PRESS RELEASEJanuary 2022DESIGNER CONTRACTS INVESTS £500K IN FUTURE BUSINESSDesigner Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, starts 2022 with the news it has just completed a round of pandemic-busting spending.The Chesterfield based company, which has successfully traded throughout the coronavirus crisis, has invested £500K in the future of the business with additional racking at its [...]
PRESS RELEASE December 2021 A FITTER FUTURE As the fight to retain and secure skilled flooring fitters continues, Louise Walters, commercial director for Designer Contracts, explains why the company has chosen to spearhead a new industry initiative to train and assess [...]
PRESS RELEASENovember 2021A ‘HIGH FIVE’ FOR CHILDLINE FROM DESIGNER CONTRACTS Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, is sponsoring the services of leading children’s charity ChildLine for one day – for the fifth time.The company is funding the charity’s ‘One Unforgettable Day’ programme on Friday December 3, 2021, meeting the £30,000 cost which ChildLine [...]
PRESS RELEASE November 2021 TRIO OF INSPIRATIONAL SHOWHOMES FOR BARNSLEY Designer Contracts developed a hattrick of inspirational showhomes when developers Keepmoat Yorkshire East chose to work with the company’s design team at its Kestrel Gardens, Barnsley site. Kestrel Gardens sits just two miles from the centre of Barnsley. With [...]
PRESS RELEASE November 2021 KEY MOVES AT DESIGNER CONTRACTS Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has announced a senior promotion and one new appointment within its regional management structure. Kevin Hounsome is promoted to divisional director after seven years with the company and Ian Cartledge has been appointed as the new [...]
PRESS RELEASENovember 2021DESIGNER CONTRACTS AND SUPPLIER TAKE TOP INDUSTRY SUSTAINABILITY AWARDDesigner Contracts has scooped a top industry prize for sustainability in a prestigious industry partnership awards scheme.Along with Texfelt, a world leading manufacturer of eco-engineered PU foam replacements, Designer Contracts – the UK’s largest flooring contractor – took the Partners in Sustainability category title [...]
September 2021 PETER KELSEY HONOURED WITH OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Peter Kelsey, the man who founded and led Designer Contracts to become the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has been honoured with an Outstanding Achievement in the Flooring Industry award. Announced at the Contract Flooring Journal’s 2021 awards ceremony, held at Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire on [...]
August 2021 DESIGNER CONTRACTS PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS TO BEAT PANDEMIC DELAY Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has supplied and fitted a leading West Midlands specialist dementia care living home with safety floorcoverings – despite major delays caused by the second national lockdown. The company ensured a super-swift turn-around at [...]
PRESS RELEASEJuly 2021DESIGNER CONTRACTS LAUNCHES SPEEDIER SERVICE APP Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has developed a digital solution to speedier customer service.The company has designed its own app, named Athena, to enable faster response times to customers and to help deliver key performance indicators.For use by staff internally, Athena was trialled at [...]
PRESS RELEASEJULY 2021 DESIGNER CONTRACTS CREATES DREAM ESCAPES FOR HOMES BY ESH Designer Contracts worked with Homes by Esh to create two pandemic beating dream escapes for the developer’s show houses at West Park Garden Village in Darlington. With a long standing relationship, Homes by Esh tasked Designer Contracts with two ‘escape-from-it-all’ briefs for their site [...]