Our Business

A family owned business, rich in history

1920
Percival Charles Howard
1920

In 1920, Percival Charles Howard, left School aged 14 years and from a small holding along Apethorpe Road Kings Cliffe, his family purchased some cows and Percy started out selling and delivering milk to households in Kings Cliffe

1939
First Lorry
First Lorry

After finding surveyors on his Land, Percy diversified from Farming into Haulage and purchased his first Lorry.

1950s
Busses
Busses

In the early 1950's he diversified into buses, although lorries remained a part of the business.

1960s
Roy, Bernard & Bill
Brothers

In the early 1960's Percy's three eldest sons, Roy, Bernard and Bill joined the business. They soon developed their own areas of expertise

1966
First Artic Lorry

In 1966 they purchased their first artic and at this time their major customer was 'London Brick' based at Yaxely. 

1968
Connie Takes Over.
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Percy Died in 1968 and Connie continued to be the guiding light up until her death in 1975. By this time Anthony, the youngest son, had joined the business and they had started undertaking distribution work for British Steel at Corby

1983
Howard Warehousing
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By this time Bernard had become the driving force for the business, looking for new opportunities but always supported by his brothers. The family purchased a new site at Crucible Road, Corby and diversified into warehousing

1987
West Hay
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In 1987 the business was relocated from this site to the site that the business now occupies at 'West Hay' Stamford Road, Kings Cliffe. This site is two miles from the village and adjacent to the A47, which provides an excellent connection to the Motorway network.

1995
Andrew Howard Joins
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In 1995, Bernard decided that the time had come to let someone else take the strain of managing and developing the business. It was at this time that Andrew Howard, a member of the third generation of the family, joined the business – prior to this Andrew had Qualified as a Chartered Accountant and built up a wide range of experience in different fields.

2005
Northmapton
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Andrew decided to focus the business on the distribution of Palletised Goods, using not only our own fleet of what is now 100 vehicles, but also using the Palletways network. In 2005 the Company opened a new depot at Brixworth, Northampton, and now has three depots with additional operating centres at Huntingdon and Oakham.

2024
Today...
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Since 2005 the business has developed a process of continual improvement and to achieve this as embraced the use of IT , from the receipt of orders, the planning of deliveries or the picking of goods with in our warehouse , confirmation of the completion of the delivery process, and finally invoicing. We also make use of all the latest technology available to us.

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