Bury St Edmunds is the new regional base for GRS as the firm looks to grow its supply of construction aggregates made from recovered waste materials to developers across East Anglia, alongside its carbon-reducing construction solutions.
With a turnover of more than £500m, the Warwickshire-based firm says it has been among the UK’s fastest growing companies in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 four times in recent years, and GRS bosses are confident of a new wave of growth, particularly in Suffolk but also Cambridgeshire, Essex and Norfolk. The annual demand for aggregates in the East of England looks set to exceed 20 million tonnes in the years ahead.
The new office on Hollow Road, Bury St Edmunds will house the GRS ‘major projects’ team alongside colleagues from the company’s aggregates and waste trading business. Also based there will be regional representatives of GRS subsidiaries including earthworks and civils contractors ISC, ground stabilisation specialists Soil Science and rail freight venture Rail Stone Solutions.
At the event to mark the official opening, GRS chief executive Jon Fisher and the regional team were joined by Karim Massaad of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and former Premier League midfielder and professional football manager Jody Morris of the League Managers Association with whom GRS has a long-term people development partnership.
