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The France Show 2017

On Thursday 26th January Jay and Paul departed Harleston and headed for Olympia. Roy had already left earlier with his vehicle loaded with all that was required for Hamiltons to set up our stand for The France Show 2017.

Hamiltons have been exhibiting at this show for the past five years and really reaped the benefits from the 2016 show receiving 35 enquires which resulted in us quoting on £75k worth of moves and securing just over £50k worth of business!

The exhibition opened on the Friday with Matt and Tracy taking over from Paul and Jay on Saturday late morning through to Sunday evening.

This year we managed to increase the enquiries we came away with by 4 coming back to HQ with 39 opportunities to quote on.

Thanks The France Show… We shall see you next year!

Celebrating 12 years at Harleston…..

On 25th February 2005 Hamiltons moved from the far from luxurious unit at Braiseworth, which we had occupied for the previous five years, to our current premises at Harleston.

The Braiseworth depot we left in 2005

We said goodbye to Braiseworth on Friday night but it was a tall order to get the new offices painted and decorated, the IT transferred and office furniture moved over the weekend.

The offices at Braiseworth

So it was all hands on deck and Hamiltons were up and running on Monday morning. However it wasn’t such an easy undertaking to move the warehouse across which took considerably longer with our fleet of four trucks!

Two of our three vehciles in 2001

We only had approximately 100 containers those days compared to the 1000 plus we have today and to make things worse we had to move a mountain of carpet remnants too.

It will be interesting to see what the next twelve years will bring!