Manufacturing Today Issue - 236 May 2025 | Page 204

INVESTING OF DEMAN

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Richmond Furniture( Richmond) is“ Since I joined the company, my goal was a privately owned, family business to build the business in its traditional markets: founded in 1987, with roots that public sector, private development, high rise stretch all the way back to 1935. residential, build to rent, purpose-built student Sales and Marketing Director, Jim Bebbington accommodation, and trade merchants. I am joins Manufacturing Today to share some pleased to say we have grown in all these highlights of the company’ s storied history: sectors. This growth is highlighted by our“ Over the course of its history the business Order Acceptance growth in 2024, which has a wide range of experience; we even had finished 124 percent ahead of the previous some success manufacturing fruit machines year. We have colossal growth coming into in the 1980s for example, but furniture has the business now, and this is across all the always been our mainstay. The company sectors. Given some of the challenges of has experienced several boom, bust and our competitors, this is a great position to build cycles and proved resilient, overcoming be in. Today, kitchens represent our main some significant challenges along the way. product line, but we also manufacture high

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