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RiteWay Curtains and Blinds are looking back at their first year of operating in Yass Valley and the surrounding regions.
Owners Allan and Barbara Smith are extremely pleased with their decision to select Yass as the location for their third gallery. Their other two branches are in Fyshwick and Mitchell in the ACT.
They’ve also covered a vast area from the Yass gallery in Comur Street too.
They’ve been out as far as Harden, Boorowa and over to Crookwell, places near Burrunjuck Dam and Wee Jasper, as well as closer locations like Murrumbateman, Jerriwa, Dalton and Gunning, plus plenty of addresses in and around Yass.
Allan also says they are already starting to get repeat business, which says a lot.
BACK STORY
Allan and Barbara’s is a family business that has been operating since 1972.
They first opened in Fyshwick, and soon started their own manufacturing operation in Queanbeyan.
One of their earlier efforts was to have a Luxaflex Gallery, the third such one in Australia.
From that, they opened the branch in Fyshwick as the first concept store in the world for Luxaflex to show customers how the blinds operated.
“Since then that model has gone around the world,” says Allan proudly.
The next stages saw them open in Mitchell, then close Queanbeyan and move those staff to the Fyshwick gallery.
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CHOOSING YASS
In January 2017 Allan had a talk with Barbara about whether they should expand.
Barbara asked where and Allan immediately said Yass because he’d been studying it for two years. They agreed it was a good idea and they are very glad they did.
Word got out that they were coming and while there were some delays with getting the office space modernised and suitable “we were getting a lot of calls asking ‘when are you opening?’,” Allan says.
Allan also tells us they have been exceptionally well accepted here. He thought a successful result would see him needing to go out measuring for half a day each week, but the demand has been such that it turned out to be three days each week.
GIVING BACK
“We are very community minded,” says Allan, and you may well have already noticed one of their ongoing local sponsorships.
“We have sponsored Berrima primary school, Yass public school, Yass high school, Lions Club of Yass, CanAssist Yass, two of the junior soccer teams, Yass Magpies women’s League Tag” and they have supported other causes too.
BIG SELLERS
RiteWay Curtains and Blinds Luxaflex gallery can offer you quotes on curtains, verticals, all types of Venetians, Roman shades, roller blinds, and anything from Luxaflex.
“We brought Canberra to Yass, and we are upgrading Canberra,” Allan says, and “our big sellers are the Luxaflex range.”
He proudly points out that the Archeitella Duette blinds have an energy rating of 0.61 compared to standard double glazing which is rated at 0.54. “We’re selling a lot of them out here,” notes Allan.
The motorised products can also be integrated into a smart home system, allowing you to control their operation as easily or automatically as any other device that you have decided to include.
CURRENT SPECIAL
As Allan and Barbara celebrate their first year serving the Yass Valley you can get 30% off the RRP of Luxaflex products and curtain fabrics until the end of August.
Check in store for details.
