Posts Tagged ‘stock’
Monday, January 11th, 2010
We do have a small delivery of our best selling multi fuel stove The Firefox 5 arriving on Friday and we do have loads on order that are arriving at the End of the Month
We have been taking pre orders on this model as it has been out of stock for around a month now and we even had somebody buy our display model in the showroom as they were so desperate to get it fitted way back before Christmas.
I hate running out of items as i spend a lot of time monitoring sales patterns and deciding which items to have on special offers and to get our stock levels right but even we didn’t see the 40% increase on sales of the Firefox 5 from last year when we ran out too.
The surge in solid fuel sales was expected but again it sees our suppliers and the whole Gallery group running short of some items you just cant plan for this and with the reccesion as well nobody wanted to stock too much either.
Here at Castfireplaces we doubled our stove stock levels from our normal rate and this has kept a good flow coming through of everything except the Firefox 5.
Anyway we do have 2 left as my lovely wife has sold two today after i removed the out of stock tag on the website page and we dont expect these to be around for long.
So if you do miss these we do have stock arriving around the 26th January when we have a huge amount coming in which will see our Warehouse bursting at the seams i really must have a day moving things around but you know what its like when your busy with things coming in and going out you just never get round to it but i know at the End of the Month space does need to be made for all these Fireplaces and Stoves.
Mmmmmm now where am i going to fit it all leave that with me im just not sure yet

Tags: Firefox 5, Multi Fuel, stock, Stove
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Today is stove day Saturday we have sold every type of Firefox stove we sell and a Tiger Plus we only now need to sell the Tiger Stove to complete the full set.
This is very strange we have sold 1 of each up until 16.30 when I am sat writing this article I am not sure if this has happened before but we have been putting a lot of optimisation work into the range of stoves we offer and this has been showing results over the last few weeks.
I am really pleased we have increased our stock levels of all stoves we supply to keep up with demand this now sees us with around 40 – 50 stoves in stock at any one time which as you can imagine takes up a fair amount of room but we do double stack them to avoid us tripping over them.
Over the last few weeks we have seen a lot of people collect our stoves as they can simply be loaded in the crate into most hatchbacks and all estate cars so our customers are being canny and saving the delivery charge.
In this times of financial turmoil it makes sense to shop around for the best price and to be able to come and view and then take away sets us apart from our competitors.
We are proud of the way we operate our business and will never charge people to collect like we discovered a company doing last month so keep your money in your wallet and come and collect one of Cast Fireplaces great range of Tiger and Firefox Gallery Stoves we really do have them all in stock to view then take away along with 100s of fireplaces in stock
Tags: Collection, delivery, firefox, Plus, stock, Stoves, Tiger
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Hello we have had a busy day today with items arriving the Jig rep has again been to see us and bring our samples of the new items we are going to be offering on our website and I must say they look fantastic.
He has also dropped off a batch load of surrounds we have bought at an incredible price so watch out for those in our bargain sections very shortly.
Richard the Jig rep again remarked at how many Fireplaces we keep in stock and remarked that all the companies he has been too he has never seen so much in stock anywhere else apart from the trade suppliers they deal with he also commented on the forklift that I was driving and restacking items when he arrived at our factory.
All the items were swiftly unloaded from his van and placed into stock ready to photograph so they can go on our website.
I am going to set aside a day next week when I photo all these new items we have so you can see them all and purchase them on our website.
On returning to the office today I had a call from our website company for me to ring re website update we currently have running it looks like our site may need some major alteration to make it work how we want it too.
So they are now underway with that after agreeing costs and I have been forwarded test page and new admin section to test out and list items to see how it runs and after an hour or two I must say I’m impressed with the new features we have coming not just easier for our customers but I can then look at items and sales patterns at a push of a button to say im excited is an understatement so expect more on this matter the closer going live date gets.
Right off to walk the dog and have an hour out busy day again tomorrow more thing s to move and more goods arriving Wednesday along with loading vans.
Tags: Fireplace, Fireplaces, JIG, New, stock
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