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Rebate Conservatories

“This was a big thing for us. We’d never done this before, but Anton made sure it went as smoothly as possible from day one.” 

About Rebate 

Rebate Conservatories design and manufacture imaginative bespoke timber conservatories, orangeries and garden rooms, and has been creating bespoke glass buildings since 1989. 

The company is based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and has developed a reputation for designing quality bespoke structures to meet the customer’s exact needs. 

All of Rebate’s designs are built by the in-house team of highly skilled craftsmen using the best quality hand selected timbers. 

Director Roger Bate said: “Everything we do is bespoke, we don’t do standard projects – some of the other companies market bespoke, but there is a standardisation.” 

The project 

Rebate was approached to provide a bespoke English orangery for the home of an Indian billionaire property developer in Bangalore, 

Roger said: “He has built his own house in Bangalore, which is phenomenal, and he decided he wanted an English orangery. They realised they couldn’t get that locally and it had to be an English company. 

“They have a connection with an interior designer in London called Laura Hammet, who put forward four or five UK companies that would fit the bill for the build. 

“They said they had a good feeling about us and about working with me directly, and they made their decision based on that – and on cost as well, probably.” 

The orangery was the first structure that Rebate had ever exported, and involved transporting steel, timber and glass across thousands of miles.  

The finished room is 81.25 sq m and, unusually, 7.5m high. Roger said: “That’s what makes it so different, the height of it. That’s what gives it this breath-taking look, internally and externally.” 

The orangery was erected on site by a combination of local tradespeople, Roger and two members of his own team and was completed in Autumn 2022.

How Global Freight helped 

Transporting the components of the orangery to India required knowledgeable and specialist freight forwarding, and Roger was very happy with the service he received from Global Freight and its managing director Anton Gunter. 

He said: “Global Freight basically took over everything. Anton made it very, very easy and I thought his fee was reasonable. He was very attentive not only to me but to the team as a whole. 

“I would 100 per cent use Anton again. 

“This was a big thing for us. We’d never done this before, but Anton made sure it went as smoothly as possible from day one.” 

The components were transported to India in two containers – the first, larger one at the start of the year and the second a few months later.  

Roger found Global Freight through Google, but he was aware of the company before starting his search. 

He said: “I think I googled specifically “shipping Telford”, because I knew there was a company in Telford. When Global came up I knew that was the one I wanted.” 

Roger had previously investigated shipping options for his other business, the Little Coffee Bag Company, through Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, and thinks that might be where he had heard the Global name. 

He said he was very pleased with the expert service he had received from Global Freight. “Anton would be my go-to person for anything like that if we needed to do it again,” he said. 

For more information about Rebate Conservatories, visit www.rebate-conservatories.co.uk/ 

 

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