FEATURE
Expand and Deliver Toomebridge-based Uform Group is on a roll, planning to see revenue grow to almost £100m over the next five years. Eamon Donnelly, CEO, tells Emma Deighan exactly why the 30-year-old kitchen component manufacturer and distributor is right to project such ambitious targets.
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form was founded in 1993 as Oakwood Door Designs Limited by Eamon, his brother Paul, and his late father Eddie, who set a cultural precedent that he says the business still holds at its core today. Over the last 29 years, the company has evolved, outgrowing its original base in Magherafelt to expand its footprint to include an impressive 9-acre 225,000 sq. foot state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution facility in Toomebridge. It has also become the market leader in the supply of kitchen door frontals, with a specific focus on ‘Paint to Order’ in Ireland, and is fast expanding its presence in the UK, which will form part of the planned growth projection it has earmarked over the next five years. Forming part of the Uform Group is also Buncrana-based company Andoras Ltd, which specialises in the manufacturing
of bespoke handcrafted kitchen furniture for the premium end of the market. These products are promoted through the end consumer brand, Aisling Artisan Furniture. Eamon, Group CEO and a former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, reflects: “When we commenced the business dad was very much the leading figure in terms of overseeing sales. He established the values within the business, which are still deeply rooted today. I looked after the strategic element of the business deploying strategies to generate and secure future growth and Paul was primarily operationally focused. “Together we all set the foundations that made the business what it is today.” The business’ core competence is its Paint to Order service which is delivered through automated robotic spray-painting technology and hand spraying equipment. Eamon says the company is now proud to boast the largest painting facility in the industry within the UK and Ireland, enabling them to offer the largest exstock product range in the market with 22
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