Eye on Furniture
Balmoral... Furniture Solutions For Business and Home
Joint Managing Directors of Balmoral Furniture, Paul Moffett & Stephen Shaw.
If you’ve stayed in a hotel almost anywhere around the British Isles, or gone to school or university (and that covers most of us), then the odds are that you’ve slept in a bed, sat in a chair, at a desk or around a table made by a company on the outskirts of Belfast.
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offett & Sons Limited, best known under its Balmoral brand name, ranks as one of the quieter success stories of the Northern Ireland economy. It’s been around since 1920 and has passed through the generations of the Moffett family. “We’ve always been a family-run business but we’re also a business which has recorded continuous
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growth through the generations,” says Paul Moffett, the latest member of the Moffett family to occupy the Managing Director’s office at Balmoral’s sprawling 18-acre complex at Seymour Hill on the outskirts of Dunmurry. The company’s 200,000 sq.ft. manufacturing complex and 12,000 sq.ft of showroom space lie hidden from the main Belfast-Lisburn
road, but it’s a busy place with the manufacture of mattresses, beds, desks, tables, seats and other items of furniture underway and a fleet of HGV’s loading up to take contract furniture to customers all over the UK and Ireland. The company recently completed a contract for the New Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex which saw Balmoral fitting and installing their bespoke office solutions over a phased period of 4 weeks. During the busy planning period Balmoral worked closely alongside designers and contractors to ensure the strict deadlines were met for the office furniture installation. The variety of furniture produced
by Balmoral, to satisfy the requirements of the different areas within this building, is as impressive as it is functional. Large open planned offices saw a break from the traditional with quirky ‘S’ bend desking and management pod’s, together with the modern trend of acoustic seating that are all sourced from their Dunmurry factory. Administration offices, staff meeting rooms and children’s waiting areas were all enhanced by Balmoral’s creative modern furniture. The range of skills on display, and the range of furniture being produced at Dunmurry, is impressive. A current contract with the Jury’s hotel group sees Balmoral products