Silver Lining for failed firm SAM Transport
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By Simon Jack
NORMANTON, WEST Yorkshire-based haulier SAM Transport & Distribution’s assets have been acquired out of receivership by recycling and waste management group Silver Lining Industries (SLI).
SLI is buying SAM’s 26 vehicles and its 115,0002 ft distribution facility. SAM staff will be employed by a newly created division within SLI, LogiCare, which will serve existing SAM customers as well as SLI customers in the IT and electronics market.
Former SAM director Marc Ransley, son of the original owner of the business, Shaun Ransley, will head the operation.
Peter Hunt, managing director of SLI, says the Normanton facility had been under-utilised since the merger of two of SAM’s major customers, Scottish & Newcastle and Heineken, in 2009. “When we looked at the site, we decided there was definitely a business to be salvaged,” he says.
Hunt says the plan is to provide the North of England with an ADR facility to store upwards of 70,000 pallets, supported by a nationwide distribution network and online requisition and tracking facilities.
The SLI Group, based in Garforth, Leeds, includes trading divisions WasteCare, WeeeCare and PackCare. SLI will now run 250 vehicles from 12 sites around the UK, employing about 400 people. Its clients include the MoD and the NHS.
SAM Transport & Distribution was formed in 1996. Its customers over the years have included Asda, Coca Cola, Kelloggs, Linpac and Nestlé.