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Falcon Shopfitters is an Interior Fit Out company specialising in high quality woodworks, we are based in Johannesburg South Africa,and operate from our 5000m2 premises at no 25 Crucible Street, Heriotdale, with a core staff of 150 people who are abley supported by our various sub-contract teams who supply the nessecary skills to provide a Turn Key solution where and when required.
Falcon undertake Comercial, retail, hospitality, entertainment and high end domestic projects thru-out Africa and have succesfully completed projects in South America, The Arab Emerates and Australia.
Falcon have the nessecary resources and skills to provide a high quality product and meet exacting deadlines, we have a history of forming lasting mutually benificial relationships with our clients and understand that if they prosper we shall follow suit. |
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Mr Iain Falconer, the founder member of Falcon Shop fitters, hails from Inverness in the north of Scotland and served his apprenticeship as a cabinet maker / joiner in The Electric Joinery Works, on the succesfull completion of his apprenticeship, he relocated to Germany where he plied his trade for a period of 4 years, after this Iain moved to South Africa and worked in East London for a while before moving to Johannesburg and starting Falcon Shop fitters – a small business with big ideas.
Falcon Shop fitters was established in 1987 and started from a double garage in Mayfair, relocated to Jeppestown in 1989 where the business expanded to the point where it operated similtainiously from three different workshops and catered for retail, domestic and corporate clients, in 1992 Falcon consolidated from three small factories and rented one larger building in Boom St in Belgravia and operated there for two years before buying their first factory, a 1200m2 unit in Steven St Stafford, during this period Falcon captured their first major retail client thru the Shoe corp division of SA Breweries, they fitted out retail shoe stores, Cuthberts, ABC and Barnes nationwide and when this group amalgamated with the Edgars Group (The Jewel in the SAB crown) Falcon added Edgars and Jet stores to thier portfolio.
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At Falcon Shopfitters our mission is to limit the stress of client's, Architects, Designer's,Quantity Surveyors and Project Manager's (maybe not so much quantity surveyor's) by delivering a quality product within the required timelines and hopefully have some fun along the way. |
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Our vision is to bring the standards of shopfitting and client service in Africa, firstly in line with and then beyond the standards achieved in the leading nation's of the world. |
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Falcon Shopfitters Services |
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Falcon Shopfitters work closley with various Interior Design companies and have in house Draughtsmen who work on Autocad and the traditional Draughting method, we also have an in house Quantity Surveying facility capable of providing budgets and complete bills of quantities, these disciplines are abley supported by our team of 8 in house project managers who can co-ordinate and manage the various tradesmen and professionals required to bring a large or small contract to a timeous completion without compromising the vision or exacting standards a client has the right to expect. |
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The Falcon Shopfitters Factory |
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During November in 1996 the company purchased a large factory in Heriotdale, Situated at # 25 Crucible Rd Heriotdale Johannesburg, the 5000m2 factory was refurbished in 2006 and was fitted with a new generator capable of running the factory at full capacity 24 hours per day, should the need arise , with Falcon's in house labour costs running at R8500-00 per hour and the generator costing R300,000, the generator paid for itself in the first month of power outages. Falcon have an additional 2500m2 of factory space at thier disposal in the form of the factory next door which we have rented for the last 7 years. |
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The Falcon Shopfitters Staff |
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More important than any machine is the person on either side of the machine and many of Falcon's staff have been with the company from our early days in Jeppestown. With a core staff of 150 people, many of Falcon's previous staff have gone on to start thier own business or become sub-contractors and we currently make use of their services on a when required basis, in many instances Falcon has assisted these contractors with capital to buy vehicles, plant and equipment. |
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The Falcon Factory Equipment. |
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With over 10million Rand invested in plant and machinary over the past few years, Falcon can lay claim to having one of the best equiped woodworking factories in Africa, this has not been done at the expense of our labour force and even during the current economic woes we have avoided laying of workers to suit the ebb and flo of our order book. |
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Falcon boasts a monthly capability to produce shopfittings to a value in excess of R10 million per month and listed below are our current projects
A) Sandton City Shopping centre.
B) Holliday Inn Rosebank
C) Raddison Hotel Sandton and Cape town.
D) One and Only Hotel Capetown.
E) 50 Sunglass Hut srores nationwide.
F) M Cell stores Mozambique.
G) ABC Banks in Sub Saharan Africa.
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Falcon and the Environment. |
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In keeping with the environmental policies at Falcon it has a very strong policy on using products that have an FSC forest certification. A recent trip to Ligna was to ascertain the benefits of sourcing machinery which will enable it to use more veneers than solid woods as the price as well as the availability of timber is going to become cost prohibitive.
We employ the services of Enviro-skip to remove our waste product in a safe and enviromentally manner and we are monitored by Makro safe in terms health and safety on a monthly basis. they provide us with an audited report every month together with method report for continued improvement. |
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