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THE MD OF SOUTHAMPTONbased Pentalver Transport has spoken exclusively to
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CM about its recent purchase of Staffordshire-based Bowmur Haulage The deal boosts the container haulage and storage operator's workforce by 200, providing it with an extra 240 trucks.
The business, whose parent company is AP Moeller-Maersk, now has a base in the Midlands that will aid drivers on long-haul journeys.And MD Brian Tattersall says he is not ruling out further purchases in Scotland.
"We have a depot in Felixstowe and in Southampton," he adds. "With the Working Time Directive I have been looking for business in the Midlands for quite a while."
Tattersall describes the Cannock-based business, which also deals in container distribution, as an "extremely well run company". "It was being run by an accountant on behalf of the Murrall family," he says. "I thought rather than get a virgin site this was an ideal opportunity.They did a cracking job."
He adds that no redundancies have been made.
The latest accounts filed at Companies House show Bowmur Haulage made a pre-tax profit of over Dm on a turnover of £16m for the year ending 30 Apri12004.
Tattersall says there are no immediate plans to acquire any other businesses, but he concludes: "In the future, perhaps... maybe Scotland in the years ahead. It would he a natural move."