Company Facts
Company Background
Plumbs was founded in the 1950's by Thomas and Bernice Plumb, initially as a market business. In the 1960’s, their son, Geoff Plumb, developed the business into a mail order company specialising in a niche market of stretch furniture covers.
Mr Geoff Plumb still plays an integral part of the Company as Chairman of the Board.
Today
Plumbs today is a professional customer focussed organisation producing over 1,000 made-to-measure orders every week. A huge technology investment includes in house photographic studio, state of the art Lectra manufacturing systems and quality DVDs.
Plumbs also make a positive effort to develop staff and provide continuous training.
Future
Plumbs continue to grow their in home made to measure service, particularly with curtains, traditional covers and reupholstery.
New websites are exploring the potential for export. Plumbs will continue to provide our customers with a quality service and product.
- We produce over 1,500 cover orders every week.
- We are profitable, financially stable and all business growth is internally funded.
- We are based in Preston, Lancashire and are still family owned after 45 years.
- We offer an extensive range of cover products backed by an impressice range of branded (Sanderson, Crowson, Villa Nova) and own branded fabrics, many of which are exclusive to us.
- We combine a mix of traditional tailoring skills and computer aided technology to ensure out covers fit as perfectly as possible.
- We emply over 300 people in Preston, many of them with unique skills - Sewers, CAD Designers, Patter Drawers, Hand Cutters, as well as deploting computeried laser cutting machines.
- We procide a specialised training program to equip all our consultants with the technical skills they require both when they join us and ongoing throughout their careers.
- Over 140 home consultants currently provide a unique, mobile, made to measure servicem free across the UK.
- To satisfy increasing demand for our products we need to gown out consultant base.
Latest Positions
Head Office
Marketing Co-Ordinator
Re-upholsterers & Loose Cover Makers
Loose Cover Makers Needed UK wide
Reupholsterers Needed UK wide
Plumbs Home Consultants
Dundee - Plumbs Consultant
Merthyr Tydfil - Plumbs Consultant
Uxbridge - Plumbs Consultant
Inverness - Plumbs Consultant