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 | It’s been more than 20 years since Crown Paints last sponsored top-flight football but now the brand is right back at the heart of the Premiership having signed a sponsorship deal with Blackburn Rovers FC worth up to £5 million over a 3-year period. |
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 | Over 100 bungalows at Potters Leisure Resort near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, have been refurbished using Crown Trade Clean Extreme Scrubbable Matt. The interior coating was selected for the five star holiday resort because of its ability to retain an exceptional finish and to further extend the resort’s redecoration cycle. |
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 | Crown Trade Clean Extreme Scrubbable Matt has provided a durable and practical decorative finish at BP Exploration’s expansive new HQ in Dyce, just outside Aberdeen. |
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 | Using a range of high performance Crown Trade decorative coatings in bright, contemporary colourways, Bagnalls have helped to deliver attractive, and stimulating learning environments at six new flagship schools developed for Education Leeds. |
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 | Having successfully renovated, refurbished, restyled and resold over a dozen 19th and early 20th century properties in the past few years, Juliet Crosland is one of many independent property developers to have found inspiration in Crown Trade’s Historic Colours collection…. |
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 | One of the main highlights of Saturday’s proceedings at the SDF conference was the draw for a gleaming new Nissan van, a star prize donated by Crown Trade for the second year in succession. |
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 | Crown Trade and Sandtex Trade products have been specified for the refurbishment of Parkers Mill in Mildenhall, Suffolk. A selection of coatings from the Crown Trade and Sandtex Trade portfolios were selected for the internal and external redecoration of the former watermill, which has been converted into 14 contemporary apartments by housebuilder Freshwater Estates (UK) Ltd. |
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 | When new Crown Trade Grip Extreme primer made its debut at the 2007 Painting & Decorating Show at Ricoh in Coventry, few visitors walked away from the Crown Trade stand empty handed. |
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 | Crown Trade and Sandtex Trade decorative coatings have been used throughout a £20million project to redevelop, extend and revitalise Bridlington’s best known entertainment, events and conferencing venue. |
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 | Now that pubs are smoke free zones many licensees are eliminating their sepia nicotine-stained walls and ceilings once and for all. When Dave and Sandra Ramsden took over the reins at The Dog Inn in the Lancashire village of Whittle-le-Woods, they too were keen to refresh their new premises. They were also anxious to keep the pub open and not lose takings so early into their tenancy. Here’s how Crown Trade helped them to achieve the results they wanted without having to call time… |
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Crown Trade has begun its annual search for the nation’s most promising young decorators once again. Debbie Orr, Crown Trade Brand Manager is now urging contractors everywhere to encourage their apprentices to take part this year and to submit application forms in time for the regional heats which take place over the late spring and summer months. |
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 | Having enjoyed great success with Clean Extreme Scrubbable Matt over the past twelve months, Crown Trade has introduced a second ‘Extreme’ coating, which also offers outstanding performance in the most demanding applications. |
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 | Crown Trade Timonox flame retardant paint systems helped to prevent flames spreading through a block of tenanted flats, when a fire broke out on the fifth floor of a high rise tower in Birmingham. |
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 | While pupils from the William Beamont Community High School in Warrington were enjoying a welcome break from lessons during the summer holidays they were unaware of the mammoth refurbishment project taking place in their absence. |
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 | Crown Trade has launched a special collection of historic paint colours, inspired by eight of the most distinctive architectural and design styles to have had an impact on British interiors during the last 500 years. |
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 | When The Bentall Centre in Kingston Upon Thames was due for redecoration, the job called for a team with stamina, specialist training….and most important of all, a head for heights.
The four storey shopping centre features a vast open gallery covered with a glazed barrel vault. At its centre is a spectacular atrium, large enough at 38 metres high, to accommodate the nave of Westminster Abbey or the dome of St Paul’s. The lofty, airy architecture is stunning to look at by day, and more so by night, when an award winning lighting scheme takes over from natural daylight. |
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 | Crown Trade’s range of Timonox flame retardant paints has been used in an extensive refurbishment programme at Sinfin Community School in Derbyshire, to ensure that the highest levels of fire safety are in place following a fire earlier in the year, which left the school badly damaged. |
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 | For the second year in succession Crown Trade is making a major contribution to the Scottish Decorating Federation’s recruitment drive for new members and encouraging attendance at the main event in the Federation’s 2008 calendar. A brand new van is to be donated by Crown Trade for a Grand Prize Draw which will take place at the SDF’s annual Conference and Gala Dinner. |
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 | Crown Trade Timonox flame retardant paint systems recently helped to prevent flames spreading through a high-rise block of tenanted flats in Manchester, when two fires broke out within a one week period. |
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Attending the Painting & Decorating Association Conference for the very first time in October 2007, Craig Wilson, Area Manager for Seddon’s Southampton branch, got a lot more than he bargained for. |
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 | The elegant interiors of the five star Radisson Edwardian in Manchester are little bit like the Forth Bridge, according to Dean Strudwick, Chief Engineer at the luxurious city centre hotel, built on the site of the historic Free Trade Hall. |
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 | When Brannock Decorators of Holytown near Glasgow were called into Wishaw General Hospital in Motherwell to give the five year old premises a makeover, it was not only the aesthetic appearance of the interiors that needed to be upgraded… |
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 | Students arriving this autumn at Liberty Park, a brand new purpose built residential development on the University of Bedford campus, will benefit from unusually spacious and luxurious facilities. The new student accommodation has been built, furnished and decorated to a very high specification by Marriott Construction, part of Kier Group plc, for their client Liberty Living plc, the fastest growing student and key worker accommodation provider in the UK. |
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 | Somerfield has just completed a major nationwide redecoration programme to ‘refresh and rebrand’ all of its 900 outlets. The five-month project was managed and implemented by Bagnalls’ dedicated Special Projects team using a range of Crown Trade decorative coatings. |
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 | Crown Trade has responded to the needs of decorating contractors everywhere with its brand new compact Product Guide, now available free of charge at Crown Trade stockists and from Crown Paints Customer Relations Team.
Designed for frequent, everyday use by the professional, this indispensable guide has been produced in a tough wire bound format for longevity, and in a practical size, small enough to slip inside the pocket. |
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 | Crown Trade’s Timonox range of flame retardant paints has been specified for the redecoration of five schools across Edinburgh. Paints from the range were selected, as part of a wider portfolio of Crown Trade products, for the project due to the proven high performance at minimising the spread of flame, as well as their excellent levels of quality and durability. |
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 | Decorative coatings from Crown Trade have been used to transform the appearance and ambience of the Princess Royal Suite at Aintree, the largest and most luxurious hospitality facility at this famous racecourse, the historic home of the Grand National. |
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Keen to give professional decorators more choice in the high performance sector of the emulsion market, Crown Trade has launched Clean Extreme Scrubbable Matt, a new hi-tech coating developed to resist constant abuse and soiling in heavy traffic areas, and to withstand repetitive cleaning regimes. |
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 | After winning a £30m partnering agreement with Milton Keynes Council to maintain the local authority’s housing stock, MITIE Property Services (UK) Limited has agreed to use Crown Trade decorative coatings for all the interior and exterior redecoration work required over the next five years. |
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 | Crown Trade’s Timonox range of flame retardant paints has been specified for the redecoration of the prestigious Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in Cheshire. Paints from the range were selected for the refurbishment of the school’s library due to their durability and ability to allow surfaces to comply with fire safety requirements. |
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 | Crown Trade Timonox flame retardant paints have been specified to retain the highest levels of fire protection in Axiom Housing Association’s Peterborough Foyer, which provides accommodation for young people. |
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 | All the regional heats in the 2008 Crown Trade Young Decorator Competition have now taken place and for 14 competitors who have earned a place in the national final the tension is mounting. In October they will travel to Leeds college of Building to take part in a demanding three-day competition which will really test their skills and determination to succeed. Scotland has had more than its fair share of winners in recent years and this October all hopes will be pinned on young Rachel Terras, a Borders College student who won her place in the final by beating all her fellow contestants in the heat held at Dumfries and Galloway College at the end of May. |
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 | At the 2007 grand final of the nationwide search to find the Crown Trade Young Decorator of the Year, the PDA not only helped to judge the event but also announced its official endorsement of the premier skills competition for young people learning the craft. |
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