Cr Smith

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CR Smith has welcomed 12 new trade apprentices since September, as the home improvements company continues to invest in the skills that underpin its success. The new apprentices are enrolled on the bespoke CR Smith apprenticeship programme which combines an SVQ in Site Carpentry and Joinery and CR S

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Fife-based home improvements firm CR Smith has reported an increase in profits after tax of 10% for the financial year to December 2021, with turnover exceeding £20.2 million. The accounts lodged for CR Smith Glaziers (Dunfermline) Ltd, the company’s domestic sales business, show that it

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CR Smith has welcomed seven new recruits to its manufacturing plant in Fife this summer, who all joined the company through cross-industry jobs initiatives that support people into work. In partnership with DWP Fife, Kingdom Works and Fife College, CR Smith helped to create a new manufacturing skill

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CR Smith Manufacturing Ltd, the commercial arm of the home improvements company, has signed an £8 million contract with social landlord Link Group’s commercial partner C~urb to supply replacement windows over the next four years. C~urb launched in April 2022 to provide property developme

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CR Smith and Fife College have joined forces to run a pioneering fast-track training programme for would-be joiners for a second successive year.  Specifically designed to help more people wanting to enter the joinery profession, the successful collaboration last year led to five trainees secur

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Home improvements company CR Smith has resumed its apprenticeship programme following the introduction of COVID protocols and full risk assessment with partners Fife College to ensure a safe learning environment. Eight apprentice joiners are now back on course to complete their apprenticeships next

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Glazing and home improvements firm CR Smith has been fined £12,500 for breaching health and safety law after a forklift truck operator was run over by his own vehicle.

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An employability programme has passed the half way point in its campaign to find life-changing employment for 100 young people across Central Scotland. Since the Hand Picked 100 campaign launched earlier this year, fifty-eight 16-24 year olds have found employment thanks to local business leaders wh

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Former Prime Minister and Fife MP, Gordon Brown, recently visited an Academy run by CR Smith where he met with CR Smith boss Gerald Eadie CBE (centre left) and showed his support for Hand Picked Scotland’s only employability programme run by private business is launching a new campaign to identify

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Colin Eadie, director of CR Smith Manufacturing at the factory in Cowdenbeath The commercial arm of windows and conservatories company CR Smith, which employs 90 at its factory in Fife, has reported a rise in both turnover and gross profits for the year ending 29 February 2016.

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