Industry Automotive Revenue 900 million GBP (2014) Founded 1978 Parent organization LKQ Corporation | Website www.eurocarparts.com Headquarters Wembley Number of employees 9,000 | |
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Founder Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia Products Car parts, Car accessories, Car maintenance, Tools, Paints, In-car technology, In-car entertainment, etc. Subsidiaries APX Autopart Express Limited, Hella Ireland Limited, Andrew Page Ltd., Autoclimate Ltd, Pinco 1555 Ltd. Profiles | ||
Euro car parts attempted delivery
Euro Car Parts is a UK distributor of car parts and accessories with locations across the United Kingdom. The company was bought by LKQ Corporation, Chicago, in 2011 for £255million.
Contents
- Euro car parts attempted delivery
- Euro car parts network
- History
- Operations locations and stores
- Expansion
- Going green
- References
Euro car parts network
History
The company was founded when Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia raised £5,000 to open a motor parts shop in Willesden, North West London in 1978. Euro Car Parts now have 200 branches nationwide having opened their 200th branch in Moss Lane, Manchester, UK, in December 2015.
Euro Car Parts was first established to supply car parts for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen models. By 2016 – 40-years after the company started – Euro Car Parts is supplying parts for all makes and models with over 130,000 different stocked part numbers including those for the new range of Japanese and Korean models.
The company was sold to the LKQ Corporation, Chicago, in 2011 for a total of £255million and in 2014 Mr Singh announced that he was to leave the company in order to pursue other interests.
In 2014 Mr Singh re-joined the company being elected onto the Board of Directors of the LKQ Corporation.
Operations, locations and stores
The company is based in Dordon at junction 10 off the M42 motorway, near Tamworth, in a site totalling more than 1million sq. ft – of which 47,500 sq. ft is office space.
Euro Car Parts now has 16 distribution centres around the United Kingdom and has a bulk storage facility in Bonehill in Staffordshire – one of three national distribution centres. There are further locations spread around the UK including a 185,000 sq. ft warehouse specifically for collision repair parts in Swadlincote.
In 2010, Euro Car Parts were contracted to supply components and consumables to the RAC’s fleet of roadside patrol vehicles.
Expansion
In February 2016, IM Properties completed a 778,000 sq. ft warehouse for Euro Car Parts to use as their national distribution centre in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
The new building spans more than 1 million sq. ft including mezzanine areas, making it one of the largest distribution centres in the West Midlands. 3,000-tonnes of steel was used to construct the building, which required 90,000-tonnes of soil to be moved and 80,000-tonnes of concrete.
There is now space for a total of 99,632 pallets of car parts to be stored in the location – totalling more than 150,000 different product lines and the warehouse utilises a robotic picking system to find and collect parts once they have been ordered by the public.
Annual turnover now exceeds £900m and Euro Car Parts are now one of the main sponsors of SMR – Shaun Muir Racing – in the 2016 World Superbike Championship.
Going green
As part of the company’s efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and to protect the environment, Euro Car Parts ensure that their vehicles use 99 per cent diesel and 1 per cent adblue which cleans the fuel tank and reduces the amount of fumes and emissions into the atmosphere.