CHD bids for home work by Juliet Parish • Lancashire-based
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Creegan Home Deliveries is on the acquisition trail in a bid to challenge the UK's leading catalogue delivery firms.
Barrie Creegan, founder of the 20-truck business, is to buy the goodwill of South-West general haulier Arrival Transport, which • operates seven vehicles from a depot at Weston-super-Mare, largely on a contract with Silentnight.
Next on the list could be a depot in Norfolk or Essex, where Creegan hopes to base at least 10 trucks later this year. He plans to move into Arrival Transport's leased site in Bleadon this week, keeping on the seven drivers and two mechanics, but some of the five administration jobs may go.
Creegan says that the acquisition will enable CHD to cut delivery times to the South-West by two working days. At present 80% of its nationwide deliveries from Burscough are made within seven working days. He may also use the site to re-launch the company into the home removals business, where he started out after setting up with an ex-Post Office van 10 years ago.
Creegan wants to compete with the major players such as White Arrow and Littlewoods' home delivery arm, "and to do that we have to have more facilities", he says. Already 85% of the company's two-man delivery work comes from catalogue firms Grattan and Empire Stores and from Air Sprung Bedding.