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New strategy, new products
New positions and appointments will help Robert Horne provide a product for every application and solution for every business need
Following a period of consolidation, Robert Horne Sign & Display is unveiling a new business strategy and new products.
Divisional director, Sign & Display, Paul French, said: “Following the amalgamation of three different operating divisions, Robert Horne Sign & Display is now the largest supplier to the sign and display sectors.
Over the last several months we have spent a lot of time enhancing our material and hardware portfolios. For example, one of the new products we will be introducing at Sign UK is a cost-effective range of self-adhesive vinyl from LG Chem, which complements our current Avery Dennison range to provide customers with the widest possible degree of choice.”
French has created new positions and made appointments to help the company meet its objective of provide a product for every application and solution for every business need. Steve Lister becomes divisional business development manager, Sign & Display; Paul Hutson becomes national business manager; Jamie Manifold is plastics business manager; Tom Foote and Ian Simister have management responsibility for key accounts; and Terry Cattle becomes the new merchandising head Sign & Display.
In other news, The Robert Horne Group has launched a Carbon Policy, designed to reduce its contribution to climate change and provide better information about its products’ carbon footprints.
Commercial director, Bob Latham, said: “Firstly, our Carbon Policy must be seen in the context of a wider Sustainable Development Programme that Robert Horne is committed to.
In other words, it’s a sub-set of a broad range of measures established over a number of years by us to reduce our supply lines’ impact on the environment.
“Second, this carbon policy is designed to be intensely practical by committing us to an order of priorities. Topping the list is a commitment and action plan to continue to physically reduce our own carbon emissions, from logistics and transport through to office running. Next, is a commitment to working with suppliers to do the same on products supplied to us. Lastly, we will increasingly offer customers the ability to carbon-offset product manufacturing emissions and then only to Government accredited Gold Standards.
“It’s a huge programme of work that I am sure will take months and possibly years to fully deliver, given the complexity of supply chains but one we are committed to getting right.”
