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Macmillian and Wright Ltd complete National Distribution Centre contract for Kwik-Fit
Ipswich 21st July 2008 – Macmillan and Wright are pleased to announce the completion of a major contract for Kwik-Fit the UK’s leading automotive repairer and biggest MOT tester.
Macmillan and Wright won the contract to complete the construction of a major National Distribution Centre (NDC) project in Corby, Northamptonshire, for Kwik-Fit, which becomes fully operational in mid-July.
The contract consists of the conversion of 250,000 square feet. The NDC will store up to 300,000 tyres and act as a central hub for distributing tyres to 670 Kwik-Fit centres nationwide, six days a week. Alongside this project Macmillan and Wright have also refurbished 4000 square feet of offices at the site for administration purposes.
Due to the successful completion of the above project, Macmillan and Wright are also involved in other on-going projects with Kwik-Fit including the national roll-out of MOT & Servicing bays which will total over 400 across the country by the end of 2008.
Tim Barnard Kwik-Fit UK Property Manager Comments: ‘I have been delighted with the consistently professional approach that Macmillan and Wright have shown to all our projects both large and small, they are a credit to the industry’.
The Kwik-Fit group is the largest independent automotive parts, repair and replacement specialist in Europe and one of the largest in the world. With 1,800 service outlets across Europe it employs 9,000 people. Kwik-Fit has national UK coverage of 570 service centres and more than 200 mobile tyre fitting vehicles, making it the UK’s leading tyre, exhaust, brake and MOT specialist. The Group established in 1971, is owned by PAI Partners. The pan European private equity firm completed its acquisition of the group in August 2005.
Team effort is Child's Play
We were approached by TNT to form a partnership to design and build offices and a nursery for charitable organisation Valley House. Valley House offers accommodation with support to people who are experiencing some form of personal crisis and were looking to provide a Sure Start children’s centre available to the whole community which could offer day care for 0-5yrs. We used our link with Bayliss design to produce a bespoke building to the client’s specific requirements.
‘Since the project involved a charity we were keen to support, we offered our services at cost. This was our first step into CSR and we have other projects in the pipeline…’ Chris Wright, Director, MWL
India schools project
Chris Wright recently completed a trip to India to investigate the possibility of sponsoring an organisation based in Delhi which operates within the economical and socially deprived areas of India to help children in those areas thrive via education.
"We were taken deep into the slums and saw some startling sites", says Chris Wright, "Raw sewage running through the streets, cows, pigs, goats feeding off rubbish, we saw a dead body on the side of the road and amongst this obvious poverty is hope for some of the lucky children that are taken in by the Deepalaya project. I remember vividly how happy and content the children were in every school we went to. We visited a boy’s orphanage where we played cricket all afternoon. The Deepalaya project is a truly remarkable organisation; we are currently in talks to decide a beneficial building project for one of the sites in which the charity operates.”
The Deepalaya project was founded 30 years ago and by 2001 had educated over 40,000 children across India, helping them become self-reliant and enjoy a healthier, dignified and sustainable quality of life.
