Smart Get Away winners announced

Alphason Design’s Smart Get Away promotion winners have been announced. Jill Barlow, proprietor of Barlow Electrical in Cheshire, wins first prize – a luxurious 7-night, 5-star holiday for two to St Lucia.

Jill was one of the three winners in the promotion.  Second place was won by Josh Butler, buyer at Panavision in Guildford who wins 3 nights in a 5-star hotel in New York. Gardiner Homecare in Bristol scooped third prize - a 5-star break to Paris on Eurostar.

The Smart Get Away promotion was launched to celebrate the first anniversary of Alphason’s award-winning and hugely successful Viewsmart initiative to increase attachment sales. It ran over the last three months of the year and was a great success attracting hundreds of entries. Retailers needed to spend £1,000 on Alphason product to qualify for entry, and winners were drawn at the company’s production facilities in Wigan recently.

Comments Alphason’s Sales Director Paul McCarthy: “Alphason retailers who have adopted the Viewsmart initiative are already winners as they are enjoying significant increases in attachment sales. However, we thought it would also be appropriate to celebrate Viewsmart’s incredible success and thank our customers for their support with a promotion giving them a chance to win one of three exciting 5-star travel prizes.”

Pictured here drawing the winning entries is retra Chief Executive Bryan Lovewell (left) with Alphason’s Sales Director Paul McCarthy.

Viewsmart was launched exclusively to independent retailers at the Euronics Show in 2008 as an innovative way of adding much needed attachment sales. The concept was to create a clear, concise and eye-catching range of accessories which can effectively be sold along with Alphason’s range of award-winning furniture that are simple for consumers to buy and easy for retailers to sell. The Viewsmart concept won HCD’s Best Manufacturer Initiative 2010 in the recent Awards.