Swish links with HomePro to enhance installer scheme benefits

Swish Window and Door Systems – one of the UK’s most recognised consumer brands of home improvement products – has adopted HomePro Insurance as the preferred provider of Insurance Backed Guarantees (IBGs) to its Authorised Fabricator and Installer Scheme. Furthermore, Swish is giving its scheme members preferential access to the range of products from HomePro – including listing on its powerful Find-a-Pro directory of trade professionals and subsidised membership of FairTrades, Britain’s leading multi-trade association.

The Swish Authorised Fabricator and Installer Scheme scheme is designed to help fabricators and installers run a hassle free business, increasing their profits by offering real tangible benefits. All Swish Authorised Installers get extensive technical and customer service training, plus the confidence and back-up that comes working with a brand trusted by consumers for 50 years.

Offering home owners Insurance Backed Guarantees (IBGs) as part of a package of works is a superb means of enhancing their confidence – and a powerful marketing tool when it comes to increasing quote acceptances – and HomePro Insurance is one of the UK’s leading providers.

HomePro Insurance offers a choice of insurance backed guarantees covering eventualities required by trade professionals and home owners alike. The basic policy covers the work carried under the guarantee, including labour and materials.

The next level of cover takes care of homeowners’ deposits for up to 25% of the project value. This level of cover makes closing the sales process much easier, because customers are so much happier handing over the deposit in the knowledge that it is fully protected.

Swish Window and Door Systems’ scheme members will also enjoy the ability to deploy the well-regarded FairTrades brand on their promotional materials and vehicles; while being in for a chance to bid for £20 million worth of business enquiries annually generated by HomePro and FairTrades. FairTrades members also benefit from cheaper Yellow Pages and Thomson advertising and have access to conciliation services.

The arrangement with HomePro Insurance and FairTrades is further evidence of Swish Window and Door Systems’ commitment, through its scheme, to delivering the highest levels of support and service available.

Paul Lindsay, General Manager, Swish Window and Door Systems, said of the deal: “This is a great opportunity for both our companies to develop an extra level of support for our customers”.

Nick Egdell, Managing Director of HomePro Insurance said, “Obviously, Swish is one of the UK’s best known brands of home improvement products – and we are delighted to be supporting its authorised fabricator and installer scheme with our range of services. The opportunities for access to our IBGs and FairTrades membership benefits will be of great benefit to both businesses – but especially Swish’s authorised scheme members”.

HomePro Insurance was one of the first companies in the sector to achieve Financial Services Authority (FSA) authorisation and is listed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in its advice to homeowners published in Having Work Done on Your Home: Organisations That Can Help. All HomePro insurance products are underwritten ‘on shore’: IBGs by IGI Insurance Company Ltd and Red Sands Insurance Company (Europe) Ltd; while others – such as Public Liability – are underwritten by Allianz Cornhill.