AN ELECTRONICS manufacturing company with an annual turnover of £4m is poised to attract even more business - thanks to a £40,000-plus image makeover.

IGT Industries, which employs 70 people at its hi-tech factory near Southampton, has already stamped its mark with big-name clients across the world.

But bosses decided it was time to revamp those all-important customer contact points in a bid to drive the company further forward.

That resulted in a £30,000 revamp of the company's reception and sales office at IGT's base in Woodside Road, Eastleigh.

A further £10,000 or so has been ploughed into its electronic marketing and website, which has so far attracted more than 50,000 hits.

IGT, now in its 17th year, makes electronic assembly products that many of us have probably used at some point without realising the local connection.

For example, it manufactures the flexible membrane keyboards for food and drink vending machines.

Those with a jet-set lifestyle may have used an IGT control panel to finely adjust their luxury reclining seats on first class and business class flights with airlines like British Airways and Qantas.

The firm also made the electronic control panels for the state-of-the-art bridge of Southampton's £550m passenger liner Queen Mary 2.

Door entry devices at BAA-owned airports across the country, including Southampton, are manufactured by IGT.

An IGT spokesman said of the image makeover: "Our new look is hoping to create a new image for our company and bring us ahead of the competition."

IGT is owned by MD Nick Giles, technical director Vince Light and Derek McLaughlan.