Horizon Shutters, based on Salisbury Road, at Haydock Industrial Estate, specialises in selling window coverings and shadings. Shutters, blinds and awnings are among the products offered by the business, which was launched by Tony Jones, 57. Son Ryan is also a director with the firm a real family affair that has gone from strength to strength.
READ > In-house mico-brewery helps boozer claim pub of the year prize “It was my dad originally that started it, he was a dealer manager for one of the big suppliers of plantation shutters and decided he saw some gap in the market and started it himself,” said Ryan, 32, who joined the business in 2018. “He started from the family home working from the kitchen table part-time. “It kept growing and got bigger and bigger.
” The business’ previous premises have included firstly at Ruskin Drive and then Greenfield Road, in Dentons Green, before in April 2021 moving to its current Salisbury Road base. Ryan said the Covid period saw Horizon Shutters enjoy significant expansion due to people spending the lockdown periods to do up their homes “It really did get people spending on their home and then we started to add new products. “We now retail over 15 types of shading products and there is now a full team of seven of us.
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co.uk Off the back of this, Ryan says the business is continuing to eye growth in the future, as it.
