DEALER SUCCESS
CHRISBEON
Chrisbeon has been a stalwart name in office supplies in Shropshire for nearly half a century and, with its mix of new and pre-loved stock, it looks set to continue for many years to come
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Showroom brings success for Chrisbeon
or more than 32
he says. “My son works for us and is out on
the lockdowns as an opportunity to make
years Richard Hughes
deliveries every day; as he still lives at home,
some improvements to the business such
has done almost every
me and him ended up doing deliveries
as installing a new ‘phone system – which
job going at Telford-
together as we could both go out in the van.
helped staff work from home – and
based Chrisbeon
I loved it – it keeps your hand in, and you get
switching to a cloud-based server rather
– from making deliveries, to stocking the
to know how long it takes to deliver things
than a physical one in the office.
warehouse, to running the business – so,
or assemble furniture – things you can forget
when the pandemic hit, he was more than
when you’re sat in the office all day.”
able to muck-in during the lockdowns. “During the first lockdown I was a delivery driver again for a couple of months,”
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As well as gaining a fresh perspective
STOCKING UP The team also used the time to reconfigure
on how aspects of the business run,
Chrisbeon’s warehouse and add some
Richard used the quiet times created by
additional racking, a decision that is paying
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