
Andrew Burdett, MD

INCORPORATION DAY!
Very Displays is registered as a limited company thanks to support and investment from leading casing manufacturer, Trifibre.
GETTING STUCK INTO WORK
With just a five strong team, Very Displays was founded. Anastassia Grigorjev, Andy Elliott, Lawrence McCall and Lee Stobbart set-up shop to make the simple great again. Our view to be very competitive, very lean, very successful and very pragmatic.
CONTAINERS ARRIVE
Now you can’t open an exhibition displays business with no stock, can you? So on opening over the first fortnight we also had our first SIX containers arrive. Which as you can imagine, was a bit of a shock to..Read More
LEASE OUR FIRST CARS
Our on-the-road sales reps signed the leases to their first company cars, giving them the freedom to travel up and down the country meeting as many clients as possible!
VERY DISPLAYS SPAIN OPENS ITS DOORS
In a very saturated market, we understood the need to not only open our doors in the UK but to set our stride a step further. So we opened our very first hub in Spain, Madrid.
FIRST SALE IS MADE!!
The sound of ringing bells echoes through the office as our first ever sale is processed.
FIRST PRINTER ARRIVES
We now face the daunting but exciting challenge of getting it set-up and being able to offer a complete trade only solution. This took us quite some time to get right, having to convert a dusty room in our warehouse..Read More
NEW PRODUCT BROCHURE
We launch our FIRST EVER displays catalogue.
EXHIBIT AT OUR FIRST EVER TRADE SHOW
We introduced Very Displays to the exhibition displays world with our first ever stand at Euroshop in Dusseldorf. Not going to say we were welcomed with open arms, and it was definitely a challenge with the small team we had...Read More
SIGN & DIGITAL 2017
Definitely one to remember! What should have been our biggest and most successful show yet… turned sour when the original team had to take a long and incredibly boring “vacation”, leaving them unable to follow up with anybody they met..Read More
TEMPORARY EXIT OF KEY SALES REPS
Sales continue but with the temporary exit of some key sales reps, we had a slower few months than we’d have originally anticipated. Big thank you to the two of men of steel, Chris and John, who held the fort..Read More
BALTIC HUB OPENS
The team count increases rapidly with an extra four people joining Very Displays PLUS the opening of our Latvian Hub!
FIRST-EVER UNBRANDED BROCHURE
Our updated product brochure hits the warehouse, alongside our very first unbranded version.
PRINT SHOW 2017
New members of the team headed to The Print Show / SignLink Live in Telford, where we took a record number of leads and converted over 70% of those leads in buying Customers.
THE TEAM RETURN!
This was a great day for the entire team, as some much missed characters were able to return from their LONG and tedious “vacation” and get straight back into the swing of things and start boosting sales like never before.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Our first-ever Christmas party as a team – a family. Everyone was having so much fun that this was the only picture taken that night! We probably heard some of the best but worst Christmas cracker jokes EVER including, but..Read More
WE WELCOME BACK ANDREW BURDETT
The business and the industry welcomed a very familiar face back to the industry, Andrew Burdett! After a 16 month long stint of being unable to take part in anything the business was doing, he jumped straight into wild waters..Read More
C-PRINT LYON 2018
it was great to meet so many potential clients and show off some of our exciting display products, as well as flaunt the exports teams industry and product knowledge.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
We formed our very own in-house product development team – myself (MD), Gary Parker (Design Engineer) and Mahesh Patel (Purchaser and Forecast Analyst) – and what better way to get your new PD team stuck into all the action? Head..Read More