just slate company presentation

• Acquired by Donny Carstairs - 2006 • Product range - 4

• Sales - £95,000 pa

• Total Staff - 5

• sales agents - 0

• Current position• Product Range - 35

• Sales - £1,200,000 pa

• Total Staff - 25

• Sales Agents - 6

• Just Slate products are:

• Contemporary & modern in design

• A lifestyle purchase

• On-trend, successfully avoiding fashionable

• Equally at home in gifts or tableware

• Infused with a Scottish Heritage

• Handcrafted with attention to detail

Contemporary Style, Natural Character

Points of distinction

• Contemporary design

• Handcrafted in Scotland

• Stylish packaging

• Care and information cards with each product

• Full foam backing

• Foodsafe laquer on certain products

Tableware

Homeware Gift

Entertaining

Accessories

Packaging

Bespoke

• Department stores

• Independent retailers– Gift Shops

– Cookshops

– Garden centres

– Farm shops

• Catering suppliers

• Hotels and restaurants

In total we supply to over 540 trade customers

Donny CarstairsMD

Alan ThomsonDirector of Operations

Colin CarstairsProduction

Maggie JusticePurchasing

Jen ThainSupply Chain

Eleanor HeggieFinancial Controller

Ian CarstairsShipping

Emma CarstairsClaire MathiesonYasmein EdgarDesigners

Maria CoxMarketing &Export Executive Naomi Rendell, Export xecutive

Claire CottrellUK SalesManager

Jamie RussellBrand Manager

Team leadersKlaus, Lynn &Marchin andProduction Staff

Kate McNeeAdministrator

Jack MooreMaster AgentEngland

Mhairi ScottAgent Scotland

Seamus McCarthyAgent Ireland

Fiona WyattGeraldine FinnanPaul MerchantAgents - England

Maria CoxMarketing & Export Executive Naomi Rendell, Export Executive

• 11 New products launched October 2011

• 8 New products to launch in 2012

• Expansion to France and USA in 2012

• New website and online sales push

• Marketing and PR investment

• 8 national Trade Shows

• 7 national retail shows

• Investment in production facilities