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About Us

We give people reasons to go shopping.

Our work is everywhere. Over 130 years of working with the biggest global brands we have some impressive credentials and some great stories to go with them. We support all brands in achieving success at the point of purchase in retail, be that a global launch of a Jurassic Park movie or enhancing the customer journey in McDonalds.

Next level service with personality.

We are a serious player in Retail Marketing and a fun company to work with. We combine innovation with creativity to execute ideas that guide brands and retailers in how they communicate with their shoppers.

Our insight team are fully integrated into our design team to ensure a deep understanding of the customer within each territory. With our creative hubs spread worldwide we are ideally positioned to understand shopper influences, local cultures and audiences. This provides solid foundations to our creative solutions, translating insight into award winning ideas that help build your brand. Not to mention our legendary BBQing skills.

The Leadership and Account Team are super enthusiastic, always available and up for any challenge we throw at them. It’s like we’ve been welcomed into the Valley Family!”

Jeremy Payne Shopper Marketing Lead, Bayer

Intelligent insight. Creative design

Our process achieves the best shopper connection. The research within our design phase is intelligent, sourced from data and knowledge we have gained through vast industry experience to ensure we grab shopper’s attention. Our tools and solutions build a shopper marketing proposition that supports a category strategy and delivers market cut through for your product.

We’re focussed on delivering. Seriously quick and in control.

We have over 130 years experience within the temporary and permanent point of sale industry, remaining at the forefront of innovation and manufacturing across our UK and overseas operation facilities. Our state-of-the-art production capabilities offer everything from design and engineering to production and installation. We deliver time-critical, complex projects across multi-lingual, cross-territory campaigns with the highest levels of accuracy.

We are able to create unique display pieces, fulfil large rollout programs and engineer technical shop-in-shops, whilst retaining full control, delivering cost-effective, high-quality production and improved speed-to-market.

Our captain of the ship has a phrase, right first time.

Clients trust Valley to take ownership of their global brand delivery. We have unrivalled coverage, from single country campaigns to multi territory projects, across all leading retailers. Our dedicated teams are experienced in making the process run as smoothly as possible and will guide you from design through to installation, maintenance and ongoing support. Individual project and activity plans are created as we recognise that reporting is critical. Our online portal provides a single point of reference to customers to provide full visibility of the production schedule. After all, we like to make our customers smile.

Meet the team →

Jonathan Haggas

Managing Director

Jonathan has been influential in the strategic growth of The Valley Group. A true expert in the retail sector, Jonathan manages the entire commercial and operational talents within the group.

John Haggas

Group Chairman

Chairman, inventor, and oldest family member, John Stansfield Haggas is the third generation to help steer this business to where it is today.

Julia Heywood

Account Director

Julia is a founding Director of the group. Leading customer relationships, Julia has vast experience when working amongst brands and their retail customers to achieve the greatest retail results possible.

Holly Haggas

Global Account Manager

Holly is the 5th generation of the Haggas family to join the business. Holly is passionate about the future of shopper marketing and loves helping brands connect with their consumer in the most impactful way.

Bruno the dog

Head of Security

He may not have the best gnashers in the world, but our Bruno is flying high as our top salesman. Make no bones, the others can only dream of his success.

Basil Metcalf

Head of Finance

The bean counter – a whizz with numbers and always carrying dog treats, so loved by all. An avid Bradford City supporter, he has no need to leave his beloved Yorkshire!

Neil Cooper

Production Director

Chris Kendrick

Director of Projects

Andy Warriner

Creative Director

Victoria Dougherty

Brand Director

Justin Warren

Head of Design and Development

Robert Jawdoszak

Head of Quality Assurance

Jon Pacey

New Business Manager

Russell Tookey

Sales Manager

Cameron Jalil

Senior Estimator

Steve Egerton

Production Controller

Steve Rowe

Production Manager

James Haggas

Managing Director

James has steered The Valley Group to the great global business it is today. Overseeing the client experience, design and marketing capabilities, James has an unprecedented knowledge of retail marketing that has earned him the title ‘Dr Retail’

James Haggas

Managing Director

Jonathan Haggas

Managing Director

Jonathan has been influential in the strategic growth of The Valley Group. A true expert in the retail sector, Jonathan manages the entire commercial and operational talents within the group.

John Haggas

Group Chairman

Chairman, inventor, and oldest family member, John Stansfield Haggas is the third generation to help steer this business to where it is today.

Julia Heywood

Account Director

Holly Haggas

Global Account Manager

Bruno the dog

Head of Security

He may not have the best gnashers in the world, but our Bruno is flying high as our top salesman. Make no bones, the others can only dream of his success.

Basil Metcalf

Head of Finance

The bean counter – a whizz with numbers and always carrying dog treats, so loved by all. An avid Bradford City supporter, he has no need to leave his beloved Yorkshire!