Insight PST 50th Anniversary
Prestige Seating Technology is one of Europe's leading suppliers to the Leisure Industry of chromium and brass plated metal furniture. Worldwide, many prestigious bars, nightclubs, discotheques, casinos and other leisure establishments have benefited from the company's high quality furniture. The revolutionary self-levelling, self- returning gas lifts can be fitted to all stem chairs. Most of the chairs can be fitted with a swivel or a self- return swivel. The company also pride themselves in manufacturing bespoke chairs to customers' specified designs.
PST to celebrate turning 50 at this year’s ICE Totally Gaming
“Being based in the former ‘shipyard county’ meant there was an abundance of extremely skilled workers so we could easily grow our workforce as our order books filled up. Every material we use we source ourselves and every procedure in the entire manufacturing process from cutting, shaping, bending, welding, chroming and upholstery takes place in- house. We’re in control of everything so can ensure everything is done to the highest quality.” Steve Treharne.
Seating specialist PST Gaming Furniture will be celebrating its 50th birthday when it attends ICE at the ExCeL in February with various guises of the company having attended every year of the exhibition since its own beginnings in 1990
Te company, most famed for its casino stool manufacturing, shows no signs of slowing as it approaches its landmark 50th anniversary with the next stage of its evolution currently being mapped out. And it could be one of the most transformational chapters of the company’s story so far.
Established in February 1967 as Plant Services Gateshead (PSG) the company’s original focus was repairing plant and equipment for the shipyards of Gateshead.
Managing Director Steve Treharne said: “It’s a huge achievement for the company to reach the 50th year milestone and one we’re incredibly proud of. Te company has evolved beyond all recognition since its inception, although I think it is quite fitting, considering where we currently are, that one of the two directors who set up the company back in 1967, left his job as a croupier at a Newcastle casino to do so.”
PSG started life working out of a railway arch in Gateshead. As the proud ship building heritage of the North East began to wane in the 1970s the company’s focus, driven mainly by the skill set and knowledge of the workforce, turned to manufacturing. Within five years of its birth, PSG had become a recognised force in the manufacture of chairs and furniture for the shipping industry. By 1972 the company had six employees all engaged in manufacturing. Tis was also the year that the current company’s longest serving employee began working for the company. By 1977, the company had grown to take up three of the railway arches where it had first set up in Gateshead, employing 12 people still focussing on the
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manufacturing side, still growing, supplying more and more industries with its furniture.
“By the time PSG moved to its existing premises on the riverside of South Shields, it was supplying furniture to the shipping industry, working men’s clubs, bars and restaurants as well as supplying the council with furniture,” Mr Treharne explained.
By this time Mr Trehrane had set up his own business supplying the casino industry with consumable products such as playing cards and chips as well as novelty gift lines. By coincidence the trading name of the company was very similar although the origin of PST (UK)’s name was entirely different.
Recalling the first time PST attended the first International Casino Exhibition in London in 1990, Mr. Treharne said: “Tings were very different back then. I turned up in a van with a fold-out box that turned into my exhibition stand. We served champagne and pretty soon we were networking with many of the UK casino operators at the time, such as Rainbow, Grosvenor, Stakis and Stanley.”
It wasn’t until 1995 that the foundations of PST in its current guise were laid. Te owners of PST and PSG met to discuss Mr Treharne buying stools from PSG and selling them onto his growing contacts list in the casino sector.
“It was around this time that the American stool manufacturers entered the European market replacing the existing wooden chairs with metal chairs,” Mr Treharne explained. “But their designs back then were too big to fit seven stools around a
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