Industry Update
BA Components Venture Onto New Ground With Valore
Product Planning Manager Graham Millership retires after a successful 49-year career at Thomas Dudley
Thomas Dudley’s longest serving member of staff has retired after working for the market-leading bathroom product and iron casting manufacturer, for an incredible 49 years.
Graham was just 17 when he joined Thomas Dudley’s cistern sales office and retired in May after a spending his entire career at the Dudley-based business. Thomas Dudley’s Chairman, Martin Dudley, commented: “We genuinely look upon each employee as a member of the family and cannot thank Graham enough for his outstanding contribution. He provided commitment, leadership and innovation throughout the most important years in the company’s evolution and has been an example to all. I speak on behalf of everyone associated with our business in thanking him publicly for his support and wish him a long, enjoyable and very well-deserved retirement!”
When you turn on your TV to watch the latest home makeover programme, you will note that there is always a huge focus on the kitchen. Why? Because the kitchen has now become the hub of the consumers’ home. It’s where they congregate in the morning for breakfast, it’s where they ponder over the algebra question in the Maths
textbook, it’s where they entertain their friends at the weekend with wine and cheese; it really is the focal point for families.
This is why manufacturer of kitchen doors BA Components, spend many months of the year researching, converging and bringing to life the latest trends and styles that the modern family yearn for.
The most prevailing shift that BA Components have seen over the past
ALNO Retailer Creative Designs Celebrates 40th Year! E
stablished in 1977, the UK’s longest trading dealer of ALNO kitchen furniture, Creative Designs is celebrating its 40th anniversary!
Founded by Tom Coughtrie, a graduate of the Birmingham School of Art and winner of the Royal Society of Arts ‘Industrial Design Award’ in 1975,
Creative Designs started out as a general design company before focusing on kitchen design. The first showroom opened in Ayr in the February of 1980, featuring the popular and well- known, Pandora Coffee Shop on the first-floor. In 1988, Creative Designs relocated to its current showroom at Apex House in Ayr, home to eight
five years is the increase in demand for slab style doors. The no nonsense design allows consumers’ to invest in a stylish and sleek option for the kitchen that won’t cost the earth. BA Components Valore range caters for exactly this type of consumer. Offering 10 great value MFC cut and edged slab doors that look a million dollars. From concrete to wood, these on trend finishes are made to an exceptional quality.
stylish ALNO kitchen displays over two floors, and showcasing the latest in German innovation and design. Today, Creative Designs has expanded to include both a high-street retail kitchen business, and a contracts division, providing a wide selection of high-quality kitchens from the ALNO AG group to meet the needs of both private clients and major house builders in Scotland, such as CALA Homes, MacTaggert & Mickel, and Robertson Homes. The success and development of Creative Designs is a testament to its highly-skilled, full service team of talented designers, dedicated order processors and after-sales personnel, and experienced installers.
To discover more about award-winning, German kitchens from ALNO, please visit our website. For more information about Creative Designs, please visit our website.
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