All ready for our 2013 Spring Firework Sale.
We have been working hard for the last few weeks getting everything ready for our annual Spring sale. We have picked up some fantastic bargains from importers that had had orders cancelled. The van has been on some interesting trips, including a couple of journeys to pick up orders from RAF Alconbury. This is a fascinating site and even more dramatic on a foggy day when huge bomb proof shelters appear out of the mist. Visit the bunker tours site for more pictures such as this;

We have printed off the order forms and have got the email ready to send out. The printers will be delivering the flyers next week so we will be spending several days stuffing envelopes ready to post.

Existing customers and people who have asked to receive details will be in the first wave of notifications, so if you would like to receive details please contact us.

In this year's sale will a barrage pack that I would encourage everyone to buy as it is such fantastic value and contains such good fireworks, a few single ignitions including a twin pack of the fan effect variety at less than half srp plus some giant rockets. Stock of some of the items is very limited and it is a first come first served basis, but you can buy fireworks now and have us store them for you free of charge until later in the year if you wish.

When to buy fireworks?

These days you can buy fireworks all year round from specialist firework suppliers. We at Jordans Fireworks are open all year round a keep a good selection of fireworks throughout the year. When however is the best time to buy fireworks? The fireworks available in the UK are almost without exception manufactured in China and deliveries in to the UK are mainly scheduled around August and September ready to take advantage of those sales periods. Whilst major firework suppliers like ourselves have placed our orders with manufacturers up to 12 months previous to the main sales period it can be a case of not knowing exactly what you have got until you open the box and let one off. We therefore, particularly with new fireworks, advise customers to wait until we have tested one before they order one. We suggest around August and September is the ideal time to start planning what fireworks you would like for your November display. Certainly by October lines are starting to sell out and once they have gone there may not be a chance for the supplier to re-stock for probably 6 to 9 months. You can leave buying your fireworks for your November display right up to the last minute, but would we advise it? No we would not. Buying earlier will give you the best selection and we will have plenty of time to go through with you the various fireworks available as well as suggesting firing orders. Whilst we still offer, as best we can, that service right up to November 5th, you can imagine how manic things can get at our busiest time of the year.

One of the best times of the year we suggest to order some of your fireworks is during our annual Spring Firework Sale. We run our sale for six weeks and have offers that are well below even our normal special offer prices. In our sale we concentrate on larger aerial barrages, larger rockets and large packs of aerial barrages. These types of fireworks form the cornerstone of displays from £100 to many thousands. You can buy fireworks in our sale and choose to either have them delivered (or you can collect from our store) later in the year so that you do not have to store them for several months. We store orders for customers free of charge.

If you require fireworks away from the main periods then we suggest that you should order at least a  week before your display so that we can arrange delivery to you and you can familiarise yourself with the fireworks before using them.

New blog for Jordans Fireworks

We have for some time been running our blogspot and also posting articles of interest about fireworks but not on our blogspot, so we are now bringing them together and they will also feed to a blog section on our main fireworks web page so that you can easily see new items and click through for further information.

Interesting items about the science of fireworks;

Latest January firework news at Jordans Fireworks

We have just taken delivery of a few items supplied by UK suppliers that we had run out of. One of the items back in stock are the Ice Fountains.

These are a great firework for use on cakes (birthday, wedding, anniversary etc). They last around a  minute each and produce a shower of sparks around 12" tall. They are easy to light (unlike sparklers which always prove quite difficult) and leave little if any debris on the cake, so the cake is quite edible after the fountains have finished.

We have placed our first order for the coming bonfire/new year season but no new lines yet. The first of the UK importers brochures has dropped through the door (Fireworks International). They are introducing a new range of large cakes around the £100 mark. I'm not sure if they are going to sell in large numbers as it is quite an area of the market that is already awash with products. They do have a new little double break rocket though and that should sell well. As always with new products though, you are never quite sure what you are going to get until you open the container doors and go and let one off.

We're off to Spring Fair next week but two of our largest UK suppliers are no longer exhibiting there so limited opportunities there for us.

January 2013 update
We are just starting buying fireworks for Bonfire Night & New Year 2013; we know that we have only just got new year 2012 out of the way but we have to buy so far in advance. In some cases we are having to order 18 months in advance to get the products we require. Nothing new product wise to report yet but should be able to update regarding new products after the Spring Fair where several of the major UK importers will have stands.

However some of the largest importers/manufacturers do not show at Spring Fair so we will either be visiting them or they will be calling on us in the next few weeks.

January 2013 at Jordans Fireworks

We are back from our annual New Year break. We have had very good reports from customers about our fireworks, particularly many of the ones we have specificaly designed to our specifications. Also we have had very few fireworks that did not fire all the way through this year, in fact we think that 2012 has been our best year for firework performance.

Whilst the firework trade will generaly not talk about non-firing fireworks, particularly when trying to sell you a firework it is most important that you get the most reliable fireworks you can. Obviously a supplier cannot test all of their fireworks before selling them and fireworks are hand made, so there is always an issue with qulaity control. With new suppliers of fireworks we will test quantities of their products prior to selling them as it were on the open market. That way we get to find out if there are reliabilty problems. Products that have a higher then accepted failure rate do not get in to our range.

Many of the products that feature in our range may also have underwent a year of small qantities being supplied to regular customers to ensure their reliability prior to becoming a product that we would sell in large quantities with confidence. Our customers who help us with this testing appreciate being able to try something new and see a new effect (usualy at a special price) and their feedback is most helpful. Thay also know that if the product failed to work then they will be refunded in full.

Jordans Fireworks are well known for their after sales service and should any of our fireworks fail to work we do credit customers. A photo of the product (if we do not get the faulty item back) helps us to identify where the problem lay and that information is pased on to the quality control department of the manufacturer.

Here are a  few recent customers comments;-

I look forward to using your fireworks again and it's a pleasure dealing with a company which appears to have a genuine interest in meeting and responding to its customers' needs. DP

thankyou, all received safe and sound, thanks for following up. great  service as always! SR

Your service from start to finish was exemplary. I didn't think people looked after their clients this way any more. You and your fireworks are truly excellent. SB