The season of local shows is upon us!! We started off with the Homes for Good show at Westpoint in Exeter, next was the highlight of the social calendar, the ‘Thorverton Country Show’ (which actually brings in as many sales as some of the large shows), after that is the Mid Devon Show (25th July http://www.middevonshow.co.uk/, again another really good one for local contacts and sales) finishing with the Green Living Show at Stourhead in Wiltshire (3rd & 4th October, www.greenlivingshow.co.uk). Please come along and see our new ranges if you live near any of these shows, see the websites for more info.
We are also doing some events for RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) which should be interesting, hopefully for the architects as well as us. We are taking all of our products along to each show and talking for around 2.5 to 3 hours on them so as they get a real understanding of how to use the systems and where they can be used (Did I say interesting?? Informative at least). When we do CPD’s or talks you rarely get enough time to talk about the materials in any great depth and unless people are really interested they often forget quite quickly.
We’re currently talking to Exeter University about doing some research into how combinations of the materials we sell perform and how we can measure their performance against some less sustainable alternatives. The idea behind this is to give customers a real idea of how much better the materials are rather than just having to take my word for it. We will then be able to say (or not) why and by how much the systems are better than others. We should also be building a house soon which will be packed full of sensors to get some real life data on the way a building performs.
Thankfully we’ve been extremely busy over the last 3 months and have more than doubled our turnover during that time, consequently we are beginning to outgrow our current facilities and we may have to look at moving to larger premises soon. Has anyone got a really big warehouse, with good transport links, local to us for next to no rent. Is that asking too much????