EDITOR’S PICK
TWELVE MONTHS ON
In April last year, James Briggs Ltd announced the acquisition of Premiere Products, moving their chemical manufacturing operations up to their Chadderton base. Now, just over a year later, Tomorrow’s Cleaning Editor Matt Waring met with them to find out how things were going post-acquisition.
Little over a year ago, news broke that James Briggs Ltd (JBL) had acquired the business and assets of Cheltenham-based cleaning chemical manufacturers Premiere Products. The announcement came as something of a shock to many within in the cleaning industry, but for all intents and purposes, things have been progressing very well for both JBL and Premiere since the big acquisition last April. With Premiere’s manufacturing lines moving up to JBL’s extensive plant in Chadderton, just outside Oldham, and new offices and training facilities in Tewkesbury, things are certainly looking up.
With that in mind, I made the short trip around the M60 to visit JBL’s Chadderton site and to chat with Tim
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Pugh, CEO of James Briggs, and Quil Shepherd, Marketing and Product Manager at Premiere Products, to see how things were progressing a year down the line.
Despite the acquisition only taking place 15 months ago, one of the most surprising things that I noticed during my trip around the extensive facility was how incorporated the Premiere business has already become in JBL’s operations. With a warehouse already dedicated to Premiere’s product lines, and the site’s laboratories working on Premiere formulations, getting things set up quickly was clearly of paramount importance to both parties. Indeed speaking to one of JBL’s lab technicians, Richard, he said that for a move of this magnitude,
based on previous acquisitions, it can take as long as a year to get fully up and running, yet in this instance, things were fully set up after just three months.
And the speed with which the process was carried out came as a pleasant surprise to those at Premiere, as Quil explained. “It was a surprise at how quickly it could be done, because our main concern was always to make sure that the transition was as smooth as physically possible for our customers. We couldn’t stop manufacture as we obviously had a commitment to our customers, not just in the UK but internationally,” she said.
“The guys worked tirelessly to get it up and running, as they knew how
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