Dec 22
BA Components have further enhanced the marketing support package offered to the Bella and Zurfiz dealer network with the development of an application, or ‘APP’ as it’s commonly referred to downloadable from the Apple App Store to your iPad today.
The App which displays images of eight product groups from the BA Component ranges, is fully [...]
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Nov 26
The Irish Kitchen Trade Awards 2011 reached their culmination at a Gala Dinner in the Belfast Hilton Hotel on Friday night 25th November.
It was a great opportunity for retailers, distributors and manufacturers to meet and interact with each other, at a time when the market is still under a lot of pressure.
The serious business of [...]
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Nov 26
BA Components were pleased be a major sponsor of the Irish Kitchen Design Awards and to present the award to the winner at the Gala dinner in the Belfast Hilton hotel last Friday night 25th November.
BA sponsored the award in the design category where judges were looking for the best Kitchen Design costing no more [...]
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Oct 28
Following the success of the Zurfiz by BA door launch last year, BA Components have decided to add a new colour to the range, increasing the colours available to 21. Metallic Blue Acrylic will further compliment the range and increase choice well above anything currently offered in the UK & Irish marketplace from any door [...]
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Oct 24
Ryan Farquhar’s KMR Kawasaki team put in a dominant display at Bishopscourt short circuit in Downpatrick N.Ireland on Saturday when they blitzed the opposition in the two Supertwin races at the annual Sunflower Trophy meeting. With Jeremy McWilliams and Jamie Hamilton joining Ryan on the ER6 650cc machines, the trio were never headed and completed [...]
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Oct 17
The Sicam Furniture Fair will open its doors in Pordenone, Northern Italy on Wednesday 19th October.
The show will run for four days and attract visitors from all over Europe and beyond. With over 540 exhibitors showing their products in 9 halls totalling more than 30,000 square metres of exhibition space, it promises to be a [...]
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Oct 04
In recognition of a market where delivery turn around times are becoming more critical and reflecting our customers’ needs, BA Components have invested over £500,000 in a fully integrated ERP system for both the Cookstown and Doncaster factories to dramatically cut lead times and improve customer service.
From January 2012 the turn around time for Bella [...]
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Sep 22
Preparations are well under way for BA Components appearance at the Sicam International Trade Show in Pordenone Italy in October.
The Sicam fair, which is now in it’s third year attracts visitors from all over the world and this year will have 500 companies exhibiting in a total space of 30,000 square metres over 9 exhibition [...]
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Sep 19
After many years involvement in rallying, where BA Components successfully partnered with Irish rally champion Glen Allen, enjoying many high points including Irish International championships, the focus for 2011 changed. This year the BA name and logo was featured not in rallying but in a different branch of motorsport with well known local racing [...]
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Aug 30
BA Components have over the last 20 years built a strong reputation for quality product, great design and unrivalled marketing support.
This is a reputation of which BA are justifiably proud, and this along with an ability to listen carefully to what their dealers say, and where possible building those requests into product development, has [...]
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Jun 08
BA Components are making new and exciting changes to the Bella range for 2011. We are improving the range by introducing new designs and colours.
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Jun 01
A young man with new challenges is Paul Randall. Paul who has been successfully selling our Bella and Zurfiz ranges in East Anglia for the last eighteen months, is taking up a new role within the business on June 6th.
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May 10
The use of sliding doors more often in the bedroom but now increasingly being used to seal or conceal kitchen areas in modern apartments and town houses is becoming more prevalent in the KBB marketplace today.
While there are many offerings of both internally mounted and externally hung sliding systems, where one door sits outside the [...]
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Dec 10
2010 has seen some changes in personnel and responsibilities within the sales team reporting to Sales & Marketing Director, David Caulfield.
Jonathan Head has been promoted to become National Sales Manager and now has full day to day responsibility for the field sales team.
Anthony McCabe who has been looking after the North East for the [...]
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Oct 04
BA Components have been searching the world for a sliding door system offering a very modern solution, simple engineering and cutting edge design to sliding doors.
The search led them to Israel where they made contact with a Company embracing and living all of these principles.
Hardoor, based in Tel Aviv, have developed a unique range of [...]
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Jul 29
Wherever BA doors are manufactured, either in Doncaster or Cookstown a BA door is manufactured to the highest quality using the latest available plant, procedures and processes.
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Jul 02
BA has never been a company to acknowledge convention without questioning whether there is a better way and the introduction of their new Zurfiz by BA collection proves the point.
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Mar 11
BA Component’s Managing Director Brian McCracken and Sales & Marketing Director David Caulfield are exhibiting elements of BA Components product ranges at the CSM trade show in Miami from 15th to 19th March.
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Dec 16
Market leading furniture door and components manufacturer BA Components based in Cookstown in N.Ireland and owned by twin brothers, Brian and Kieran McCracken have today announced the successful purchase of BLP from Administration.
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Nov 04
Recently by-ba extended the maximum width of doors available to 1200 wide to provide greater choice and variety to the Bella range. Details of the price breaks have also now been released and are available from all BA Components field sales people or by logging on to BA Live.
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Nov 01
With the imminent arrival of new brands to the BA family the whole branding strategy within the Company has come up for review.
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Oct 02
BA Components have appointed a new Area Sales Manager in East Anglia. Paul Randall who will be working out of Peterborough and reporting to Midlands Regional Manager Dave Gray comes to Bella from Howdens Joinery where he has been operating as salesman from the Peterborough branch since July last year.
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Oct 02
While most of us were growing up the doors in ours and our parents bedrooms were integral to the free-standing wardrobes, cabinets and ‘tall-boys’ fashionable at that time.
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Sep 11
In the current credit crunch when finances are stretched the way to improve your kitchen is to look carefully at your current kitchen furniture and see how best to create a new look at the least cost.
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Sep 10
BA Components has always been a family and community orientated company, amongst the staff you’ll find fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles and good friends all working side by side. The company also like where possible to contribute to the local community where our workforce live.
Recently we heard of the plight of local [...]
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Sep 09
During a recent Ministerial visit to their Cookstown production facility, Kieran McCracken the Production Director of BA Components took a number of distinguished visitors including the Minister to see the processes and procedures employed to produce the popular BellabyBA product range.
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Sep 09
We are all living and conducting business in challenging times and as many in our industry have had to give up the struggle and cease to trade it’s great to know there are so many of you out there who have battened down the hatches and battled through. While it’s a little too early yet to say the worst appears to be over there is no doubt some of those elusive green shoots we’ve all been looking for are beginning to sprout.
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Sep 08
David Caulfield – BA Components Sales & Marketing Manager looks at current Market trends and offers advice to hard pressed retailers in the current economic climate.
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Sep 01
BA Components the leading bespoke frontal supplier and manufacturer of the Bella Kitchen & Bedroom collections have announced a complete upgrade of their on-line BA Live service.
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Aug 15
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has congratulated Cookstown Company BA Components Ltd on securing contracts worth £7.5 million.
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Aug 15
No matter what industry you are in, today image is everything. Designers rely on colour to add life and personality to a room, and to set the mood for the spaces we’re working in. There are the basic principals of colour and design – for instance, horizontal lines to widen a space or bring the ceiling down, or a dark or intense wall of colour at one end to make a long narrow space less so.
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Jun 10
In the current economic climate many people are deciding to improve their current property as opposed to actually moving to a new home.
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Jun 05
We spend a third of our lives asleep we’re told and we all need somewhere to retreat, relax and recharge. The atmosphere, ambience and appearance of this stunning bedroom take the breath away.
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Jun 01
Vinyl KBB Door and Components Manufacturers BA Components have a truly cutting edge product offering in their Bella Range with a stunning choice of over 700 colour and design combinations from traditional and contemporary through to Avant Garde.
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Apr 14
David Caulfield, BA Components Sales & Marketing Manager, looks at current Market trends and developments in a credit pressed economy.
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Mar 27
The demand for the new revised promotional materials and items available to our dealers has been really pleasing, and we are delighted it has been so well received and now much in evidence in your shops and showrooms.
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Feb 23
Bella by BA have extended the possibilities for kitchen and bedroom designers allowing them more freedom to innovate with their Vinyl door ranges.
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Feb 20
Flow Line now available. BA Components have continued to develop the exciting collection of Sahara Feature doors and drawers in the Bella range
Since Sahara’s original launch last summer demand has continued to grow with doors and drawer fronts regularly being added as kitchen features to add interest and contrast.
Now available as full bedroom doors the [...]
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Feb 18
By now all Bella dealers should have had the opportunity to inspect and browse the Bella Bedroom Collections Brochure, and hopefully found it as enjoyable and interesting as the Kitchen Collections Brochure before it.
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Jan 20
BA Components have followed up the recent Kitchen Collections brochure by publishing a stunning 108 page Bedroom Collections brochure to help complete their suite of promotional literature.
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Dec 05
Following many requests from customers to produce a ‘Shaker Style’ door in High Gloss colours BA Components are pleased to announce the availability of their WARWICK style door in all High Gloss colours with the exception of High Gloss Ebony.
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Nov 18
To develop our brand and continue to offer the best possible service to our dealers we at BA Components have embarked on a program of consumer advertising aimed at the man and woman in the street but designed to ‘pull’ Bella product through you our dealers and into bedrooms and kitchens all over the country.
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Nov 03
BA Components already recognised for their green policy of using only wood based materials sourced from independently certified and well managed forests in line with both FSC & PEFC directives and the recycling of all waste materials to heat their factory have taken a further ‘green’ step.
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Oct 17
BA Components recently launched Kitchen Collection features the latest trend for the ‘curvy’ look across the range.
One of the first Manufacturers to produce a full vinyl wrapped curved door and plinth the doors are available in all 34 colours of the range and the demand for the doors since they were launched in July has [...]
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Oct 16
BA Components has always been committed to investing in marketing to support its dealers and promote the Bella brand. At a time when many are cutting back on marketing BA Components is investing in a major promotional campaign, which will not only continue to build the Bella Brand but will also build business for its [...]
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Sep 10
Memories of hearth and home. Apron strings and childhood happiness. Remembering familiar smells – the welcoming aroma of baked bread, the plump and plop of potatoes and pasta in a pot. Fresh coffee. The hiss and spit of a sizzling hot pan. A kitchen for cooking, entertaining friends, solving the problems of the day over [...]
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Sep 05
Vinyl KBB Door and Components Manufacturers BA Components have recently revamped their Bella Range and David Caulfield who heads up the BA Sales & Marketing Team shared some of his ideas and thinking with Kitchen Journal.
High gloss kitchens are shining brighter than ever with white, black and cream leading the trend. Add to that [...]
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Aug 17
Leading Vinyl wrapped door and component manufacturer BA Components continues to improve and innovate both products and manufacturing processes. [...]
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Aug 02
Homeowners continue to expect much more from their kitchens today and no manufacturer recognises this and responds to it more than Bespoke made to measure specialist manufacturer BA Components. [...]
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Jul 25
As floor plans are becoming more open and the kitchen is more integrated into the main living areas of the home, it becomes increasingly important to carry good design practises into the kitchen. This includes decisions on appliances, doors, drawers, accessories and splash back colours among other things.
It’s important to consider certain elements when determining [...]
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