Archbold Holdings takes Midgley
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A PROMINENT West Yorkshire haulage business, J. B. Midgley, has been taken over by Archbold Holdings as part of Archbold's expansion of haulage and warehousing in Northern England.
The deal, which took effect from the beginning of this month, brings 12 vehicles and the entire Midgley staff of drivers and mechanics into Archbold Freightage's central complex at Morley, Leeds.
John Midgley, who has long been a leading member of the Road Haulage Association and is still a board member and chairman of the temperature controlled functional group, has handed day-to-day control of his business to Archbold. It will run Midgely's as an autonomous unit and will retain its existing trading name.
Mr Midgley will continue to work for the company as a parttime consultant, maintaining contact with its customers, many of whom are new to Archbold.
Midgley's £500,000 turnover business, which was established in central Leeds for 104 years, handles steel, soft drinks and some freezer traffic and brings the total Archbold business to around 70 vehicles.
The move comes at the same time as Archbold Freightage officially opened a 30,000sqft warehouse at South Shields, and announced plans for its further extension. South Tyneside Mayor Hugh Carling opened the premises earlier this month, some four months after they were completed. Plans are already being considered for the warehouse space being doubled.
The project, which was started in 1982, was part funded by the European Investment Bank.
Archbold also has premises in St Helens, York and Knottingley, and has plans to open a depot in Manchester on May 1. It will occupy a two acre site.