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Our Gold Sustainability Journey
Ripple Group is proud to announce that we have recently been awarded the Gold Sustainability Award by EcoVadis, a leading company in benchmarking and guiding businesses towards net-zero sustainability. This award is a testament to our ongoing commitment to sustainability and our efforts to minimize the negative impact of our operations on the environment, society, and economy. In this blog post, we will share our journey towards achieving this award and discuss the importance of sustainability for businesses and the role that companies like EcoVadis play in helping businesses achieve their goals.
We’re Investors in People Platinum Accredited!
We are incredibly proud to announce that Investors in People have awarded us, ‘We invest in people’ PLATINUM accreditation! The next step on our journey to becoming a fantastic place to work where we live and breathe out values and put our people first!
Why Showroom Design Matters
Ripple are specialists in designing all types of showrooms, from kitchen or bathroom showroom design projects to car showroom design installations. But is a showroom worth the investment? Our team has all the details you need to find out
How does Colour and Branding Influence Shoppers?
When shopping on the high street or in your favourite stores, you will rarely find a shop front or retail display that has dull or dark colours. This, like nearly all shop design choices, is intentional and all done with the aim of drawing shoppers into the brand experience. That’s why colour and branding are […]
Ripple have been awarded the Gold Sustainability Award by EcoVadis
EcoVadis use 4 core principles to score partners on Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement, and we’re extremely pleased that from the work already done, we have been awarded a gold rating for 2022, which puts us within the top 6% of companies in our industry, a fantastic achievement and a great start to our continual efforts to become a more sustainable business.
Becoming a sustainable business has been high on our agenda over the past couple of years, however, this award helps us to not only benchmark ourselves within the industry but outlines additional aspects of the business that we can add to our plan of action to further improve our environmental impact.
Brooke Ceramics @ MKM Home
We were approached by MKM Home following their takeover of the tile brand Brooke Ceramics. They wanted to completely overhaul their flagship showroom and trade centre based in Hull which is an eye-catching building, well known in the area and one that has been a tile superstore since the ’90s.
From the outset, we were tasked with the creative design and customer experience planning of the two buildings that make up the signature store, developing the layout and journey through the store, ensuring that the very best of what the brand has to offer is displayed in the best possible way. Our Creative Design Team developed a range of amazing concepts one of which was chosen to take through to delivery and manufacture.
The conversation then naturally lead into technical design and delivery, which once again we were asked to manage. Our Technical Design Team got to work developing the various fixtures and fittings throughout the showroom, taking into account materials, tolerances, workflow and much more, ensuring that everything had a manufacturing process. Of course, we were then able to flex our manufacturing and installation capabilities too!
We’ve just completed the first showroom building in the estate, and what a showroom it is!
Little Greene Window Displays
Throughout 2021, we’ve been working closely with Little Greene Paint & Paper on a number of exciting projects that we’re already starting to see roll out across the brand’s various locations and stockists around the country and we’ll be able to share some of that work very soon.
However, we’ve been supporting the brand with a number of smaller jobs recently, just like their window displays across the London sites in Marlybone, Chelsea, Islington and Notting Hill, promoting the National Trust range of wallpapers.
This range is a really interesting selection of papers, with contemporary designs based on original patterns from the National Trust’s historic houses, and it’s great to read the history behind the inspiration for these designs, some of which span back over 400 years of historic decoration. Each wallpaper in the collection has been beautifully redrawn and recoloured, whilst respectfully acknowledging the traditional methods and materials from which they were originally crafted.
This job was a little bit different to what we usually undertake at Ripple, however the diverse skill set that our design studio has really shone through here. Combining foamex board, vinyl print, formed plastic and a creative mind, this triple-layered design utilises the window itself, along with the suspended fixture which gave a really interesting 3D effect to passers-by.
Parfas Touch Point – Security Lockers.
Parfas Touch Point – Security Lockers.
We’re incredibly excited to be with Parfas, who are a leading security company based in Oldham, Greater Manchester who offer round-the-clock security and monitoring solutions for premises and assets alongside risk management and other integrated security solutions for their clients.
Parfas approached Ripple to discuss developing a bespoke digital locker that features some of their audio-visual tech that can link the lockers back to their 24/7 contact centre for monitoring and support. We were immediately onboard with the idea and after some initial development and prototyping, we now have first model ready to be tested our in the field.
Utilising the technology that Parfas offer within our lockers, especially the 24/7 live monitoring really opens up so many more opportunities to utilise the locker to the best of its ability and giving end-users so many more options when it comes to collection, drop off and storage.
Keep you eyes peeled to see where the Parfas x Ripple Loockers get to, we’re excited!
