A Midlands cabling company which began life in the owner’s front room has agreed a deal for its first industrial premises.
With the help of property agents John Truslove, Fibrenet Network Infrastructure Solutions Ltd has taken a three year lease on Unit 12, Colemeadow Road in Redditch.
Currently based in Dickens Heath, and run by brothers Aron and Brett Burbidge, both directors, it has gradually expanded and now has five employees.
The business is a sub-contractor installing various types of cable and fibre optics for telephones and computers.
A recent high profile installation was cabling for the Hawkeye cameras goal line technology at Villa Park on behalf of Electranet UK Ltd. It also put in the telephone and fibre backbone cabling for Bush House in London where until recently the BBC World Service was based for 75 years.
BT Openreach is an end user of FNIS’s services.
Now in its third year of trading, it has plans for further expansion.
Aron said: “The company was pretty much founded from a laptop in my lounge at home. This is our first real premises.
“We have slowly grown and there are lots of plans in mind, but we are conscious of the dangers of trying to do too much too quickly.”
And he was full of praise for John Truslove director Ben Truslove who helped find the new base – now open but still being fully customised.
“We’d gone to view several places but got nowhere. Then we contacted Ben and he was really good. He understood straightaway what we wanted. He was very helpful – we had the keys to the new place within 30 days.”
Mr Truslove said: “It was a pleasure doing business with such an exceptionally promising operation.
“They are in a growth sector and I am sure will continue to do well. This is just the sort of technologically adept firm Redditch needs.”
The 556 sq ft unit is on North Moons Moat, one of the town’s most popular industrial estates.