just slate company presentation
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The Just Slate Company PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• 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