About us
About Barrett Group
Barrett Group started in 1989 and has stayed in the same business since: making signs, boards and graphics, and putting them up ourselves.
What we actually are
Thirty seven years of making things that go on the front of buildings
We are a workshop in Mallusk with twelve vans. That is the whole business in one sentence, and it explains most of what makes us different from a print shop or a national franchise.
The vans mean we install our own work, so the person who quoted the job is accountable for how it looks on the wall. The workshop means a shop fit-out and its signage come from the same place on the same programme. And the routes mean a board in Ballymena is a scheduled visit rather than a special trip.
Estate agents
The estate agency side
We supply 140 estate agent branches across Northern Ireland, which makes us the largest estate agents supplier here. Branches order through our own system: order before 3.30pm and it goes out on the next day's run. The board goes up, changes to Sold, and gets lifted when the sale completes.
That grew out of doing it properly for a long time rather than out of any clever idea. Boards are a service business dressed up as a product business, and the service is vans, routes and someone answering the phone.
Estate agent boardsThe other five divisions
They exist because customers kept asking
The same workshop and the same crews can do them without a drop in standard, which is why most customers end up using more than one.
How we work
Four things we do on every job
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Free survey
Every job starts with a survey, and the survey is free.
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Straight answers
We will tell you at survey stage if something will not work, or if you need advertisement consent, rather than after it is made.
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Our own crews
We install with our own crews. Nothing important is subcontracted.
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Artwork on file
We hold your artwork, so the tenth van and the tenth branch match the first.
We cover all of Northern Ireland
Twelve vans out of Mallusk, from Belfast to Derry. Tell us what you need and we will come and look at it.