Welcome to ChairsGB.com where you find…

“The Best Legs in the Business”

 

 

What will you get?

  • A quality product that you are pleased with and that will last for years with a full 12-month Guarantee
  • Excellent service and speedy delivery.
  • If you have a problem we will sort it out for you fast.
  • You will be contacted before we deliver your furniture and keep you informed at every stage of your delivery

ChairsGB and the Environment

With regards to helping the environment we have a wood burner to heat part of our factory and use off cuts of wood to fuel it. We supply a lot of furniture made from Rubber wood, which is one of the world’s most sustainable hardwoods. All our metal products are made from in part or 100% recycled steel. We use Colchester Skip hire to handle all of our other waste because of their fantastic reputation for recycling almost everything.

 

ChairsGB and the Community
The Girls from ChairsGB at a Rainy Race for Life
 
 
Alresford Ranges Youth Team – Sponsored by ChairsGB.com
 
Our Story
 
ChairsGB is based in a custom built facility in a converted apple orchard Alresford Essex. We supply furniture for the contract market and employ 45 Staff. The company has shown continued and sustained growth over the last few years. In 1998 we turned over £250,000 we predict we will turn over £3million in 2010.
 
The Company has been established since 1970 when John Roy, the founder and MD started building bar stools for local pubs in a small workshop in Dunmow Essex. The business developed into Manufacturing Complete Themes and Schemes in Pubs, Our main business for a while included exporting “Dirty Nelly” Themed Irish Pubs to Scandinavia, on the completion of each scheme John would travel to the premises and attend the business launch, he marked the opening by playing Scotland the Brave on his Bagpipes.
 
 
                           
 
In 1998 the £ was strong against other European currencies which meant that our Manufacturing and Export Business was reducing. We decided to set up a separate division called ChairsGB.com. Our ChairsGB customer base is primarily in the UK leisure and licensed Industries.
 
 

We retained our in house manufacture of bench seating, custom-made tabletops and upholstery services. We started importing from Eastern Europe and Asia, fully finished furniture and other products in component form ready for assembly and finishing in the UK. We bring in this mix of items for flexibility and custom finishing. The items that come in already finished are of a lower cost than the ones that we have to custom finish.

 
        

Our best selling products are Stacking Chairs, Dining Chairs and Bench Seating. We pride ourselves on having good quality products that withstand the heavy use our customers demand and invest a lot of time in perfecting product design.

 

We purchase a high proportion of our stock ranges from Asia and have invested considerable time and money to ensure that the product we are buying meets the high level specification demanded by UK Businesses.
 
The People
 
We have all kinds of personalities and everyone pays an integral part in the running of the Business. One of the good things is our well-balanced group; we have staff aged 18 to 63, Male Female, Chinese, Polish, Brazilian and Russian. Some of our staff have been with the company for a many years, Colin; our Dispatch Leader is the longest standing with 25 years under his belt!
 
Colin
 
 
Some of our other staff members…….

                      
Sue Fearis                                            Sue Moody                                            Irene Lovett
 

During these tough times we are still doing well and are 20% up in Turnover on last year ongoing. We believe it is because of a number of factors. We are getting customers who would in a normal market have paid more for their furniture from elsewhere. They come to us because of our value and quality. We have an excellent reputation in the industry and around a quarter of our sales are from customer recommendations.

 

With the £ getting weaker our export business is looking inviting again. We are increasing our range of bench seating in the New Year and are looking of ways in which we can manufacture and export more. This is an exciting time for us, if we can Manufacture more of what we are selling and can keep our turnover growing this will ultimately mean more employment in the local community.
 
What our Customers Say about us
 
                              
 

Here are some of the comments from our feedback forms……..

 

“Very good products keep up the good work.”                                      

 

"Service was good with next day delivery we will definitely recommend you and buy from you again in the future."
 
                                        

 

 “Good products, fast delivery, good customer service, and friendly staff.”

 

“Your chairs have transformed our premises. Thank you very much!”

 

"Service was first class."    
 
                                                                
 
 

Comments like this show us we are on the right track.

 

We get a lot of really positive feedback like this.  We’re not perfect however and sometimes we get feedback that tell us about problems, for these customers we do our best and rectify the problem as soon as possible. We rely on our customer’s feedback to keep us on the right track.

 

Thank you for reading.

Hayley Roy

Executive Director