Signed, sealed and installed – our year in review

December is upon us but our team isn’t slowing down just yet. Before the install team rolls out of the shop with the last project of the year, we’re taking five minutes to stop, look back and reflect on the year we’ve had.

2025 has flown by faster than a fitter on a Friday, and it’s only right to give a huge thank you to everyone who’s worked with us and supported us this year.

Here are some of our highlights of 2025.

Growing our team in size and capabilities

We started 2025 as a team of 4. Now we’re 12 strong.

Our capabilities have grown, too, covering skills in manufacturing, project management, fitting, processes and more.

We’ve also prioritised requalifying for three key ISO qualifications (in quality management, environmental management and health and safety), to make sure our team creds are up to the mark to tackle even the biggest jobs.

Moving on up

In June we moved to a bigger and better premises, giving us the space to keep on expanding. We celebrated by investing in some really cool kit and a new, bigger vehicle, giving us even more capabilities to deliver on your vision.

Wayfinding for work and play

Whether for weekday or weekend plans, in 2025 we supported a wide range of clients improve their external wayfinding.

Cressex and Globe business parks in Buckinghamshire both needed support to improve site wide wayfinding across the estates. We’ve also completed three phases of site-wide wayfinding across the Castlefield Estate in central Manchester.

But wayfinding isn’t just for workers – this year we helped two unique hotel and wedding venues with high-end, bespoke external and internal wayfinding signage. Carefully choosing the right materials that fitted with their luxury brands, such as VeroMetal^TM, our signage helped guests feel they were somewhere special while pointing them in the right direction.

Supporting the north’s restaurants

From the biggest (Royal Nawaab) to the boutique (Noshi), our high-end work extended beyond wedding venues to restaurants this year.

Royal Nawaab claims the crown for being the largest Pakistani restaurant in the world. We’re no experts on how it fares in the world rankings, but we can confirm that this place is truly gargantuan. We installed hanging signs above the huge buffet servery counter, plus numerous other wayfinding signs to prevent restaurant goers getting lost in this cavernous restaurant.

And our signage for Noshi oozed luxury by using gold leaf (really!) to express this high-end pan-Asian restaurant’s brand, plus a totally unique internally illuminated lift using vinyls and fluorescent lights.

Totting up the high-rise projects

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed working closely with Manchester City Council this year, supporting the estates team to update internal wayfinding signage across its portfolio of residential flats. The latest legislation on fire safety regulations, plus updates in best practice for the use of Braille on signage, mean essential wayfinding across all tall buildings needs to be updated.

We’ve finished the year with another 4 high rise residential flats being retrofitted with new signage this month.

Creative solutions for a creative arts venue

Factory International in Manchester’s city centre provides state of the art flexible performance spaces that can be adapted to suit the brief. But this also means that the bar areas, spread across three floors, also need the same level of flexibility.

We really tested our engineering capabilities on this one, working closely with wayfinding expert Placemarque and in collaboration with structural engineers. We devised a rotating signage solution for the three bars’ menu boards, incorporating vinyls that can be easily peeled off and replaced quickly when menus needed updating.

Repeat business for brilliant clients

2025 was the year we strengthened existing client relationships; a significant proportion of the year’s projects were for existing clients on further phases or additional sites.

With long standing client, Arnold Clark, we supported the fit out of 150 sites this year, both for its main brand plus its associated brands GTG and Central Car Auctions.

And we’ve counted 23 different projects in 2025 for Manchester city centre’s latest flexible shared workspace, Colony.

From the outset, our mission has been to build trusted relationships with our clients, so it’s totally brilliant to be able to reflect on the year and see these positive client relationships go from strength to strength.

Signage for shops of all shapes and sizes

At the start of the year we manufactured and installed smart digital signage for national smoothie brand Boost Juice, partnering with digital companies NowSignage and AllSee Technologies.

The Spring saw us working with high-end fashion brand Represent, One Fine Day Design and PBH Shopfitters Ltd to create a totally bespoke illuminated signage solution for Represent’s flagship store on London’s Oxford Road.

And, to wrap up the year, we’ve recently been instructed by Pro:Direct Sport to deliver a full window wrap installation at its new PD:FC concept store at shopping centre Liverpool ONE, with plenty more to come from this brand in 2026.

Closing out the year with a bang

Finishing out the year, we downed tools this week to support the amazing team at FareShare, one of Manchester’s oldest food redistribution charities. Founded in 1994 by Crisis and Sainsbury’s, its mission is to tackle food poverty by tackling food waste. With nearly 200,000 tonnes of good food going to waste each year in the UK supply chain, the charity seeks to intercept and redirect this to worthy causes in the region.

We helped the team by sorting food parcels received from supermarkets, and then getting out and about in the delivery van to get the food somewhere it could be appreciated rather than wasted.