Veteran founded creative design and build company, Cardiff, South Wales, founded 2019. Shopfitting, bespoke furniture and joinery, restaurant and bar fit-outs, retail and display areas, graphics and signage. Gold Award holder, Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. Winner, Creative Start Up of the Year, Start Up Awards National Series Wales 2022.
Cardiff, Wales · Est. 2019 · Veteran Founded
Built on Craft & Character. About OLLYWOOD, a veteran founded Cardiff shopfitting and joinery company.
A veteran founded Cardiff design and build company, started in South Wales in 2019, delivering shopfitting, joinery, fit-outs and signage nationwide.
Our Story
One Team. Every Stage.
OLLYWOOD was started in Cardiff in 2019 by Oli Williams, an ex-forces tradesman who wanted to build a company that ran the way a good military operation runs. Plan it properly, brief everyone honestly, finish what you start. Part of that was creating work for other service leavers, and it is still how we hire today.
Design, manufacture and installation sit under one roof at our Cardiff Bay workshop, so you are not managing a designer, a joinery shop and a fit-out crew who have never spoken to each other. Where a job needs a specialist trade such as electrics, glazing or flooring, we appoint and manage them, and you still deal with one project manager the whole way through.
We apply the same standards to a single boutique shopfront as we do to a nationwide rollout. Bespoke joinery and furniture, retail and display, restaurant and bar fit-outs, kiosks and RMUs, exhibition stands, solid surface and integrated graphics and signage, all planned around your brand, your trading dates and your budget.
Our Reach
Nationwide Delivery
Headquartered in Cardiff, we deliver projects across the full UK. No job is too far, our installation teams travel to wherever the work is.
Proven Track Record
Trusted by small independents and global billion-pound companies alike, including the British Army, Crown Estate, Westfield, and CBRE.
End-to-End Capability
Concept, design, manufacture, installation and snagging are all handled by one accountable team, covering retail and hospitality fit-outs, bespoke joinery, signage and display across the UK.
Behind the Scenes
From Empty Shell to Trading.
Most of our work happens before the photographs get taken. Strip out and survey, partitions and services, joinery delivered from our Cardiff workshop, then second fix, snagging and handover. Shopping centre kiosks are usually built overnight so the unit trades the next morning.
Recognition
Awards & Recognition.
We would rather be straight about this than inflate it. Here is exactly what we have been recognised for since 2019.
2026
Armed Forces Covenant, Employer Recognition Scheme
Gold Award, the scheme's highest tier, following Silver in 2021 and Bronze in 2019.
2022
Start Up Awards National Series, Wales
Winner, Creative Start Up of the Year, Wales.
2021
Great British Entrepreneur Awards
Finalist, Creative Industries Entrepreneur of the Year, Wales, in partnership with Starling Bank.
2021
Heropreneurs Awards
Finalist, Start Up of the Year.
Next Step
Start a Conversation.
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