Mansfield-based Hall-Fast, which supplies more than 200,000 products into 82 countries, has been selected to join the Google Certified Shops programme.

The programme helps shoppers to identify online merchants that offer a great shopping experience.

The Google Certified Shops badge is awarded to e-commerce websites that demonstrate a track record of ontime deliveries and excellent customer service

When visiting the Hall-Fast website, shoppers will see the Google Certified Shops badge and can click on it for more information.

Malk Hall, owner and managing director of Hall-Fast, said: “We are proud to have been selected to join the Google Certified Shops program. Ecommerce sales is a rapidly growing part of our business with our online portfolio of 200,000+ items from 275 leading brands being supplied all over the UK and beyond. We pride ourselves on the high levels of customer service that we offer to all of our customers.”

As an added benefit, when a shopper makes a purchase at a Google Certified Shop, they have the option to select free purchase protection from Google.

Google Certified Shops is free, both for shoppers and for online stores. It helps online stores like Hall-Fast attract new customers, increase sales and differentiate themselves by showing off their excellent service via the badge on their website.

Mansfield based Hall-Fast are an ISO:9001/2008 quality assured company, they have enjoyed their best-ever January, February and April, and are on target to increase their turnover by 50 per cent in the current financial year.