13 May 2019
UP Global Sourcing Holdings plc
"Ultimate Products" or "the Group"
Presentation at MELLO 2019
Ultimate Products (LSE: UPGS), the owner, manager, designer and developer of an extensive range of value-focused consumer goods brands, announces that the Company will be attending the Mello 2019 investor conference taking place on Thursday 16th & Friday 17th May to be held at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick, Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5RY.
Andrew Gossage, Managing Director, will be presenting to delegates on Friday 17th May 2019 at 10am and 11:45am.
For further information on the Mello London conference, please visit the event website https://melloevents.com/event/
For more information on Ultimate Products, please contact:
Ultimate Products +44 (0) 161 627 1400
Simon Showman, CEO
Andrew Gossage, Managing Director
Graham Screawn, Chief Financial Officer
Powerscourt +44 (0) 207 250 1446
Rob Greening
Sam Austrums
Notes to Editors
Ultimate Products is an owner, manager, designer and developer of a series of well-known brands focused on the home, selling to over 300 retailers across 36 countries. It has six product categories: Audio; Heating and Cooling; Housewares; Laundry; Luggage; and Small Domestic Appliances. Its brands include Beldray (laundry, floor care, heating and cooling), Intempo (audio), Salter (kitchenware), Constellation (luggage), and Progress (cookware and bakeware).
The Group's products are sold to a broad cross-section of both large national and international multi-channel retailers as well as smaller national retail chains, incorporating discount retailers, supermarkets, general retailers and online retailers. Its best-selling products include frying pans, mugs and speakers, selling approximately one million of each every year.
Founded in 1997, Ultimate Products is headquartered in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where it has design, sales, marketing, buying, quality assurance, support functions and warehouse facilities across two sites. Manor Mill, the Group's head office, includes a spectacular 20,000 sq ft showroom that showcases each of its brands. In addition, the Group has an office and showroom in Guangzhou, China and in Cologne, Germany.
Ultimate Products' graduate development scheme was launched in 2012 and in 2018 it welcomed its one-hundredth graduate. In total, Ultimate Products now employs over 270 staff.
Please note that Ultimate Products is not the owner of Russell Hobbs or Salter. The company currently has license agreements in place granting it an exclusive licence to use the "Russell Hobbs" trademark for cookware (NB this does not include Russell Hobbs electrical appliances) and the "Salter" trademark for electrical and cookware (NB this does not include Salter scales).
For further information, please visit www.upgs.com
