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FEATURE: VISION SUPPLIES EXPAND ON A THEME
VISION+1
A STRONG ALLIANCE
by Robin George
"we work extremely hard to ensure that our products are of the highest standard and
our service and support in the field are second to none"
Colin Hale, Vision Supplies
A Strong Alliance Structured Thinking
On January 15th Vision Supplies Ltd acquired a substantial Colin Hale, Operations Director of Vision takes up the story, “our focus
shareholding of Registerprint Machinery Ltd, this acquisition of shares at Vision is very much on the customer, we work extremely hard to
has seen the leading supplier of screen printing and ancillary ensure that our products are of the highest standard and our service
machinery relocate from its Kent base to the newly expanded Vision and support in the field are second to none, which is why I believe
site in Leeds. A bold move by Vision in difficult market times but one we have been attracting so many new clients to our business. It is my
that Managing Director, Paul Waterton thinks is well timed. belief that our screen inks and cleaning products are simply the best
products in their sector available today and the growth of our sales
“Vision has continued to increase its market share of consumable reflects this. Registerprint fits perfectly within this kind of thinking
supplies year on year since its formation around 7 years ago. In this being in my opinion the most professional of service support suppliers
financial year the company will see its largest growth to date in our industry and by becoming a Vision company we can build on
increasing turnover by more than 30%. We have created this growth their strengths.
by continuing to develop our business relationships with some of the
strongest companies in our industry,” says Waterton. Re-locating the business to Leeds has taken a considerable amount of
time and effort with over 40,000 individual spare parts being
The company has worked hard to develop unique products not relocated. The relocation has allowed us to create a new database of
available from traditional supply chains and believes that many of its spares, every major component has been photographed before being
products are best in class. Registerprint is also synonymous with this allocated to a new stock control system, going forward this will allow
business model being one of the most successful suppliers of print us to use not only the new control system to help our customers
machinery in the screen printing sector for more than 40 years. identify parts but we also have the ability to forward pictures for
Although the demise of new Svecia equipment had an effect on the confirmation or indeed use a web based stock control system to allow
business its maintenance and support services have been in strong our clients to identify parts for themselves. This becomes
demand and through difficult market conditions it has maintained particularly useful for older machines that many companies choose
strong sales of reconditioned machinery both in the UK and across not to support.”
Europe. Waterton continues, “the acquisition of shares in Registerprint
was a logical step for both companies, until 5 years ago I was joint The relocation of operations required an additional 3,500sq ft of space
owner of the business before selling my shareholding to concentrate to be made available, not only for the spares stocks but for used
on the development of Vision. Throughout that time our company has equipment that both companies have been acquiring including multi-
continued to work closely with Registerprint who have been colour print lines, imaging machines and pre-press equipment.”
responsible for the installation and maintenance of all of the Chim 92
machinery, print machines and ancillary products sold by us. We have
had great success in supplying machines and Registerprint has been a
key supporter of our business, we have always remained on very
friendly terms so the acquisition and relocation made sense to all
parties involved creating a much stronger company both from a
financial and management sense.”
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