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GARDINIA WINDOWS
U LT R A FA S T B R OA D B A N D
G I V E S P L E N T Y O F S PA R E
O R G A N I S AT I O N
Gardinia Windows
LO CAT I O N
Huddersfield
Accelerated growth. Happy customers worldwide.
Ultrafast broadband is enabling the company’s business –
selling and distributing spare parts – to double in size
each year. According to Matthew Hill, IT Administrator
of Gardinia Windows, ‘It’s an absolutely essential part
of what we do.’
CHALLENGE
Processing and dispatching
orders of physical products
around the globe on time,
every time.
When Gardinia started out in 1983, fax machines were still in their infancy.
The Yorkshire firm installed UPVC windows and doors. Then came the
Internet. Exploiting its vast catalogue of UPVC spares and strong links with
suppliers, Gardinia launched www.upvcspares4repairs.co.uk to sell parts
and products online. The business quickly went global.
INDUSTRY SECTOR
SoHo SME
SOLUTION
Ultrafast broadband.
BENEFITS
Ultrafast connectivity
enables cloud based tools and
apps to streamline the order
to ship process and improve
customer satisfaction.
WEBSITE
www.gardiniawindows.co.uk
Whilst Gardinia sells physical products digital is at the heart of how they do it.
‘We were initially targeting UK companies,’ explains Matthew. ‘But, it turns
out, the replacement parts we sell are difficult to source locally, even in
places like New Zealand and the US. So we now ship anywhere we can
find a courier service.’
BANDWIDTH BEDROCK
This minor Huddersfield miracle depends on ultrafast internet
connections to shuttle huge amounts of data to and from the
Cloud. Connectivity needs to be as robust and secure as the
UPVC that surrounds its windows and doors.
‘Our website is in the Cloud but that doesn’t mean the office
and warehouse can have a slow or unreliable connection,’ says
Matthew. ‘We do two backups of the whole website every day,
and we backup our own data to the Cloud each night.’
Then there’s the company promise to dispatch orders the
day they’re made. ‘If our connection was always going down,
we’d have no way to process orders and the business would
grind to a halt,’ he adds. ‘We upgraded to ultrafast broadband
a year ago and it’s not gone down since.’
Gardinia is so confident in our ultrafast broadband that it’s
integrating all its physical stock-control into the same one
they use online. Once completed, the entire business will be
dependent on our optical fibre. Digital transformation.
Done and dusted.
Not that Matthew is complacent. Demand for bandwidth is
always growing, so what seems plentiful now will likely fall
short in the future. ‘With Virgin Media Business, I don’t have
to worry about a lack of bandwidth holding us back,’ he says.
S M I L E S O N FA C E S
Gardinia’s employees needn’t fret about a slow and dodgy
internet connection either. Now that ultrafast broadband
provides capacity to spare, everyone’s allowed to hook up their
tablets and smartphones to the network. And that makes for a
happy workforce, giving businesses added #VOOM.
Virgin Media Business & Gardinia Windows –
VOOMING TOGETHER.
To find out how we can help you #VOOM just give us a call
on 0800 953 0068 or visit www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk
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