June 2009 - Air Business makes acquisition of specialist mailing and fulfilment firm

Air Business has acquired Jordan and Co International Limited, the mail and fulfilment service provider, based near Oxford.

The deal positions us as one of the UK’s leading mail and distribution providers for the publishing market and creates a combined organisation totalling over £35m in annual sales.

Adam Sherman, Group Managing Director (L) Air Business celebrates the acquisition with
Harry Lloyd, Managing Director of Jordan and Co

Jordan and Co, a family run business established in 1983, handles a wide range of direct mail fulfilment services including postage, digitalisation and poly-wrapping to a wide range of clients. Their substantial UK wrapping capability will further enhance Air Business’ own wrapping operation, which is concentrated heavily but not exclusively on international distribution.

"The combined services of Jordan and Co and Air Business will provide an even more extensive range of mailing services to our customers as well as adding scale" commented Adam Sherman, MD of Air Business and Group MD of the new operation "We have known of Jordan and Co for a number of years, their reputation precedes them. It is one built like our own on excellent customer service and the highest quality operation. When the opportunity arose to purchase the business, we took it!"

The new combined business will have a turnover of £35m and will continue to operate out of the three locations, St Albans, Colchester and Oxford. Employing in excess of 150 people. These three locations will provide each of the sites with excellent business continuity contingencies. Existing management will all stay in place.

"This acquisition further emphasises our position as the key mail and distribution provider to the publishing market and large scale direct marketing sector," continued Adam Sherman.
"Our rapid growth is testament to the quality of our service and the competitiveness of our price. With Jordan and Co’s added operational structure we now have the ability to grow even further".

"The decision to sell the company to Air Business made perfect sense to the Jordan and Co team" commented Harry Lloyd, Jordan and Co’s MD. "it provides a springboard to further develop our mail fulfilment services, takes us further into the publishing sector and also provides the stability of being part of a larger organisation". Harry Lloyd will still be very much at the helm and continue as Managing Director of Jordan & Co

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