H&C News meets with suppliers regularly to keep up to date with the latest product and service innovations, aiming to get the inside track on what companies offer to the market and how it is delivered.
This week, we met with Jessica Smith, Marketing Manager of Chevington Services at their offices in Long Melford to gain a better understanding of the business.
Chevington Services provide workplace solutions for over 5500 businesses nationwide in the UK in every sector for both employee benefits and sales to customers. Chevington Services supply state of the art coffee machines, water coolers and other catering equipment in addition to producing their own brand of coffee Grizzly Bear Coffee. All the machines they supply can either be bought outright, leased or rented on a contractual basis and can include maintenance and servicing to greatly reduce the cost of any initial outlay from the business.
- Chevington Services has grown to be a national company set up and run by a couple in a quaint Suffolk village with a strong team behind them, but how did it all begin?
Chevington Services is an independently run company set up in 2008, with the sole purpose to supply coffee machines and water coolers locally within the East Anglia region. Since then the company has grown at rates that could never have been imagined and Chevington Services is now one of the market leaders in their trade and top seller of Jura Coffee Machines. Having grown from a small business supplying coffee machines and water coolers Chevington Services now fund a whole host of other products, machines and equipment for any business.
- You work business to business, do you specialise in a particular sector or industry?
Here at Chevington Services we work within every industry and sector, providing solutions to any business that requires our services. We supply top of the range bean-to-cup and traditional style Coffee Machines from Jura, Iberital and San Remo, Water coolers from Borg & Overstrom, vending machines from Westomatic, boilers from Lincat and Instanta and a whole host of other equipment into every business type from factories to cafes, hotels to offices. And each business has the choice to buy, hire or lease our machines, all to fit their needs. Every machine we supply is matched to the company’s requirements from plumbed in machines to tank fed machines and a bespoke package is created for the company that the equipment is going. Whether you require a machine for your customers or your employees we have a machine for you.
- You pride yourselves on enhancing other businesses with your services, how do you help businesses exceed?
Chevington Services provide businesses with products and equipment that they require to make their business grow, whether it be a coffee machine or water cooler to boost morale and make break times easier for staff or a coffee machine or vending machine to be used to sell products to customers, we supply top of the range machines for whatever the business requires at a reasonable price. We have a huge variety of products to fit any space within a business from compact machines, to wall mounted machines or floor standing. We offer our services on a Buy, Lease or Hire contract, this allows businesses to significantly reduce the initial financial outlay of obtaining new equipment, and furthermore all our equipment is delivered and fitted by our highly trained engineers. Additionally we have service and maintenance packages available for our machines to make sure business’s machines are always running at their full potential.
- Other than coffee and water machines, what other products and services can you provide a business?
The list of what we can provide is endless with Coffee Machines and Water Coolers being just a small proportion of what we supply to businesses. In addition to these machines we specialise in creating bespoke coffee-to-go machines for customers, coffee machine accessories to make the perfect cup of coffee, supply Billi Taps and other instant hot water taps so companies have boiling water without the need for the kettle, catering equipment from fridges to freezers, ice cream machines to grinders and vending machines for food products in addition to instant machines. Not only do we supply the machines we also supply all the additional equipment and consumables that are needed to run the machines effectively. We sell plastic cups for water coolers and paper cups for coffee machines all that can be personalised with the businesses branding, our own brand of coffee Grizzly Bear Coffee comes in 3 varieties, Lavazza coffee, bottled water, syrups to mix up the coffees, sugars and sweeteners, as well as filters and cleaning products for the machines. There is no need to go to a third party with Chevington Services, we can supply everything that a business will need to succeed with their new machine.
- How does leasing or renting a machine benefit a business over buying and what is best for them?
There are many reasons why a business benefits from renting or leasing a machine rather than buying but the main reason is the significant reduction in the initial capital outlay needed by the business with rental and leasing. Much of the equipment we supply costs thousands to buy outright so spreading the payments out is more beneficial and viable for a business and frees up cash for them while they receive the machine right away, rather than needing to save up over a long period of time or get an expensive bank loan. Leasing is ideal for smaller businesses that are keen to own the machine at the end of the agreement but would like to spread the cost over a period of time, whereas rental is ideal for businesses that require a new or upgraded machine every few years. Both options are suitable for any business and are also substantially beneficial in the upkeep of the machine if any issues arise.
- How are Chevington Services going to grow the business in the next year to continually benefit new and old customers?
Here at Chevington Services we are always on the look out for ways to continually improve the service we provide for our customers. Our biggest plans we have in pipeline is to add instant buys on consumables and accessories from our website allowing businesses to buy top ups of everything they might need for the machines online. We are also continually sourcing new products, if there is a product a business needs that we have not advertised before we will try our best to supply it for them.
H&C News comment
It was enlightening to talk with Jessica Smith, Marketing Manager of Chevington Services, their service culture shone through. The range of coffee options available at Chevington Services really is impressive. The Chevington Services website is one we will be keeping an eye on as we suspect will many other coffee enthusiasts in our industry. It’s just full of great coffee options for business.
Contact our friendly team….
Chevington Services, Cocoa Nut House, Hall Street, Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9JQ
0844 800 7371
E-mail: info@chevingtonservices.co.uk
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