About Us
Absolute-Snow is not just a retailer; it's a dedicated partner in crafting unforgettable mountain experiences for explorers.
We curate the world's highest quality and best value range of equipment, ensuring you get the right gear for your next adventure. Embodying our EPIC values, Absolute-Snow's team of experts deliver personalised gear recommendations, passionately provide top-notch equipment, inspires through captivating content, and cares by offering affordable gear options and fostering inclusion through partnerships with Snowsport charities.
Absolute-Snow is not merely a business; it's a transformative force, constantly evolving to benefit its people, planet, and sport, #ForTheExperience
Our EPIC Values
We are EPIC!
Experts - At the core of our mission is our commitment to adventure. We enrich the lives of individuals seeking memorable mountain experiences by delivering expert customer support and personalised gear recommendations.
Passionate - We share your passion for mountain adventures and are dedicated to providing the best equipment to help you create epic memories, all #ForTheExperience
Inspiring - We Inspire people to pursue their passion through aspirational imagery, engaging content and a friendly and approachable culture.
Caring - We provide the highest-quality and affordable gear options, to enable those on lower incomes access mountain adventures. Through partnerships with inner-city snowsport charities, grassroots clubs and snowsports camps, we donate to drive inclusion and participation. We are constantly making progressive changes to the way we work to help our people, our planet, and our sport.
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Our Leadership Team
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Paul McNamara - Founder & Chairman of the Board
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Matt Pyne-Madden - Managing Director
Nancy Callender - Finance Director
Sam McClinchy - Head of Ecommerce Operations & Data
Hannah Cole - Head of Merchandising
Luce Tong - Head of Ecommerce Trading
Rachel Brown - Head of Buying
Sarah Peters - Head of Human Resources
Lindsey Hills - Customer Relations Manager
Kaz Derbyshire - Content Manager
Andrew Lynn - Ecommerce Operations Manager
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Raluca Popoviciu - Logistics & Facilities Manager
Ben Burrows - Category Manager
Ros Briant - Outdoor Soft Goods Manager
Steve Miles - Outdoor Hardgoods Manager
Lucy Bell - Senior Merchandiser
Our People, Our Adventures, #ForTheExperience
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Join Us
Want to work with us? For all our current vacancies, visit our Jobs & Careers Page.
Our History
September 2004
We started off really and truly offering bargain boards - or bargain snowboards to be precise - on a website called BargainBoards.co.uk. The website was home made, without a shopping cart so you couldn't even pay online!
September 2005
New professional website launched with loads of revolutionary design and technical features, many of which are now common place. Easy navigation, top quality photos and expert written product descriptions were fundamentals which remain with us today.
April 2006
We moved to bigger premises but we were not there for long!
October 2007
Watersports department launched.
September 2008
We moved into a brand new warehouse, with new offices and a new revolutionary concept in retailing a riders lounge style cyber shop where you could buy online but look at and touch the gear as well. This way, we could offer a larger choice than any high street shop!
May 2009
Our neighbours, the Hemel Snow Centre, opened their indoor real snow ski slope.
October 2009
Our third website design went live.
June 2010
With a growing team and more products than ever, we more than doubled our warehouse and office space.
September 2010
To complement our stock clearance outlet, BargainBoards, we launched Absolute-Snow.
June 2011
Our Rock Climbing and Outdoors department went live, for all your rock climbing, mountaineering, hiking and walking equipment.
July 2011
We opened two shops at The XC - one of Europe's biggest indoor extreme sports centres.
January 2012
We dropped the name BargainBoards in favour of Absolute-Snow.
July 2013
Our fourth website design was launched.
April 2014
We closed our shops at XC because they were too small and could only carry a small fraction of the 30,000+ products in stock in our main shop and warehouse, just one mile down the road.
January 2015
We uploaded the 100,000th product onto our website.
June 2015
Website was awarded "Google Certified Shop" status and became SSL certificated.
September 2017
Selected by Burton to be the only UK e-commerce retailer to stock and sell the fantastic new Burton Step On Bindings system in the launch year.
September 2017
Website number five went live.
September 2018
Relocated to much bigger premises in Watford, which enabled a 400% increase in the size of our shop.
March 2020
We acquired the Freeze Pro Shop trade name and website
2021 & 2022
We survived Covid 19. With travel bans and ski resorts closed it was a very difficult period for the entire snow industry. With China continuing to lock down entire cities throughout 2022, supply chain disruptions will continue into 2023 and even 2024. We hope you and your loved ones managed to come through unscathed and are ready to visit the mountains.
2023
Due to the continued growth of our water sports division, we are launching a brand new website dedicated to water sports customers over at Action Sports International. Absolute-Snow will focus solely on mountains sports.
March 2023
Brand new website launched at Absolute-Snow.co.uk!
Contact Us
Visit our Help Centre for advice, guidance and to speak to our team of experts.