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Watch out for the opening of Acheson & Glover’s new Outside Room area at Murdock’s Builders’ Merchant, Skeoge Industrial Estate, L’Derry in March and get some exciting ideas on how to transform your outside space, while also adding value to your home.

Selling Acheson & Glover’s complete range of high-end paving, walling and flags products, the new centre will have a brand new state-of-the-art display area to enable customers to come and view the products in-situ. If you need any advice or information, Acheson & Glover has also appointed a highly skilled on-site sales person, William Robinson, to help you make the right choice.

With a range of new products for 2012 in fresh new colour options (some in a stunning finish, unique to Acheson & Glover), the centre is one of five new partnerships with builders’ merchants in Newry, Ladas Drive, Belfast, Glengormley and Lisburn,  providing convenient locations throughout the whole of Northern Ireland to complement the company’s existing dedicated Outside Rooms Centres in Omagh, Fivemiletown, Dungannon, Toome and Bangor.

“The new openings mean that anyone in Northern Ireland should be able to travel to one of our Outside Rooms outlets in less than an hour,” said Acheson & Glover’s Outside Room Manager, Lauren Acheson.

“This expansion is testimony to our dedication to provide excellence in service and product quality and is backed up with the appointment of six new staff in the Outside Rooms team as well as three new external sales staff and a new sales manager to better service the needs of our growing customer base.

“It’s a very exciting time for us at Acheson & Glover and we hope it will prove so with our customers as well, opening up new opportunities for home improvements at a time when more and more people are ‘improving, not moving’.”

SERIOUS provided a professional service that recognized the company’s needs, producing a PR package that was both innovative and comprehensive.

I can thoroughly recommend the PR services of David and Karen and have found them to be nothing but professional and efficient when I have worked with them in the past. They are creative and passionate, hard working and keen always strive to get the job done. They have great media contacts and work hard to see projects are delivered from conception to completion with minimum fuss to the client. They like to think outside the box and come up with original and media friendly ideas for broadcast and print mediums.

“Serious PR was one of the newcomers to the scene in recent years – and certainly one of the most professional. Managing Director David McCavery, a respected journalist before making the transition into PR, heads a highly competent team who could have held down jobs in any newspaper and magazine – and did! Serious PR is a company you’ll be seeing a lot more of.”

Working with SERIOUS was an absolute pleasure. After only one meeting they understood our unique product and the message we wished to convey to our client base and corporate partners. They used a impressive network of contacts to get us valuable coverage in many of the national papers, glossy magazines and even TV. SERIOUS also guided us in the direction of building a digital marketing strategy long before the rest of the photographic industry.

I would have no hesitation in recommending their services.

A construction-related family owned business from Mid Ulster has managed to defy national business performance trends by posting an increase in turnover for the past 12 months of 50%!

Bellaghy based Premier Electrics, which handles commercial electrical installations for a range of large retailers throughout the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe saw sales grow in 2011 from £18m-£27m.

Managing DIrector, Mark Scullion, who established the business in 1993, attributes the success to the firm’s growing reputation for delivering major contracts on time and within budget.

“Our teams have worked tirelessly throughout the year the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland as well as increasingly in countries including Germany, Spain and Belgium.  We are delighted to have developed strong relationships with our clients over the years and, in 2010-11 partnered several of them into new territories.”

As part of its commitment to being closer to its customers and as a reflection of its growing operating base, Premier this year opened an office in Munich, Germany and plans to open an additional office in London asa part of its planning for 2012.

“We had to radically change our business strategy with the onset of the economic downturn in the Republic of Ireland which, traditionally, had accounted for almost a quarter of our turnover.  This meant looking to new markets and expanding through the establishment of a dedicated maintenance division.”

Although understandably delighted with Premier’s success, Mr Scullion is far from complacent.  “The ethos of this business is all about hard, honest endeavour with a relentless commitment to quality, so there will be no resting on laurels.  We are already well into our planning for 2012 and 2013 and our goal is to consolidate this year’s sales’ levels and continue to grow our reputation in the marketplace.”

Premier currently provides direct and indirect employment for around 150 people and is an Irish market leader in commercial electrical installation and maintenance.

Its clients include Primark, Penneys, ASDA, John Lewis, Debenhams and M&S. Its turnover had a peak of £30m at the height of the economic boom in 2007.

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