DISTINCTION DOORS ACQUIRES EVERGREEN DOORS TO BECOME CLEAR MARKET LEADER OF UK COMPOSITE DOOR SECTOR

Distinction Doors Ltd has unequivocally confirmed its position as the UK market leader of the composite door market with the acquisition of Evergreen Doors Ltd from the Epwin Group. 

Now the sole supplier of Nan Ya GRP door blanks in the UK, by far the highest selling composite door blank in the British market, Barnsley-based Distinction Doors has acquired the business and assets of Evergreen Doors Ltd from Epwin Group for an undisclosed sum. 

Drew Wright, Managing Director of Distinction Doors, said: "The acquisition of Evergreen, the only other UK distributor of Nan Ya GRP door blanks and glazing cassettes, is a natural fit for Distinction and cements our status as the largest distributor of composite door blanks and supplier of prepped blanks to the British market.”

Distinction has grown its business organically over the past six years to achieve market leading status. It has widened the scope of the company’s activities from being a warehousing and distribution operation, to include a rapidly growing sizing, edge-banding and routing service together with the supply of components, including triple glazed decorative glass, locks, handles, letterplates and hinges. By adding Evergreen to its portfolio, Distinction’s share of the composite door market in the UK now exceeds 40%*, with annual sales of more than £20 million.

Drew Wright added: "The addition of the Evergreen business comes at a time when many economists are trying to talk us into a ‘double dip’ recession, something that we refuse to acknowledge by growing our business and working with our customers to ensure that they too enjoy growth with our products. It is a clear growth area within the UK home improvement sector."

"We believe in this product, this business, and this industry and the acquisition shows our commitment to all three. It allows us to offer customers greater choice, flexibility, stability and long term commitment with Nan Ya, part of the huge Formosa Plastics Group, solidly backing the acquisition. With the volumes that we now command and potential for the future, we expect a further increase in new product development and opportunities for our customers. "I assure Evergreen and Distinction customers that there will be minimal, if any, disruption during the integration process, with the new combined stocks of door blanks and glazing cassettes. Evergreen customers can now also enjoy the popular Distinction ‘back up service’, through which we underpin their maintenance or breakdown issues by offering a sizing, routing and edge-banding service to maintain their output. The combined businesses will operate from Distinction Doors’ 80,000 sq ft premises at Tankersley, close to Junction 36 of the M1 in South Yorkshire.