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Introducing The Horizon Group
February 2012 saw the long standing signage manufacturer, Horizon Signs, and education sector specialist, Horizon BSF, merge alongside a number of other companies to form The Horizon Group in an effort of deliver a diverse but cost effective range of products to their expanding client rosters.
Read More Top of pageTalking Signs
For quite some time Horizon Signs has been supplying our talking signs to the healthcare and transport industries. These easy to install and simple to maintain products are proving an invaluable asset where our clients are looking to offer an easy way to pass on information.
Read More Top of pageWorking In Real Time
Working in partnership with East Ayrshire County Council and Vix ACIS, the leading provider of intelligent transport products, Horizon Signs has developed a unique bus stop pole solution.
Battery powered or charged using the mains, the sign displays realtime information and is mounted onto an anti-graffiti bus stop pole.
Read More Top of pageA Fitting Accreditation For Horizon Signs
Huddersfield based sign manufacturing specialist, Horizon Signs, has been investing in the
development of its workforce, sending 4 of its employees on a course to gain their CSCS cards which allow them to fit the signs for clients in addition to manufacturing them.
CSCS, the Construction Skills Certification Scheme, was set up to help the construction industry to improve quality and reduce accidents. CSCS cards are increasingly demanded as proof of occupational competence by contractors, public and private clients. They cover hundreds of different occupations within the general construction industry, including craft, operative, technical, supervisory and management roles.
Many projects now demand full compliance with the CSCS scheme as it allows clients to ensure both trade competence and health & safety requirements.
4 of Horizons employees have received CSCS cards after completing the relevant courses to the highest standards. As the company has won many contracts recently to supply signs to schools and councils across the UK, it enables Horizon to be in control from beginning to end, manufacture to fitting, and to work with the clients to fit in with their requirements and deadlines.
While there are many courses for tradespeople and a few designed for construction supervisors and managers, it has proved difficult to align them both with the national occupational competence standards. CSCS is increasingly finding ways to meet the very diverse staff development needs of construction companies and as a result of its staff gaining CSCS cards, Horizon can now offer a wider service to its customers.
Ross Ball, Director at Horizon Signs, commented: “Having four of the workforce with CSCS cards gives our clients’ greater confidence in our employees’ competence and health and safety awareness. It has added another element to our already highly skilled team and is helping us to continue to secure more contracts – from small projects right through to government funded schemes such as Building Schools for the Future – as we can now complete projects from start to finish.”
Read More Top of pageUnique Partnership Passes 15 Year Mark
Unique Partnership Passes 15 Year Mark
J C Decaux is one of the world leaders in outdoor advertising solutions with a presence in all areas of the market – street furniture, billboards, transport and digital. It has worked in partnership with Horizon for over 15 years, building a strong relationship based on quality and service.
Horizon Signs has supplied JC Decaux with products including timetable cases across cities such as Manchester, Hull, Nottingham and Lincoln and the company has continued to increase its orders with Horizon, remaining one of its biggest customers.
Read More Top of pageHorizon Continues To Grow
After investing in a new powder coating works and setting up a sister company to focus on the education market, Horizon has announced the appointment of a National Accounts Manager.
Julie Charlton has joined the team in this new role. She has over 10 years experience working in sales as an Account Manager for blue chip companies such as Wrigleys and will work on key accounts at Horizon, overseeing the entire process from order through to completion.
Julie said of her appointment: “I’m really looking forward to taking on this new challenge, getting to know key customers and helping to drive the business forward. Horizon is such a versatile and dynamic company which is growing all the time and it will be great to be a part of that.”
Read More Top of pageSigns of a New Generation
Horizon is bringing the younger generation into the workforce and training them up on the welding and fabrications side of the business.
The majority of Horizon’s work is based around creating bespoke signs and fabrication products for its customers. Those who have just left school or college bring with them fresh new ideas and skills thus driving this side of the company forwards. Danny Templeman is an example of this, he joined the company when he was 17 years old and after 4 years of training him on the welding and fabrications side of the business, he is now one a key member of the Horizon team.
Horizon recently used this to their advantage with a job completed for Acis, a Real Time company, which specialise in providing solutions of real time location based intelligence systems for bus stops and train stations. Acis approached Horizon because they were having problems with vandalism affecting some of their units so they required a more substantial casing. With that brief in mind, Horizon produced a unit that houses their monitors securely, this proved a great success with Acis placing more orders.
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