can take advantage of extra rewards with top retail and high street brands when purchasing selected roof windows Construction industry professionals and homeowners across the UK and Ireland can now benefit from an extra rewards boost this spring, thanks to roof window manufacturer VELUX®.

Just 50 days into his new role as Managing Director of VEKA plc, Neil Evans explains how the company has started the year with record breaking results. Was it difficult taking over in the middle of a pandemic? Last autumn, when I was still Sales Director, we had a VEKA plc board meeting and started to set out a new five-year plan for the business. This helped the transition, because it meant I was able to lead on a vision that we had all collectively developed.

Nathan McCarter Joinery, a Tavistock-based joinery business specialising in timber windows and doors, has scooped the FENSA Installation of the Year 2020 award, beating-off stiff competition from more than 500,000 other installations. All installations carried out by FENSA.