Pioneering Partnership

摘要

In October 1970, at the age of 17, an ambitious Mike Broad, fresh out of education at Wigan Grammar School, secured his first job with a local family-owned quarrying business. That company, Gaskell Bros., based in Ashton-in-Makerfield, had unknowingly recruited a future company director and forward-thinker who, alongside the Gaskell family, would alter the future course of the generation-old family business in years to come by forging a successful relationship with wet-processing equipment specialists CDE. Founded in 1912 by William Gaskell and his two sons, Gaskell Bros, started out as a door-to-door coal sales business, their offices the back of the company horse and cart. In later years they would centre their operations around quarrying and recycling.