Cooked on design culture

Posted on 7 Apr 2009 by The Manufacturer

Good design and a consistency of design and branding can be extremely important to the success of manufactured goods, particularly those aimed at consumers. Ian Johnstone tells The Manufacturer about how the internal product development culture developed at Glen Dimplex Home Applicances has been largely responsible for the company’s success in a market where many British competitors have floundered

Glen Dimplex Home Appliances (GDHA) has established itself as an iconic British manufacturer. The Prescot, Merseyside-based company, which produces 350,000 cookers every year under its brand names Belling, Stoves and New World, is the biggest producer of cooking appliances in the UK and is about to become the sole remaining UK manufacturer of cookers. How…

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