Building a culture and a future

‘I’m here to run the business in the best way this business can run,’ says Nevil Trotter, who joined Norville last September after the business was acquired by Inspecs in July.

Norville, a much-loved lens manufacturer within the sector, was placed into administration last year with the unfortunate result of 133 employees being made redundant. Norville’s role in the industry as a lens manufacturer who could produce what others could not was presumed to be in danger, but the £2.4m purchase of the business put a stop to this.

New managing director Trotter is keen to emphasise that Norville will continue to provide the most complex lens options, but stresses the company cannot operate profitably through this niche alone.