Following last month's acquisition of Autowrappers, Europack and GEI Ashford, a new Bradman Lake company is being formed.

Bradman Lake Group Limited will own the assets and manage the combined operations of the three former GEI businesses and current Bradman Lake companies in Bristol, Charlotte USA and Wiggensbach Germany.

Graham Hayes, formerly chairman and Chief Executive of Bradman Lake, becomes Chief Executive of the enlarged Group company. A new position of independent, non-executive Chairman has been created and Mr. Christopher Marks has accepted the Board’s invitation to take up the appointment.

Well known in the packaging industry and currently chairman of Man Roland Europe, Chris Marks was previously Managing Director of Bosch Packaging UK. He was also one of the first Presidents of PPMA, the Processing & Packaging Machinery Association.

Welcoming the appointment, Graham Hayes said: “These are exciting times at Bradman Lake. Chris Marks brings a wealth of experience of the international packaging industry to our new Group which is now a £30 million company with over 400 employees. Chris’s appointment allows me to concentrate on delivering our plan and making the Bradman Lake Group a truly integrated international packaging machinery business.”

In a further move towards full integration, former GEI Director David Wright has been appointed to the Bradman Lake Group board and becomes Managing Director of Autowrappers and Europack.

The new combined company has flowrapping, product handling, cartoning and end-of-line packaging machinery capability enabling the Group to offer complete packaging systems from a single source.

Further information from:

Graham Hayes
Bradman Lake Ltd
Yelverton Road
Bristol BS4 5HP

Tel: +44 (0)117 9715228
Fax: +44 (0)117 9775514

Press enquiries to:

Roy Honnor
The RH Consultancy
25 Pembroke Square
London W8 6PB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7937 6817
Fax: +44 (0)20 7376 2778

Author Information - Graham Hayes

Chairman, Bradman Lake Group

Graham Hayes spent the first two years of his business career as a trainee with the Kliklok Corporation in United States. Returning to the UK, he joined BP plastics in their marketing department, then worked 3 years for Engleman and Buckham, an import agency, selling equipment to the packaging industry. Graham then formed his own company and acquired the selling rights for Bradman Lake. He merged the sales and manufacturing companies in 1986 and became non-executive chairman. Concurrently, Graham began to represent the Mead Corporation supplying Kraft linerboard to the corrugated industry, representing then successfully for 15 years. Acted as a consultant for a further 3 years and was later appointed managing director of their UK company. In 1996, Graham Hayes led a management buyout of Bradman Lake and took up the position of Executive chairman of the Group. Graham has chaired several companies and has been a successful investor in a number of private businesses. He has a strong lean towards sales and marketing and is an advocate of the saying, “Everything starts with an order” Graham has spent 35 years in the packaging Industry. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging.

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