Page 1 - Glossop Caravans - Celebrates 40 Successful Years
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Brothers Stan and Brian Laing
Managing Directors
Inside:
Changing Styles 2 GLOSSOP CARAVANS
Keeping Caravanners 2 CELEBRATES 40 SUCCESSFUL YEARS
on the Road
3 Back in 1976 - when Laing have
A Very Special Range Britain basked in the heat developed it
of a record-breaking from a
Continuous 3 summer - a small family- fledgling
Development run caravan dealership company
with a handful of selling second
Customers Since 1979 4 employees was born. -hand
caravans to a
What the experts say 5 Forty years on, Glossop thriving business working
Caravans has grown to in close partnership with
Preferred Dealers 5 become one of the UK's Britain's top three
leading dealers, with a manufacturers -
Loyalty and Laughter 6 prime seven-acre site on Coachman, Elddis and from surrounding areas
the fringe of the country's Swift. such as Stockport,
Blooming Marvelous 7 first National Park in the Tameside and Oldham.
Peak District, a state-of- Now one of the High Many have stayed loyal
Business Overseas 7 the-art Service Centre and Peak's key employers, over the years - such as
a workforce of around most of the people who the longest-serving
Glossop Awnings 8 160 people. work there live within a employee, Service Centre
five-mile radius, in Manager Mike Pinder,
A Final Word from Stan 8 Over the past four Glossop and Hadfield, who joined 38 years ago.
and Brian decades, Joint Managing with some travelling in And many long-standing
Directors Stan and Brian customers keep coming
back - returning year after
year to buy new models.
The Early Years
Entrance in the early days Tommy, Stan and Brookfield, Glossop. It soon caught the
Brian Laing - on a Shortly after opening the attention of many passing
The success story began small plot of land in Glossop site, Tommy took caravanners on their way
when the company was Droylsden, near the decision to to regular weekends away
launched by three brothers - Manchester. It concentrate on the and holidays across the
expanded so quickly original business in UK, as well as building up
that they were soon Droylsden, while Stan and a solid base of customers
on the look-out for a Brian took over at within a 50-mile radius of
second site, and Tommy Brookfield and developed the business.
found one alongside the the Glossop Caravans
main A57 road at brand.
Managing Directors
Inside:
Changing Styles 2 GLOSSOP CARAVANS
Keeping Caravanners 2 CELEBRATES 40 SUCCESSFUL YEARS
on the Road
3 Back in 1976 - when Laing have
A Very Special Range Britain basked in the heat developed it
of a record-breaking from a
Continuous 3 summer - a small family- fledgling
Development run caravan dealership company
with a handful of selling second
Customers Since 1979 4 employees was born. -hand
caravans to a
What the experts say 5 Forty years on, Glossop thriving business working
Caravans has grown to in close partnership with
Preferred Dealers 5 become one of the UK's Britain's top three
leading dealers, with a manufacturers -
Loyalty and Laughter 6 prime seven-acre site on Coachman, Elddis and from surrounding areas
the fringe of the country's Swift. such as Stockport,
Blooming Marvelous 7 first National Park in the Tameside and Oldham.
Peak District, a state-of- Now one of the High Many have stayed loyal
Business Overseas 7 the-art Service Centre and Peak's key employers, over the years - such as
a workforce of around most of the people who the longest-serving
Glossop Awnings 8 160 people. work there live within a employee, Service Centre
five-mile radius, in Manager Mike Pinder,
A Final Word from Stan 8 Over the past four Glossop and Hadfield, who joined 38 years ago.
and Brian decades, Joint Managing with some travelling in And many long-standing
Directors Stan and Brian customers keep coming
back - returning year after
year to buy new models.
The Early Years
Entrance in the early days Tommy, Stan and Brookfield, Glossop. It soon caught the
Brian Laing - on a Shortly after opening the attention of many passing
The success story began small plot of land in Glossop site, Tommy took caravanners on their way
when the company was Droylsden, near the decision to to regular weekends away
launched by three brothers - Manchester. It concentrate on the and holidays across the
expanded so quickly original business in UK, as well as building up
that they were soon Droylsden, while Stan and a solid base of customers
on the look-out for a Brian took over at within a 50-mile radius of
second site, and Tommy Brookfield and developed the business.
found one alongside the the Glossop Caravans
main A57 road at brand.
