DC Leisure has once again won the highly distinguished title ‘Facility Operator of the
Year’ at the 2011 Kellogg’s ASA Swimtastic Awards, making it their seventh time scooping the top prize.
The company’s continued commitment to the development of community wide swimming programmes and initiatives led to them winning gold, up against GLL and Everyone Active.
Swimming Pools
Working from its prime office and showroom location in Essex,
formerly home to Penguin Pools, renowned pool builders of the Seventies and Eighties, Aquascapes has not flinched from filling such large water leisure boots.
Whether as project consultants, designers or providing a turnkey wet leisure installation, Aquascapes has carved itself a
formidable name in the commercial water leisure sector.
Representatives of the 26 member companies that make up the UK-based buying consortium of National Leisure gathered in Amsterdam recently accompanied by Pool and Spa Scene editor, Christina Connor. The group visited the premises of Interhiva and Starline in Holland and Belgium to find out more about the products National Leisure already stocks and to learn about many new products they could potentially add to their 2012 offering.
A group of British architects was given the
inside track on the potential for moving
swimming pool floors when they gathered in
Belgium recently.
As guests of UK swimming pool builders,
Guncast and world-leading moving floor
manufacturers, Hydrofloors, the British
delegation was exclusively accompanied by
Pool and Spa Scene editor, Christina Connor.
The visit included a tour of the Hydrofloors
moving floors manufacturing base and the
Ocea slatted covers factory near Brussels.
Particularly hard hit by the economic down turn, traditional residential liner pool building companies are being offered a Golden Goose by thermal-insulation panel pool specialists, Polypool Manufacturing.
The residential pool market once again found itself a hostage to fortune with disappointing weather being blamed for a difficult summer season for most. Chemical sales were significantly down for most as well as seasonal sales of lines such as above ground pools and toys and games. The UK experienced the latest in a run […]
When it comes to making bold statements – Nigel Rose, builder, turned self-proclaimed pool pioneer is not backward in coming forward.
“The swimming pool industry and the owners of Britain’s 300,000 pools are drowning in ignorance.” says Nigel Rose in his latest PR propaganda.
Traditionally slow to be persuaded to try new concepts, the pool sector has been reluctant to respond to the bold statements and claims by the inventor of the Thermapool insulation system.
Soft, luminescent copings from Global Resins are not only the safest option for pool edges but give off an amazing glow all year round with endless possibilities for design and also corporate or safety messaging. The patented Global Resins copings are: • Extremely light but will not damage in transit • Simpler […]
Origin Leisure has been at the top of the swimming pool industry
for thirty years. To celebrate this milestone the company has
rebranded its entire look, with a bright new logo, an all-new
website, and redesigned vans.
But the ethic of the company remains unchanged. They are still
adopting their programme of constant improvement, and their
products are more adventurous, more imaginatively designed and
more perfectly built than ever.
With 60% of MSI’s business now undertaken overseas, Bob Kent is
passionate about the potential for more UK-based businesses to
follow his lead – practicing what he preaches.
