W&Co help drive sales at BMW Park Lane

Following success with previous car showroom display projects at BMW Westminster, W&Co were invited to produce a range of light boxes for a new state of the art showroom in Mayfair, London - BMW Park Lane. A selection of illuminated and non-illuminated fabric face displays were custom made to showcase a wide range of classic and modern BMW models on display. The frameless, chrome finished units, many LED illuminated, compliment the high quality brand and create a stunning backdrop within the contemporary showroom space. 

  

One particularly large format Fabric Face Light Box, within the Motorrad display area of the showroom, reaches five and half metres high and actually spans two floors of the building.

The lightboxes were chosen not only for their high quality build and frameless design, but also because they offer the client the flexibility to easily replace and/or reuse the dye-sublimation printed textile graphics. W&Co Fabric Face systems offer a front loading graphic change whereby a rubber lip easily pushes into the face of the unit by hand without the need for specialist tools or installation teams.

For further information and images of our full range of Fabric Face light boxes and non-illuminated Fabric Frames please visit the following link... http://www.w-co.co.uk/fabric-face-light-boxes.php

W&Co signage flying high at Stansted Airport

Business magnate, Mohamed Al-Fayed, is the proud owner of a brand new £12m luxury private jet centre at Stansted Airport, in Essex, and W&Co were privileged to be awarded the contract for supplying and installing the huge "fayair" illuminated built up letters to both sides of the high-spec hangar complex built by LPL Construction.

W&Co worked closely with the LPL Construction team over 4 days to overcome the difficult task of lifting the giant 4m high individual letters into place using a 53m lifting platform – the 6 letters on either side of the complex span a massive 15m, the biggest illuminated built up letters (http://www.w-co.co.uk/built-up-lettering.php) that W&Co have ever supplied. The letters were manufactured from RAL 'Sky Blue' powder coated aluminium and halo illuminated with high quality LEDs. Oversized flat cut letters (http://www.w-co.co.uk/flat-cut-lettering.php) were installed behind each of the letters and finished to match the colour of the external hangar cladding to act as a reflector plate and to ensure even halo illumination.

Mr Al Fayed visited throughout the project and personally told the site team that he was very impressed with the high quality of all the work undertaken.

If the above project has caught your eye why not check out the new custom signs section of our website. We have a broad range of illuminated signs, built up lettering, flat cut lettering, sign trays, post and panel signs and monoliths. 

Many of these signs can be completely custom made to suit your requirements. For more information please see the following link:  http://www.w-co.co.uk/custom_signs.php

Simply Be Light Up High Street

Simply Be, the catalogue brand that specialises in larger size womenswear, wanted to bring their plus-size fashion range to the high street and has opened two brand new stores in Liverpool and Bury with an aim of giving customers the ultimate shopping experience. This fantastic shopping experience is enhanced by the large format illuminated graphics positioned around the new stores which adds to the wow factor the stores generate. Simply Be knew they wanted large format light boxes (http://www.w-co.co.uk/large-format-lightboxes.php) for the new stores and when they saw W&Co's LED Fabric Face light box systems they knew they had the perfect solution. 

Utilising the Frameless Fabric Face LED light boxes (http://www.w-co.co.uk/fabric-face-light-boxes-wall.php) in both 40mm and 100mm depths, the store was designed to have a range of light boxes installed from the entrance all the way through to the state of the art changing rooms at the back. The Fabric Face system is so versatile that the same profile can be used in a variety of locations and sizes without compromising the look and functionality of the display. A large majority of the 40mm deep LED light boxes, the 'Fabric Face 40' were manufactured at 2.7m high x 750mm wide, a size not realistically possible for snap frame light boxes, and these were cleverly mounted to a sliding rail system which revealed shelving for extra stock of clothing behind. The 100mm deep 'Fabric Face 100' light box was reserved for even bigger light boxes with the largest being 2043mm x 1865mm installed at the end of the cash desk. These units can be fully recessed which allowed them to be used not only flush and surface mounted but also within a custom built desk.

Another advantage of using W&Co's Frameless Fabric Face system is that when the store comes to change their artwork it can be printed onto the special backlit material and simply posted to the store for the shop staff to fit themselves within minutes, without having to rely on a team of specialist shop-fitters to update their image. This will make a big saving over the coming years. The energy efficient LED's will also make a big saving on the stores electricity costs which could be up to 80% less than if they had installed fluorescent tube illuminated displays.

In addition to the graphic light boxes we were also given the opportunity to supply some more architectural feature lighting in the form of the LED Illuminated Ceiling Discs which were hung from the ceiling in the Bury store. We custom built the 2300mm diameter ceiling discs using the same principal of the Fabric Face graphic light boxes but just leaving the tensioned fabric unprinted and plain white. Normally ceiling lighting like this can be extremely expensive but our fabric face system offers a high quality alternative at a fraction of the cost.

 

The big opening at the Liverpool store was attended by some well known celebrity soap stars including Lisa Riley from (Emmerdale) and Katy Cavanagh (Coronation Street).