INDUSTRY UPDATE
Gillian Furey, newly appointed Marketing Manager at Flair Showers Limited
WORKTOP FABRICATORS FEDERATION
Flair Showers Limited appoints new
Marketing Manager F
lair Showers Limited, leading European manufacturer of shower doors, bathscreens and wetrooms, announces the appointment of Gillian Furey to Marketing Manager for the UK and Ireland. Since 1952, Flair has beautifully designed and expertly engineered its shower solutions to stand the test of time in the busiest of bathrooms.
Gillian joins Flair Showers Limited with over two decades of extensive experience in strategic marketing for blue chip, FMCG and global companies. With a proven track record of developing and implementing significant trading touch points, to deliver growth and success, Gillian’s appointment aligns perfectly with the recent launch and introduction of Flair Showers into the UK market.
Gillian Furey, Marketing Manager, Flair Showers Limited, comments: “I am incredibly proud to be joining a highly respected, and customer focused, company at a crucial stage in its journey in the UK. To reinforce our commitment to the UK market and highlight our dedication to working in partnership with bathroom specialist retailers, we have invested in the development of display materials to help bring the Flair Harmony Collection to life. Building rapport and relationships, while growing and delivering business success, with retailers in the UK is an exciting opportunity.
“I look forward to engaging my expertise, knowledge and experience from my substantial marketing background, gained throughout my career to drive the profile of Flair Showers in the UK. Meaningful conversations and interactions with our current and potential customers have never been as important as they are today.” Mia O’Loughlin, Group Marketing Director, Sanbra Group*, adds: “We are delighted to welcome Gillian to the Flair Showers team. Gillian brings a wealth of marketing expertise, which is invaluable and will support us as we continue to expand and grow our business in the UK.” Please contact us for more information on Flair Showers or visit the website.
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* Flair Showers Limited is part of the Sanbra Group of companies.
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Worktop Fabricators spread safety best practice to most vulnerable workers
ith all the headlines and international interest in the risks around respirable dust in worktop manufacture, it’s easy to overlook the practical basics: stone worktops only represent a health hazard when they are cut in the factory. So Britain’s stone worktop specialists are spreading the word to as many workers as possible with simple guidance to equip them with the knowledge they need to keep safe. The Worktop Fabricators Federation, which represents Britain’s most conscientious worktop manufacturers, has been working with the British Occupational Hygiene Society charity and mobile training specialists Sixty Learn and Safety Remotely to create a series of social media-style videos delivered directly to frontline workers’ phones.
W This unique approach removes barriers to engagement and ensures
critical health and safety messages are easily accessible to those who need them most. The approach delivers an easily-accessible message the people on the fabricating front-line can download on their own mobile phones and test their understanding of the risks.
Combining lively video clips with graphic images and comprehension tests, the app gives workers all the fundamentals of workplace risk, crammed into less than 10 minutes of compelling, easy-to-absorb content. And prompts them to raise issues with their employer if something they see on the phone doesn’t square with what they are being asked to do in the factory.
“Health & Safety practitioners, regulators and medical professionals all acknowledge that WFF members work hard to keep their workers safe from dust-risks,” says WFF general secretary Chris Pateman. “The big recurring question has always been how to raise awareness of the risks among those other workers, whose employers may not be running compliant factories.
“Hopefully this new, interactive approach will be a useful tool in the ongoing fight to raise standards across the entire industry. Our aim is to ensure every worktop is cut in a safe environment. And to give kitchen studios and interior designers the confidence that their specification decisions will not be putting workers at risk.”
The new initiative draws on the BOHS’s extensive experience across industry in developing simple messages to drive behavioural change. It is also being adapted so workers whose mother tongue is not English can scan a QR code to access the same information in different languages.
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