Trendsetter Home Furnishings, an international supplier of duvets, pillows and mattress toppers, has announced annual growth of 48%. It comes in the same month that the business marks the 15-year anniversary of its Baltic Fibres Oü manufacturing facility in Estonia.
The privately-owned family run UK-based business, with headquarters in Trafford Park, Manchester, has reached turnover of £22.5m, a growth of £7.25m (48%) year on year, with a huge 160% profit increase (£1.4m). The supplier puts its growth down to a relentless focus on nurturing existing business and raising product quality and innovation.
Trendsetter boasts a 100-year heritage, manufacturing and distributing a broad range of premium own-label and branded duvets, pillows and related bedding products to a diverse range of global customers. In 2000, Trendsetter established a manufacturing facility in Lääne-Virumaa, Estonia. Baltic Fibres Oü began production of pillows in 2000, followed by duvets in 2002. 2005 saw the production of mattress enhancers to its portfolio and in 2010 investment in a high-speed automatic quilt sewing machine which more than tripled production capabilities. Baltic Fibres Ou is now a state-of-the-art hub that in the past two years alone has delivered four new innovations.
The 15-year milestone was marked with a VIP celebration in Estonia.
Claire Watkin, MD of Trendsetter Home Furnishings, says: “With continued investment the factory has evolved and helped us achieve our vision as leaders in innovation. We now employ more than 110 people, many from the local area, and produce around 30,000 quilts, 52,000 pillows and 1000 mattress enhancers a week! But we’re not stopping here. We live in a world where the only constant is change – innovating and evolving lies at the heart of what we do. Success has been engendered by Trendsetter’s relentless pursuit of product development and the capabilities of the Estonia facilities.
“We’re continuing to grow at a fast pace and have exciting plans for the future, we look forward to celebrating more successes in another 15 years' time and once again looking back at how far we have come.”
The company trades in the UK as The Fine Bedding Company.
