GSF Automotive Components is charting a fast-growth future with the appointment of Euro Automotive Components founder Sukhpal Ahluwalia as govt chairman and Steve Horne as chief govt officer.

The elements provider operates 180 branches throughout the UK and Eire, supplying 1000’s of unbiased garages, nationwide chains and retail prospects with elements, specialist coaching, instruments and gear.

The Ahluwalia household has additionally co-invested in GSF Automotive Components alongside non-public fairness agency Epiris which has acquired the enterprise from LKQ Company.

The co-investment marks Ahluwalia’s return to the automobile afterparts market. Having based Euro Automotive Components in 1978, Sukhpal scaled ECP from a single automobile equipment retailer in London into the most important automobile elements distributor and retailer within the UK, with 260 branches nationwide and annual gross sales of over £1.2 billion.

Ahluwalia stated: “This can be a massively thrilling time for GSF Automotive Components, and I sit up for working with all of our valued staff members, prospects, and world suppliers as we begin on this new journey collectively. I’ve an enormous respect for the GSF staff, together with the enterprise’ hard-working department staff members and head workplace colleagues. Relationships have all the time been on the centre of GSF’s success, and that is one thing that we’ll double down on.”

Horne added: “We are going to flip the enterprise right into a fast-growth, sales-focused firm with our prospects, suppliers, and staff members at its coronary heart. This progress plan will ship alternatives throughout the business: new gross sales channels for our valued world suppliers, added comfort for our necessary prospects, and new roles for our educated staff members.”

The appointments reunite Ahluwalia and Horne, who beforehand labored collectively at Euro Automotive Components. The staff plans so as to add a big variety of new branches to the enterprise over the approaching years, enhance the department expertise, strengthen its e-commerce providing, put money into its catalogue and IT, and rejuvenate its supply fleet. The enterprise will even stake out its management on sustainability by extending its vary of merchandise for electrical autos.