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 [...]
PRESS RELEASE June 2021 DESIGNER CONTRACTS AND SUPPLIER NAMED AS FINALISTS IN NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AWARDS Chesterfield-based Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, and Texfelt, a world leading manufacturer of eco-engineered PU foam replacements, have been named as finalists in a prestigious industry partnership awards scheme. They two companies have an exclusive arrangement [...]
PRESS RELEASEApril 2021DESIGNER CONTRACTS ANNOUNCES LATEST OF 25 NEW RECRUITS IN 2021The UK’s largest flooring contractor, Designer Contracts, has announced two further area manager appointments, bringing the total number of new recruits to join the business since January, to 25.Chris Hughes joins as the new area manager for the company’s Thames Valley region while [...]
PRESS RELEASEMarch 2021FLEXIBILITY THE KEY TO FLOORING FOR NEW KEYMER COMMUNITY CENTREAs new build community centres grow in size, scope and flexibility, Britain’s flooring contractors are responding with solution-led, adaptable floorcoverings.When Designer Contracts, the UK’s leading flooring contractor, was asked to supply flooring for the new Keymer Community Centre at Burgess Hill, West Sussex, [...]
PRESS RELEASEJanuary 2021DESIGNER CONTRACTS EXPANDS FALKIRK OPERATIONDesigner Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has expanded its Scottish operation after tripling business at its Falkirk depot.One of 15 regional centres, Designer Contracts first opened at Falkirk in 2011, doubling the size of its unit there in 2016. Now, the depot has been further expanded with [...]
PRESS RELEASE January 2021 DESIGNER CONTRACTS DONATES OVER £100,000 TO STRICKEN HOSPICE Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring contractor, has donated more than £100,000 to Chesterfield-based Ashgate Hospice. The company ran an online Christmas prize draw to raise funds for the hospice which has been hit hard by the pandemic and then added [...]
PRESS RELEASEJanuary 2021TWO PROMOTIONS AND A SENIOR APPOINTMENT WITHIN DESIGNER CONTRACTSThe UK’s largest flooring contractor, Designer Contracts, has announced two senior promotions and welcomed a new logistics manager to the business.Simon Westley has joined the company as logistics manager at its central distribution facility in Kettering; Simon Lovett has been promoted from senior contracts [...]