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SHREWSBURY DEPOT RELOCATES - 12/06/10

Bromborough Paints continues in its expansion plans with a new store just yards from its previous location. Shrewsbury has been a remarkable success for the company since it opened its doors on The Battlefield Industrial Estate four years ago with the unit exceeding all growth expectations. The reason behind the success has been the broad range of products carried by the company coupled with a team that have many years of experience in the paint and wallcoverings trade, and who are able to offer expert, impartial advice to our customers. To sum it up, customers have been coming to the Bromborough store again and again, because they know they will get the right product for the right job with a level of customer service that is unsurpassed in the area

The new unit which is double the size of the old one, is able to carry an even larger range of paints together with a wallpaper showroom that allows customers to browse in comfort, with help and advice always at hand for colour and design choices. 

BROMBOROUGH PAINTS BACK ON TRACK! - 10.05.10

Bromborough Paints suffered a major fire last week that was attended by six fire engines and which caused damage estimated to run into several hundreds of thousands of pounds. Despite the tragedy, the family owned, local business which is the largest independent distributor of paints and wallcoverings in the north of England, was open for business as normal the following morning.

The fire that completely devastated the two storey retail showroom on Village Road, Bromborough, meant that staff had to hurriedly open a temporary shop to service the needs of local decorators and retail customers.

Neville Wellings the managing director praised staff for their efforts in getting the business back to normality within such a short period of time describing the attitude of staff as being like the ‘Dunkirk spirit’.
Neville emphasised that whilst the retail showroom will be out of action for at least two months the large stocks held by the company in its warehouses meant that its distribution business was unaffected, and that all the normal ranges of paint and wallcoverings were available as usual to its customers. He added that Bromborough Paints was rather like an iceberg, people only see a small part of our business and don’t realise just how big a company we really are behind the scenes, with ten depots from Shrewsbury right up to Kendal in the Lakes.

The fire was caused by an electrical fault.

CHESTER IS ON THE MOVE– 26.10.09

October 26th saw another stage in the expansion of Bromborough Paints with the relocation of the Chester depot to a larger, purpose built store on Chester Trade park (CH1 4LT) between Plumbase and Screwfix direct. The move further establishes the company as the leading independent paint and wallpaper distributor in the northwest of England.

The store stocks all major brands of paints, wallcoverings and a large and comprehensive range of decorators accessories. The sales team includes an experienced group of paint specialists able to offer impartial technical advice, as well as arranging free delivery within the area.

BROMBOROUGH PAINTS STAFF RAISING MONEY FOR CANCER RESEARCH. 05.07.09

For the second consecutive year a team of Bromborough Paints staff completed ‘Race for Life’ raising money for cancer research. 

The five ladies completed a five kilometre walk around Birkenhead Park on the Wirral along with over 5,000 other competitors, and raised over six hundred pounds for the charity.

The ‘race’ started in ideal conditions, which in the tradition of a typical English summer deteriorated rapidly into a downpour, a thorough soaking failed to dampen the girl’s spirits. 

A NEW DEPOT FOR BROMBOROUGH SERVING THE TRADE AND PUBLIC IN LANCASTER. 15.06.09

As part of our expansion plans, we are pleased to announce the opening of a new Bromborough Paints depot serving the trade and public in Lancaster. Situated on the Lake Enterprise Park just off Caton Road, this new unit is ideally positioned to serve the areas decorators and DIYers with a full range of paints wallcoverings and decorators accessories.

Bromborough already has a strong presence in the region with well established depots in Padiham to the east, Kendal Paints to the north and Liverpool in the south. Richard Robinson, the manager of the new Lancaster depot, said ‘We are delighted to be able to offer the Bromborough Paints service to our established customers as well as new clients who can experience our unrivalled levels of customer service and the broadest selection of products offered by a truly independent paint merchant’

The new depot is the third Bromborough Paints unit to be opened in the last twelve months and a further depot is scheduled to be opened soon in Chester. Managing Director Neville Wellings said ‘This series of openings is an indication of the success of the company in what for many companies is a difficult time. Our commitment to growth, is based upon our success as the north’s leading independent paint and wallcoverings distributor.

A NEW DEPOT FOR BROMBOROUGH SERVING THE TRADE AND PUBLIC IN NORTHWICH– 05.05.09

May the 5th saw another stage in the expansion of Bromborough Paints with the closure of the Frank Gregory Winsford depot and the opening of a larger, purpose built store in Northwich. The move further establishes the company as the leading independent paint and wallpaper distributor in the northwest of England.
Situated in Navigation Road CW7 1BE the new unit has ample free parking for trade and retail customers and is easily accessible from all directions.
Managed by Lynn McCulloch, the Bromborough Paints Northwich store stocks all major brands of paints, wallcoverings and a large and comprehensive range of decorators accessories. The sales team includes an experienced group of paint specialists able to offer impartial technical advice, as well as arranging free delivery within the area.
Managing Director of Bromborough Paints Neville Wellings, commented at the opening of the store “The Northwich branch is, following our recent new store opening in Liverpool, the latest in a series of store openings for our company, additional stores will soon be opening in Chester and Lancaster, a move which reflects our ambitions to service all our customers within the north of England with a first class product offering, competitive pricing and unrivalled customer service”

BUILDER MERCHANT NEWS - 22.12.08

Bromborough Paint & Building Supplies Ltd have made a strategic shift in the direction of its business. Our builder merchant business at Eastham has been sold to Beers Timber & Building Supplies Ltd with effect from 22nd December 2008.

Bromborough Paints believes that the sale of its builder merchant business at Eastham is in the best interest of our staff and customers alike. We believe that Beers are, like Bromborough Paints a long established family business with a similar philosophy to ourselves in the way we have conducted our relationship with our customers and suppliers over the last sixty years.

Bromborough Paints will continue to develop its wholesale paint and wallcoverings business and energetically expand its decorator merchant network. Our Chester depot is being relocated to a larger unit and new branches in Northwich and Lancaster will be opened early in the new year giving us a network of 10 decorator merchant outlets from Shrewsbury in the Midlands to Kendal in the North.

HARRY WELLINGS 1912-2007 - 14.5.07

Founder of Bromborough Paints and Building Supplies, Harry Wellings passed away after a short illness on 14 th May, he was 95. Very much a self made man, Harry served his time as a joiner in the building trade in the late 1920’s, before forming his own Company building houses, including his own.

The war years interrupted Harrys progress, being initially in reserved occupation repairing bomb damaged houses in Birkenhead, before being called up in 1943 and being posted to France shortly after D-Day.

In 1948 Harry founded Bromborough Paints and Building Supplies and it was through sheer hard work and determination in those early days that the business was able to grow and mature into a thriving Builders Merchant at its Eastham site and to become the North West’s leading independent paint and wallpaper distributor from its Bromborough and Abergele sites, delivering daily to retail outlets from Aberystwyth to the Scottish Borders.

In recent years Harry was still a guiding hand to the current MD, his son Neville as the Company further developed its Decorators Merchant side of the business opening branches at Padiham, Kendal, Chester, Winsford and most recently Shrewsbury.

As well as being an astute businessman, Harry was a season ticket holder at Everton for almost 50 years and an enthusiastic golfer where he held the roles of Captain as well as Captain of the Liverpool Society of Golf Captains and in 2000 Harry had the honour of following three Lord Leverhulmes as the fourth President of Bromborough Golf Club in its 100 year history.

Harry was still calling into work on a daily basis up to early last year and will be sorely missed by his family and all at the Company he founded which will be celebrating its 60 th anniversary at the end of this year.

 

Five-a-side soccer team suffers agony in Millennium Stadium final - 1.4.07
A FIVE-a-side football team from Bromborough suffered heartache in the final of a national competition at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.

Bromborough Paints Building Supplies team drew 0-0 with Barking-based Lyndhurst & Lane Ltd in the Johnstone’s Paint National Five-a-Side Competition - but lost on the number of corners conceded. Time constraints meant there could be no penalty shoot-out.

MAGNIFICENT: Goalkeeper Chris Beaumont receives the Man of the Match award from Neville Wellings, Managing Director of Bromborough Paints.

Other team members, back row, left to right: Martin Hartley, Nick Earp, Andy Denton, Chris Beaumont. Front: Adam Crosby, Paul Scott, Matthew Mowat

 The game was played prior to the Johnstone’s Paints Football League Trophy Final between Doncaster Rovers and Bristol Rovers.

Said Bromborough Paints skipper Adam Crosby: “Although we lost in the final, it was a fantastic experience to be one of the very last football teams to play on the turf of the Millennium Stadium - now we want to make double history by making it to next year’s final at the new Wembley Stadium.”

Bromborough goalkeeper Chris Beaumont was named Man of the Match. Neville Wellings, Managing Director of Bromborough Paints, commented: “Chris played an absolute blinder of a match - it was his magnificent saves that kept the score to 0-0.”