>The Double Glazing Forum has put a section on it's website where people can rate double glazing companies on various areas of their experience with them: http://www.double-glazing-forum.com/company-ratings.aspx. Now, from previous experiences, this could be risky. It could be something they completely ignore, or could get quite touchy about it. Personally, I wouldn't like my company [...]
>If there is a job I would like to have the least in this industry at the moment is the boss of a systems company. Nearly every installations company up and down the country will have had a price increase notification from one or more of their suppliers. It's something I wouldn't like to authorise [...]
>What a good website companies house is. If you have any suspicions of local competitors going bust, you can always go on to their website, search for the company name and (providing they are a limited company, which most are), you will be able to find what situation the company is actually in. Plus other [...]
>Time's for the window industry have got very tough over recent months, for everybody. In fact, time's have got tough for every sector and every industry over the last couple of months, no one can deny that. But it still baffles me that in a industry in the doldrums, how some can still be coming [...]
>I get the distinct feeling that over the last few days and weeks the panic (or at least the 'worry quite severely') button has been firmly pressed. The reason? Well I've come to this conclusion from what people in different industries have said to me.The GlassTalk forum has been deep in discussion about manufacturing price [...]
>Customer's regularly tell me: 'the other salesman just didn't seem interested'.This is a problem for our industry, and is caused by two things. The first is the basic wage. While a basic wage gives the cushion incase the salesman has a bad week, it breeds low motivation. I'm only paid on what I sell, totally [...]
>When we went down to a recent product launch held by our manufacturers, we were quietly told that one of the big nationals of our industry had to be 'bailed out' by the banks. Now what for of help the banks gave we don't know. Emergency cash injection? Re-financing of their debts? Loan agreement changes? [...]
>As the interent has grown, so has the whistle blowing culture. The internet has been an avenue for people who have had bad experiences with companies to vent their fury and frustrations. The obvious problem for companies is that everyone in the world can read all about that person's horror stories. The main victims of [...]
>The double glazing industry has long had different approaches as to how sales reps should dress.Some, like ourselves still wear suits. We get a lot of positive comments about the way we dress when we go into a customers house, especially the older generation. Comments like: "it's so nice to see young men dressed so [...]
>http://www.double-glazing-forum.com/ has released the monthly figures of bankrupt companies for February and they have come down to 168, from January's 192. The more and more we look at the lists that get realeased, the more we have to realise that the companies listed on there are not all double glazing companies. We don't really have [...]
>The question I put out there is this: can a northern based company be successful down south, and can a southern based company be successful in the north?Think about it. All the northern companies around this part of the world stay in the north of England. Safestyle UK for example, are much more successful in [...]
>Looks like the nationals will say anything in order to get business, even if it is complete bullshit. I quoted a customer where I was up against Safestyle, and the customer told me that Safestyle informed him that only the big three national companies (Anglian and Everest being the other two) use argon gas filled units.To [...]
>Today's big announcement was Synseal completing a MBO, and merging with global private equity firm H.I.G. Capital Ltd. Part of the statement released read:The management team of Synseal announced today that it had purchased the share capital of Synseal Extrusions Ltd and Allerford Holdings Ltd from Gary Dutton MBE for an undisclosed sum.The successful culmination [...]
>I don't know if it's just me, but some of the sales gimmicks going around over the past 12-18 months have been getting slowly more rediculous.Recently, Coral have been advertising 'Free' 42" HD TV's if you place an order with them. Doesn't seem to rediculous you may think, if the customer buys a conservatory the [...]
>Recently we have seen campaigns by Everest and Anglian Home Improvements advertising their own scrappage schemes. From their point of view, the campaign to get the government to introduce a scrappage scheme design to benefit the double glazing industry provided the perfect advertising gimmick, and no doubt it may have swung a few customer's their [...]
>December's figures for companies going bust went up to 195 from 176 (figures courtesy of http://www.double-glazing-forum.com/) in November. Not much of an increase you may think, but with the bad weather that came early this month, and many tax bills to be paid by the end of January, I think we can expect a big rise for [...]
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