Exciting Times, Hellos and Goodbyes!

It’s been a busy week for us here at Airquee. If you haven’t heard about the exciting news from earlier this week, we very proudly announced that Airquee Limited has acquired the Air Inflatables name, trademark and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Thank you to everyone for their encouragement and support, we are all looking forward to working with the brand.

Our new accountant Clare started this week, so we would love to give her a great warm welcome to the company! Already she is becoming a valued member of the Airquee team, doing the essential training with Phil H (who is extremely glad of the assistance), and adding her expertise to the Accounts department. She has also done the wonderful task of making everyone tea on occasion!

This week was also the final week for our visitors from Romania, with Tim leaving us for his long journey home. We were sorry to see him leave and for us newer members of staff it has given us some valuable insight into dispatch. We said our sad farewells and Sue gave him a big cwtch – a Welsh hug for those unsure of what it means – and Tim will be spending today travelling home and then having a well-deserved holiday. If you need any help with final payments or dispatch until he and Adam return, please contact Keiren or Sue and they will be able to help you.

Today we also say goodbye to our junior CAD designer Harrison as well. We’re all sad to see him go and his Friday dance will be missed. We hope that he has great luck for the future!

We’re getting further on planning our shows and our showroom is shaping up nicely for our October show here in Cwmbran!

An eventful week for us here at Airquee, and at the end of a successful week we have been stung here by the IT failure at HSBC! This has caused delays to the pay of our employees, so we had to put a bit more work into getting our wages - see our new mini film "Anything for a wage", starring Lady Kerry McIvor (she's really getting into the tester role isn't she)!

A long post this week, and a lot to talk about here at Airquee, where if you can imagine it, Airquee can make it. More exciting times to come so watch this space!

Air Inflatables Press Release

Airquee Ltd and Air Inflatables Limited are pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the name, trademark and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of Air Inflatables Limited by Airquee Ltd. 

Airquee is extremely proud and excited to have this opportunity to work with the Air Inflatables brand. Air Inflatables was the company where Airquee Sales Director Kerry McIvor first cut her teeth in the inflatables industry in 2009. She believes that with Airquee’s purchase of the Air Inflatables name, trademark and Intellectual Property Rights, etc, the time is right to continue the excellent track record of the brand and bring a new lease of life to what is an already proven and popular range of products.

Airquee will work extremely hard to ensure that all customer enquiries related to the above announcement are dealt with seamlessly. Warranty enquiries on all Air Inflatables products sold prior to 31^st August 2015 will be dealt with by Inflatable World Leisure, who will also carry out any arising repairs. Kerry will be happy to receive any calls and questions regarding this matter and the whole of the Airquee Team look forward to keeping you abreast of the exciting developments we have planned for the brand.

You can contact Kerry directly on 07990 766129 or via the main office 0117 9414 918 Option 1 and by emailing: kerry@airquee.co.uk.

Holidays and business as usual!

After their excellent work on creating an amazing array of inflatables, the majority of employees at our Romania factory this week went on a much deserved break! In fact, they should ALL be on a summer holiday but I'm sure I've seen some of them pop up on Skype this week...The factory will re-open on Monday 7th September.

But that doesn't stop our offices here in Cwmbran from being busy as usual! Our Sales and Design teams (still based in Bristol) have been visiting the Cwmbran office this week and even though we've got the larger space it can still get pretty crowded!

We've also been joined by Adam and Tim from the factory, as they continue to provide their great service ensuring the delivery of the inflatables from our warehouse to you, throughout the factory holiday. Adam has now gone back to Romania, and left his brother Tim in charge of the UK Dispatch. Their visit has been really useful as always, reviewing and improving our processes between departments!

This week we also had another visitor from the factory. Zsolt is the graphic designer from our Romanian Design team. Along with Mark, Phil M, Phil H and Kerry he has been redesigning our brochure – so we will have a brand new one which will be available for you all at the upcoming leisure shows!

Speaking of the shows, we’re making time in our hectic Airquee days to get through all the preparation and organisation that goes into them! 

First stop, on the 22-23rd September we'll be at the Leisure Industry Week (LIW), at the NEC Birmingham, UK.

Next show is on the 6-8th October, the European Attractions Show (EAS), this year held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Then you can find us on the 11-12th October at the Leisure Supplies Show (LSS), in Coventry, UK.

Saving the best for last this year, we'll be doing our Airquee shows in October! 

From the 16-19th October we invite you all to come along to play on our fantastic products in our amazing new home! We'd love to see you at Airquee's Open Weekend in Cwmbran, Wales. 

And then for the 24-25th October we're at our Ireland Open Day, in the usual place of Beragh, Northern Ireland.

We're also already getting ready for INPAS in January 2016! 

If you can imagine it. Airquee can make it. And with the all these upcoming events you can see for yourself!

Location, location, location!

Disco Dome Airtime

You’ve all heard of our fantastic Disco Domes bouncy castles, right? Now you can also see them in action on an episode of the BBC show Don’t Tell the Bride! An excellent way to get the party started and all the guests showed their eagerness to get bouncing on our amazing product - it just shows how brilliant of an addition it is for any party. It is set up in a hall, but the product is also excellent for outdoors; have your party outside with fresh air!

Also in our new range for August is our brand new 6 metre Disco Dome Bouncy Castle! Suitable for up to 10 people at once, almost double our original Disco Dome! Head over to the Airquee website for all the details on our product, and find out how you could rave and bounce at your next big event!

Settling in at Cwmbran

We’re on to our fourth week here at the new site in Cwmbran, time sure flies! It’s business as usual with customer collections on a daily basis. We have had several compliments on the ease of access to the site - with no need to go through any city to get here and no busy traffic to navigate! Customers from the Midlands and the North have even said how much easier it is to collect from this location.

Out in the warehouse we are all settled in  - with the dispatch of your fantastic products never stopping thanks to all the hard work of the people in the warehouse and our factory in Romania! We've also just replenished some of our E-Range stock so head over Airquee Online for details on our range of ready-for-dispatch products!

This week we are joined by Adam and his brother Tim from the factory, both involved in dispatch - they've come to see our new site for the first time. We’ll be continuing to process all your orders while working close together and making sure our service of getting your great products to you carries on smoothly!

The larger space is excellent for us to grow into, and we have some exciting plans. If you can imagine it, Airquee can make it. So watch this space!