Interview with David Hope

David Hope is the Managing Director of the SIG Construction Accessories Division and a widely respected operator in his field. A qualified Civil Engineer, he has clocked up 12 years of his career working for the SIG business and is passionate about its future success. We caught up with him to ask why he came back to join the group again in 2020.?

Whilst David’s role makes him responsible for the recent F30 and Miers Construction Product acquisitions, they trade as separate businesses, so we talked to him here specifically about SIG CA.

So what does the future hold for SIG CA?

We have a great team of people in place and in the future I see us becoming even more technical in our approach, more specialist and going further up the supply chain to add value for customers.

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We are seeing the benefits of this very clearly in our brickwork sector where we have 6 designers, which is unique for a distributor, and they are effectively engineers that provide impartial advice and provide valuable solutions that assist customers in sustainability, in reducing waste and cost and assuring warranties.?

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The market is much tighter now when it comes to specification. People don’t take shortcuts and take risks anymore and we can help and that’s certainly a change for the better.

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The market is huge and SIG CA only has a small share so it's all about specialisation the more focussed and specialist you are the more chance you have to grow.?

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We have grown fivefold in sales over the past two years in SIG CA and are now running at the levels you would expect, 2023 has started positively for us as a result of the changes implemented, and we have ambitions to continue to grow sales, so are happy on how the plan is going.

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