You’ll have noticed by now our lovely, re-designed website pop over to this site. We think it looks really smart and we’re particularly excited about the brand new feature of the Stockist Finder. Before, any consumer interested in knowing where to buy our products had to send me an email and wait for me to reply – often on the hoof, from my Blackberry, with just the name of a store and which town it was based in. Now, we’ve got a really smart, easy to use Google Maps-based search facility which enables the consumer to identify stores up to 50 miles away – and call up an exact location. The new feature has been enthusiastically welcomed already – if you’re one of our stockists, do check out your entry and make Nsure you’re there – and that the details are correct. We’d be delighted to hear any other feedback on the site, too.
On a less positive note, we are still adjusting to the hugely disappointing news (for us) of the closure of Silentnight’s showrooms at Salterforth and the cancellation of this autumn’s show. The shows in particular have over the past three years been extremely successful ones for us and the ideal opportunity to showcase new range prototypes for full blown launch at the NEC in January. We are currently reviewing our showroom strategy for the UK and hope to have some further news for you soon.
In the meantime, we fully respect the commercial decision made by the Silentnight Group and wish them all well for the future. In particular we’d like to thank Jane and Joyce and the whole of the show team for their support over the past few years.
And finally… the BIG DAY has arrived: son Simon marries his sweetheart Jenna on the 20th August and we’re off to put up marquees! Keeping everything crossed for good weather – which is looking to be as variable as business is at the moment!