UK logistics and supply chain management company ByBox has acquired the remaining shares in PPRSolutions, a British provider of outsourced engineering services, to further expand its end-to- end
supply chain offering.Now fully under the ByBox umbrella, PPR will be rebranded to ByBox Tech Ressource, offeringbespoke, high-end engineering services on a variable cost basis.
Since the ByBox’ initial acquisition of PPR over two years ago, PPR’s sales more than doubledwith growing demand from customers for flexible, fully managed engineering solutions. Set up sixyears ago, PPR rapidly built up an impressive client list across many sectors, ByBox said in astatement. PPR has more than 200 engineers throughout the UK with a range of clients across retail,financial services, utilities, telecommunications and IT.
Mark Garritt, Managing Director of ByBox Field Support, said: “We are delighted to have nowfully acquired PPR Solutions, having bought an initial stake in 2010 to offer customers morechoice. Integrating PPR into our overall offering has proven to be extremely successful ascompanies are increasingly looking for bespoke engineering solutions at a variable cost, ratherthan employing their own in-house teams.”
“ByBox transformed the field services market with our innovative in-night delivery to drop boxesunderpinned by the Thinventory software platform – now we are stripping further cost out of thesupply chain by offering high-end engineering. Acquiring PPR has allowed ByBox to complete the fullsupply chain lifecycle,” he added.
Founded in 2000, ByBox provides overnight delivery before 8am to a network of drop boxes. Nowgenerating revenues of £51 million, the company has a network of more than 18,000 boxes at 1,500locations across the UK serving over 230 customers. It has won various awards and was listed in theSunday Times Fast Track 100 and the Sunday Times International Track 100.
