• Anthony Cole, Managing Director
  DOB: December 1963
  Nationality: British
• Simon Andrew Thorburn, Company Secretary
• Scott Miller, Company Vice President
  DOB: December 1963
  Nationality: American
• Steven Joyce, HR Director
  DOB: October 1965
  Nationality: British

Airedale International Air conditioning Limited is part of the Modine group of companies.

• Modine Group Headquarters: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
• Operations: North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa

Modine group of companies has also acquired Barkell Ltd – industry-leading Air Handling Units (AHUs), in February 2014.

• Statement of Capital (Share Capital)
  Class of Shares: ORDINARY
  Currency: GBP
  Number Allotted: 450000
  Aggregate nominal value: 450000
  Amount paid per share: 1
  Amount unpaid per share: 0
• Statement of Capital (Totals)
  Currency: GBPTotal number of shares: 450000
  Total aggregate nominal value: 450000

Each share is entitled to one vote in any circumstances

• Full Details of Shareholders

Shareholding 1: 450000 ORDINARY shares held as at the date of this return
Name: Modine UK Dollar Ltd

Additional Brands: Barkell Ltd.

Strategy

• Their main strategic plan is to develop new products during 2019 and enhance the current extensive range of products.
• The company differentiated through innovation and service.
  They export to customers in over fifty countries, across commercial, industrial and public sectors.  Applications include data centres, clean rooms, retail, leisure and process cooling.
• They offer individually tailored service and maintenance contracts maximising resilience, uptime and system efficiency with 24/7 365-day support.
• The acquisition of Consett-based Barkell in February 2014 has allowed Airedale to extend its product portfolio to include a range of air handling units (AHUs) which offer data centres, offices and industrial facilities a highly energy-efficient ventilation system.

Ambitions

• Be a market leader for precision air conditioning in the UK
• Be a market leader for Chillers in the UK
• Provide complete solutions to our customers
• Continue to innovate and invest in technology
• Provide industry-leading customer service

Airedale works with clients based in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.

They have over 50,000 applications worldwide covering commercial, industrial and public sectors.  Applications include data centres, clean rooms, retail, leisure and process cooling.

Customers:

Customer Reviews

IBM

Industry sector: Information Communication Technologies (ICT)

‘Airedale listens to our requirements as a customer and adapts its products to suit us. The beauty of Airedale’s solutions is that they are designed to grow with the application.’ 

-Data Centre Manager, IBM

Iceland Frozen Foods (IFF)

Industry sector: Manufacturing (Food & Beverage)

Iceland Frozen Foods (IFF) has realised savings of £1.5m to date. The typical payback is between six and nine months per store, making Airedale Controls’ solution extremely attractive operationally and financially. Its flexibility has enabled IFF to carry out a progressive implementation strategy, integrating existing Airedale equipment, as well as new and old systems from other OEMs.

-Graham Ireland, Building Services Manager, Iceland Frozen Foods

• Putting customer first
• Acting with total professionalism and consistency
• Exceed customers expectations
• Differentiating services and products based on customers needs

The company is part of the Modine group of companies which employees over 8,200 people worldwide.

The average monthly employee’s number of Airedale International, including directors, during 2019 is 460 (2018: 455) (Production: 302, Selling and Distribution: 38, Administration: 120).

Meet the Executive Team:

• Tony Cole, Managing Director
• Adam Yarrington, Product Development Director
• Simon Thorburn, UK Financial Planning Manager
• Steven Joyce, HR Director
• Paul Oliver, Sales Director
• Stuart Kay, Business Development Director
• Adam Childs, Director & General Manager – Barkell
• Adrian Trevelyan – After Market Director

Meet some of the Airedale team:

• Catherine Ansari – Spares Team Leader
• Ryan Bartlett – Development Engineer
• Patrick Cotton – Customer Services Manager
• Mark Hargrave – Service Team Leader
• Matt Thompson – Chief Electrical Engineer
• Adrian Trevelyan – Service & Maintenance Manager
• Adam Yarrington – Product Development Director

Employee benefits

• 25 days holiday per annum (increasing to 26 after 7 years)
• Company pension scheme; 7% company contribution, 1% employee contribution
• Various salary sacrifice schemes – childcare vouchers, bike to work scheme, Simply Health
• 39 hours per week (8.00 – 4.30 Mon-Thurs, 8.00 – 3.30 Fridays)

Airedale invests in people by way of training and development, learning programmes and continuous improvement of processes and tools to do the job. They empower their workforce, promoting two-way involvement in decision-making at all levels of the organisation. They also encourage our employees to take responsibility whatever their position.

Case studies of candidates

Video 1 – Adam Yarrington’s Journey | Product Development Engineer

Video 2 – Matthew Thompson’s Journey | Chief Electrical Engineer

Video 3 – Jim Smith’s Journey | Colleagues and Friends |

Video 4 – Gregory Gibbs’s | His-day-to-day Journey |

Video 5 – Merry Christmas from Airedale International

Check culture company: #OurStrengthIsOurPeople

Employee Reviews

1. 8 April 2019

“Good company, but needs to look after staff a bit better”

Current Employee – Anonymous Employee in Leeds, England

Pros

• Interesting work (HVAC industry is continuously evolving)
• Majority of people are good hard working people
• State of the art facility (brand new factory, only built in 2016)

Cons

• Annual salary increases (when they happen) are minimal, despite the company currently going through a very profitable period
• HR dept are not the fastest. Quite often you have to chase them two or three times for something that has already been agreed.
• HR depth

Advice to Management

• Look after staff better. Make them feel valued.
• Plenty of talented people doing jobs that they have outgrown. Promote these people into more challenging roles & backfill these vacancies with talented people from the shop floor (of which there are quite a few)
• PDP system needs a total revamp or to be scrapped altogether. No point setting employees’ targets if they are not going to be rewarded when they hit those targets.

Source: Glassdoor

2. 19 May 2020

“OK place to work. Salary is competitive compared to others”

Temporary worker – Mechanical Fitter in Leeds, England

Source: Glassdoor

• Ensure that all employees adopt a total customer focussed attitude
• Ensure that the needs of our customers dictate our business development
• Encourage employees to constantly improve their performance
• Ensure all our suppliers are driven by our customers’ needs
• Airedale’s solutions are also fully customisable
• Green products and energy saving solutions
• All their products are made in Britain

Video 1 – Why Customers Choose Airedale International Air Conditioning

Video 2 – Examples of their clients challenges and how each challenge was met with a solution that exceeded expectations.

Annual Report File

Locations

Leeds head office
Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd
Leeds Road
Rawdon
Leeds
LS19 6JY

London office

Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd
Evergreen House
Grafton Place
London
NW1 2DX

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Award

• Airedale Shortlisted for ‘Manufacturer of the Year’ in Yorkshire Post’s Excellence in Business Awards

Competitors List (alphabetical order)
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