United is more than just a hugely successful football club — it’s a global brand that attracts football fans, commercial sponsors and general tourists to its Old Trafford stadium from all over the world. Naturally, the corridors of power have to look as impressive as the team out on the field. We work closely with the club’s photographers to ensure the walls of the stadium, and the training ground at Carrington, are filled with action images of United’s stars.

We have worked with United for many years and understand their need to make a visual statement. While the brand never changes, there are new players, new shirt designs and new sponsorship deals, which means that the images used around the stadium need to be regularly updated. The club uses the same model of frame throughout the complex to ensure a crisp, consistent approach. The level of trust we have built up with United means that we have also worked for individual players and the management team, indeed we even supplied a frame for Sir Alex Ferguson’s Knighthood.

LS Lowry is one of our best-loved artists and the Lowry Centre on Salford Quays in Greater Manchester is a museum and theatre in his honour that houses a permanent gallery of Lowry’s work, alongside contemporary exhibitions.

The Lowry Centre’s gift shop is a magnet for Lowry fans, giving them the chance to buy prints of their favourites paintings, many featuring the unique ‘matchstick men’ style of his later work. We have worked with the Lowry Centre’s gift shop buyers in recent years to supply the frames they need for their prints. We offer them variety, choice and quick turnaround times that are vital for a specialist art retailer.

JD Sports Fashion PLC is a leading retailer of fashionable branded and own brand sports and casual clothing. Their headquarters in Bury is a suitably impressive home for one of the UK’s most successful retailers — visitors get the picture as soon as they walk through the front door.

In 2008, the company commissioned us to produce more than 300 frames for a dramatic display in their reception area. They have designed a magnificent, eye-catching floor-to-ceiling mosaic, which features everything from framed products, like football boots and shirts, through to Gibson guitars signed by sporting superstars. It’s an impressive sight, giving the JD Sports headquarters a real wow factor. The work of art was planned by the JD Sports marketing team, but the installation was carried out by our own in-house experts and took three days to complete.