46 | Sector Focus: Moulders & Mouldings
SUMMARY
■ SAM claims the UK’s largest range of mouldings on the ground across its three sites
■ It is offering a wider range of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian styles
■ White primed and fully finished white still dominate the market
■ The whole range is visible and accessible on online
PROMOTION AND POSITIVITY
PERFORMANCE,
SAM Mouldings is optimistic for 2025 and promises significant developments in the year ahead. Mike Jeffree reports
The mouldings market may not be an entirely comfortable place to be right now, but SAM Mouldings continues to drive through new logistics, sales and operational initiatives. Sales director Gerard Wilson says the emphasis is firmly on positivity and promises more significant developments this year.
He acknowledges that the going was tougher through 2024 than in previous years, with the anticipated post-election upturn in the economy failing to materialise. “There was the hope a new government would bring greater steadiness, but they’ve had their own widely publicised problems,” said Mr Wilson. “Despite the downward trend in interest rates and inflation, they haven’t delivered the improvement in confidence we’d anticipated, and purses and wallets have stayed closed,” he said.
Top: SAM Mouldings’ factory in Antrim, Northern Ireland
Above: SAM’s major expansion of its warehousing capacity to increase its on-the-ground stock range
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“It’s still guesswork as to when we’ll see wider market recovery. It’s massively about confidence, getting to that interest rate sweet spot which instils more certainty. The government also needs to get those measures through to stimulate construction and get builders building. They are rightly cautious at the moment given how far ahead they are in terms of build versus physical sales.” All that said, SAM says it has continued to move forward. “We’re still making progress, and the hope is the pace will pick up as the year goes on,”
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