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Devon Stone was founded by husband and wife team Jose Cortizo and
Amy Cortizo. The company is based on the core values of excellence in
product, excellence in service and value for money. Since its
inception, Devon Stone has seen four major changes:
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A shift from a wholesale only
company to an architect, developers and end user driven organisation -
we establish and develop long term relationships based on our core
values.
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Increased our stone offering to one of the most comprehensive in the UK.
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Move
from retail only to specialist supplier and installer (to include stone
masonry and restoration) - we strongly believe in managing your project
from start to finish.
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A
focus from a regional outlook to a national outlook. Our
installation capability now geographically covers Devon, Cornwall,
Somerset, Dorset, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, Kent
and Hertfordshire and Jersey (size of project dependent). We have
always supplied nationally.
To achieve this shift, Devon Stone:
- Opened luxury showroom/meeting rooms in Exmouth Marina
and Kingsbridge to support its existing warehouse and external yard in
2006. The purpose of this is to bring together the largest possible
selection of quality natural stone in a single comfortable and peaceful
marina setting away from any high street.
- Actively
sought out and recruited the best in area stone mason, stone tilers and
hard landscape teams. We are proud that these same teams have
continued to work at Devon Stone for over two years now with the loss
of only a single team.
- Actively sought out and worked
with leading stone suppliers to increase our product offering - we
consider our offering to be amongst the most comprehensive for quality
natural stone in the UK and at the most competitive price to quality
ratio.
We are now proud to say that we have worked on a number of the most
prestigious domestic and commercial sites in the UK and continue to
expand our architect, developer, end user and contractor client base.
Amy Cortizo (Managing Director)
Formerly a marketing director for a major European company, Amy
Cortizo spent a long time specialising in material product design. Amy
has brought with her the right commercial mix to ensure that Devon
Stone products are the best in the market and that the end client is
fully aware of the right context in which to apply them. Amy Cortizo
is also responsible for Devon Stone's outward image and is keen to
ensure that the clean lines of it's image are followed in the work we
carry out.
Jose Cortizo (Commercial Director)
Formerly a commercial project manager Jose Cortizo has experience
of managing multi million pound programmes for clients ranging from BP
to Pfizer. Jose Cortizo left the project management arena to work for
Stoneguard in South West England before setting up Devon Stone with his
wife Amy Cortizo. It is Jose's belief that the same principles apply
to all projects and in the natural stone arena these should be:
- Use the best people and materials for the job and get it
right first time - the cost of a poor job outweighs the cost of a more
expensive quality project.
- Simplify the problem for the
client and ensure good communication throughout - we don't all know
about natural stone and associated materials and most people don't want
to either - we all want it to look right.
- Price should be based on a sensible commercial rate and not situation dependent.
Jose Cortizo is now regarded as an expert in the field of limestone
and basalt specifically and is looking forward to developing Devon
Stone's offering for luxury bespoke marble. Jose Cortizo is
responsible for all Group natural stone purchases as well as running
our Devon installation service that covers Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and
Somerset. Our team number 12 specialist stone installers and masons.
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