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Westgale Ltd
Building Contractors
63 Midton Road
AYR, Ayrshire
Scotland KA7 2TN

Telephone: 0845 0707 670
Mobile: 07785 313262
Fax: 0845 0707 671

E-mail: info@westgale.co.uk
Website: www.westgale.co.uk
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Ayrshire building contractors Skinners
appoint new general manager in England

By: Murdoch MacDonald

FOLLOWING another year of successful growth, building contractors William Skinner & Son have announced the reorganisation of the company into two divisions, based respectively in Cambridgeshire, England and Ayrshire in Scotland.

The company headquarters located on the perimeter of Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire will provide common commercial, personnel and accounting services to both divisions.

As part of the reorganisation, a new Regional General Manager has been appointed to head up the Southern Division.

He is Peter Rawlings (40) who lives in Histon, Cambridgeshire.


[Pictured: Managing director Sandy Cunningham welcoming newly appointed regional general manager Peter Rawlings to William Skinner & Son's Southern Division at Meldreth in Cambridgeshire, England. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL-SIZE VERSION.]

Until recently, Peter had been running his own property maintenance, refurbishment and building services company, but felt that the time was right to move to this newly created role with the challenges involved in spearheading William Skinner & Son’s expansion plans for its southern operation.

Peter Rawlings said: “I am delighted about having this opportunity to join William Skinner & Son during this exciting time of growth of the Southern Division.

“We are currently operating on a relatively small scale compared to what the directors and I feel is achievable.

“Having been warmly welcomed to the company, I hope to make a significant contribution to the success and growth of the Southern Division.”


William Skinner & Son managing director Sandy Cunningham (pictured above commented: “We see the Southern Division based in Cambridge being instrumental in the company’s UK expansion programme.

“The company continues to grow its current client base and skills range, and is exploiting opportunities in many new emerging markets such as renewable energy.

“William Skinner & Son has traditional values which run in conjunction with 21st century principles.

“The appointment of Peter Rawlings as Regional General Manager of our Southern Division has helped to strengthen our team still further, and will help to concentrate the company’s focus at a local level.”


William Skinner & Son chairman John Quinton (pictured above) added: “This is our latest move consistent with our growth plan, which is now exactly on target. Apart from offering more of our general building contracting work in England, it also gives us scope to increase our exciting renewable energy work, for which there is now great demand, especially for dual or multiple technology systems.”

ABOUT WILLIAM SKINNER & SON

Building contractors William Skinner & Son’s Ayrshire and Cambridgeshire bases cover Scotland and Eastern England with activities including building and building maintenance with 24-hour helpdesk, retail refurbishment and construction, painting, joinery manufacture, metal fabrication, terrazzo tiling, shopfitting, Sika Trocal and Ward Topdeck roofing, and solar hot water installation.

William Skinner & Son have recently diversified into tree houses with contracts from leading hotel and conference centre group De Vere Venues. The fist tree house for De Vere Venues at Theobalds Park, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire is illustrated below.


William Skinner & Son have also made a successful entrance into the solar heating market, attracting a large number of new clients throughout the UK, and have demonstrated their commitment to the wider field of renewable energy by installing a 6kW Proven wind turbine at their HQ in St. Quivox and including PV panels in the design for their proposed office extension.

The aim now is to offer general advice on the suitability of any of the available renewable energy techniques, or any mix of them, to solve individual energy supply problems, and they are developing a consortium of available local expertise to help them develop that.

Founded in 1964, Skinners made their first move down south into England five years ago, renting a site and offices in Saffron Walden in Essex from which to carry out the substantial amount of refurbishment work they were then doing for supermarket giant Tesco.

But the company’s recent expansion and diversification into new areas of business including renewable energy and tree houses has made necessary the purchase of their own larger facilities comprising an 8,000 sq ft yard, 1,900 sq ft of office space, and a 1,620 sq ft warehouse.

The new premises in Meldreth, near Cambridge, were officially opened recently by Andrew Lansley, MP for South Cambridgeshire.


[Pictured: William Skinner & Son chairman John Quinton (left) and managing director Sandy Cunningham (right) welcome Andrew Lansley, MP for South Cambridgeshire to the official opening of the new Skinners Southern Division offices at Meldreth in Cambridgeshire, England earlier this year.]

William Skinner & Son managing director Sandy Cunningham said: “Our commitment at Cambridge is a measure of the importance to us of the market in London, the South East, Midlands and East Anglia.

“The Meldreth base provides high quality warehouse, workshop and office accommodation from which we can develop and control our market penetration. It has capacity for expansion to support several times its present level of activity.”

Managing director Sandy Cunningham concluded: “William Skinner & Son is now expanding satisfactorily on all fronts from our headquarters in Ayrshire and our new base in south-east England. We are traditional building contractors who have developed a diverse range of untraditional new skills, and we want potential clients in England and in Scotland to be aware of the comprehensive building skills and experience that we offer.”

www.williamskinner.co.uk

William Skinner & Son
Head Office
Cunningham House
Highfield
St Quivox
Ayr KA6 5HQ

Telephone: 0845 051 9060
Fax: 01292 671133

SOUTHERN DIVISION:
College Farm Business Centre
North End
Meldreth, Cambridgeshire
SG8 6NT

Telephone: 0845 051 9070
Fax: 01763 262916

Contact: Sandy Cunningham
Managing Director
Tel: 0845 051 9060
Fax: 01292 671133
E-mail: scunningham@williamskinner.co.uk

Web: www.williamskinner.co.uk

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