Despite heavy rain and flooding causing cancellation of some air displays and the early closure of Monday’s show, Barum & Dewar are delighted to have met with so many clients, old and new, at this years Farnborough International Airshow.

Aerospace and Space are key sectors for Barum & Dewar who, with over 20 years experience in this market, has developed an enviable reputation as a trusted and innovative partner on some of the UK’s most high profile projects.

Our Sales Team took the opportunity to both host existing clients at this truly international event as well as taking time to foster new relationships with UK and Overseas clients.

Barum & Dewar has been awarded a contract from General Dynamics UK to provide the packaging for BCIP5.6. The contract follows General Dynamics UK being awarded a £135 million contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver enhanced communications for the British Army.

The BCIP5.6 programme will allow for the Bowman tactical communications equipment currently used by the UK military to receive a series of enhancements and upgrades.These include the roll-out of approximately 12,000 new data terminals and an updated version of the Battle Management System.

Barum & Dewar will be responsible for the design, development and manufacture of suitable deployable packaging for items such as laptops, printers, tablets and associated IT equipment. Barum & Dewar will work with General Dynamics UK to develop an innovative and effective packaging solution ahead of manufacture and delivery.

Barum & Dewar Managing Director, David Frame, commented: “We are delighted to be able to work with General Dynamics UK once again on this latest programme and look forward to providing innovative solutions for BCIP5.6”.

Barum & Dewar is a leading UK manufacturer of complete packaging solutions with over 20 years’ experience to the Defence, Subsea, Industrial, Instrumentation, Space and Aerospace sectors.

Further information is available from our website www.barumanddewar.com

Shortlisted as a finalist in three categories at the recent North Devon Business Awards, Barum & Dewar were delighted to pick up one of the top awards - 2016 Small Business of the Year.

In this category judges were looking for all round business excellence with strong leadership, innovation, product development, customer engagement and staff training just some of the areas of scrutiny. In Barum & Dewar they said they were “blown away” with the work undertaken by B&D both in terms of the technical nature of many of its products and the high levels of client engagement involved.

MD, David Frame commented: “This award is a fitting tribute to the commitment of all the team at Barum & Dewar who are not only passionate about delivering the very best in packaging solutions to all our clients but seek to do so in an engaging and collaborative manner. B&D is a growth focussed entrepreneurial business who relish the challenges our clients set us and our ability to deliver cost effective yet technically innovative solutions is a key reason why clients partner with us”

Barum & Dewar were finalists in two other categories: Made in North Devon and Excellence in Customer Service.

Barum & Dewar are delighted to have been shortlisted for three awards at this year’s North Devon Business Awards. The three categories are:

Small Business of the Year

Excellence in Customer Service

Made in North Devon

B&D have a long association with North Devon and are delighted to have been considered for these awards. A team from B&D look forward to attending the Awards Dinner on 5^th May.

Heading to Scotland to attend this year’s Entrepreneurial Scotland Annual Conference will be a senior team from Barum & Dewar.

An entrepreneurial spirit is deep rooted in B&D and as a member of the ES Leaders Exchange, MD David Frame has long recognised the benefits to be gained from joining with fellow entrepreneurs at this “go to” event.

By inviting key members of the B&D team to join him at this year’s Conference David hopes to share with them the enthusiasm and passion for business that the event inspires.