- CEO
- Médéric Payne
- Full Time Employees
- 118
- Sector
- Consumer durables
- Industry
- Home furnishings
- Address
- Victoria Mills Ossett WY United Kingdom WF5 0AN
- IPO Date
- Jan 3, 1986
- Business
- AIREA plc is a United Kingdom-based design-led specialist flooring company that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes commercial floor coverings to both UK and international markets including Republic of Ireland; the company operates primarily through its core brand Burmatex, which offers an extensive portfolio of sustainable carpet tiles, carpet planks, broadloom carpets, fibre bonded and tufted carpets in sheet and tile formats, structure bonded carpets, multilevel loop products such as Rocklines, Threads, Standing Stones, Snowfall, Balance Collection, Arctic and Dapple, loop pile products including Tivoli, Infinity and Go To, cut pile, and specialist barrier and entrance matting products tailored for architects, specifiers and contractors in the education, leisure, commercial, hospitality, healthcare and public sectors. Founded in 1953 and headquartered at Victoria Mills, The Green, Ossett, West Yorkshire WF5 0AN, the company, which traces its origins to 1880 and acquired the Burmatex brand in 1984 before listing on AIM of the London Stock Exchange in December 2007, maintains a strong position in the commercial flooring segment with a focus on innovative, eco-friendly solutions produced via its integrated manufacturing and distribution operations. In recent developments, AIREA reports strong first-half 2025 sales growth of 5.8% to £9.81 million driven by robust UK and ROI performance, advances major investments in its manufacturing facility nearing completion by end of third quarter 2025 to enhance operational capabilities, plans several innovative product launches in the second half of 2025, fully settled its £0.9 million Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan in December 2024, increased its final dividend by 9.1% to 0.60 pence per share for fiscal 2024, and exchanged contracts on the divestment of its Bury investment property in Greater Manchester as part of ongoing business transformation efforts.