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Jim's chairway to TV heaven
A NEW South Tyneside furniture company is sitting pretty for future success after being featured on national TV today.
Items made by Beaumont Upholstery, based at Amos Ayre Place, Simonside Industrial Estate, South Shields, were featured on the programme 60 Minute Makeover, at 2pm on ITV1.
The popular programme is in its sixth series, and attracts one million viewers.
Launched in June, the company specialises in making custom chairs for the elderly.
Managing director Jim Tubbrit, who runs the firm with wife and business partner, Lynne, said: "The programme makers had spotted some of our products on eBay, and contacted us about making furniture for the series.
"They supplied us with the material, and we made a chair for someone from Burnley who had been injured in a farming accident.
"Our furniture is featured in this week's episode, but they filmed Lynn and I for another programme, actually making some furniture, so that should be screened in a few weeks' time.
"This is great publicity for the business, and I believe the programme gets lots of hits on its website.
"We only launched Beaumont Upholstery on June 23, but we are doing very well, and will probably have to take on another upholsterer soon to cope with demand."
Beaumont Upholstery created a chair and a chaise longue for 60 Minute Makeover.
After running an earlier firm in Frederick Street, Laygate, South Shields, for about 20 years, Mr Tubbrit took a break from business before launching Beaumont Upholstery.
Caroline Foote, day producer for 60 Minute Makeover, said: "The Burnley programme involved a young man who had been badly injured in an agricultural accident and needed a special chair.
"Beaumont Upholstery will have its furniture featured in one episode, and the owners were also filmed in Wallsend on Tyneside for a future programme."
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