Change at the top

The investment will help the company, a leading global provider of damage prevention and asset protection solutions for the retail and material handling industries, expand and develop into new market sectors and countries.

New UK managing director Emma Panter said: “Founder David McCue has been slowly stepping down from his owner role in preparation for this changeover. Since forming the company in the eighties he has created not only a successful business but also a business that people enjoy working for.

“David DiAntonio has stepped into the CEO role for the overall company, and he continues to drive David’s vision forward, but he is also working with the new investors on how we can grow in different ways.”

After discussions in the States, Emma’s appointment as UK MD was the natural choice: “I was the operations and finance director at McCue UK and had taken on the Retail Sales Team a year ago, and had great success. The company felt it needed one lead in the UK. Therefore, I was offered the promotion to take on the full UK business.”

With global turnover already at $55m ($8m in the UK), the new investment will see McCue take their array of facility protection barriers and equipment into other markets, including aviation – although there is still much to do in their traditional working environments of warehousing, retail and factory protection.