SME Premier Award
SME Premier Award 2010
Presented at The Lincoln Centre, London on 8 June 2010 by Sir Anthony Cleaver, President of BCE Environmental Leadership Awards.
Quantum4
Ecosmart design for store fixtures
Sir Anthony Cleaver presenting the BCE SME Premier Award to Jamie Kennaugh, Quantum4.
Quantum4 was established in 2002 specifically to provide concept development services for store interiors, comprising display fixtures and merchandising systems, service counters and furniture, and point of sale/point of purchase units. It employs 16 people and, in 2007/08, its turnover was £6.3 million.
In recent years, the growing importance of environmental issues has dovetailed with, and augmented, Quantum4’s ‘value-engineering’ approach to fixture design and client demand has led to the development of new ‘Ecosmart’ tools and services, which help retailers and brand owners develop fixtures that save resources and money, and reduce/eliminate waste.
The Ecosmart process aims to influence designers at the very start of a project, providing sustainable design guidelines, materials information, construction advice and whole-life cost data. The company’s development designers and engineers use Ecosmart thinking and principles as standard.
The company’s portfolio of blue-chip clients determines that its operations must be of the highest standard. In its specialist field of designing and producing (via subcontractors) store fixtures, its work with these clients means that it can advise and influence their impact on the environment in this area and can set an example in its own working practices.
Through Quantum4’s research work, it influences others in developing their design and development policies for their own corporate responsibility. The company’s aim is to continually develop, lead and partner others inside and outside of the industry to help improve the use of materials, processes and practices in terms of the impact the industry has on the environment.
To see the Quantum4 presentation click here.
To find out more about this project, please contact:
bill.jones@quantum4.co.uk
www.quantum4.co.uk