Garage Door Restore Ltd has recently launched a lightweight, durable and easy to fit garage door ‘cover’, which simply fits over an existing door and immediately gives the appearance of a brand new door. This new product has many advantages over fitting a new replacement door, not least of which is a massive cost saving for the customer. Fitting a brand new door needs to be undertaken by highly trained operatives and could take between 2 and 6 hours to fit, as problems can be encountered due to poor brickwork or timber frames. One person can easily fit the Garage Door Restore product within 30 minutes.
The idea came from Ron Benn (Managing Director) who had several years experience of working in the garage door replacement market, and thought that there must be an alternative to fitting replacement doors, as the costs were prohibitive and prevented many customers from replacing them until it was absolutely necessary. Ron decided to carry out some market research, which suggested 90% of the people with a garage door would like to replace them (even though they were in good working order) with a modern, maintenance free ‘makeover’ door, if the price was affordable to them.
Having designed his initial concept of a replacement ‘skin’ for a door, Ron spent over two years building prototypes and eventually developing an extremely lightweight and easy to fit replacement skin that would fit over the existing door. Early in 2009, Damian Webb (Business Development Director) teamed up Ron and his wife Kathryn (Sales Director) to form the management team and take the product to market. Damian had immediately seen the tremendous growth potential for the business, but realised that help would be required to maximise the opportunity and establish a sound business model from day one.
Damian became aware of the High Growth Programme in April 2009 and quickly signed up to receive 5 days of coaching support, specifically focused on strategic planning and developing a licence model for the UK. The support received included;
