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GSF Automobile Elements has unveiled bold plans to speculate, develop and enhance the automotive aftermarket enterprise.
Greater than 300 managers from throughout the nationwide motor issue’s 180 branches and specialist help groups attended its two-day Supercharged for Success employees convention in Birmingham to which provider companions have been additionally invited.
On the occasion, the corporate’s introduced plans to open a substantive variety of new branches in early 2024, with the creation of a whole lot of latest jobs, along with a market-leading catalogue and to revitalise its provide chain and techniques to make sure GSF is as simple as potential to do enterprise with.
The elements provider operates 180 branches throughout the UK and Eire, supplying 1000’s of impartial garages, nationwide chains and retail clients with elements, specialist coaching, instruments and gear. The community is supported by centralised specialist departments in key areas comparable to procurement and provide chain, advertising and marketing and nationwide accounts. The enterprise additionally advantages from built-in IT techniques, which embody its industry-leading catalogue system, Allicat and entry to its nationwide storage programme Servicesure.
In 2023 non-public fairness agency Epiris co-invested in GSF alongside the Ahluwalia household which acquired the enterprise from LKQ Company. The co-investment marks Ahluwalia’s return to the automobile afterparts market. Having based Euro Automobile Elements in 1978, he scaled the enterprise from a single automobile equipment retailer in London into the biggest automobile elements distributor and retailer within the UK, with 260 branches nationwide and annual gross sales of over £1.2 billion.
GSF Automobile Elements CEO Steve Horne stated: “One of many high priorities for Sukhpal and I after we joined was getting all our managers and suppliers collectively as quickly as we may, as a result of we all know the ability of speaking the plans and imaginative and prescient we’ve bought for the way forward for GSF.
“The suggestions we’ve had concerning the occasion from each our individuals and our suppliers has been phenomenal, unprecedented. There’s an actual ardour, sense of real delight and power about GSF and the place we’re getting in 2024 and past, and that’s as a result of the success we’re going to drive will profit each a part of the aftermarket provide chain, from producers to garages and street customers.
“By investing, increasing and enhancing our enterprise, we’ll remodel GSF from a sleeping big into the accomplice, vendor and employer of selection in our {industry}.”
Govt chairman Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia stated: “It’s so good to be again within the {industry} and serving to to steer GSF ahead. It is a incredible crew and we see big potential for the enterprise and its individuals, so we’re going to give them all the things they should succeed for our clients. By working with our {industry}’s greatest suppliers, recruiting and retaining the perfect individuals and delivering each factor of the fundamentals by distinctive service to clients, we’ll supercharge GSF and take this enterprise to the following stage within the years to return.”
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