STOP PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 Customade Group for Sale
6th May 2020

Customade Group the £124million super-fabricator/trade counter group has been put up for sale by accelerated process.
The group, with nine manufacturing sites, seven core brands covering PVCu and ali windows, doors, comp doors, ali roofs, IGUs and specialist glazing as well as 33 Stevenswood trade counters, is being offered via Alvarez & Marsal under the codename Project Kirkwood.

Customade Group in its current form began with the equity-backed merger of the group as it was with Yorkshire-based Polyframe Group read story, itself the subject of an MBO, also backed by equity group Cairngorm Capital.

The group as it stands today employs 1150 across nine manufacturing sites as well as the 33 Stevenswood branches. Its businesses include: Polyframe (PVCu), Virtuoso Doors(composite and PVCu panel doors), REAL Aluminium (aluminium windows and doors), Atlas Glazed Roof Solutions (glazed roofs), Fineline Aluminium (specialist glazing) and Hourglass Seal (sealed glass units). Its PVC-U operation has boasted one ff the most comprehensive offerings on the market, fabricating from Veka, Halo, Rehau, Eurocell and Duraflex.