South East: Collard companies unite

R Collard, the Hampshire-based demolition, waste-management and haulage company, has acquired Reading-based M Collard Waste Management and will assimilate the business, assets and goodwill into its existing operations.

The long-established family-run business will make a good fit with the existing business at R Collard as the two share a common 'zero to landfill' commitment. 

M Collard Waste Management has been trading for 40 years in Berkshire and Surrey and is owned by Mick Collard, father of R Collard’s managing director, Robert Collard.

R Collard will now operate five licenced waste-transfer stations in Eversley, Aldershot, Bramshill, Farnham and Reading.  Its skips will increase to 2,000 and its HGV fleet to 98, all of which will be co-ordinated from the centre in Eversley. A new office block is scheduled for completion there by the end of the year.

Robert Collard said: “I started my career working for my father, and at the age of 23 set up on my own.  This move allows me to expand into my father’s territory with his blessing.” 

R Collard began trading in 1995 so this year is celebrating its 21st anniversary.  In 2015 the company managed over half-a-million tonnes of waste material.