Allgood Ironmongery, one of the UK's main makers of door and window ironmongery, was set up as a family company, GS Allgood, in 1948. It made a name for itself in 1965 with the establishment of the Modric range of ironmongery, designed by Alan Tye, which came about as a result of its work with Arne Jacobsen for St Catherine's College in Oxford. Still a family company, it now supplies a total of seven ranges, mainly to new-build commercial schemes, that can be found in Foster + Partners' Swiss Re building, Frank Gehry's Maggie's centre in Dundee, and Future Systems' Self ridges in Birmingham. Allgood employs 110 people around the country, and had a turnover last year of about pound;18m. We speak to marketing manager Alan Field.
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