A Rugby company is hoping to be carrying out work for HM The Queen after becoming the leading ditching operator in the UK.
Blue Boar Contracts Ltd, which is based at Blue Boar Farm, Dunchurch, has joined forces with royal-warranted land drainage specialists the Fen Ditching Company Ltd from Wisbech.
Blue Boar hopes that the Fen Ditching Company’s relationship with the Sandringham Estate will carry on as before to provide ditch and lake clearing services to The Queen. The acquisition was overseen by law firm Wright Hassall from Leamington.
Ian Woolliscroft, Managing Director of Blue Boar Contracts, said: “Blue Boar is primarily a dredging and land restoration company and the combining of the two businesses means that the group is now one of the UK’s leading dredging and ditching contractors,” he said.
“We carry out work on waterways, canals, lakes and rivers – and at the moment we are working in Wales, Somerset, Devon, Staffordshire and Cheshire.
“Following our acquisition of the Fen Ditching Company, we are aiming to expand their contracts which currently include working for the local drainage boards in East Anglia as well as clearing the ditches and lakes of the Sandringham Estate on an annual basis.
“We very much hope that the Royal Estate will continue with the appointment regardless of the change of ownership, although this has yet to be confirmed.”
Mark Lewis, of 200-strong Wright Hassall, said the company had acted for Blue Boar in buying the entire share capital of the Fen Ditching Company.
“It proved a straight-forward acquisition and we wish Blue Boar every success in going from strength to strength in the future,” he said.
Paul Harvey, Blue Boar’s Contracts Manager, has been appointed a director and will have responsibility for looking after the Fen Ditching Company’s contracts.
