About us
In 2015, after several years of discussing and planning, we decided to relocate to the Charente Maritime in France with our two young children, Logan and Saskia.
Carl has been involved in the UPVC window industry for over twenty five years. Initially starting out at weekends whilst at school for his father’s company. This progressed to summer jobs and whilst studying Mechanical Engineering he continued to do installations during holidays and weekends where he could. After obtaining his degree in engineering he returned to the family company and before long the opportunity arose to start manufacturing conservatory roofs.
The company was called Riviera Roofs Ltd and over last ten years along with Lindsey we established ourselves as very well regarded manufacturer. In over 3000 roofs, none of our customers was left with a missed delivery deadline. This was through hard work, determination and commitment to our customers.
We firmly believe that through our simple values of supplying a high quality product that has been well made, customer service that is second to none and good value has helped to steer the company through the toughest recession in living memory and continue to grow and prosper to the position where it is today.
Lindsey naturally became involved with the business early on, mostly on the administration side of the company including the accounts, but was known to help late in the evenings packing roofs for the following days deliveries, and indeed when it gets very late sleeping in the office whilst Carl continued to work through the night!
We made the decision to sell Riviera Roofs and relocate to the Charente Maritime in 2015 and to go back to the retail side of industry. And this is where Lion Rouge was born. Utilizing the knowledge of the industry over the last twenty five years, Lion Rouge has grown to become a well regarded and respected Window company in the South West of France, consistently recommended by Estate agents, fellow Artisans throughout the trades and most importantly their clients and friends of.
Through the last ten years, as for most people, there have been many challenges faced and overcome through perseverance and working at the highest level possible in all aspects of the business. Our children have also grown and are not quite so young or small anymore!
We have chosen to focus on keeping the company primarily consisting of ourselves with the addition of outside artisans who are able to assist when a project requires it. This allows us to control the quality, the reliability and also the aftersales service to all clients – the pillars of which our business and reputation have been built on. Our area of coverage is restricted to where can be reasonably visited and callouts attended to, should they be required.
After ten years of working throughout the area on nearly one thousand homes, it can safely be said that we have become very well established both professionally and personally as a family in France.