Shufflebottom – the story so far

When visitors to our headquarters here in Cross Hands step over the threshold into our foyer in 2024 they will be welcomed for the first time by Shufflebottom’s brand new History Timeline installation designed and erected at the end of 2023.

We’re so proud of the Shufflebottom story it tells in photography and captions: an ongoing story of growth and development traced from the early days back in 1977 when original owners and directors, Lorna and Martin Shufflebottom, were commissioned to make a garden gate, to our current position as a £25 million+ turnover business manufacturing and supplying structural steel and steel-framed buildings to customers across the UK.

Of course we couldn’t show everything that has happened along the way, so we’ve highlighted the significant events. Some things have changed over that period of time. Some things have stayed the same. Importantly, we’re still a family-owned and family-run business with family values at heart now under the directorships of brother and sister, Wesley and Alex Shufflebottom, along with longstanding director, Alec Davies. But we outgrew our original premises and location quickly and have been strategically sited close to the M4 in purpose-built offices and factories where we have been able to make significant investment in people, process and machinery over the interim years.

This has enabled us to be the business we are today with over 84 staff, and display cabinets bursting with awards not only for our buildings, but for our staff training commitment, and leading the way in Health & Safety.

But as the Timeline states, this is only the story so far… We finished 2023 on a high with the award of a multi-million-pound contract to supply structural steel for the bold and ambitious Pentre Awel project – a transformative project in our own county of Carmarthenshire to be delivered by Carmarthenshire County Council. 

So perhaps the Timeline finishes up just for the time being. For, as the final quote states, it’s not the end of the story:

“The award of this contract (Pentre Awel) positions us as a company well-equipped for the delivery of twenty-first century community developments and ambitions.”

We look forward to welcoming our existing customers, prospective customers, partners, suppliers, staff and all those we work with, to be part of our proud and ongoing story…

Finally, big thanks to our suppliers, Philp and Jane at NB:Design in Gower for the design, photography and copywriting of the Timeline, and to David Hammett at Just Print, Cross Hands for the production and installation.