Directors from Leonard Curtis have been appointed as joint directors of Thurston Holdings Restricted, Thurston Crew Estates Restricted and Thurston Crew Restricted on 22nd December 2025.
At the similar day, the directors finished a pre-pack sale to funding crew GCH Company Ltd, having been officially recommended in November 2025 to habits an sped up mergers and acquisitions (AMA) procedure to spot a buyer for Thurston.
GCH is Greg Hutchings, a former protégé of Lord Hanson all over his conglomerate-building days who therefore constructed up his personal conglomerate, Tomkins Crew, within the Eighties and ’90s. The range of the firms that Hutchings received for Tomkins, starting from Rank Hovis McDougall to Smith & Wesson, earned it the soubriquet the ‘buns to weapons’ conglomerate.
Leader government of GCH Company is Cassie Hutchings, Greg’s daughter. Confirming the purchase of Thurston Crew out of management, she stated: “Thurston is a revered UK producer of modular structures with a powerful heritage and deep sector experience. As a long-term, privately owned commercial crew, GCH is dedicated to stabilising and making an investment within the trade. We’re excited to welcome Thurston into the GCH circle of relatives and stay up for supporting its subsequent section of expansion.”
Thurston is a long-standing producer of modular and offsite structures for sectors equivalent to healthcare, schooling, industrial and commercial. The primary buying and selling trade, Thurston Crew Restricted, used to be established in 1970 and operated from 3 production websites with the top place of job primarily based in Wakefield. The crowd hired 275 folks and grew to become over £47m within the 12 months finishing 1st November 2024 with an related benefit of £4.1m.
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