Garage visit 44 www.aftermarketonline.net APRIL 2025 Grant support fits perfectly into £100,000 expansion plans for Kingswinford Tyres One of the Black Country’s leading tyre specialists is on course for its best-ever year after expanding into an additional unit. Kingswinford Tyres, which was set-up by Andy Page in 1992 with redundancy money from MG Rover, has invested over £100,000 into creating a premium tyre fitting bay at its Dawley Brook Industrial Estate site. Backed by support from Business Growth West Midlands (BGWM) in Dudley, the company has secured a £27,000 grant to help buy and install a robotic tyre fitting machine and a Road Force Elite Wheel Balancer from Hunter. This state-of-the-art technology means the business can safely and efficiently deliver a highquality service to high performance and luxury cars, such as Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Bentley. Andy said: “We’ve nearly doubled the size of the business in the last three years and I am now on course to hit £3 million this financial year, with another £500,000 possible in 2025 with this new offer currently being rolled out. “To be able to hit the repeatable accuracy required with these vehicles, we had to make this investment and there is little doubt that the help we received off BGWM in Dudley has accelerated the process, especially how our growth adviser was able to assist us in securing a £27,000 Dudley SME grant.” Andy said the robotic tyre fitting machine is laserguided for unbeatable accuracy and ensures that there is zero risk of any damage to the rim or tyre — which as all garages will agree is a necessity when you are dealing with cars worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. New premium bay is already a hit with the customers Spirit of enterprise powering Dudley garage to new heights Pictured, from left: Donna Watkins, Andy Page and Toni Ball
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