Breedon acquires Staffs Concrete

Breedon Group’s southern division has acquired Pro Mini Mix, a ‘mini mix’ concrete operator based in Oldbury in the Black Country and covering the West Midlands of England. Pro Mini Mix operates a fleet of eight mixer trucks and specialises in delivering small loads of ready-mixed concrete and screeds, up to 4m³, to commercial and domestic customers. Breedon Southern already operates a successful mini mix business, 1stMix, which has a strong presence throughout the East Midlands and East Anglia. Pro Mini M

Breedon has appointed Mike Pearce as the new chief executive of its Southern division. Pearce is currently managing director of the Aggregates division of Aggregate Industries Limited (AI). He will take up his new position in the new year, joining Breedon’s executive committee and succeeding Tim Hall, who will be leaving Breedon at the end of September. In the interim, the Southern division will be led by Colin Parke, who currently runs Breedon Southern’s Central region, reporting to Group Chief Executive

Breedon Aggregates, the UK’s largest independent aggregates business, is entering the Nottingham ready-mixed concrete market with the acquisition today of Nottingham Readymix. The company says the acquisition fills an important gap in Breedon Aggregates’ coverage of the East Midlands [region of England], located midway between its plants at Cloud Hill, County Derbyshire, to the south-west and Grantham, County Lincolnshire to the east.