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CES accepts ‘significant investment’ to fuel growth

CES (UK) Ltd, one of the country’s leading distributors of car parts, has announced that it has accepted “significant investment” in order to accelerate plans to expand its current network and further strengthen its position in the UK automotive aftermarket. Founders Howard Warren and Charles Colton will continue to support the CES strategy for growth whilst, the existing board of directors, led by managing director Steve McCann, will continue to manage the company operations.

17th August 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Parts Alliance growing while CES (UK) Ltd accelerates expansion

CES (UK) has announced new investment in order to expand more rapidly. According to the companies involved, this strategic move will “accelerate plans to increase The Parts Alliance network and further strengthen [its] position in the UK automotive aftermarket.” CES (UK) remains a key member of The Parts Alliance.

17th August 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Scottish parts distributor opens 2 branches, upgrades software

Scotland’s leading auto parts distributor, Dingbro has opened two new branches in Dumfries and Stranraer, increasing its network to 23 sites. The new branches have been placed to support garages and workshops in the south west of Scotland. "I’m delighted at the recent additions to the network. Expansion is always exciting for us, but even more so in a challenging economic climate,” said Gary Dingwall, managing director, Dingbro.

23rd February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Starting motor supplier Wood Auto offers diverse consumable range

The purchase of consumables has tended to mean that the general service and repair workshop had to deal with multiple suppliers with the extra administration costs that were inevitable with each supplier. However the trend of diversification has made a single supplier a more realistic option, certainly for specialist businesses like the fast fitter or the auto-electrician. As one of the country’s major starter motor and alternator suppliers, Wood Auto says it is now growing its range of consumable products and increasing its reputation for quality and availability. It says workshops can find a host of products to allow them to complete their work and finish the job professionally.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

SIP sees increased interest in heater range

Leicestershire-based industrial product specialist, SIP Limited is reporting a growing demand for its range of trade and professional propane, diesel and infrared heaters, as garages react to the dropping temperatures. The company singles out its professional diesel/kerosene stainless steel space heaters as a product that has generated the warmest interest.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Richbrook aims to stylise valve caps

Richbrook designers have attempted to give one of the dullest of all motoring accessories a stylish look, while simultaneously solving what it terms “one of the great perennial motoring problems”. With the firm’s new ‘Never Lose’ valve caps, it aims to prevent the persistent annoyance of the conscientious motorist each time they check their tyre pressures.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Rema Tip Top Minicombi set reflects austere times

Rema Tip Top’s UK branch landed the Innovation TAFF Award this year for the Ram-rod Tire Safe safety cage. In addition to the business that product attracted, Rema Tip Top says another product has been of particular interest this year. Making the argument that today’s economic climate calls for “favourably-priced solutions”, Rema Tip Top says its Minicombi plug/patch repair system is a “great alternative” to new tyre purchases, given that most tyre injuries can be repaired. “A genuine contribution to the sustainability of the environment can also be immensely satisfying to the responsible motorist,” the company maintains. The Minicombi is available for radial and cross-ply tyres and designed to be used to repair both the inside surface and puncture-canal, efficiently and durably in one step. The system can repair tread punctures of up to 10mm in diameter.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Parts Alliance “double digit growth” in 2011 market share

Steve Fulford, chairman of The Parts Alliance says the last year has been a successful one for the parts distributor, with a new, expanded head office opening and continued growth in market share. While 2011 hasn’t exactly provided the sustained growth that one could have hoped for, Fulford says the aftermarket’s continued buoyancy, particularly in the first half of the year, and the trend he reports of more motorists turning to the services of independent garages for cost savings, the prospects for next year are good.

12th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Who knows?

Editorial/Comment

As I write David Cameron has just vetoed Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkosy’s proposal for closer fiscal integration between European states. A day earlier Standard and Poor’s put the best part of Europe on credit watch, threatening to downgrade national credit ratings if nothing substantial happened to shore up the collective accounts. The day after the 10-hour long European fiscal integration talks concluded with all but three countries (UK, Sweden and Hungary) signing up to the treaty within a treaty, far from stabilising things, increased Italian bond rates actually made its governmental borrowing more expensive.

9th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

CES (UK) urges independents: prepare for TPMS

Car parts and garage consumables distributor CES (UK) says that it is working to help independent garages ready themselves for continuing developments in the market, focusing on new TPMS legislation. From November 2012, TPMS will be mandatory on all new vehicle platforms, legislation designed to improve vehicle safety and drive down emissions. Although there is still almost a year until TPMS becomes mandatory, there are already many vehicles in the car parc that use the technology. The company has also recently launched its 2012 catalogue, with 100 pages of consumables, tools and cleaning products that are typically used every day by technicians.

7th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Unipart and H2 Equity complete deal

Company News, UK News

Unipart Group and H2 Equity Partners have officially completed the previous announced deal that sees H2 acquire a controlling stake in Unipart Automotive, one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of car parts, workshop consumables and garage equipment.

4th October 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

H2 acquiring controlling stake in Unipart

Company News, UK News

H2 Equity Partners has announced plans to acquire a controlling stake in Unipart Automotive, the UK’s largest independent supplier of car parts, workshop consumables and garage equipment. Unipart Automotive is currently owned by Unipart Group. The agreement, which is expected to be concluded shortly, sees H2 Equity Partners taking majority ownership in the UK operation. Unipart Group will hold onto 49.9 per cent. Patrick Kalverboer, managing partner at H2, will become executive chairman of the new company.

14th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Performance Wheels launches new performance bolt range

Leicestershire-based Performance Wheels has announced a new range of coloured wheel bolts, following on from its popular coloured tuner nut range. The PW bolts are made from “high-grade Chrome Vanadium alloy-steel construction has been heat-treated to exceed DIN 10.9 before each bolt is triple nickel plated, then chromed, then electro-deposition coated in the appropriate colour,” says the company.

17th February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

TPMS is the future, says Autogem

In order to prosper in today's competitive market, a company needs to be able to identify trends and wholeheartedly embrace new opportunities. A good example of this is Autogem, which used to be a market leader in the supply of exhaust fittings and workshop consumables, but which is now regarded as an authority on tyre pressure monitoring systems.

While it is true that all run-flat tyres must have some form of TPMS, the number is still comparatively small. However, says Prashant Chopra, managing partner at Autogem, this will all change, as from November 2012, a European Directive states that all new category M1 vehicles will have to be fitted with TPMS.

8th February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

A Diverse Range and Approachable Team a Winning Formula for Clampco

When Clampco UK was founded in 2001, the company largely focused upon the supply of exhaust clamps and fittings to the exhaust and tyre fast fit sector. The firm was well received and its customer base grew to some 2,000 garages within a few years, yet during this period signs of decline in the exhaust market as a whole became apparent to Clampco. As Clampco managing director Stuart Hubble shares, it was clear the company’s only option for growth lay in diversifying and enlarging the product range on offer. With this in mind, Clampco focused its energies on investigating what other everyday items could be sold through its existing customer base. Two of the first additions to this wider range were tyre repair consumables and wheel balance weights – this was, notes Hubble, a “natural progression” from tyres and exhausts. Subsequently, Clampco added items covering the full spectrum of workshop requirements, including hygiene and safety products plus workshop cleaning products such mops, buckets and brushes. In addition to this, a full range of fast fit garage related tools such as impact wrenches and torque wrenches were added to the Clampco line-up.

30th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors