Window Ware part of a fastest growing UK company

Window Ware played an important part in the growth story of our parent group, Arran Isle, who this weekend will be named as one of the UK’s fastest growing companies in a prestigious Sunday Times list.

Housing market recovery in both the UK and North America has helped place Arran Isle at number 142 on the 10th annual Sunday Times Top Track 250. The league table ranks growth in sales and earnings across Britain’s private companies irrespective of sector or size.

Our group posted sales of £206m in the year to December 2013, up from £192m in 2012, with £130m of that income coming from outside of the UK.

Our group employs around 940 people, across the US, Europe, the Middle East and China.

Arran Isle designs, sources and distributes branded products to housebuilders, builders’ merchants and door & window manufacturers. It has a number of market leading brands including Carlisle Brass, Eurospec, Mila, Eurolite and Window Ware.

More than half of its sales are in the US, where it operates under the LaSalle Bristol brand.

Chief executive Robert Barr said Arran Isle had benefitted from a recovering housing market – and he is confident of further growth this year.

“Our growth comes from our complete focus on service and innovation. In 2013 across all our operations worldwide, over 98 per cent of order lines were delivered on time, in full to our customers. We have launched 17 major product ranges in the last three years.

New products have included high security handles and door locks in the UK, Ireland and the Nordic countries together with a range of lighting products in the US."

The full Sunday Times Top Track 250 league table will be published this Sunday (12 October) within the Sunday Times business section, the Sunday Times digital edition and on its website.