New regional base for GRS
Company opens new office in East Anglia to help support future growth plans and serve local aggregates market
UK construction materials group GRS have opened a new regional office in Suffolk to support the housebuilding and infrastructure boom in the East of England.
The new regional base in Bury St Edmunds will help the company to grow its supply of construction aggregates made from recovered waste materials to developers across East Anglia, alongside its carbon-reducing construction solutions.
With a turnover of more than £500 million, the Warwickshire-based firm has been among the UK’s fastest-growing companies in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 in recent years, and GRS are confident of a new wave of growth, particularly in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Norfolk. According to GRS, the annual demand for aggregates in the East of England looks set to exceed 20 million tonnes in the years ahead.
The new regional base will house the GRS major projects team alongside colleagues from the company’s aggregates and waste trading businesses. Local representatives of GRS subsidiaries including earthworks and civils contractors ISC, ground stabilization specialists Soil Science, and rail freight venture Rail Stone Solutions.
At last week’s event to mark the official opening, GRS chief executive Jon Fisher and the regional team were joined by Karim Massaad of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and former Premier League midfielder and professional football manager Jody Morris of the League Managers Association with whom GRS have a long-term people development partnership.
Mr Fisher commented: ‘There’s huge potential for growth across East Anglia – probably greater than any other part of the UK – and having a base in Bury St Edmunds gives us a platform to do business in this part of the world.
‘The opening of our new office is just the start of a multimillion-pound plan to grow in this region. We plan to open a rail freight terminal near Ipswich, marine wharves in two locations on the East Coast, and a new facility for bagging materials to supply East Anglia’s builders’ merchants.’
