We are celebrating our 50th anniversary

A Copeland Group is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and looks to the future following MBO with a vow to do our founder proud

Copeland Group was founded by the late Tony Copeland and his wife Annice in a mid–terrace house in Stamford Street, Ashton–under–Lyne, with the single aim of providing unrivalled quality workmanship and client satisfaction as a small electrical contracting company. Over the five decades, we have forged a formidable reputation for the quality of our work, becoming one of the UK’s foremost providers of M&E building services. We have a strong client base, working with both main contractors and direct to end users. Private and public contracts have been successfully delivered, including projects at hospitals, schools, libraries, sport centres, listed buildings, retail establishments and numerous banks. The MBO announced in April follows the unfortunate passing of our founder, Tony, in September 2023. The restructured board of directors includes Managing Director Mark Middleton, who is joined by Commercial Director Aaron Brierley and Tony’s daughter Alex Copeland–Anthony, who is Financial Director. They are working alongside Annice Copeland, Tony’s widow, who remains a director and shareholder.

“We’re starting as a new team, and we want to continue to build on the success of the business and do my dad proud – and I think we’re already working together brilliantly.” – Alex Copeland.

“Dad always put an emphasis on looking after the employees, he would have sleepless nights over wanting to keep everyone employed and for the business to do well, because there were so many people depending on it.” “He established ways of working that were the reserve of huge corporate structures because that’s what he had learned through his early career, he brought that with him and used that as a template for how he wanted to run his business. We’ve still got those systems in place today to a large degree, which does improve the quality of what you’re doing because you’re doing it systematically.”

In our continued commitment to providing opportunities for future talent, we offer four to six apprenticeships to school leavers aged up to 18 each year and so far approximately 160 trainees have gone through the scheme. Apprentices combine work and day–release at Oldham College and when they emerge as a qualified electrician they generally go on to a full–time job and are encouraged to progress within the business. Mark Middleton says: “We’re very proud of the apprenticeship scheme. I came through it, as did our Commercial Director Aaron, and Paul Ogden one of our Contracts Managers. It gives people a great opportunity to enter a key industry.” We are proud to have around 100 people working for us, with the vast majority of them based out on site. We are excited to enter this new chapter for the business and look forward to continued success working closely with our valued customers, suppliers and of course our team, to ensure the continued delivery of the highest standards that are expected of us.

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