Ireland, New Members, Christmas!

The Northern Ireland show was last weekend, and the last show of the end-year events season in the Republic of Ireland is almost here! It’s been an extremely busy season for our Operations Director Phil H, who has been to every show, along with Mark they have travelled far and wide.  The most recent show in Northern Ireland had them joined by Adam and Erika from our Romania office, and it proved to be our most successful yet! With 15 inflatables along with the visitors we had from hirers, leisure centres and local authorities, it was a great chance to see some of our favourite customers and meet some new faces.

We’ve got new members of the Airquee team!

The Lady McIvor hand-picked them herself, loading them up with contents of her car, and making other staff members jump while they think we have a silent guest (I think she is secretly in the spirit of Halloween).

In more serious news, the sales team has grown once more, with the addition of Sol! In the ever growing team Sol has picked up a wealth of information from now-sales-veteran Wayne, and his second in command and no-longer-newest Ollie!

I mentioned the spirit of Halloween earlier, but let’s not forget that the festive season will soon be here! It will be less than 8 weeks until Christmas, so make sure you don’t do my trick and leave it until the last minute. We have a huge amount of festive products which are perfect for the season of good tidings. And now it’s time to sign off and have to work here at Airquee, where if you can imagine it, we can make it. I think I may go un-make the pretend people in the corner so they don’t keep making me jump…

Shows, Visitors and Ireland!

Hello you wonderful people! It’s been a little while since the last blog post, and we have been running at full steam here at Airquee with our long – and exciting – stretch of back-to-back shows! Straight after the journey to the EAS in Sweden, which proved to be an excellent chance for Phil H and Mark to meet some great people and customers from Europe, it was the Leisure Supplies Show in Coventry. Due to the size of this excellent event, we had a large number of our staff attend to deal with the number of people wanting to ask about our products. On the first day we had Mark, Phil M, Phil H and Kerry joined by Tilda, Erika and Julia from our amazing Romania team! Ollie was there to join them on Monday and give them a helping hand with the number of visitors wanting to know more about our products. There were all busy in the evenings processing all the orders to make sure customers got their eagerly anticipated products as soon as possible!

Most recently was our very own Cwmbran Show held at our new HQ where we had a variety of inflatables for people to come and witness. Included among this was also our show room, which will always have a variety of our products set up for you to see for yourself whenever you visit us here! It was a busy 4 days for the staff here thanks to children dragging their parents along, providing excellent feedback from our chief critics!  Several members working throughout the event and the weekend to make it the best it could be with the excellent customer service which, along with the amazing smells from the burger van, proving to be a huge hit! Our newest sales person Ollie was eager to help visitors with answers to all questions asked!

We were also lucky enough to have a visit from Barclays Bank who are preparing a media release. Describing us as “champions of local business” they were extremely pleased at the strides we have made in recent times! The company director Phil M himself remarked how the “quality of our product through our innovative approach and commitment to meeting customer needs” is what has fuelled this fantastic growth. As I have a habit of letting you know, we have exciting plans here at Airquee and this is just one of the reasons to watch this space! Due to the interview taking place during the show, we had the fortune of showing members of Barclays themselves how fun and exciting our inflatables are!

This weekend we are travelling across the Irish Sea to set up shop for our Northern Ireland Show! Thanks to Peter Campbell and Cooley Castles we will be having a selection of our inflatables up and available for you to see from 10am until 6pm on Saturday 24^th and Sunday 25^th. The directors Phil H and Mark will be there to welcome you and answer your questions, and will be joined from some of our fantastic staff from our Romania factory; Adam from Dispatch and Erika from Production! We are then teaming up with Bounce Ireland to show our products to the Republic of Ireland in our ROI Show on Saturday the 7^th November!

So much to tell you about the events happening here, where if you can imagine it, Airquee can make it , but this is a blog and not a novel, so some stories will have to be told another day! We will be dealing with all orders from the events now the events season for the inflatable industry is drawing to a close, then on to preparing for the next batch! Busy, fun and exciting times!

Shows, New People and More Shows!

Our small lull in the busy events season is over and we will be travelling far and wide over the coming weeks to spread the word of Airquee. We are leaving today for the long journey to the Euro Attractions Show (EAS) held in Gothenburg, Sweden from Tuesday 6^th October until Thursday to 8^th October! This will be an excellent chance for us to meet some of our customers from other regions of Europe who aren’t so close to where our head office is based. Our directors Mark and Phil H will be there with associates to meet and greet as many people as they can, and after last week’s astounding success at LIW along with the popularity last year, they will have a lot on their plates! Don’t forget to bring stacks of business cards for our prize draw – be in for a chance at Airquee’s Golden Ticket and an amazing discount!

Here in Cwmbran, it is the end of the second week for our newest member of the warehouse team, Leon (you may have noticed him joining Kerry’s birthday party last week)! We’ve been so busy with preparing your orders for dispatch we have had to expand the team again. Airquee just keep getting bigger! Krzys and Jac have been showing him the ropes and he is settling in well, and along with show preparations (we have some fun games and events planned!) he has had a busy induction!

All of our warehouse team are busy preparing our showroom for all our fantastic plans for the Cwmbran show held here on Friday 16^th October until Monday 19^th October, so be sure to come and experience their efforts paid off! Our show takes place towards the end of our busy show period, there is the Leisure Supplies Show held in Coventry on Sunday 11^th October and Monday 12^th October. You will also get the chance to see our hot-off-the-press new brochure at all of these shows!

It’s back to preparations and business as usual now here, where if you imagine it, Airquee can make it. Be sure to experience some of what we have to offer at one of the dates above!

LIW, Lulls and Friday Fuel

Happy Friday! We’ve had an excellent and exciting week here at Airquee. The first show in our end-of-year show season, Leisure Industry Week (LIW) was this week and we had the chance to meet some fantastic people. Our newest member Ollie whet his feet, along with mentor Wayne at the show on Wednesday and learned a lot about the people in the industry and had a fantastic chance to meet and greet some of you! Now back in the office, Kerry is treating everyone here to a mini party and cake, celebrating her birthday tomorrow!

We now have a small lull in the shows where we have chance to fine tune the upcoming experiences. We will then be having shows back to back, to back. To back! It will be a busy month from here on out with the EAS held in Gothenburg, Sweden from Tuesday 6^th October until Thursday 8^th October. This will be followed by the Leisure Supply Show in Coventry on Sunday 11^th October and Monday 12^th October. Then the chance for you to come see our fantastic showrooms in Cwmbran! We will be having our open weekend from Friday 16^th October until Monday 19^th October! Following this will be our Airquee Northern Ireland Open Weekend on Saturday 24^th October and Sunday 25^th October.

As you can see, an extremely busy time for us with lots of travelling to meet and greet our excellent customers! Wayne has been kind enough to bring in some ‘family’ branded Barry’s tea! With a busy office, Friday Fuel in the form of tea will help us motor along with preparations while still running the office as usual, answering any questions you have and working full steam with production!

We’re all working hard on everything to make the best possible products for you here at Airquee, where if you can imagine it, we can make it. Visit us at one of the dates above and you will see it! 

LIW is almost here!

Less than 24 hours until we will be at LIW! We’ve been busy preparing and we are bristling with excitement at showing you what we have planned and a small amount of what we can do. Today our directors Phil H and Phil M will be travelling up to The NEC in Birmingham setting up the exhibition. Be sure to come and visit us and we can answer all your questions on our fantastic array of inflatables!

In other events happening here at Airquee, our team has once again increased in size! We are pleased to welcome Ollie to our sales team who started last week. He’s already been coached by the previous new member of the sales team, Wayne! We are determined to provide you the best service we possibly can and our constant increase of staff needed to shows how our well-designed and well-manufactured products are exactly what you all want. Ollie will have a chance to meet some of our excellent customers and industry veterans when he and Wayne make their way to LIW on Wednesday and join Phil H and Kerry in answering all your questions.

Events starting and an expanding team here. If you can imagine it, Airquee can make it, so come visit us at LIW and we can tell you all about it! There will be many chances to see us in the upcoming weeks. If you can’t make it to LIW, come to our Cwmbran open days are 16^th – 19^th October! 

Busy Times and Goodbyes

The events season draws ever closer still, and here at Airquee we are putting the finishing touches on everything we need to provide the best show we can! The first stop on the itinerary is the LIW, Leisure Industry Week, held at the NEC in Birmingham on the Tuesday 22^nd September and Wednesday 23^rd September. The LIW is described as “the heartbeat of the UK leisure industry” and we intend to show how our innovation and expertise are perfect for any leisure business, and we will be showcasing a new product and range! Make sure you come along and to get the first look and a good deal!

In other, and sadder news this week, today is the final day of Helen, who previously wrote all the blog posts and social media. She has prepared us well with sarcasm and what we need to know and her contributions at Airquee will continue to help us be the best we can be! We can continue to show you how amazing we are at more upcoming shows.

A short post this week, but those finishing touches for the shows must be completed. More news from us here in the upcoming weeks where if you can imagine it, Airquee can make it. Soon you will be able to see some of our new products exclusively at the shows, just a small fraction of what we can do!

Full Swing Preparation!

It’s getting closer to the events season in the inflatable and leisure industries and here at Airquee we have been busy preparing everything so that you can fully experience our wonderful products! More on this will be revealed in the coming weeks, but the dates of the shows coming up are:

• LIW Leisure Industry Week on the 22^nd and 23^rd September
• EAS Euro Attractions Show from 6^th to 8^th October
• Leisure Supplies Show on the 11^th and 12^th October
• Airquee’s Open Weekend here at Cwmbran from the 16^th until the 19^th October
• Airquee’s Northern Ireland Open Days on 24^th and 25^th October
• And a NEW Ireland show with more details to follow!

As you can see, that’s a lot of shows and a lot of work we have to do to prepare!

Our excellent and talented staff in our factory are back from their annual holiday on Monday and it’s straight back into work mode as they work on creating all your amazing products. We’re already fully booked in September with orders, so hurry up and get your orders in to avoid a wait!

Here at Cwmbran the Directors are away from the office – back to school for them! Phil, Mark, Kerry, Phil H, as well as Adrian and Mariane from the factory are all on a training course in Bristol for the day. The warehouse staff are also having some in house training. As we’re getting bigger we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to get better as well! 

But we’re all still busy in the main office, with Andrew working through repairs, and Sue answering all your queries over the phone while arranging dispatch. As always, Carole and Wayne are ready and waiting in the sales department, ready to help you chose the perfect inflatable! We're all excited and getting prepared for the upcoming weeks!

So - training, preparation and back-to-work for us here, where if you can imagine it, Airquee can make it. Lots of busy and exciting times coming up so stay tuned!