Transport & Logistics International Volume 14 Issue 1 | Page 62

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From its humble beginnings as Colchester Mini Skips in 1981, CSH Environmental( CSH) has expanded and branched out to become the multi-service waste management company it is today, covering a far wider area and offering an array of comprehensive packages that go above and beyond skip hire. Following strategic rebranding over the past 45 years, recent investments and land acquisitions, Director Daniel Cox joins Transportation & Logistics International to tell us more about the company’ s extensive growth:“ Originally, the company was founded by long-distance lorry driver, Terry Slade,” begins Daniel.“ He used to drive back and forth between the UK and Sweden, where he’ d work abroad for a couple of weeks, return home and have a week off. It was during his weeks off that he began delivering skips- he purchased a skip lorry along with ten skips and that’ s how the business started. Eventually, Terry stopped long-distance lorry driving and, in 1988, he acquired the land we still operate from today, renaming the company Colchester Skip Hire. We later rebranded again in 2013 to CSH Environmental.”

Today, CSH delivers a complete portfolio of waste services, specializing in trade waste, and collecting food, glass, and dry mixed recycling separately in all bin sizes while still providing skips and tankers as part of its service. The tanker service is run through its sister company, AA Turner Tankers, which falls under the CSH Group. Daniel highlights CSH is now much more than just a skip hire business and explains how this motivated the second rebrand:“ The motivation behind this was due to a couple of reasons; the business evolved from purely a skip company to a waste and recycling company, so one of the main reasons was the change in company direction. Instead of just being a skip company, there was a refocus on sustainability and recycling, which in turn grew the other services and subsequently, Colchester Skip Hire didn’ t fit
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