10years_blog_thumbA decade manufacturing and installing high-performance factory finished engineered Timber Windows, Doors and Roof Lanterns.

This year marks ten years of Stanbrook and Nicholson and a lot has changed since our humble beginnings. Check out our timeline of our first decade of trade.

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2005 – Ben Stanbrook and Simon Nicholson create a partnership

Ben and Simon met during school whilst both studying joinery. Once they left school, they starting trading out of a small workshop that they sub-let.

 

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2006 – Stanbrook and Nicholson formed

Stanbrook and Nicholson became a Ltd company and took on a small unit at Bramble Farm where we started building our product offering and client base.

 

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2006-2010 – Continued to perfect our skills and product offering

S&N continued doing general joinery for customers; making products such as stairs and furniture.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-042010 – Acquired Windowline

This gave us the opportunity to expand the service that Stanbrook and Nicholson could offer clients and we started specialising in window and door manufacture.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-052011 – Expanded our premises

We took on extra premises at Bramble Farm to deal with our increase in demand. We started fully factory finishing all of our products.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-062012 – Started selling aluminium products

This includes windows, bi-fold doors and roof lanterns.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-072013 – Opened a 2000sq ft showroom

This allowed us to show off our premium products first hand, with experts on site to give customers bespoke advice.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-082014 – Staff levels increased to 18

Due to our ever increasing demand, we continued expanding our workforce through our very own Stanbrook and Nicholson Apprenticeship Scheme.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-092015 – Offer accepted on new factory premises

Once again, expansion was necessary to servicing the increase in demand, leading to us purchasing a purpose built, state of the art factory.

 

sn10-year-anniversary-102016 – Celebrated our 10 year anniversary

We relocated to our 20,000sq ft state of the art premises with brand new equipment such as a CNC router. Our full service offering is now all housed under one roof.