Company
Compact manufactures and supplies professional lighting systems to retailers. Our focus on this market enables us to produce cost effective products designed specifically for today’s retail environment.
Our aim is to enable retailers to design and test new lighting concepts, control their implementation and manage the roll-out to a budget. We employ both lighting and project management professionals and already supply lighting to many of the UK’s top one hundred retailers.
Compact is an autonomous company within one of the UK’s largest lighting groups employing more than 500 staff across five sites. Compact’s own 30,000 sq ft purpose built factory in Portsmouth is dedicated to the manufacture of retail lighting systems using state-of-the-art plant, production techniques and information technology.
Working with Compact will enable you to roll out your lighting designs cost effectively with quality products delivered on time.
Lighting to the Designers
We can work from designers’ and architects’ rough sketches or comprehensive drawings. If necessary, our engineers can produce detailed layouts in AutoCAD, or check your own layouts for light levels, producing a 3D Dialux rendered image to verify results before anything is built. Our practical approach means we will mock up ideas on site, or at one of our showrooms, to test everything before installation. We work in partnership with the designer and architect to preserve the aesthetic and solve the technical. We fully understand the language of light - balancing ambient, accent and scenic light to engineer the designers concept.
Design
Compact will assist you and your design team to develop a lighting concept. We have our own Lighting Design software, but generally take a practical approach and will mock up ideas on your sites or at one of our showrooms. Our products are designed with a clear focus on Retail Lighting. Our products match or exceed the highest technical and aesthetic standards available. Our Lighting Design office will produce detailed layouts on AutoCAD, if required, or check your designers’ layouts against agreed standards.
Management
Our own project managers will support your team. Having agreed the standard details of your format, we store your design in a database that is available to all of our internal departments and also to you. Our project managers will keep up to speed with your roll-out plans and with your agreement will organise production to meet your timescales.
Ordering
Orders can be accepted from either yourselves or your contractors where the requirements of the standard format will be monitored and an order acknowledgement will be e-mailed the same day. Any changes will be automatically modified by e-mail.
Manufacturing
Our plant and production systems are designed for retail roll-outs. The design of every process involves balancing the needs of fast cycle times to keep costs down and short set-up times to ensure that we can switch production to satisfy last-minute changes or additions to your order. Components are sourced on a worldwide basis to guarantee you the best quality and price. Everything else is in-house from metalwork fabrication, powder coating, assembly and final testing.
Deliveries
COMPACT deliver. You need us to arrive on-site, on-time and on the day specified. Next day carriers are used or our own transport for potentially difficult sites such as new Shopping Centres. When things go wrong, which they occasionally do, we will stop at nothing to help. We will source alternative transport, lamps and even luminaires, if necessary, rather than leaving you with the problem.
Costs
We continually strive to reduce our cost base to give you and us the best deal. We source components on a world wide basis but ensure that final assembly in the UK meets all EC regulations.