When today’s Chairman Stuart Braham set up Hazlemere Window Company Ltd with his father George Braham and brother Ian Braham early in 1985, he had no idea that their small family business would grow to become one of the region’s leading employers.
Today, Hazlemere Commercial has a 56,000 square foot factory and Head Office premises on Cressex Business Park in High Wycombe, employing around 80 full-time staff. Many of the Braham family still work within the business. Stuart is still the Managing Director, and together with many other family members they have seen the company flourish. Their ethos of first class customer service together with high quality products combined with traditional craftsmanship has certainly paid off. The retail division is run nowadays by Stuart’s daughter Rachel, whose younger sister Laura also works full time in this family business.
This independent double-glazing manufacturer and installer has made no secret of its success and why so many of the employees are happy to remain so loyal. The company have made it a policy to retain the skills, enthusiasm and dedication of their key employees through encouragement, rewarding craftsmanship and promoting from within. Clients have been happy to return to them too, and much of Hazlemere Commercial’s work comes from repeat business and recommendation.
The business may have initially started off as humble aluminium and UPVC supplier and installer to local homeowners, but today the Commercial Division at Hazlemere offers a full range of commercial fenestration services, including design, technical assistance, wind-load calculations, surveying, fabrication, installation and post installation maintenance. Its product range has been developed extensively over the past 33 years and there has been huge growth in their local authority, schools and main contractor client base.
From new build to refurbishment schemes, Hazlemere Commercial caters for various types of commercial projects from estates of new build homes, commercial properties to full high rise block refurbishments, but the original ethos of customer service and quality is still very much at the fore.
There are a great deal of window and door manufacturers to choose from in the UK today, but Hazlemere Commercial offers a robust 10 year guarantee on both its products and its installation, which gives added reassurance that their products will stand the test of time.
The success spanning 4 decades won’t mean that Hazlemere will be resting on its laurels. The plan is to not to sit still – but as Stuart Braham points out, it is vital to keep core values in place.
“We are all too well aware of the competition we face and how we have to ensure that each and every client receives our very best service from the moment they initially contact us, right through to the final stages of installation. Our reputation for delivering this sort of service is one of the reasons why we have enjoyed such outstanding success over the last 33 years.”
So not only do family owned and run Hazlemere Commercial offer all their clients decades of experience and expertise, but also the peace of mind that are dealing with a well-established company which genuinely cares about people, especially their customers and staff. And if that were not enough, Hazlemere are Constructionline Gold accredited, CHAS and EXOR accredited, plus are active members of the Glass & Glazing Federation, ISO 9001:2015 accredited for Quality Management , Members of the National Federation of Glaziers and ISO 14001:2015 accredited for Waste Management. In 2020 Hazlemere Commercial were successful in getting onto 5 LHC regions for the A7 Framework to manufacture and install aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling.
