CCS acquires controlling interest in Castlefields
ANNOUNCEMENT: Consumer Credit Solutions Ltd acquires controlling interest in Castlefields CCS is delighted to announce that it has purchased a controlling interest in specialist credit software company Abbeystokes Ltd (t/a Castlefields). Castlefields provides software and reporting systems to a number of lenders within the Home Improvement sector. The business has been an integral part of the […]
CCS ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT OF SALES DIRECTOR
Alex McCulloch appointed Sales Director We are pleased to announce that our Head of Business Development Alex McCulloch has been promoted to Sales Director. This promotion is a recognition of the hard work and business growth achieved by Alex since he joined CCS 10 years ago, and a deserved reward for such a committed industry […]
Barclays Partner Finance/Barclaycard Partnership of the Year
Consumer Credit Solutions awarded Barclays Partner Finance/Barclaycard Partnership of the Year 2015 Each year Barclaycard Business Solutions reviews all of its partnerships across its business, which includes a variety of large, national, and international business from a variety of sectors in the UK. After careful consideration at the Executive Committee level, CCS was selected for […]
Thanks to everyone who visited the CCS stand at the FIT Show
Thanks to everyone who visited the CCS stand at the FIT Show Attendance at this year’s FIT Show was up a fantastic 45% on 2014 with over 8500 visitors. CCS was one of more than 180 businesses exhibiting at the show in Telford. Over the three days we had an exceptionally large number of enquiries […]
Digi-sig & eSig successfully launched at Fischer Future Heat
Three members of the CCS Business Development Management team gave up their Saturday to help launch Barclays’ Digi-sig and Hitachi’s e-signature with Fischer Future Heat’s sales team. The launch, which took place at Fischer’s head office in Leicester, involved over 90 sales representatives on the day. The company has started to use iPads to as […]
A day in the life…
…Business Support Assistant Christie Stewart I arrive at the office around 8.50am and then the first task of the day is to work through emails from retailers, usually they are requests for stats and for stationery, such as application form pads, so they have to be dealt with as a priority. I also […]
Confident start to 2016
Consumer Credit Solutions report confident start to 2016 by Andy Wallace Earlier this month we were able to report record finance sales once again. We managed lending volume of almost £250million to support home improvement purchases in 2015, which was the highest amount in our 16 year history. Despite many forecast reports predicting there would be […]
Barclays Partner Finance & Consumer Credit Solutions sign new long-term contract
Barclays Partner Finance and Consumer Credit Solutions have today announced that a new long-term contract has been signed. The contract further consolidates the relationship between the two businesses, which has gone from strength-to-strength over recent years. The announcement follows a record year for CCS, which saw almost £250million being paid out to its home improvement […]
Christmas Message from Andy Wallace
Happy Christmas from everyone at Consumer Credit Solutions As the year end approaches, I am pleased to report another excellent year with paid out volumes, written via our home improvement trading partners, on track for a new record of around £250million. Our success is only possible because of your success, and therefore may I extend […]
CCS Annual Survey reports record satisfaction levels
The results of the 2015 annual survey revealed customer satisfaction levels have managed to exceed last year’s high results. The survey, conducted throughout September, found that 100% of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with CCS, with 97% stating they would recommend us to another business. Respondents also expressed 100% satisfaction with our Business Development Management […]