Plank Doors, Bar Handles
Vertical planks, black handles
The facing runs in vertical planks with a full length bar handle on each door. The plank line is continuous across the closed run, so a multi-bay island reads as one object from down the aisle.
Raised spine island · timber canopy · radiused ends
A long dark timber island with a raised spine running down the centre and a timber canopy over it. The spine gives a double sided island a top edge, which is what keeps a long run from reading as a flat table from either aisle.
Two studio angles on white. The doors, the raised spine, the canopy rails and the curved end screen are photographed below.
Double sided islands have a problem that single sided ones do not: seen from either aisle, a long flat deck reads as a table with no top edge, and the merchandise on the far side is out of the picture. This build answers it with a raised spine down the centre carrying a timber canopy, which gives the island a defined top line from both sides and a place to hang signage over the middle of the run.
The body is dark timber in vertical planks with long black bar handles on the cabinet doors, and both ends are radiused. The end detail is worth a look in the close-ups: a curved acrylic screen wraps the radius, so the end of the island is enclosed rather than open, which is what stops product finding its way onto the floor at the busiest point of the fixture.
A long dark timber island with a raised spine running down the centre and a timber canopy over it. The spine gives a double sided island a top edge, which is what keeps a long run from reading as a flat table from either aisle.
Supermarkets, convenience stores, chain retail and speciality stores. Tell us the store format and the floor area and the specification comes back written against them.
The spine, the canopy and the end screen are what separate this from a plain double sided island. The end screen is the one that earns its keep.
Vertical planks, black handles
The facing runs in vertical planks with a full length bar handle on each door. The plank line is continuous across the closed run, so a multi-bay island reads as one object from down the aisle.
Timber top, full length
The spine runs the length of the island above the deck. It is what gives a double sided fixture a top edge from both aisles, and it is where signage over the middle of the run gets hung.
Rails along the timber top
Black rails run along the canopy top. They frame the timber and they give the canopy a hard edge where it would otherwise be a bare board that gets chipped by whatever gets rested on it.
Acrylic, follows the radius
A clear screen is bent around the radiused end. It keeps product on the deck at the point of the fixture that takes the most traffic, and it does it without blocking the view into the display.
Every item on this page is made to order. Send a floor plan, a hand sketch or a photograph of a fixture you like, and we quote against it.
Store fixtures are light for their size, so a container fills up on volume long before it fills up on weight. What decides your freight is not what one unit weighs — it is what shape the goods are in when they go through the container door. Everything we build leaves in one of three shapes, and a bulk island is the one that travels best.
Bulk islands travel as panels — carcase sides, shelves, bin rails, back panels and plinths, strapped flat with bubble wrap on every component. They are built up on the shop floor, so the packing list and the assembly drawings travel with the goods.
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Trolleys slide into one another and baskets stack. Past the first unit, each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length, so the shipped volume ends up a fraction of what the unit count suggests.
A checkout lane is welded, coated and fitted out as one piece, so it is crated whole. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, and it is the reason a counter order and a bulk order load so differently.
Because this island ships as panels rather than assembled, the container arithmetic runs on panel count instead of on finished size — which is why two islands of the same footprint can load very differently depending on how many compartments each one carries. We do not publish a units-per-container figure for that reason. It is worked out against your actual order and comes back on the packing list together with the case dimensions, once the island size is confirmed.
A bulk island rarely arrives on its own. These three categories share the dry goods aisle with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole aisle, because it is then one batch of coating rather than three.
Loose grain and loose dry goods almost always share an aisle, and both want stainless wherever a scoop lands. Ordering them together keeps the two halves of the aisle in one timber.
See grain racksThe bays that run behind and alongside a bulk island are what a shopper sees while standing at it, so they carry the same colour and the same board tone.
See shelving baysLoose lines are promoted constantly, and a 1000 mm promotion square at the head of the aisle is the cheapest way to push one without rebuilding the island.
See promotional display tablesHow many of each a store needs is a floor area question rather than a product question, and it is answered store by store on the equipment lists by store size.
Send the aisle length and any signage you want over the spine, and it goes onto the drawing.
Send the run length and any header artwork you want carried over the spine. The canopy is the natural place for aisle signage and it is drawn in before production.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your aisle drawing and it is answered alongside the quotation.
It is a natural place for it and stores often ask. Lighting is specified per order rather than being part of the standard build, so raise it with the enquiry and the wiring route is drawn in before production rather than being retrofitted on site.
It is fitted rather than bonded, so it comes off. Stores that merchandise tall product at the aisle head sometimes take it off — and then usually put it back, because the end of a double sided island is where product ends up on the floor.
Yes, either side of the spine or on one side only. Bins one side and open deck the other is a common arrangement when the two aisles the island serves carry different kinds of stock.
It is built in bays and the length follows your aisle. Rather than quote a catalogue size we draw it against your plan — send the aisle length and the bay count comes back with it.
