Signage

We’re sure that you are as keen as we are to avoid handing the Chancellor any more of your hard-earned cash than is absolutely necessary. That’s why we’re urging potential customers who might not be VAT registered, and are about to place an order, to act now. As you will be aware on 01/01/2010, the current reduced rate of 15% will revert to the previous, higher rate of 17.5%

If you are not VAT registered you are unable to reclaim VAT incurred on purchases and, as a result of this, after 01/01/2010 the same item will inevitably cost you 2.5% more than it would today! The good news is that there is still time, (just), to take advantage of the reduced rate. Any orders invoiced before 01/01/2010 will be subject to VAT at the reduced rate.

Remember that in order to qualify for the lower rate of VAT, work needs to be invoiced before the holiday.
- Mike Barnes, Director

So if you’re thinking of ordering, email us today at sales@greenbarnes.co.uk and we’ll get the job into production immediately ensuring that you beat the deadline. For further inspiration you can browse our website or, in the event of any queries, call us as soon as possible and we’ll do all that we can to ensure that you don’t miss out.

Our Sales Department closes for the Christmas break at lunchtime on Thursday 24th December and reopens on Monday 4th January. Remember that in order to qualify for the lower rate of VAT, work needs to be invoiced before the holiday. We regret that we will be unable to backdate invoices once the increase has occurred.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Top: Burgess Square signage in stainless steel. Bottom: Bespoke oak-framed chalk board for The Old Hall Bookshop

A quick glance at our “Recent Projects Map” immediately reveals the nationwide coverage achieved by Greenbarnes products. However, three very different signage jobs, coincidentally all undertaken within the last 3 months in our home town of Brackley, Northants, have combined to provide a useful showcase of the company’s diversity.

First to be completed was a project for developer Swan Hill Homes Ltd in connection with the town’s new Burgess Square development. The signs, in brushed stainless steel with chemically etched graphics, are mounted between bollards at the front edge of the site to identify the newly created space and to delineate it from the existing Market Place.

Immediately opposite the Burgess Square project, but a world away in style, a bespoke oak-framed chalk board for our local independent book shop demonstrates the company’s skills in more traditional areas of sign-making. The Old Hall Bookshop occupies elegant Georgian premises set back from the High Street behind a garden area and was looking for a way to raise its profile by means of getting a variable message to passers-by. The railing-mounted board can be removed for safe storage at night.

Last but not least was a brace of powder-coated aluminium “tray” type signs with computer-cut vinyl graphics for life insurance specialists Pulse Insurance Ltd who have recently opened new premises in the town.

If you are considering any signage projects, why not contact our Sales Department for a no-obligation quotation.

A-Max cases used in Ely Cathedral wayfinding project

We are delighted to be able to report that our A-Max aluminium display cases were recently specified as part of a signage project for Ely Cathedral.

Designers Maddison Graphic were commissioned by the cathedral Architects, Purcell Miller Tritton, and the Dean & Chapter at Ely Cathedral to design replacement wayfinding and information panels. The signs are positioned at seven entrances to the cathedral precinct, the idea being that any visitor to the cathedral would pass one of them. Three of the information panels are abutted by a second poster case containing notices.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ELY CATHEDRAL WAYFINDING PROJECT

Cows on the mooove!

Created in 1978, the Concrete Cows of Milton Keynes have become the city’s best-loved and most widely known piece of public artwork. To date the cows have lead an adventurous lifestyle which has included being kidnapped and held to ransom, decapitated Damien Hurst style and headlining at the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Now, in order that they may be enjoyed by a wider audience, five of the herd have been loaned to Midsummer Place Shopping Centre by their owners, The Parks Trust. Greenbarnes Ltd are delighted to have been chosen to supply the three bespoke interpretation panels, framed in oak with graphics printed onto Dibond panels, which accompany the three cows and two calves currently corralled under the oak tree in the centre.