By Ian McConnell
SCOTTISH building services and construction company McGill, owned by United Capital, has continued its rapid expansion with the acquisition of Fife-based Kingdom Gas Services.
McGill has bought Kingdom from the Fife-based central heating specialist’s founder and sole owner, Billy McCord, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal comes hard on the heels of McGill’s purchase last month of facilities management company The McDougall Group.
Kingdom has grown over the past 23 years from a start-up based in Cupar into a multi-million-pound turnover business, with operations covering Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, and Fife, McGill noted.
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Kingdom specialises in delivering domestic and commercial oil and gas boiler maintenance, repair, and installation services to housing associations and councils.
Mr McCord will join Dundee-based McGill as gas services director. McGill said Mr McCord would “lead the newly launched gas division, created to consolidate the delivery of all gas and heating contracts across the…group”.
A spokeswoman for McGill noted the group now had around 170 employees, with the acquisition of The McDougall Group having brought across 66 staff.
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She said Kingdom was “bringing over 30 staff who will form McGill’s new gas division”.
The spokeswoman added: “These acquisitions are designed to increase the geographical footprint of the company, as well as increase the scale and breadth of services McGill can deliver.”
Mr McCord said: “When I started to think about my own plans for the future of Kingdom Gas, McGill were an obvious route. For me, having grown my business over the past 23 years, I wanted comfort that the future of the business, and of my employees, was secure. Joining McGill is both a challenge and a huge opportunity for my people and Kingdom Gas.”
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