Around 30 jobs are to be created at a new installation depot being opened soon by Bradford-based double-glazing firm Safestyle UK.

The move comes as the company, which became the UK’s only stock market quoted double-glazing business through a £70 million float on the Alternative Investment Market in December, reported strong results for 2013 – and a good start to the current year.

Chief executive Steve Birmingham said the new depot off Wakefield Road, Bradford, would open within a month and employ about six depot staff with 12 installation teams covering the North and Midlands.

Safestyle is also strengthening its presence in the South of England with a new depot in Crawley.

The company now has 31 sales offices and ten installation depots. The company, the largest retailer and manufacturer of PVCu windows and doors for the UK homeowner replacement market, increased revenues by 13 per cent to nearly £125 million in the year to December 31.

Gross profits rose by 18 per cent to £45.2 million, while pre-tax profits remained steady at £9.5 million after fees associated with the floatation and a historic tax settlement.

Safestyle boosted its market share for the ninth consecutive year to 7.85 per cent from 7.49 per cent, with installations rising by 7.5 per cent to more than 250,000 from 232,000 the previous year.

Mr Birmingham said: “The group is well positioned to build on this performance as the general economy and the home improvement market continue to recover.

“Order intake in the first two months of the current financial year has been strong and in excess of that for the corresponding period in 2013. With this in mind we are pleased to propose a dividend of 5.5p per share for the year ended December 31 and look forward to the future with confidence.”

Mr Birmingham said the firm’s increased market share reflected a focus on core products, integrated sales, low-cost manufacturing and continued geographic expansion.

Safestyle had invested in new IT and manufacturing processes, partly to increase capacity to support future growth. This included the first phase of a £1.55 million investment in upgrading PVCu equipment.

Mr Birmingham said: “Our core offering of high quality, A-rated products provides great energy efficiency at outstanding value, a proposition which is particularly attractive to homeowners in the current environment of increased energy bills, heightened household awareness of energy efficiency and the desire to make savings.

“In addition, the directors believe that after the prolonged economic downturn of last few years, the recent upturn in housing transactions and prices, falling unemployment and improving consumer confidence are creating conditions increasingly favourable to growth in market demand.

“Since the year end I am also pleased to report that incoming order levels have remained strong, at levels in excess of those in the same period in 2013.