GSF Automobile Components has unveiled formidable plans to take a position, develop and enhance the automotive aftermarket enterprise.

Greater than 300 managers from throughout the nationwide motor issue’s 180 branches and specialist help groups attended its two-day Supercharged for Success workers convention in Birmingham to which provider companions have been additionally invited.

On the occasion, the corporate’s introduced plans to open a substantive variety of new branches in early 2024, with the creation of a whole lot of latest jobs, along with a market-leading catalogue and to revitalise its provide chain and methods to make sure GSF is as simple as attainable to do enterprise with.

The elements provider operates 180 branches throughout the UK and Eire, supplying 1000’s of impartial garages, nationwide chains and retail clients with elements, specialist coaching, instruments and gear. The community is supported by centralised specialist departments in key areas similar to procurement and provide chain, advertising and nationwide accounts. The enterprise additionally advantages from built-in IT methods, which embody its industry-leading catalogue system, Allicat and entry to its nationwide storage programme Servicesure.

In 2023 personal fairness agency Epiris co-invested in GSF alongside the Ahluwalia household which acquired the enterprise from LKQ Company. The co-investment marks Ahluwalia’s return to the automobile afterparts market. Having based Euro Automobile Components in 1978, he scaled the enterprise 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.

GSF Automobile Components CEO Steve Horne stated: “One of many prime priorities for Sukhpal and I after we joined was getting all our managers and suppliers collectively as quickly as we may, as a result of we all know the facility of speaking the plans and imaginative and prescient we’ve obtained for the way forward for GSF.

“The suggestions we’ve had in regards to the occasion from each our individuals and our suppliers has been phenomenal, unprecedented. There’s an actual ardour, sense of real pleasure and vitality about GSF and the place we’re getting into 2024 and past, and that’s as a result of the success we’re going to drive will profit each a part of the aftermarket provide chain, from producers to garages and street customers.

“By investing, increasing and bettering our enterprise, we are going to rework GSF from a sleeping large into the associate, vendor and employer of alternative in our {industry}.”

Government chairman Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia stated: “It’s so good to be again within the {industry} and serving to to steer GSF ahead. This can be a incredible group and we see enormous potential for the enterprise and its individuals, so we’re going to give them the whole lot they should succeed for our clients. By working with our {industry}’s greatest suppliers, recruiting and retaining the most effective individuals and delivering each factor of the fundamentals by means of distinctive service to clients, we are going to supercharge GSF and take this enterprise to the subsequent degree within the years to come back.”