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title: "About"
description: "Established in 1926, Forbes remains a family today, providing commercial laundry and catering equipment as well as TV & AV solutions to a wide range of sectors across the UK."
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# A first-class delivery of both product and service.

Established in 1926, Forbes remains a family today, providing commercial laundry and catering equipment as well as TV & AV solutions to a wide range of sectors across the UK.

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Forbes Professional is extremely agile when it comes to both our product range and service offering, and have evolved considerably to become the expansive, multi-site organisation that we are today. Whilst we deliver a local-based service, we provide all of the stability that comes from being a nationwide operation with 100 years of industry service.

Our customer service delivery is absolutely central to our company ethos; from our friendly, consultative sales approach, complimentary installations and user training to our on-going account management and service support. From the board down, we have developed leadership behaviours that are shaped by a relentless commitment to meeting and exceeding our clients’ expectations.

Our longevity of service combines with the loyalty of our staff and our well-established, streamlined processes to enable the highest levels of efficiency and consistency. Our business is built upon the delivery of a first-class quality of both product and service with the client at the centre of every operation.

- **Survey & Specification**: We offer complimentary site surveys and can produce detailed CAD designs to ensure regulation compliance and enable the right product choices.
- **Installation & User Training**: Our experienced in-house engineers fully install all equipment as well as offering any requisite user-training to ensure all products are fully optimised.
- **Ongoing Equipment Care**: We have well established, efficient and streamlined processes in place for delivering a same/next day engineer response with no repair or replacement costs.

## Gallery

![Kevin Herring, CEO (Left), Stuart Forbes, Director & Co-Owner (Middle) and Stephen Edwards, Finance Director (Right)](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/395ebe7d3a754e797188ef55826c281d44b04f82_98644473-2eda-490a-adb8-e28b54a66052_kevstuartsteve.jpg?auto=compress,format)

![Kevin Herring, CEO](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/254743434ee56d92297987f8564d89f1faf6a89a_8a410fdc-99a6-4f9b-9148-1e3e2d1c926e_ceo.jpg?auto=compress,format)

![Stuart Forbes, Director & Co-Owner](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/793ee4759424d0a2d12cb3b108c96b7286f539ab_efd27842-b9b2-4626-9c22-35871829aa65_smf.jpg?auto=compress,format)

![Forbes Professional employee re-stocking warehouse.](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/f70f9af9a711be4f075b88c7c7116b4eb38e916b_54e0350d-0351-47b0-b8c2-8dd7b11d188d_warehouse1.jpg?auto=compress,format)

![Forbes Professional Van Being Loaded](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/NDI4ZjYzNGUtN2RiYS00NmZmLWFlMjktNGU1YzRlZjQwZTI1_5bb59299-0402-484a-879f-04865eab281f_loading3.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=91,0,5501,2063&w=2000&h=750)

![Forbes Professional Warehouse Employee Managing Inventory](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/ZDYxNmY1NzktMjg0Yy00NDgwLTkxNDgtMWIxNWFlOTRkM2Jh_ffb8343c-f683-4722-9b08-e639943b3f49_loading2a.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=0,837,2678,1004&w=2000&h=750)

![Forbes Professional Warehouse Employee Pushing Washing Machine](https://images.prismic.io/forbespro/ZmNkN2ViNDEtY2M5Zi00N2QwLTllNzQtNzY5MmM2Y2Q4YTQ0_73409643-391e-4571-ab1b-156813fd2d2a_loading8.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=0,1020,3263,1224&w=2000&h=750)