AMS has a significant fashion heritage, having worked with a range of big names – both past and present – naming the Burton Group and New Look amongst their historical client list. Current key clients include Debenhams, M&S, Tesco, Footlocker, Laura Ashley, as well as a number of volume hotel operators such as Premier Inn as part of a secondary operating division.

In the last 12 months AMS have welcomed companies such as Primark into their portfolio together with Moss Bros and Hobbycraft, for whom they have delivered new concept stores and are now readying a number of additional stores for these retailers in time for the Christmas trading period.

The company have a range of both high spec clients such as Infiniti Europe car showrooms and value driven volume customers such as Tesco, with whom they have worked for over 10 years, seeing them now also supply volume equipment for their expanding clothing offer across Europe, along with the new high profile F&F fashion fixtures and department stores, from their Prague based European facility.

David Hyde, Sales and Marketing Director at AMS Group, said: “We are a truly bespoke business and are not constrained by any standard equipment ranges when interpreting our clients’ requirements. We start every project with an open mind and effectively a blank sheet of paper, as the range of what we are able to provide is extremely diverse, by market sector, material type and levels of specification. The result is a skilled creative development business backed by our established and proven volume manufacturing, global sourcing and implementation ability.”

The company now employs around 200 people. Headquartered in the Midlands, UK, its base contains a 250,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehousing facility, metal, acrylic and joinery facilities, assembly and warehouse, as well as support functions such as sales, projects, development and prototyping resources and the buying office.

An additional facility established in 2004 - AMS Asia Sourcing in Shanghai, has dedicated local AMS personnel running a quality assurance team and supply and sourcing office for projects requiring competitively priced equipment from the Far East. Further expansion saw the company open a new central European division in Prague earlier this year, offering a 50,000 sq ft warehouse facility, project management facilities, warehousing, distribution and installation services.

The Prague base will deliver over £2million turnover during 2011 alone, speaking about their European expansion, Clark said: “We have a longstanding relationship with Tesco and last year we were presented with an opportunity to also produce a wide range of fixtures for their clothing departments in Europe, amongst a number of other initiatives – it’s one which we took and subsequently led to the opening of our Prague warehousing centre.

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