SBD ‘DELIGHTED’ WITH DL FIT-OUT AT ALL-NEW MANUFACTURING FACILITY

Strength sports brand SBD Apparel have seen huge growth in recent years, and key to their expansion plans is a multi-million-pound move into an all-new manufacturing facility, in the Advanced Manufacturing Park. The new site, which can be found behind McLaren, is set on two floors and has been expertly fitted out by Sheffieldbased office refurb specialists, The DL Company.

Talking of working with SBD, The DL Company Managing Director, Daniel Lowe said: “SBD are a great company to work with and for. This was our second fit-out for them, having been chosen to provide their first Sheffield office and warehouse, six-years ago, they came back to us when they were ready to create their new, much larger version.

“Given the keys to the building at Handover, we altered two floors of their offices to give them a ‘Creative Centre’ on one floor, in addition to general office space and a fully functioning catering kitchen and canteen, for staff to enjoy breakfast and lunch.

“A lot of time was taken to create the Creative Centre, where we incorporated collaboration booths, a presentation space, mobile shelving and a large open area for breakout. The diversity of the space allowed us to have fun with the ideas and create forward thinking areas for people to work.

“As a leading worldwide brand in sportswear it was important to create a space that employees and athletes would be proud to call home, as they continue their expansion in the coming years. A great success story for the local area and a pleasure to be a small part of that development.”

SBD CEO Benjamin Banks added: “We are delighted with the space that The DL Company have created for us, and we have been very proud to the reactions of visitors seeing it for the first time.

“Throughout the process we have had excellent communication and we felt well-supported in developing our plans, finalising layouts, and selecting furniture and finishes. The end result is exactly what we had envisaged.”