Forbes delivers innovative products with multi-award winning service support to a diverse and expanding client base.

Leading laundry, catering, TV & AV, and digital signage solutions provider. Offering commercial rent, lease and purchase options throughout the United Kingdom.

Forbes Professional | Your leading rental, leasing and purchase provider for Commercial and Industrial Laundry, Catering, TV, Audio Visual and Digital Signage.

We offer leading commercial rent, lease and purchase options throughout the United Kingdom for laundry, catering, TV & AV, and digital signage solutions.

A Leader in Commercial Laundry, Catering, TV & AV, and Digital Signage for Rent, Lease or Purchase.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, all of us at Forbes continue to reflect upon this unique moment in history. In observance of the state funeral, we will be closed for the Bank Holiday on Monday, 19th September. We thank you for your patience as our staff pay their respects.

F Donald Forbes & Co Ltd T/A Forbes Professional

Gatton Park Business Centre, 7 Wells Pl, Merstham, Redhill RH1 3DR

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Choosing the right commercial kitchen equipment is key to optimising functionality.

 A busy commercial kitchen or food production company is entirely reliant on their commercial kitchen equipment and needs to know that the appliances they choose will deliver upon their expectations. Whether you choose integrated kitchen appliances or freestanding appliances, they will need to blend seamlessly into the design of the kitchen and deliver all of the functionality that you require. Forbes Professional provides both integrated and freestanding catering dishwashers as well as ovens, hobs, fridges and freezers to commercial kitchens across the UK.  We have a solid understanding of industry requirements for commercial kitchen equipment and support clients through the design stages through the installation process to the delivery of a first-class maintenance and repair service.

Commercial kitchen equipment suppliers can help you achieve optimum efficiency from your commercial kitchen appliances. 

 It is important to choose one of the respected commercial kitchen suppliers to guide you from concept to completion, ensuring that you make the right procurement choices for your commercial kitchen appliances.  Forbes Professional has an experienced team that can work with businesses to create innovative and functional kitchen and bar facilities. Our clients include hotels, bars, restaurants, schools and colleges, cafes, office kitchens and we guide them all from design to completion.

Whether you need a catering dishwasher or a complete range of commercial kitchen appliances achieving optimum efficiency is absolutely key. 

 Whether our clients require a catering dishwasher or a complete range of commercial kitchen appliances, Forbes professional can provide detailed CAD designs for your commercial kitchen layout to help you achieve optimum efficiency.  As a kitchen appliance supplier, we design, supply, install and service commercial kitchens and bars, whether you just require a dishwasher or a fridge, or a more comprehensive kitchen solution.  Contact one of our industry experts for more information.

Our ware-washers, cookers and refrigeration appliances cater to extensive and diverse commercial requirements.

Choosing the right kitchen equipment is key to optimising efficiency within any commercial kitchen or food production company. Forbes Professional always conducts detailed site surveys and guides our clients from the initial concept through the design and installation stages. Whether the requirement is for freestanding or integrated appliances we ensure that the chosen equipment will blend seamlessly with the kitchen and deliver all of the desired functionality.

Our clients range from hotels, cafes and bars and to offices and educational institutions, and we provide dishwashers, ovens, hobs and refrigeration equipment.  Our team apply the same attention to detail to both small installations and more comprehensive kitchen solutions and all clients have access to first-class service support. 

Forbes Professional provides a wide range of kitchen appliances for commercial kitchens.

Miele commercial tumble dryer use a patented honeycomb drum, unique to the Miele brand. This ensures absolute reliablity that is ideal for sheltered housing, care homes, residential homes, student, laundrettes and NHS.

We offer educational institutions a range of laundry solutions with options for auto-dosing, on-going detergent provision and coin or contactless payment systems. We also provide TVs and digital screens with efficient and compatible signage software.  

Our projects span from dishwashers for communal dormitory areas to managed/ route laundry solutions for universities. No project is too big or too small. We work within a number of PSL framework agreements for laundry provision as well as helping clients with the design, build and management of any digital communication content. 

Forbes Professional provides laundry and kitchen appliances as well as TVs and signage solutions to schools, colleges and universities.

Our freestanding and integrated dishwashers, commercial laundry and refrigeration equipment is designed to simplify or expedite processes in a busy catering environment.  For hospitality TV, we can provide integrated customer communication as well as digital signage and interactive menu displays.  

Our information channels and digital signage software enable high impact messaging and are fully customisable to suit the client’s specifications and brand image.  We work closely with our clients to ascertain their requirements in terms of cabling, brackets, network and distribution preferences.  Our team of experts can design, build and maintain all content with the cloud based location enabling remote updates in real time.  

Forbes provides restaurants and bars with kitchen appliances ,laundry machines, hospitality TV, audio and communication systems.

Commercial laundry, refrigeration, dishwashing, television and signage solutions for businesses across the UK.

We can provide solutions for purchase with maintenance, lease and long or short term rental for businesses.  Our corporate client base ranges from the BBC and FTSE 100 companies to small company offices.  Projects include the short term rental of multiple large screens for events, digital signage for reception areas and  dishwashers for office kitchens but we always work closely with our clients to deliver the right solution.   

Our complete Care package gives access to premium products without upfront capital outlay and with the peace of mind afforded by our same/next day engineer response service.   All on-going account management and service requirements are handled centrally from our head office. This streamlined process keeps things simple, even for clients that are running multi-site operations.

Forbes provides commercial laundry, refrigeration, dishwashing, television and signage solutions to businesses across the UK.

University accommodation is a rapidly evolving sector and students today often have the option of ‘high-spec’ buildings that are fitted with every modern amenity.  Forbes’ commercial team provide student apartments with the latest in LED televisions, to meet resident expectations and effortlessly blend into any room.  With connectivity and SMART options, our TVs feature industry specific functionality to eliminate basic user issues.  

We also provide student accommodation with either built in or integrated washing machines, tumble dryers, cookers and dishwashers.  On-going account management and service requirements are handled centrally from our head office for a streamlined and efficient process. 

Forbes provides laundry and kitchen appliances to student apartments across the UK.

We provide a wide range of commercial laundry machines and payment systems that enable a simple, user friendly, one-step process.  With both coin-operated and contactless solutions we can help you to fully maximise on the footfall potential within your park.  

Our laundry equipment is both energy and water efficient and is fully supported by our first class engineer response service, minimising any downtime and delivering a consistent revenue stream. Our managed laundry options relinquish you of any of the auditing responsibilities whilst facilitating a significant profit share potential. 

Our laundry equipment helps holiday parks ensure high operational efficiency, low running costs and maximised profits.

Our washers, dryers and kitchen appliances are available as freestanding or integrated and all of our hospitality TVs feature industry specific functionality. Features such as volume control and tuning lock enhance guests’ experience and reduce user error. We also offer a range of signage and information solutions that enable effective guest communication by blending marketing and informative content.  

We work closely with all clients to help design and build the customisable interfaces, and all content is cloud based to enable remote management and real time updates. All account management and service requirements are handled centrally at our head office which streamlines the process for multi-site operators. 

Forbes Professional provides laundry, cooking and dishwashing equipment as well as TV, audio, signage and information channels to the serviced apartment sector.

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Our Complete Care solution gives access to premium products and a first class service support without costly upfront capital outlay.

We have a range of purchase options available to our clients, with a comprehensive maintenance and service support.

With flexible terms available, leasing commercial laundry, catering equipment or televisions can be eligible for significant tax relief benefits.

Our finance lease solutions enable effective budgeting with protected payments and 100% VAT exemption. With maintenance options available, clients can also have the peace of mind afforded by our first-class service support. 

Leasing options

For clients that would rather buy their equipment outright, we have a range of solutions available, with optional maintenance agreements for the provision of ongoing service support.

Purchase options

Our Complete Care rental solution gives access to premium products without upfront capital outlay and with fully inclusive service support. With fixed monthly payments and significant tax redemptions, our contracts help simplify clients’ budgets and forecasts.

All clients are allocated a dedicated account manager who remains their point of contact for the life of the contract. We work closely with all clients to ensure that the right product choices are made and our engineers provide a first-class response service at no extra cost, for the life of the contract.

Rental options

Rent, Lease, Purchase? It’s your choice

Payment system (optional)
Optical interface for service access
Peak load cut-out/energy management (optional)
LAN/WiFi module (optional)
WiFiConn@ct

CE
VDE
VDE-EMC
Splash-proof safety rating IPX4
WEEE
UKCA
Complies with Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

Miele 8kg Professional PDR 508 [EL]

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Connections options

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