With this in mind we take pleasure in announcing that Kevin Turnbull, a glazing industry veteran with over 30 years experience, will now be heading up the Surveys department. Kevin will oversee a team of over 50 surveyors, providing coverage throughout the UK and who regularly carry out over 1000 surveys per week.

David Wallwork, a trained surveyor with a decade of experience working with Safestyle has been appointed to head up a newly-formed Inspections Department. This new department will scrutinise varied aspects of Safestyle Surveys and Installations to ensure that all work continues to be completed efficiently, professionally and to the highest possible standards.

Safestyle UK’s Chairman, John Ross, commented: “As we continue to grow, these appointments are particularly important. We complete more than a thousand installations every week – so we’re continually working hard, looking for ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency of our operations.”

He added: “Customer satisfaction has always been our number one priority and we are always striving to achieve the perfect result first time, every time. Without the right experienced individuals who have the ability to deliver accurately and efficiently, this will not be possible.”

The appointments are part of a larger cross-company policy for continual improvement, part of which will see surveyors train for NVQ levels 3 and 4, whilst the Installation department continues its on-going process of BSI accreditation.

Our new Head of Surveys, Kevin Turnbull concluded: “Training and knowledge are vital as we look to take the customer’s overall buying experience to the next level. We already know that our environmentally-friendly windows and doors help customers save energy and our well-known offers give great value, but we also appreciate that success will come through ensuring our customers enjoy a highly professional experience throughout their dealings with Safestyle, from order to completion.”

Leonard Cheshire Disability supports over 21,000 disabled people throughout the UK and aims to change attitudes towards disability and to serve disabled people around the world.

This year the charity celebrates its 60th anniversary and to mark this special occasion, the staff and residents at the Pudsey-based home were nominated for entry into the “Leeds in Bloom” business and community competition, for which the judging takes place in July.

“Leeds in Bloom” is a competition open to all residents, businesses and charities in Leeds and aims to promote a sense of pride in gardens of all shapes and sizes – a greener city leading to a greener environment.

A perfect concept as far as Safestyle UK are concerned, as we are at the forefront of the drive to combat climate change with our state-of-the-art range of energy saving windows and doors, winning the prestigious G07 Installer of the Year Award.

Steve Birmingham, our Managing Director, said, “As a company we are constantly approached for sponsorships and donations and its very difficult deciding upon which requests to assist, especially given the countless number of absolutely fantastic and highly worthy causes out there.
However, The Leonard Cheshire Disability request for assistance stood out immediately as it wasn’t just a request for donations to go towards assisting themselves, but was instead a request for assistance in helping the staff and residents of the home to create something that can be seen and enjoyed by everyone in their local community.”

Employees from our Barnsley-based Windowstyle facility joined top names in the health and safety industry to receive the coveted award and praise from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who commented: “I am delighted to send my congratulations to all of those organisations being presented with an award by the British Safety Council. These awards recognise the crucial success that these organisations and their employees have achieved in their pursuit of excellence in the management of health, safety and environmental matters at an international level.”

Following tough independent adjudication, Windowstyle received the International Safety Award from the leading training and advisory body, the British Safety Council. Once again, Safestyle’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility proved we have excellent safety policies, plans and an ongoing commitment to health and safety at the highest level.

Over 1,000 movers and shakers from a diverse range of sectors celebrated their achievements at a ceremony and banquet at London’s prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Mark Scaife, Director at Windowstyle added: “To achieve this award again for the 7th time in 8 years and to be recognised for our achievement by the Prime Minister is wonderful recognition for the great effort that has been put into our safety program at Wombwell by all our employees. Health and Safety continues to be our number priority in 2008 as we continue to protect our biggest asset - our people.”

He added: “With over 36 million working days currently lost each year through work-related ill-health and injury, these awards are an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of the benefits effective health, safety and environmental management bring to business, employees, the environment and the economy as a whole.”

Mr Brian Nimick, Chief Executive of the British Safety Council, said: “For more than 50 years, we have led the way in promoting health, safety and environmental best practice in society. In the 21st century, many organisations worldwide are now making health and safety a top priority. Through achieving an International Safety Award, Windowstyle UK Ltd is helping to make our vision of a safe working environment a reality.”

Guests at the banquet, which included a number of international winners, were treated to fabulous cabaret featuring the best of the best acts from the last 50 years including Paul Zerdin, Moulin Rouge dancers and an amazing display of indoor fireworks and lasers as part of an outstanding night of music and entertainment.

Improving our standards is virtually the Style Group motto as Safestyle and Windowstyle strive to improve our products, customer service and employee environment. Though we are constantly assessing our performance and we know there’s always room for improvement, this award does come as a nice reminder that all the hard work put in to making improvements is noticed and recognised.

The Diamond Account Club was set up in November last year and gives added benefits to our Safestyle customers who purchase their windows and doors through our flexible finance package. The first ever draw took place in January 2008, and winners have their entire outstanding payment balance paid off in full.

The latest prize draw took place at the beginning of May and an excited Natalie Murphy provided a glowing report of Safestyle UK in our customer reviews section, stating that she was highly impressed our professionalism and the service we provided, even before finding out about her fantastic win - “The salesman was excellent. The fitters were courteous & hardworking. The after sales care was friendly & easily available and of course the Diamond Account Quarterly Competition is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! Safestyle were initially recommended to me by a work colleague and I would definitely recommend them to anyone wanting new windows and doors.”

Automatic entry into the prize draw is just one of several benefits that members of the Safestyle Diamond Account Club enjoy – there are also opportunities to gain fantastic discounts from companies such as Club Seasons, Cheapflightseats.com, 247blinds.co.uk and Gorvins Solicitors.

Mani Bhatoa, Head of Safestyle UK Marketing, commented: “Being a Safestyle Diamond Account member really does offer some fantastic perks for our customers… and what could be better than having your new windows paid for by the company that fitted them. It’s a real pleasure to be able to offer our customers opportunities like this.”

The next Diamond Account Club prize draw will be taking place in August 2008 – look out for that!

Likewise the Safestyle website’s Contact us page has also been modified to incorporate feedback from customers to improve the layout and clarity of the various sections of information.

Our emphasis on providing the best possible service and customer care seems to be creating a very positive vibe indeed – just a glance at the customer reviews section, which today contains some 450 individual customer responses, averaging 4.5 star rating (out of 5), will tell you that the Safestyle quest for improvement and paying attention to customer feedback is reaping the rewards of a positive customer experience.

Further developments are underway to make the Safestyle website even better and more customer-focused. One thing’s for sure, the company that brought you the famous BOGOF super-deal won’t be standing still!

We noticed that the customers really appreciate that our fitters are professional installers who do a quick and tidy job of fitting the windows and doors. You can understand that getting good quality products is only half the job - fitting them nicely completes the jigsaw. And our fitters shine in that department.

If you have been using our products but have not sent in your review, please go ahead and post your notes, complete with a few photos of your family besides the installation. You are welcome!

When you watch this video on YouTube, you will get to see several other remixes there. Enjoy!

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This upgrade will create several new jobs and improve the production quality even more.

We invite you to visit our lens and post your comments in the guestbook, telling us about your experience with your Safestyle windows and doors.

The local Barnsley girl, Laura Herring, who despite suffering from the rare and chronic renal disease, cystinosis, has raised more than £5,000 herself for the CFSN. This really impressed the Windowstyle staff and suppliers and they contributed generously for this noble cause.

Despite facing a kidney transplant in the near future, 12-year-old Laura, from nearby Dodworth, is a recent winner of the Sheffield Star Superkids award for fundraising and is determined to help others and other families in a similar predicament.

Read the full press release here.

Just head over to the Leeds United special Contest page and enter your details to participate in the contest and who knows, you may come out a winner of the £5,000 Window and Door Make Over.

This was announced to the press today - see the detailed press release here.

John Ross, the Chief Executive of Safestyle reported: “The Club has a massive following worldwide and attracts supporters from all walks of life. Consequently it will provide us with a unique opportunity to communicate with one of the largest and most loyal fan bases in football. There will be a particular emphasis on the Club’s wide variety of media channels including the recently launched Leeds United TV, Radio and web site.”

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One of the UK’s most popular television presenters and 25 years since she and the other members of Bucks Fizz shot to fame with ‘Making Your Mind Up’, Cheryl is the latest in a string of high profile celebrities to host the hugely successful Safestyle television advertising campaigns.

See the full press release related to this FENSA pass record here.

See the full press release related to this Trustmark recognition here.

PRWEB reported thus -
The Style Group (http://www.safestyle.co.uk) has introduced a further six new articulated lorries this month, adding to its countrywide transport fleet. The vehicles have 40ft trailers, which will distribute more than 6,000 windows and doors a week to the 12 Style Group depots across the United Kingdom.

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Here is an excerpt from our press release:

“Against an extremely challenging UK market, Yorkshire-based Style Group UK, Britain’s largest independent replacement PVCu windows and doors manufacturer and supplier, has bucked industry trends and announced a record operating profit of £7.1m for 2004, a 24.6 per cent increase on the previous year’s figure of £5.7m. . . . ”

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

May 2006 turn out to be very successful for you. Please tell a friend about our double glazing windows and doors.