Today marks the official opening of our branch in Leigh, Greater Manchester. We continue with our company mantra to “go local” and ensure regional support for our customers and bring employment opportunities into the area.
The expansion adds a local presence for PPS customers increasing service levels and giving them easy access to our sales counter for critical spare parts. Five local people are employed in the depot and we have plans for future development and further employment opportunities. The new premises has created a promotion opportunity for Andy Kershaw who will now take on the additional responsibility of branch manager.
Left to right on picture are: Matt O’Connor (Operations Director), Andy Kershaw (Branch Manager Leigh), Matt Banks (HVAC Technical Sales Manager), Ian Harrison (Managing Director), Mike Moretta (Capital Sales), Jen Kershaw (Aftermarket Sales).
Andy Kershaw said, “I’m looking forward to taking on the challenge of increasing our presence in the Greater Manchester region by working with Atlas Copco to further increase our local customer service satisfaction levels. Being in closer proximity to our customers means we can provide a more efficient local response to our customers’ needs. Downtime is costly and when things go wrong we can give a faster response, by being closer at hand, getting manufacturing businesses up and running at a quicker rate and reducing their potential loss of earnings.”
Ian Harrison, managing director PPS said, “We’re pleased to give Andy this well deserved new opportunity and we’re confident his presence in Manchester along with the rest of his team will provide the level of service we already provide to our local customers in Yorkshire. Greater Manchester is an area where there is a high demand with many manufacturing businesses in the area that need our support. As a community business we are always looking to grow local and support local and we believe that this is an area that will benefit from our presence.
“Like our move to Brighouse back in 2017 we plan to create jobs for the surrounding community and work with local charities and sports teams. We work to support a better future for the neighbourhood whether through employment, apprenticeships or charity involvement. This latest move to Greater Manchester will be the fourth time we have supported a community with our local presence.”
What can you expect from PPS in Leigh?
Same service, same products, just a different location.
Our aim is to offer you a complete turnkey solution from the plant room to the factory floor including air compressors, chillers, pneumatics, pipework, installation, ducting and assembly tools.
Stocking the same market leading brands
PPS isn’t just Atlas Copco’s largest UK distributor but a stockist of pneumatic parts including being the largest UK stockist of Transair and authorised distributor’s for Camozzi Automation and Norgren.
An on-site sales counter
Available to trade and public, our sales counter is open Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, stocked with hundreds of production critical spares for you to take away on the day.
Same 24/7, 365 days a year emergency support
If you don’t stop, we don’t stop, when you need us, we’ll be there. Call the Leigh team directly on 0161 676 0060
Need to call in?
You can find us on Google maps here…We look forward to welcoming you to our new branch and working with you to help keep your production running efficiently.