Paul Wilson

  1. June 15, 2023

    Progressive Safety restructures sales function with exciting multi-sector approach

    Progressive Safety of 101 Worthing Road, Sheffield has provided world class safety equipment and work clothing since 1960. Originally to miners, today they are trusted around the world from their home of Sheffield to Saskatchewan and manufacture quality workwear and footwear ranges under the JCB Workwear, WORKTOUGH and Contractor brands.

    Being family owned, the business is incredibly passionate about its South Yorkshire connections and has a great reputation in the area, offering daily deliveries across the City, as featured on Greatest Hits Radio. As well as having a robust national and international distributor network serviced from the National Distribution centre.

    In order to better serve their customers, they have restructured their sales operation using the widely popular internal and external pairing system, so customers can expect further familiarity as well as a dedicated named contact in the office.

    It sees the 5 external sales account managers areas restructure

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  2. June 08, 2023

    Significant range review imminent for Progressive Safety Footwear and Clothing Limited

    Progressive is pleased to announce it is inviting current and prospective suppliers in preparation for its new catalogue and range review.

    During the pandemic, the Sheffield based family firm was heavily relied upon for key workers and infrastructure staff thanks to its unique position in the market, next day delivery promise and significant stockholding across a variety of manufacturers and product groups. The company’s robust digital platform and cloud-based ERP enabled quick and easy drop ship supply on behalf of their distributors.

    Setting the scene for these activities, Anna Topham, Operations Director confirmed:

    “Due to our enviable and long-standing position in the industry we have been able to support all our customers with incredibly competitive pricing on numerous brands across the safety equipment and workwear landscape. We also onboarded dozens of new distributors each month and welcomed several new suppliers to our core catalogue.

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  3. June 01, 2023

    Progressive Safety launches new multi-channel South Yorkshire advertising campaign to shout loudly and proudly on its local services

    Progressive Safety of 101 Worthing Road, Sheffield has provided world class safety equipment and work clothing since 1960. Originally to miners, today they are trusted around the world from their home of Sheffield to Saskatchewan and manufacture quality workwear and footwear ranges under the JCB Workwear, WORKTOUGH and Contractor brands.

    The company has long supplied builders' merchants and trade counters and offer low commitment, high impact and striking POS displays proven to increase customer engagement.

    Being family owned, the business is incredibly passionate about its South Yorkshire connections and has launched a brand new multi-channel advertising campaign to shout loudly and proudly on its local services across the whole of the region.

    The campaign includes free to read local press newspaper, radio advertising and highly targeted social media campaigns, to be mindful of taking attention from their main distributors across the rest of the UK.

    Summarising

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  4. May 25, 2023

    JCB Workwear supports returning Welsh Rally driver at the builders merchant backed Jim Clark Rally Challenge

    Progressive Safety are more than excited to announce our support for James Williams in the Motorsport UK British Rally Championship.

    Last year James was rookie of the year and finished 3rd in the overall Championship standings. This weekend he is competing in the Beatsons Building Supplies Limited sponsored, Jim Clark Rally, organised alongside the Jim Clark Memorial Motor Club. The event is to run across the weekend of 26-28 May 2023 based around Duns in the Scottish Borders. The event is a round of the British Rally Championship, Scottish Rally Championship and National Asphalt Championship, and is named after the 1963 and 1965 Formula One champion.

    In 2022, James debuted the all-new Hyundai i20 R5, and this year takes to the track in a Ford Fiesta Rally2.

    James is quoted: "Last season was a good year on the whole, but I have high standards and want to improve in many areas. If I want to be realistically fighting for wins and hopefully the title, the

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  5. May 18, 2023

    New Company Profile document coming soon to formalise the Progressive Safety position in the Workwear market

    Following last week’s announcement that Anna Topham, granddaughter of our founder John has stepped into a senior leadership role, more here: https://www.psf.co.uk/blog/post/business-trading-update-announcement-revered-workwear-and-safety-equipment-manufacturer-strides-buoy we are pleased to announce the immediate production and nearing completion of the company’s latest Company Profile.

    This 20-page document will make clear our position, routes to market and ambitions for the future as we plan to take the business to the next level. Delivering on our ambition to leave a significant footprint on the Safety Footwear, Workwear & Clothing and PPE industry.

    In summary it will cover.

    • About the business, a brief history and our capability today
    • Our UK, European and Rest of World route to market strategies
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  6. May 11, 2023

    BUSINESS TRADING UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT: Revered Workwear and Safety Equipment Manufacturer strides buoyantly into its third generation

    Progressive Safety of 101 Worthing Road, Sheffield has provided world class safety equipment and work clothing since 1960. Originally to miners, today they are trusted around the world from their home of Sheffield to Saskatchewan and manufacture quality workwear and footwear ranges under the JCB Workwear, WORKTOUGH and Contractor brands.

    The company has long supplied builders' merchants and trade counters and offer low commitment, high impact and striking POS displays proven to increase customer engagement.

    Being family owned, Progressive plan their stock around ensuring continuity of supply and heavily stock their core lines of work trousers, outdoor jackets and safety boots. The company offers all customers and ecommerce retailers an industry leading despatch of stocked items, achieving dispatch the same day for next day delivery using industry leading trackable carriers on more than 5000 unique items, supported by a long serving operations and fulfilment team.

    The

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