MacCommsMacCommsMacCommsMacComms
  • Home
  • About us
  • Our services
  • Who we’ve helped
  • PR tools & training
  • Our blog
  • Contact us
  •  

Royal visit at Leeds-based manufacturer

    Home Client news Royal visit at Leeds-based manufacturer
    NextPrevious

    Royal visit at Leeds-based manufacturer

    By Ellie MacDonald | Client news | Comments are Closed | 26 September, 2019 | 0

    Leeds-based Sound Leisure is an innovative, family-run manufacturing business, most famously known for producing classic and vinyl jukeboxes.

    This week the Sound Leisure head office and factory in Crossgates received a royal visit, to celebrate over 40 years of the firm’s British manufacturing capabilities. HRH Princess Anne was given a tour of the 80,000 sq ft factory to see first-hand how their range of classic jukeboxes are made.

    Managing director, Chris Black, comments: “This has been a real highlight of 40+ years of business. It’s been an absolute honour to welcome HRH Princess Anne to our Leeds based factory, where she met with our dedicated team and international distributors. We were able to demonstrate the methods used in the production of our handcrafted classic Jukeboxes. Her Royal Highness unveiled a plaque to commemorate her visit and that will take pride of place in our reception. We couldn’t be prouder to be a family-run, British manufacturing business and want to express our thanks to The Princess Royal for the time she spent with us.”

    Sound Leisure’s 80+ employees are highly skilled in traditional woodworking, metal process and detailed electronic and mechanical design. Further divisions of the business include SLKids, suppliers of children distraction areas to locations such as shopping centres and hospitals, and a service division that supplies jukeboxes and background music systems nationally.

    Chris Black, continues: “Not many people expect a team of Yorkshire based craftsmen and women to be behind the production of classic jukeboxes, but we’ve been making them for 41 years. In fact Sound Leisure is now the longest continuous manufacturer of Jukeboxes in the world. Not long after my father started the company, the CD replaced vinyl, so we had to quickly adapt our business, and have continued to do this through to digital music today. Interestingly it now has gone full circle and we’re the only company in the world to make vinyl playing 45 and LP jukeboxes.

    “The vinyl jukeboxes have proven extremely popular, with sales increasing 500% in the last two years. We ship 75% of our machines abroad, as far as Dubai, the US and Japan, many of which end up in private residences. Even though we ship many abroad we still have customers visit us in person to finalise the specification of their bespoke jukebox. Recently we had a customer from Colorado who only had one hour to create his dream. He landed in London, caught the train to Leeds, walked into our showroom with a wood sample, specified his order, caught the train back to London and flew home! His machine has just been delivered and looks fantastic on location.”

    “Our customers include royalty, athletes, TV and film actors, however the majority are people that just appreciate hand-built quality, enjoy listening to music rather than just having it playing in the background whilst they do something else. Many remember the Golden age of the Jukebox, however many are younger and are looking for something individual to invest in rather than a mass-produced item that will end up in landfill in five years time. Our Jukes end up in many areas where you would not expect, there is even one in St Pancras station, free to use for those passing by.”

    Crossgates, HRH Princess Anne, jukebox, Leeds, Royal visit, vinyl

    Ellie MacDonald

    More posts by Ellie MacDonald

    Related Post

    • Xerogrid CEO Ian Emberton with Pylontech representatives

      Yorkshire company partners with Forbes’ China top 50 business to bring off-grid energy to UK

      By Ellie MacDonald | Comments are Closed

      Yorkshire-based off-grid solar power company, Xerogrid has partnered with one of the world’s fastest-growing energy storage system providers, a Forbes China top 50 innovative business, with help from Energy Management and Industrial IoT company, Hark.Read more

    • L-R Andy Sharpe and Dan Taylor join Simon on the Streets

      Duo of new appointments to Yorkshire homelessness charity’s fundraising team

      By Ellie MacDonald | Comments are Closed

      West-Yorkshire-based homelessness charity Simon on the Streets has made two new appointments to its fundraising team. Simon on the Streets, which offers practical and emotional support to rough sleepers in Leeds and Bradford has recruitedRead more

    • De Baga restaurant team with Simon on the Streets CEO Natalie Moran

      Leeds restaurant commits to a year of supporting local homelessness charity

      By Ellie MacDonald | Comments are Closed

      Award-winning Leeds restaurant chain De Baga has committed to supporting West Yorkshire homelessness charity, Simon on the Streets for the next 12 months. The modern Indian restaurant based in Headingley and Chapel Allerton, North LeedsRead more

    • New senior appointment for GRM Digital

      By Ellie MacDonald | Comments are Closed

      Leeds-based multi-national web development and digital marketing agency GRM Digital has appointed a client services director to strengthen its growing team. Mike Guy joins the company with over a decade’s experience in digital transformation andRead more

    • Nutritional study gets underway for cats diagnosed with cancer

      By Ellie MacDonald | Comments are Closed

      Our latest client news comes from Vet-AI and its app Joii Pet Care A study designed to understand how nutrition can influence the quality of life for cats diagnosed with cancer is getting underway thisRead more

    NextPrevious

    Blog categories

    • Client news
    • Company news
    • Founders thoughts
    • Industry insights
    • Latest news
    • Meet the journo
    • Positive news
    • Thought piece

    Recent posts

    • Yorkshire company partners with Forbes’ China top 50 business to bring off-grid energy to UK 1st August 2023
    • Duo of new appointments to Yorkshire homelessness charity’s fundraising team 3rd July 2023
    • Leeds restaurant commits to a year of supporting local homelessness charity 12th April 2023
    • New senior appointment for GRM Digital 17th March 2023
    • Nutritional study gets underway for cats diagnosed with cancer 13th February 2023

    Contact us

    0113 869 5242
    info@maccomms.net

    Visit us

    15 Queen Square
    Leeds
    West Yorkshire
    LS2 8AJ

    • Cookies
    • Privacy
    • T&Cs
    • Sitemap
    © 2015 - 2023 Maccomms (Yorkshire) Ltd. All rights reserved.
    • Home
    • About Us
    • Our Services
    • Who We’ve Helped
    • PR tools & training
    • Our Blog
    • Contact Us
    MacComms