A Management Buyout of PVC-U window, door and conservatory fabricator, Coastal, has been secured from the Heywood Williams Group effective from 1 March 2004. Coastal Windows Ltd is now a new privately owned company, which will continue to trade under the Coastal brand name under the direction of Jeremy Beling as Managing Director and Peter French as Sales & Marketing Director.
Formerly Coastal's Finance Director, Jeremy has been very close to the core management of the company for the past three years and has an in depth understanding of the business needs of its dealer network.

Well known in the industry, Peter French was previously with Coastal for 25 years and a Board Member for 23 years. Peter's experience of both the company and market in general will be invaluable. Paul Maidment is not part of the MBO and has left the company. There are no other major staff changes but Coastal is sorry to announce that Business Development Manager, Mark Holloway, and Area Sales Manager, Davyd Oddy, have chosen to leave the company.

'This is a very exciting time for Coastal which is now in control of its own destiny,' commented new Managing Director, Jeremy Beling. 'Coastal is one of the longest established trade fabricators and well respected in the industry. We now have the opportunity to drive the company forward and are committed to developing our valued customer base to become the leading independent fabricator in terms of product, quality and service'