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National timber merchant opens Bristol depot
Timber merchant Arnold Laver has cut the ribbon on its new Bristol depot on the former Filton Airfield site, which was sold to Malaysian investors at the end of 2015. The site is the 13th depot in the company’s countrywide network.
It represents ‘significant investment’ for the timber supplier and was developed in response to customer demands for an improved response time. It will hold stock of softwoods, hardwoods, panel products, doors and joinery products.
Until now, the family business has been delivering into the South West from depots in Reading and Birmingham. The new depot will mean the availability of a local next-day service.
Group managing director Andrew Laver commented: “We are absolutely delighted to have opened this new facility, which will further improve the service that we can offer our customers in the region. We are confident that our ethos of providing a large stock-holding, together with a quick and efficient delivery service, via our own fleet of vehicles, will help our customers deliver their projects on-time and in-full.
“It is also appropriate that the Depot is based within a former aircraft hangar, when my grandfather Arnold Laver was a pilot, who used his gratuity from the Royal Flying Corps, to establish this business in 1920.”
Image – Managing director Andrew Laver (left) with depot director David King.
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