News

The construction of the New Regional Indoor Training Centre for Culture and Sport Glasgow, in our neighbouring area of Toryglen, gave us a great opportunity to participate in the development of our local community.

The state-of-the-art facility will be Scotland’s first full-size indoor football pitch. Thousands of school children will have access to the centre and the facility will be widely used by both the local community and the professionals alike.

Reglit Glass Architecture has been providing much of the exterior envelope for the building, and the results are more than impressive.

Interior and Exterior views of the ToryGlen Football centre

Welcome to the new website for the Westcrowns group.  Please take some time to look through the site and feel free to make any suggestions that you think will improve the website.

Some new things we have introduced…

We have a new Past section that illustrates the wealth of experience within our group companies, and also shows some interesting facts throughout history !

A new present section that highlights our performance and wealth of products and services.

A new news section that allows us to promote what’s happening within the group

And a new corporate logo, which I hope reflects the continuous development of the group but also looks back proudly at the groups history.

Above all I hope you find the website useful for all things Westcrowns group related. 

Best Regards

Fraser Haran
CEO Westcrowns Group

“The directors are pleased to report another year of satisfactory performance with both turnover and operating profit meeting our expectations. In challenging market conditions, the Group turnover on a like for like basis (continuing operations) has marginally reduced by £91k from the 2008 position of £32,041k, while Group operating profit has increased by £77k from the 2008 position of £1,850k.

As reported in our previous Review, the directors confirm that on 29th August 2008 the Group’s subsidiary IG (NI) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Independent Glass Co Ltd, purchased the business and assets of Toughglass Ltd (In Administration) from the Administrator. The directors confirm that this purchase compliments our current strategy and offers the Group future opportunity through enhanced production capability and production capacity.

Incorporating acquisitions, the directors confirm that Profit on ordinary activities (before tax) have met our expectations at £1,239k in 2009. Another positive aspect has been the recovery of long term debt for the Group (£191k), which has been used to repay long term loans to the Bank.

These in combination with other factors have resulted in a £568k increase in Group shareholder funds to £3,660k.

Looking forward, the directors are confident that the Group is favourably positioned to manage the current market conditions and is well prepared to take advantage of future opportunities. Specifically long term contracts; a strong forward order book; ongoing investment in production, capacity and R & D have prepared a strong foundation for the year ahead.”