Innovation Takes Lancashire's Forrest & Jones Into New League, Says MD Gareth

PRESTON, U.K. - July 16, 2013 - PRLog -- INNOVATION has been the key to continued growth for Preston-based magnetic wall-covering pioneers Forrest & Jones despite the nation’s on-going economic challenges, according to the company’s founder and Managing Director Gareth Jones.

While others have cut-back and concentrated on steering themselves through the economic slow-down, the directors at Forrest & Jones have launched three new and innovative product ranges that have caught the attention – and the imaginations of designers.

‘Magalomania’, a unique magnetic design system that can transform a wall into an aesthetically pleasing surface, that is also an effective and flexible education tool, is aimed at children’s nurseries, schools, playbarns and healthcare centres.

SwitchScene is a new magnetic display system using the latest innovations in removable and re-usable magnetic graphics which has sparked excitement in the advertising and retail sectors.

Seamless Wallpaper is a PVC free, tough, polyester woven fabric that can be produced up to five metres high and by any length required and which boasts a pin-sharp print quality. It is proving to be a hit with designers who don’t want to see the joins.

“We have a wealth of experience in the wallpaper and wall coverings business,” said MD Mr Jones, speaking from his office in Garstang Road, Broughton. “My fellow director Mark Forrest and I have been involved in the industry for many years, so we really do know what this business is about.

“That’s why our team has been able to come up with new ideas like ‘Magalomania’ and ‘SwitchScene’ because in addition to having the technical know-how to create the product, we also understand the market place well enough to predict whether there will be sufficient demand.

“Magalomania has already been taken up by the Lake District National Park. A Magalomania wall has been created at the South Lakes Visitor Centre at Brockhole and SwitchScene has been snapped up by a number of customers across the North West.”

Mark Forrest, who later this year will celebrate four decades in the wallpaper and wall covering industry said: “We are so confident in our new products that we have invested heavily in new state-of-the-art printing machinery here at our base in Broughton. We really are ready for more growth.”

Gareth said he believed that early signs of an increasing sense of positivity in the business community would continue.

“Here at Forrest & Jones, we’ve got every faith in our new range of products,” he added. “We’re ready and fully prepared for growing demand.”

For further information about Forrest & Jones click onto: www.forrestandjones.com.