Alstons Upholstery Wins Manufacturing Guild Mark

Published on : Tuesday, November 26, 2013

AlstonAlstons Upholstery has won the Manufacturing Guild Mark (MGM), amongst the top 50 furniture and furnishing manufacturers in the UK.

 

MGM committee chairman, Jessica Alexander says, “Alstons is just the sort of company, committed to quality and excellence across all aspects of its business, which we want to achieve a Manufacturing Guild Mark. We’re delighted to welcome them and hope that the award enables them to reinforce the recognition for excellence they already have and deserve.”

 

Andy Kennaugh, Director,  opines, “We have a simple but ambitious philosophy as a company – quite simply, to be the best upholstery supplier to the UK and Irish retail sector. We are ISO9001 certified; we’re committed to becoming a carbon friendly business; all our timber is FSC certified; we’ve been nominated Supplier of the Year by the retail buying group AIS for 10 years on the trot. To be successfully audited across all aspects of our business and subsequently recognised as one of the top 50 best furniture and furnishing manufacturers in the UK with the Manufacturing Guild Mark award just crystallises all our efforts.”

 

Alstons Upholstery was founded in the early 1950s and today manufactures 100% of its products in at its base in Colchester, Essex, where around 200 people are employed. Everything bar the fabric is made in house – including the timber frames produced in the company’s own saw mill.

 

The MGM is awarded to companies which meet the highest standards of manufacturing, design, product quality, marketing, finance, commitment to training, employment conditions and sustainability. The Guild Mark schemes are administered by the Furniture Makers’ Company, the City of London livery company and central organisation of the furniture industry. The MGM is the only one awarded to a company, not a product.

 

 

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