olden Coast has secured an exclusive UK distribution deal with leading filter cartridge manufacturer Darlly Europe. The announcement comes hot on the heels of confirmation that Triogen, a world leader in ozone and UV water treatment systems, has selected Golden Coast, as its first and only UK distributor.
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Golden Coast has been confirmed as the new exclusive UK distributor for Sundance Spas.
More than ever, traditional pool and spa businesses are questioning the wisdom of maintaining a shop or showroom location. With increased competition from on-line retail sales, for some, the burden of rent, rates, display stock and staffing costs is becoming more and more difficult to justify. But other retailers are turning a negative into a positive by honing in on the Internet as a crucial marketing tool that can drive visitors to their shop sites and vitally, once there, maximising the potential of that visit.
No-one can doubt the way the water leisure industry is changing with more corporate enterprises and more global players. But the backbone of the UK trade business remains husband and wife teams and family businesses that continue to be handed down through the generations. It was back in the famously scorching summer of 1977 that David Adams, the founder of Golden Coast, decided to build a pool for his sons.
The John Preston Pool & Spa Services team worked around the clock, seven days a week, right up to Christmas Eve, to ensure this outstanding pool hall project was finished in time for what was a festive season to remember for one lucky customer. The David family live near the Lancashire coast in Formby, in five acres of woodland that, as well as the new pool hall, boasts its own go-kart track and tennis courts, The pool is set in an ancillary building separate from the house and is constructed from a huge oak framework supporting a glass roof with a six metre span.
Every pool and spa professional is being urged to take a few minutes to share their views in the second annual State of the Wet Leisure Industry survey.
Soon to be proclaimed by the Guinness World Records as the largest man-made swimming pool in the world, the process of filling the 120,000 m² Crystal Lagoon at the Citystars, Sharm El Sheikh, began at the end of October and took 21 days to complete. The new resort takes the world’s biggest swimming pool title from current holders, San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile, a gargantuan blue man-made ‘lake’ spanning the length of 20 Olympic-size swimming pools and filled with 66 million gallons of water.
Once viewed as a necessary evil by designers, swimming pool covers are turning on the style with a plethora of fashionable, multi-coloured and printed finishes that now enhance rather than detract from swimming pool finishes. Read more….
In a growing market that has seen some fierce competition in recent years, Spafix is one of the strongest contenders for the title of Europe’s biggest spa parts suppliers.
With a turnover topping the £1m mark – Spafix has more than earned its reputation as a market leader. All the more astounding given that founder, Darren Waters, started the company from a spare bedroom of his Hampshire home just four years ago.
The Pollet Pool Group is looking ahead to a new era for its UK pool
division following the appointment of Carl Porter as UK divisional
manager.
A pool industry stalwart with three decades experience, it is a case of poacher turns gamekeeper for Carl who cut his pool building teeth in Aquabuild, the multi-award winning Porter family swimming pool construction business before a spell with Cresta Leisure.
