Chippenham firm wins £250,000 contract (From Swindon Advertiser)

Chippenham firm wins £250,000 contract

Chippenham based, Fascia Graphics, the UK’s market leader for the production of membrane keypads in the printed graphics industry is starting a recruitment drive after winning 40 new customers in the last two months.

As part of these new wins, the company has also won a major contract worth more than £250,000 over 18 months. This surge in new orders has led the company to recruit more Screen Printers, Production Engineers and a QA Manager.

The £250,000 contract is as a result of a blue chip client securing a manufacturing contract estimated to be worth in excess of £10million. Since its inception in 1994, Fascia Graphics has gone from 40 customers to well over 600 customers. The company has increased its turnover to in excess of £2.5million through building a strong reputation within market sectors; including security, fire, medical and electronics.

Paul Bennett, Managing Director, Fascia Graphics Limited, commented: “In a highly competitive marketplace, we have performed extremely well to pick up 40 new accounts. We have seen a continued uplift in sales since the start of 2009, and these latest contract wins will ensure that we match our sales pipeline to our aggressive growth strategy.

Following the recent expansion of our factory on the Bath Road Industrial Estate, we are now embarking on a recruitment drive so that we can utilise the production capacity to serve our rapidly increasing customer base.”

Value engineering approach proves popular...

The company has also seen its customer base and orders increase because of its unique approach to value engineering products. Earlier this year, it launched a Fascia Value Engineered Review (FVER). This approach identifies cost savings to help customers remain competitive in the marketplace by avoiding margin erosion.

Fascia Graphics has found that on average, this approach can save its customers between 5-10 per cent of a single applications manufacturing cost. In some cases it has even saved as much as 25 per cent.

Paul Bennett concluded: “Our value engineering approach is proving very popular with customers. Through our technical experience, we often see that companies have been previously advised to use the wrong materials or adhesives, and we have identified products with cost built in due to previous lack of technical expertise. Our FVER also provides our customers with an opportunity to steal a march on their competition by providing the best in class at a highly competitive price.”