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One World Logistics buys freight forwarder Surfair
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By David Harris WORKSOP-BASED haulier and warehouse operator One World Logistics has bought freight forwarder Surfair Freight Services out of administration.
Surfair, based in Leicester, went into administration with sister firm United Global Services (MCR) earlier this month after the group encountered trading difficulties.
Managing director and partner in One World Logistics Stuart Dytham says the company was pleased to buy Surfair because of its strength in freight forwarding and its Irish business.
Surfair. which employs around 30 staff is about half the size of One World Logistics, which employs 55 and runs a fleet of 30 vehicles alongside 500.000ft2 of warehousing.
Dytham reveals that the newlyenlarged firm plans to run the Leicester and Worksop sites. He also stresses the firm is in the market for further acquisitions.
He believes that Surfair was a well-run company that was put into difficulties by problems with its former group as a whole.
Dytham says: "It's a company that I've competed against in former jobs: and I know it is very good at what it does.
"We have been looking for acquisitions and this came up out of the blue. I'm very pleased that it did."
Dytham believes that one of the reasons why One World Logistics is coming through the recession in such a strong fashion is because it owns its own sites. This helps to make customers who use the warehousing feel more secure.
He adds that one recent new customer signed up with One World partly because a previous warehouse operator experienced difficulty in releasing goods that were stored because a landlord had not been paid.
Dytham says: "People like the security of knowing that the company they are dealing with owns its own warehouse."
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