Clearview North January 2014 - Issue 146 | Page 16

INDUSTRYNEWS

HELP US CREATE THE PERFECT FIT FOR
BUSINESS SEMINAR PROGRAMME FOR 2014
Tell Us What You Want To
Know!
The FIT Show FIT for Business
seminar programme is designed
to provide everyone attending its
free seminars to walk away with
ideas and knowledge that they
can put to work immediately to
benefit their business.
This year’s programme had
its clear winners: Paul Clifton’s
sales seminars were an obvious
favourite, with standing room

only for those wanting to learn
how to convert 8 out of 10 leads;
and anything to do with CE
Marking got the attention of
dozens of delegates as this key
legislation comes into play.
For 2014 we want every session
in the 3 day programme to be
packed so that everyone attending
can put what they learn to work
immediately: one idea alone could
be worth the visit to The FIT
Show!

We believe the best way to
put together the perfect FIT for
Business seminar programme is
to ask the industry what it wants
to know more about, what issues
are of primary interest – what you
can benefit most from.
Simply visit The FIT Show
web site at www.fitshow.co.uk/
seminars and fill in and submit
the form. We will do what we
can to include your idea in the
programme.

CLADDING FIRM IN ADMINISTRATION
Cheshire based building envelope specialist
Red Architectural is in administration.
The firm’s production and fabrication
division, Red Aluminium, is also now in the
hands of administrators from Deloitte.
Red’s existing contracts are expected to be
traded-out within weeks as the business is
wound-down. More than 50 jobs are believed
to be at risk.
A Deloitte spokeswoman said: “Deloitte
has been appointed as administrator to Red
Architectural Ltd and Red Aluminium Ltd.
“We are currently advising staff and
customers, and will provide further
information in due course.

“However, at this stage we do anticipate that
trading out existing contracts will be short
term only prior to an orderly wind down of the
business.”
Red has worked with a host of main
contractors including Mace, Bowmer &
Kirkland, Balfour Beatty, Carillion and
Wates.
Latest results show the company had a
turnover of £29.7m for the year to March 2013
when it made a pre-tax profit of £47,000.
Construction credit reference agency Top
Service said it had received reports from 14
firms recently experiencing problems getting
paid by Red.

Source: Constructionenquirer.com

TO THE RESCUE!
Traditional Christmas cards are usually
the order of the day throughout the festive
month of December, but at Synseal it was
more about arrow keys and fun-filled evil
trolls thanks to the system supplier’s online
game “Christmas Rescue”.
In 2012 Synseal took the bold decision to
send seasonal greetings via an online game
instead of posting hundreds of boring old
Christmas cards. Known as “Fat Santa”, the
entertaining pudding-munching game proved
to be a huge success throughout December
with many players across the industry
competing with one another, each of them
trying to rise to the summit of the Top 100

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victorious, racking up an awesome total of
162,250 points and beating over 600 posted
scores along the way.

‘Fun-filled evil trolls’

league table – published online, this pecking
order changed constantly due to the game’s
popularity. Nick Trueman of Direct Window
Supplies in Swindon eventually proved

In 2013 things were a little bit different.
While league table bragging rights remained
the same, the game itself changed. Titled
“Christmas Rescue”, evil trolls imprisoned
Rudolf, Fairy and Santa, requiring one of
Santa’s trusty elves to navigate through moving
candy canes and hat-popping snowmen, all
the while collecting Christmas puddings for
energy along the way.

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