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Based in Cookstown, County Tyrone, BA Components is a major manufacturer of vinyl-wrapped doors and accessories for the UK and Irish furniture industry. The company has been working with ArtiCAD for four years, and is an enthusiastic member of the ArtiCAD Supplier Partnership Programme. David Caulfield, Sales & Marketing Manager, BA Components: “We have innovated constantly and ArtiCAD has stayed with us. Our innovations have been matched by new features in their software which ensure that the true quality and breadth of our portfolio is accurately portrayed for our customers.”
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BathCAD is the ultimate computer aided sales tool for bathrooms – designed to make selling easier. This Case Study describes the difference that BathCAD has made to three separate bathroom businesses.
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A member of ArtiCAD’s Supplier Partnership Programme, Crestwood is one of the UK’s leading distributors of kitchen components. A recent major development for Crestwood has been the introduction of The Sourcebook website www.thesourcebookdirect.co.uk, which provides a comprehensive, easy to use online store for the small kitchen market. With 95%+ stock availability, The Sourcebook offers kitchen designers and installers a stunning selection of items at extremely competitive margins....
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Having been established for more than thirty years, Aldershot-based DR Cooker Hoods has seen dramatic changes not only in the variety of products available, but also in the status of the once-lowly cooker hood. John Richardson, marketing manager, DR Cooker Hoods: “The ability to display our products is tremendously important and we always encourage our customers – who include kitchen retailers and studios, as well as electrical goods retailers – to do this in their showrooms. Now with ArtiCAD, it is possible for designers to really do justice to their work and show the strong visual statement that an Elica cooker hood can make within a kitchen design.”
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Founded in 1981 in Leicestershire, family owned and run East Coast is one of the UK's leading suppliers of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom components and fittings to the trade. East Coast's full range of doors for kitchens and bedrooms is now available in ArtiCAD-Pro design software.
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The decision to include Preston-based Fern Doors’ industry leading doors in the ArtiCAD-Pro catalogue was an essential component in Stephen Ward’s aggressive growth strategy for the company, which has already seen a trebling of turnover over the course of the last three years.Stephen Ward: “ArtiCAD-Pro is a fantastic package and for any retailer in the KBB industry, it must be an essential part of their operation.”
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Based in Hinckley, Leicestershire on two sites, Hammonds is one of the UK's top three manufacturers of fitted furniture and is listed in the Sunday Times as a Top 100 profit track company. Andy Bowen, Business Analyst at Hammonds said, "We were impressed by the service offered by ArtiCAD's development and support teams and this was a key factor in our decision to go with their software."
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Heaven & Stubbs has established a strong reputation for well-made, inspiringly designed and carefully specified bespoke furniture. Some 70% of the company?s annual turnover is derived from kitchens whilst the remaining 30% comes from studies and wood-panelled libraries. ?It used to take me a week to produce five kitchen designs. Now, using ArtiCAD the same number can be done in a day.? - Howard Stubbs, Heaven & Stubbs
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The craftsmanship and expertise of Hepplewhite Fitted Bedrooms has now been combined with the power and quality of ArtiCAD-Pro design software to deliver the perfect bedroom partnership. "ArtiCAD-Pro turns a customer brief into reality. It encompasses all the different options in our extensive product portfolio and makes it very simple for a retailer to sell a Hepplewhite solution." - Mick Sumner, Hepplewhite Fitted Furniture
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Leading manufacturer and supplier to the fitted furniture industry, Hills Panel Products (HPP) has joined ArtiCAD’s Supplier Partnership Programme.
The complete range of HPP doors is now available as a comprehensive graphics catalogue within ArtiCAD-Pro.
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"In my view there is no better sales aid than ArtiCAD-Pro and I can't imagine working without it." - Eugene Stevenson, The Kitchen Cupboard.
"Using ArtiCAD-Pro to produce high quality designs and plans, plus detailed pricing means that we win 90% of all the business that we quote for, which is a phenomenally high success rate." - Dave Clue, DJ Clue & Son.
"We produce a bespoke product for our clients and therefore needed a system that would be easy to edit and to learn - after all, we are kitchen designers not computer experts." - Andrew Nichols, Andrew Nichols Interiors.
"I have tried lots of other products, and without doubt ArtiCAD is the fastest and easiest." - Hans Snajdr, ABCD Kitchen Design.
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 Leading property developer, Weston Homes plc, is at the forefront of innovative marketing techniques with its adoption of the i-Choose interactive customer presentation product from ArtiCAD’s Live Technologies portfolio. i-Choose has been installed in the sales & marketing suite at Weston Homes’ Morello Quarter development in Basildon. |
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Hettich UK is a leading supplier of quality furniture hardware products for the kitchen industry. The Hettich group, based in Germany, has a turnover of over £600 million and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide.
The company's entire range of kitchen based drawer storage - including four drawer finishes, runners and internal accessories - is now available within the industry-leading ArtiCAD-Pro software as the first part of Hettich's membership of the ArtiCAD Supplier Partnership Programme.
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Welshpool-based Kenton Jones specialises in the design and manufacture of handcrafted kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. Every kitchen is unique and is made to order for each customer. "It was essential that our design software could accurately depict the kitchens that we build for our customers." - Roger Parsons, Kenton Jones
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ArtiCAD-Pro was installed over six years ago for Poole-based kitchen designer, Kitchen Elegance. Now AriCAD-Pro's sister product BathCAD is in constant use for the recently formed Bathroom Elegance.
"It's a competetive world out there. We need to make ourselves stand out from the crowd and in line with our ambition to be the top kitchen design company in the region, the combination of our long-standing reputation, our showroom and a powerful CAD product are all helping us to achieve this."
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Launched in 2007 by Unibase, the largest manufacturer of kitchens in Ireland, Kook is a supplier of complete kitchen solutions to the Irish developer and retail market place.
"ArtiCAD-Pro is a vital part of our offering to the marketplace, helping us to clearly differentiate our solutions. We are also early adopters of the new ArtiCAD Live Technologies, i-Choose and i-Design, which will make the Kook experience even more outstanding for our customers." - Garry Hutton, managing director.
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Newham Council in East London, under the aegis of its specialist property management operation, Newham Homes, is using ArtiCAD kitchen design software to help it achieve the government's Decent Homes 2010 standard.
"with ArtiCAD we can produce individual plans, fully coloured designs and bird's eye views while the tenants watch. It's good for tenant relations and, of course, it is much more professional." - Karen Collinson, property inspector and kitchen designer |
 Planet Bathrooms, Bedrooms & Kitchens (formerly known as Bathroom Planet) has installed the ArtiCAD-Pro design product to provide its customers with a more professional design service and to improve its competitive edge.
The choice of ArtiCAD-Pro represents the first time the company has used a CAD product. Darren Thomson at Planet: “When the company focused solely on bathrooms, we were able to rely on a very basic VR design product to produce plan views. However, with our move into supplying bedrooms and kitchens, we needed to be able to produce much more professional 3D designs. |
With a head office in Peterborough and six specialist showrooms, Premier Kitchens and Bedrooms is the largest independent retailer of its kind in the region.
"Although there are more and more CAD systems coming onto the market, we have never been tempted to move away from ArtiCAD. In all the years that we've been using it, we have never had a problem. But perhaps most important is the strength of the relationship we have developed with ArtiCAD. They have always been extremely helpful and are always there for us ' so why change" - Alison Forsythe, Premier Kitchens & Bedrooms
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Over a decade on from their first use of a CAD system, Prentice Furniture is extending its support of ArtiCAD products for the design of kitchens, bedrooms, studies and bathrooms.
"With ArtiCAD, there is absolutely no sense of being constrained by a CAD system. Designers can produce exactly what they want, and the software will support them all the way." - Phil Pritchett, Prentice Furniture |
Ranked in the top twenty builders merchants in the UK, RGB Building Supplies has eleven branches in the South West of England, employs two hundred and fifty people.
"The quality and depth of the catalogues that ArtiCAD has built for us is far in excess of anything we have used in the past. Their willingness to change and update these catalogues, which often involves a considerable amount of work, is superb." - Mark Gosney, RGB Building Supplies |
Founded some thirty years ago, Tecaz is a leading supplier of kitchens and bathrooms to the general public in the North East of England. The company prides itself on offering a huge choice of good designs at realistic prices from major manufacturers of doors and associated products.
"Using ArtiCAD to produce very visual, realistic designs, we no longer have situations where customers have, for example, expected to find a wine rack, only to be disappointed when the kitchen has been fitted and it is not where they thought it would be. For us, ArtiCAD has dramatically reduced the aggravation of customers thinking they've bought something which they haven't." - Ken Whyte, Tecaz |
TKC (TK Components), a leading specialist supplier to the kitchen and bedroom trade, has joined the ArtiCAD Supplier Partnership scheme.
Brian Wade, Product Development and Marketing Manager at TKC said, "... our customers showed that there was a strong demand for our doors to be included in a design software system," and that "... this will make it easier for them to base their kitchen and bedroom designs on our doors." |
Uform, one of the UK's largest manufacturers and distributors of kitchen doors and components have formed a new partnership with ArtiCAD.
This new partnership with ArtiCAD, according to Eamon Donelly, Managing Director of Uform, "Is a key element in our ongoing commitment to enhancing the customer experience." | |
