{"id":732204,"date":"2016-03-09T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/?p=732204"},"modified":"2016-03-09T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:04:47","slug":"concrete-blocks-maker-exits-building-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/news\/732204-concrete-blocks-maker-exits-building-supplies","title":{"rendered":"Concrete blocks maker exits building supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CHESHIRE concrete blocks manufacturer has sold its building supplies operation to an ambitious building merchants firm.<\/p>\n<p>Cheshire Concrete Products of Middlewich, a \u00a310m turnover business which was part of construction group Pochin until a demerged in 2006, has sold its Cornerstones Building and Landscape Products, which trades from an 1.5 acre site in St Helens, to North Wales company Huws Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal, which will allow Cheshire Concrete to focus on its core business, were not disclosed. The company, which also has a production site in Llay, North Wales, supplies merchants including Jewson and Travis Perkins.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Gray, managing airector at Cheshire Concrete said: &#8220;By focusing on our core business, while at the same time building long lasting business relationships with our customers and merchants, we can deliver a more efficient and high quality service in Wales and the North West. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Huws Gray has its headquarters on Anglesey and has more than 15 sites in Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>South Manchester law firm Myerson advised Cheshire Concrete on the deal. Its corporate team was led by partners Akeel Latif and Scott Sands.<\/p>\n<p>Sands said: &#8220;The sale of Cornerstones is a fantastic step for all three companies and will allow Cheshire Concrete to provide a customer focused manufacturing service built around its core values.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New owner for St Helens-based business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1732204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-732204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Concrete blocks maker exits building supplies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New owner for St Helens-based business\" 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