FACITILE: SUTIONS BASED: Widnes with depots in Birmingham, Carlisle, Billingham,
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Glasgow and Immingham. The general haulage arm is based at St Helens with 3,700m2 of warehousing and a depot in London. Sultans International, the ISO tanks diviNion, is located in Widnes, with offices in the US, Belgium and Germany. FOUNDED: At St Helens in the 1920s by Alice Sutton, delivering coal by horse and cart. Her son Alfred left the nines to join the firm in 1923, having been sacked for hitting the 'areman. CONTACT: Jim Pennington, general manager; Michael Sutton, chairman. FLEET 250 vehicles. Buys new. More than 543 Mercedes bought in the past 18 months; 24 Mercedes 1834s joined the fleet on 1 August. SPECIALITY CONTRACT: Distribution of bulk liquids and gases in the UK, Continent and worldwide. TURNOVER: Figure unavailable, but family "as wealthy as Rod Stewart", according to Sunday Times list of Britain's 500 richest people.