Our History

The first price list produced for Nick-El-Ectro when the company was based in Birmingham. Also before the company was re-named Nickel-Electro.

Articles of Association of Nick-el-Electro Ltd.

Trading account and balance sheet for Nick-El-Electro Ltd when the company was based in Birmingham.

Nickel-Electro hand written order book.

Articles of Association confirming the new company name – Nickel-Electro Ltd.

Nickel-Electro laboratory price list.

Metalware catalogue.

Early laboratory exhibition, our original Nickel-Electro stand.

Front of house, Nickel-Electro premises before the new offices were built along side this entrance.

Metalware tongs from brochure.

Nickel-Electro prides itself on being a UK manufacturer. Some of this machinery is still used today.

Nickel-Electro achieves accreditation to ISO9001 on 1st April 1990, formally known as BS5750. Jim Dickson, Managing Director of Nickel-Electro receives the certificate from MP Jerry Wiggin.

Extension to factory premises being built.

Melvin Dickson is appointed Managing Director and Robert Dickson is appointed Deputy Managing Director by their Father, Jim Dickson.

Advertising poster in Weston Mercury, October 1993. Nickel-Electro was given Supplier Of The Year award in recognition of their excellent standard of service.

Article in Business South West Magazine, July 1995. Melvin Dickson talks about the reasons behind the name choice ‘Clifton’ and how popular it is becoming as a recognisable brand name.

International Exhibition, The Clifton Range is displayed.

Laboratory Exhibition, Frankfurt.

Nickel-Electro Ltd gained the Investor In People award in July 2002.

Launch of the Clifton Food Range®.

Nickel-Electro launched the Clifton Food Range® into the industry at The Restaurant Show. This was the first hospitality show the company took part in.

The Clifton Food Range® demo kitchen is built.

Clifton Food Range® won the Excellence Award for their FL28D water bath presented by Caterer and Hotelkeeper. The award was in the category of Food Preparation.

The Clifton Food Range® garden was created. The garden is on site and includes a veg patch, apple and pear trees and a bee hive. The garden produces lots of ingredients which are used in the Clifton kitchen.

Clifton Food Range® launched the new double ended tasting spoons, tweezer tongs and micro tweezers.

Clifton Food Range® became a sponsor of The Chefs’ Forum in Bristol & Devon.

Clifton exhibited a range of products on the Sia Huat stand at FHA exhibition in Singapore. Sia Huat is one of the largest foodservice equipment suppliers in Asia and they are also the exclusive distributor for Clifton products in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Clifton Sauce Bottlewarmer was launched in 2014.

In 2015 we launched our brand new product Clifton at Home – a unique 8 litre stainless steel water bath available in six different colours with touch screen controller. Cooking at home couldn’t get any easier!

We have recently become members of CESA, Catering Equipment Suppliers’ Association; a highly distinguished organisation who specialises in bringing together commercial kitchen equipment suppliers and is recognised as the largest and most influential membership association for companies involved in the manufacture, import/export, distribution, installation and servicing of commercial catering equipment.

WE’RE 75!!!!!

This year celebrated our 75th birthday as a company!

Click through the timeline to go back in time  to find out how we got started!

This year we hosted our first charity event in aid of Weston Hospice.

With a beautiful sunshine filled day, a fantastic raffle with support from local companies and some delicious cakes for sale we raised £2024.03 for our local charity.

We would like to thank all the companies who donated prizes or made donations for this cause.