The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Record orders for booming Fife fitout firm
AFife-based furniture and fitout firm has raked in a record £9.4 million of orders in the past three months.
Deanestor, located in Dunfermline, is one of the UK’S leading suppliers of furniture and fitout service to the construction sector.
The new orders are spread across every sector Deanestor operates in – from build-to-rent to student accommodation, healthcare, and education – and across the UK from
Glasgow to Swansea and Brighton.
Around half the projects are for repeat clients, including developers and contractors, following the company’s successful performance on earlier schemes.
Originally established in 1948 to manufacture hospital furniture for the newly-established NHS, Deanestor is a marketleading supplier of fixtures, fittings, and equipment, manufacturing contract furniture for bedrooms, kitchens, schools, hospitals, and laboratories.
It has manufacturing and distribution facilities in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. It employs 150 staff and has a division in Fife to service Scottish clients.
Its projects include Boclair Academy, a new £40m secondary school under construction for 1,050 pupils. Both loose and fixed furniture will be supplied and fitted by Deanestor in a £1.5m contract.
In Wales, Deanestor has been awarded a £2m contract to provide bedroom furniture and fitted kitchens for Crown Student Living’s latest scheme. This is a £35m, 500-bed waterside student housing development in Swansea.
In the build-to-rent sector, Deanestor has won a contract worth more than
£1m for Bowmer & Kirkland to manufacture and install bespoke contemporary kitchens for a new £64m build-to-rent development in the centre of Milton Keynes.
In 2019, Deanestor acquired the Havelock brands out of administration. The Fifebased Havelock business was the UK market leader
in the manufacture and installation of furniture across a diverse range of sectors.
William Tonkinson, managing director of Deanestor, said: “We are pleased to report our best ever quarter for order intake. The construction sector has definitely been more buoyant from the start of this year.”