Founded in October
1971 our company, then known as Eccleshare Construction Ltd, a subsidiary
of the Eccleshare Group of Companies based in Lincoln, began trading
in the City of Peterborough. The city had been designated as one
of the ideally suited areas to accommodate the London overspill
and as a result it was just the right time to form a new building
organisation to take advantage of the considerable volume of work
that would be available.
 Premises
were acquired in the city’s Princes Street and from here the company
set about becoming an integral part of the construction team which
changed the face of Peterborough. Through the remainder of the seventies
& the early eighties major contracts were awarded to the company
for housing, community & industrial projects including the redevelopment
of the city centre’s Boongate area and much of the new Westwood
Industrial Estate.
Seeking to establish a permanent
move to Peterborough and to enhance the awareness of potential clients
a Small Works division was created in 1974 to concentrate on refurbishment,
improvement, alteration, response and reactive maintenance primarily
for Local Authorities and Housing Groups. Year on year growth throughout
this period culminated with the company’s ability to separate itself
from the parent group by virtue of a management buyout.
The immediate task of the
new leadership was to overhaul the corporate image of the company
and to display to existing and new clients that Peterborough had
a successful and dynamic construction and building maintenance service
which could compete with the already established local firms and
the more well known national enterprises. Consequently our company
was renamed in 1985 and became Princebuild Limited and the now familiar
green and yellow livery was introduced. In 1988 land was acquired
in the Fengate area of Peterborough whereupon new offices, joinery
shop, stores and garage facilities were constructed forming the
head office and registered address where we reside to this day.
With measured plans for affordable
and steady expansion offices were opened in Holbeach during 1995
primarily to commence a large term maintenance and gas servicing
contract. However this move into the south of Lincolnshire enabled
the company to extend its area of normal daily operations into Boston,
Sleaford and Kings Lynn. With growing demand for our services and
requests from a number of our larger clients to extend our operational
area towards the Midlands we began operating from leased premises
in Northampton during 1997.
By virtue of a sound business plan,
intelligent marketing and appreciative clients Princebuild Ltd commenced
trading nationally in 1999 and today one will find the company in
every corner of the country.
 Bringing
matters right up to date sees the acquisition of our own premises
in Northampton in 2002 which have been extensively refurbished into
excellent facilities allowing us to accommodate an ever increasing
workload in that area. A new facility in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
was opened in October 2003 to give us a permanent base in the north
of the county giving us access to markets in Newark, Lincoln and
Grimsby; and the ongoing development of newly acquired premises
in Gosberton, near Spalding was completed during 2004 having replaced
what was the overcrowded Holbeach office. Further expansion
early this year resulted in the opening of two additional Branches
- Bedford and Nottingham. With both new Branches being located on
the M1 corridor our access both South and North has increased dramatically.
For the past 37 years our company
has consistently maintained an excellent reputation for reliability,
efficiency, high quality and enviable customer relations. From the
humble beginning of our small Peterborough office back in 1971 Princebuild
Ltd has extended it’s core operational area from Grimsby to North
London and from Coventry deep into East Anglia. |
