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PORTWEST - YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR STAFF UNIFORMS Portwest have been providing uniforms to companies since 1904. Over this time, they have learned many valuable lessons in providing a seamless uniform service. This allows you to ensure that your staff are impeccably dressed, with minimum hassle. The process starts with a full consultation to determine your requirements and then the Portwest design team will put forward ideas that match your brand. A sizing service can be provided (for 40 or more people) where they will come on site and measure your team, ensuring every employee gets their perfect fit. They have taken this a step further this year also with the introduction of their Base Scan’N’Fit service, which allows them to scan a team members foot and make bespoke recommendations, including what insole is suitable for the wearer to ensure maximum comfort. Another service offered by Portwest is ‘man packing,’ meaning they will deliver your uniforms pre-packed with everyone’s name on it. For larger contracts, there are several bespoke solutions available. These include agreed stockholding, production of custom items, catalogues and more to meet your business
needs. Portwest supply uniforms to more than 200 customers throughout Ireland and you can be assured of always getting the best quality, value and service. For more information about this or any of Portwest’s services, contact them directly on 098 51777 or email sales@portwest.ie
BUILDERS MERCHANT TO THE CORE This month, a new sign went up over six well-known builders’ merchants across Dublin. That sign read ‘CORE’ and with a new slogan ‘We Supply. You Build’ - it officially announced the rebrand of these dedicated and long-standing expert builders providers and tool and plant hire specialists. CORE is the result of an ambitious growth strategy overseen by Emma Maye and Alan Hegarty since the couple acquired their first builders’ merchants in Clondalkin village in 2016. Clondalkin Builders Providers, as it was then known, was widely recognised as a ‘real builders’ merchant’ supplying numerous housing schemes, schools, hospitals and infrastructural projects since it was established in the 1980s. It is a source of personal pride to Emma and Alan that many of the employees who started with Clondalkin Builders Providers in the 1980s remain with the CORE group today. CORE CEO Emma Maye says, “Employees are the cornerstone of our business. To use an apt building metaphor, they are the foundation of every business decision we make. In fact, not just the foundation. They are the mortar holding the bricks of our business together. By valuing our employees and their well-being, we have built a team around us that shares our vision for the future.” CORE Founding Director Alan Hegarty says about CORE’s future, “CORE’s objective for the future is to continue to invest in our employees and to improve and enhance our customer service. We have maximised our offering to customers in the Dublin area by acquiring builders’ merchants in key locations
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in Coolock, Blackrock, Ringsend and Kimmage. We hope to continue our growth through further acquisition and to encourage building throughout the Leinster area.” The CORE group also owns www.build4less.ie one of Ireland’s first eCommerce sites for building materials.
Rachael Blackmore and CORE CEO, Emma Maye pictured recently officially opening CORE builders` providers at it’s rebrand. The company is one of Dublin’s leading builders merchants employing 115 staff across its six branches. May/June 2022
