Pointer Group Reorganization
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rTHE Pointer Group, the Norwich-based group of companies, has been reorganized. This was first announced in the company's annual report earlier this year and consisted of the formation of three new companies, representing the three major activities of the group—transport, aggregate production and contracting.
More than 400 road vehicles are included in the group's transport division, which includes a Continental trailer fleet. Throughout East Anglia, Pointer operates 20 sand and gravel pits and the civil engineering side of the business comprises a plant-hire fleet of 450 major machines and a contracts" division currently engaged on major demolition and construction contracts in the Eastern Counties.
Previously, 12 companies traded within the group. These have now been amalgamated to form Pointer Contractors Ltd.. Pointer Aggregates Ltd. and Pointer Group Transport Ltd. These new companies will be responsible to the main board, Pointer Group Holdings Ltd., and Mr. P. H. Pointer and Mr. T. J. Williamson, directors of the main board, will also be directors of each of the new companies.
On the main board, each director has specific responsibilities for sections of the group's operations—Mr. P. H. Pointer for aggregate production and all activities of Pointer Group Transport, Mr. T. J. Williamson for aggregate sales, land purchase and sales and all activities of Pointer Contractors, and Mr. F. C. Warren for group administration. In the three subsidiary companies, the same principle applies and directors have specific responsibilities.
On the board of Pointer Contractors are: Mr. E. J. Amiss, civil engineering director; Mr. K. R. H. Palmer, Norwich plant-hire fleet director; Mr. F. R. Heyhoe, director of the activities of Heyhoe Bros., and Mr. I. W. C. Kiddie, director responsible for concrete product manufacture.
Mr. Heyhoe and Mr. Kiddie were previously directors of former subsidiaries, Heyhoe Bros. and Hydraulic Precasts respectively. These companies will continue to trade under their original names within the framework of the new company.
On the board of Pointer Aggregates are: Mr. S. W. Busby, who is in charge of production and all group activities in Essex, with Mr. F. C. Baker as resident Essex director; Mr. D. Jones, sales director, and Mr. R. C. Norman, director of company aggregates operations in South Norfolk and East Suffolk.
Mr. Busby, Mr. Baker and Mr. Norman were previously directors of other• group subsidiaries and the trading names of F. J. Mount and Sons, R. C. Norman and Co. and East Anglian Trading Co. are being retained for use in this division.
On the board of Pointer Group Transport are: Mr. M. J. Forder, director for group storage activities and all group operations from King's Lynn; Mr. R. S. Hamblin, director for group activities in the Leicester area; Mr. J. Latham, director of group operations from Ipswich, with overall responsibility for all licensing affairs; Mr. R. S. Parrott, group transport co-ordinator, and Mr. F. G. Wright, group maintenance director.
Mr. Forder and Mr. Hamblin were previously directors of other group subsidiaries and the trading names of Pointer Continental Road Services and Hamblin's Haulage are being retained for use in this division.
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