Growth sparks international expansion
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Growth sparks international expansion
26/04/2010
Successful expansion into Middle East and Australia
A Scottish energy equipment supply company with increasing global ambition is expanding its international reach through new office bases in Melbourne, Australia, and Qatar in the Middle-East.
MacLean Electrical, headquartered in the Highlands of Scotland, has opened the new offices following record growth in turnover, which last year topped £100 million.
The company – which supplies industrial and specialist hazardous area electrical equipment and cables to the oil and gas, wider energy sector and other markets from industrial to local government – already has a Middle-East presence in Dubai and took a direct foothold in the Asia-Pacific region three years ago by buying a supply company in Perth, Western Australia.
Now the latest base in Australia’s south-eastern state of Victoria provides a platform for real-time customer communications and new growth across the continent and further afield. Meanwhile, the Qatar office provides the essential local presence needed to win business in the country’s massive gas market.
The Perth and Melbourne offices, together employing 25 people, operate under the “JT Day” name of the Australian supply company purchased by MacLean, who plan to significantly grow their Asia-Pacific business from the current sterling equivalent of more than £14million.
Founded in the 1970’s to supply the North Sea oil and gas industry, MacLean Electrical employs 190 people and its international network also includes the USA, two business units in Aberdeen, and others in Wick, Cumbernauld and Newcastle.
The company is also looking to the fast-growing global renewables sector through its International Projects Group at its Dingwall, Ross-shire HQ in the heart of the Highlands and lslands, where burgeoning ‘new energy’ industries include onshore and offshore wind, wave and tidal energy.
Managing Director Donnie MacLean said: “Our Australian and Middle-East operations have proven very successful and recent wider group development has included greatly enhancing our systems and services to ensure we are the leading supplier of choice.
“Global economic conditions will affect many companies in the current year but we are fitting ourselves for a forthcoming new wave of energy and other project releases, and we fully intend to invest further in the Middle-East, Asia-Pacific and beyond.”
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