All of the Mila companies within the Arran Isle group operate independently but there is a huge amount of teamwork between the companies in Ireland, in Denmark and in Lithuania.

It’s generally in areas like design, manufacturing and logistics and we obviously pass on any benefits which it generates to our customers here in the UK.

Last week, we moved this to another level when we invited one of our customers to visit Mila Baltic States in Lithuania to give them an insight into that market and provide some very valuable customer introductions.

This particular customer was looking at export opportunities and we were able to give them a definite head start with insider knowledge of how the market in that region is performing and where there may be room for a UK based window and door system supplier to make some inroads.

Our colleagues in Lithuania made us all very welcome and it was a great example of how our pan-European structure can benefit our customer base.

We talk a lot at Mila about our mission of ‘adding value’ for our customers – and our latest initiative shows that this can come about in the most unexpected ways.

Richard