The Just Slate Company Presentation

2. • Acquired by Donny Carstairs - 2006
• Product range - 4
• Sales - £95,000 pa
• Total Staff - 5
• sales agents - 0
• Current position
• Product Range - 35
• Sales - £1,200,000 pa
• Total Staff - 25
• Sales Agents - 6

4. • Just Slate products are:
• Contemporary & modern in design
• A lifestyle purchase
• On-trend, successfully avoiding fashionable
• Equally at home in gifts or tableware
• Infused with a Scottish Heritage
• Handcrafted with attention to detail
Contemporary Style, Natural Character

5. Points of distinction
• Contemporary design
• Handcrafted in Scotland
• Stylish packaging
• Care and information cards with each product
• Full foam backing
• Foodsafe laquer on certain products

6. Tableware

7. Homeware Gift

8. Entertaining

9. Accessories

10. Packaging

11. Bespoke

13. • Department stores
• Independent retailers
– Gift Shops
– Cookshops
– Garden centres
– Farm shops
• Catering suppliers
• Hotels and restaurants
In total we supply to over 540 trade customers

14. Donny Carstairs
MD
Alan Thomson Eleanor Heggie Claire Cottrell Emma Carstairs Jamie Russell
Director of Financial Controller UK Sales Claire Mathieson Brand Manager
Operations Manager Yasmein Edgar
Designers
Maggie Justice Colin Carstairs Jen Thain Jack Moore Mhairi Scott Seamus McCarthy Maria Cox
Maria Cox
Purchasing Production Supply Chain Master Agent Agent Agent Marketing &
Marketing & Export
England Scotland Ireland Export Executive
Executive
Naomi Rendell,
Naomi Rendell,
Export xecutive
Export Executive
Ian Carstairs Team leaders Kate McNee Fiona Wyatt
Shipping Klaus, Lynn & Administrator Geraldine Finnan
Marchin and Paul Merchant
Production Agents - England
Staff

15. • 11 New products launched October 2011
• 8 New products to launch in 2012
• Expansion to France and USA in 2012
• New website and online sales push
• Marketing and PR investment
• 8 national Trade Shows
• 7 national retail shows
• Investment in production facilities