Avon Group acquires Interflex to increase automotive market share

By Nicky Godding

21 March 2024

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Avon Group, Sales Director, Steve Thomas (right) with Jim Griffin, Director of Interflex Ltd

Avon Group, an £80 million turnover manufacturing and engineering group, based in Bristol, has secured a deal to acquire Interflex Ltd, the Nottinghamshire-based specialist automotive component manufacturer. The acquisition, announced this week, will see Avon Group take on the trade, assets and staff of the £8m turnover business.

Interflex manufactures seals and acoustic protection products for the automotive industry and has been struggling to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and the subsequent volatility of the automotive sector. The company, which went into administration on 28^th February has been rescued by Avon Group who already operate a similar larger business based in the West Midlands and share some of their customers.

“Our business has huge synergies with Interflex,” said Steve Thomas, Avon Group’s Sales Director. “The management team and staff at Interflex will bring additional engineering skills and capability to our Group that will propel our automotive business forward at an even faster pace. We are already making significant inroads with clever products for electric vehicles and are eyeing-up the opportunities presented by the new battery plant being built in Somerset. This acquisition is not only good news for Interflex but good news for our Group as a whole, as we continue to expand."

Interflex will continue to operate from its 34,000 sq. ft premises at Langar, near Nottingham and it is anticipated that most of the company’s staff will be retained under the new ownership.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.