Door Industry Journal - Summer 2014

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 16 THE door industry journal summer 2014 industry news HÖRMANN ADDS HST TO VIRTUAL SHOWROOM Hörmann has added the HST side sliding sectional door to its virtual showroom. The new online sales aid for the door industry has already proved popular, with high viewer numbers and an excellent response from the trade. The aim of the virtual showroom is to provide an online resource for the industry and consumers. These professionally produced videos help to bring the doors to life, demonstrating the features and benefits of each type of door. Seeing how the doors operate and understanding their key features online is helping to provide leads to garage door specialists, as more and more consumers search online. David O’Mara, Hörmann (UK) Limited’s marketing manager is pleased with the results so far, but is keen for more specialists to make use of the free tool on their own websites. He explains, “As consumers search online for images and video it will help to build local links for all our resellers. As we will continue to recommend that consumers visit specialist centres it is highly likely they will search online for contact details and location maps. Adding the videos will reinforce the connection between Hörmann and the local centre. It also means they are more likely to visit these websites first.” All the video’s can be viewed by searching for the Hörmann UK channel on YouTube and selecting playlists. If you require more information please contact Hörmann UK or e-mail t.white.lei@hormann.co.uk . NEW KEY APPOINTMENTS AT GDS Garage Door Systems has strengthened its team with several key appointments to support its investment programme GARAGE DOOR SYSTEMS INVESTING IN PEOPLE & THE FUTURE Garage Door Systems Ltd is creating 17 new jobs as part of a £2 million investment. Garage Door Systems is now in its 20th year of trading and manufactures a wide range of made-to-measure garage doors including sectional doors and its market leading single skin roller door. The company is also the main distribution & service centre for LiftMaster professional automation products in the UK & Ireland. As well as recruiting additional staff, plans will see the company invest in innovative manufacturing equipment and processes and upgrade its production management system. The company will continue to focus on training new and existing staff to ensure they are equipped to offer the highest levels of customer service and support. Commenting on the investment during a visit to the company, Invest NI’s Chief Executive, Alastair Hamilton, said: “The company’s success has been driven by the quality of its products and service as well as a focus on innovation. This investment will help the company achieve its objective of significantly growing sales in the GB market.” Garage Door Systems recently completed a research and development project resulting in a new manufacturing process that is now being used to make a range of non- standard pedestrian doors in small production runs with industry leading turnaround times. Garage Door Systems’ Managing Director, Peter Doherty, said: “We recently identified opportunities to raise our profile and increase sales into the GB market. To further build on this we are now recruiting additional high calibre staff in strategic areas to support our future growth plans. I believe that in terms of garage doors, access doors and garage door automation we have an excellent customer proposition that is backed up with the best people in the industry”. L-R Shauna Scott & Joyce Wilson – GB Customer Service & Sales team (Joyce joins Shauna Scott on the GB team) L-R Roy Wilson – Head of Quality & Service Engineering Connor Mulholland – Design Engineer Declan Kerr – Graduate Engineer Keiran Copper – Financial Controller