CSG ANNOUNCE ACQUISITION DEAL
Cleansing Service Group, one of the UK’s oldest waste management specialists, has expanded its service portfolio by acquiring Britain’s market-leading supplier of waste handling services to the printing industry.
The Southampton-based CSG, which operates services ranging from industrial hazardous waste treatment to domestic sewage collection, has announced completion of a deal to acquire J & G Environmental.
The merger brings together two long-established, family-owned companies with a combined annual turnover of some £65million and gives CSG a strong position in the expanding print waste handling market.
Waste creation is one of the printing industry’s top three environmental impacts and the merger comes at a time when the industry – the UK’s fourth largest industry – is enthusiastically championing sustainable development.
Dorset-based J & G, which manages the waste collection and disposal needs of over 2000 UK print houses and newspaper groups from its Blandford headquarters, was formed in 1985 by its joint managing directors, Steve and Julie Armstrong.
Since then it has grown to become a £20million business campaigning to increasing the industry’s recycling and reuse rates and environmental performance and now recycles around 90 per cent of all waste collected.
The company has a string of print industry customer service and environmental awards to its name, including a Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development, and was recently praised by a panel of senior independent industry experts for its “staggering” contribution to raising waste management standards in the industry.
Its new owners were established in 1934 and has expanded to become one of the largest privately-owned waste management groups in Britain, operating across many sectors with a customer base including Government departments, local authorities, utilities, major supermarket groups and garage chains as well as 45,000 domestic customers.
CSG, which celebrates its 75th anniversary next year, employs a national workforce of 380, with around 100 based at its Botley headquarters on the outskirts of Southampton. J & G has 45 staff working at its Blandford site.
CSG treats more oil/water mixtures than any other UK company, and operates an advanced waste treatment and processing centre at Cadishead in Manchester together with two landfill sites.
The company – the first in Britain to import and deploy the ‘front end loader’ - also boasts the largest fleet of specifically designed waste road tankers in the UK.
The group’s acquisition programme has seen it expand steadily over the years and it now owns brand names such as CSG Lanstar, CSG Lloyds and CSG Sealand.
CSG managing director Paul Quigley said the merger was particularly beneficial because the group had already been collaborating with J & G for many years by providing specialist waste handling facilities at its Manchester site where huge volumes of print by-products are processed and recycled.
“This collaboration means we already have long experience in dealing with print industry waste streams which frequently require expert handling. Our two companies have been working together to put in place a whole range of highly developed collection, technical and processing services to meet the special challenges these wastes create.”
Mr Quigley said CSG now aimed to create “the most comprehensive waste management facility yet available to the printing industry by combining the quality of customer service and technical expertise for which both companies were known.”