AWARD WINNING COMPANY CELEBRATES 5TH BIRTHDAY
Award winners of the first North Wiltshire New Business Competition, 1st Choice Stairlifts are celebrating their 5th year in business this month.
Calne based 1st Choice Stairlifts was formed in 2004 by Directors Colin Major and Coral Affleck, who have a combined 33 years of stairlift expertise. Since it began the company has continued to grown from strength to strength and now employs nine staff, including a team of six engineers that install, repair and service stairlifts across Wiltshire and neighbouring counties.
Their first year in business saw the company winning the Calne round of the New Business Competition, run by the Wessex Chambers of Commerce and successfully winning the North Wiltshire final where they were presented with a £2,000 cheque by MP James Gray.
Director Coral Affleck said, “Although the country is in a recession, through careful planning, lots of enthusiasm and hard work, our business is still on the up and we are privileged to be in a strong financial position to weather the economic storm.”
Coral added, “Five years on and more than 1,000 customers later, we are proud to have achieved this milestone thanks to the customer focus that we have in providing specialist expertise, an independent choice of stairlifts from every manufacturer and the service backup to go with it.”
The company began as a small enterprise working from home and now occupies two industrial units in Maundrell Road on Calne’s Porte Marsh Industrial Estate, with a showroom exhibiting six working stairlifts for customers to try.
1st Choice Stairlifts were recently awarded the ISO9001 Quality Management Standard and are members of the British Healthcare Trades Association.
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