11.07.2022

Aspire among fastest growing

UK rental company Aspire has made it into the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private companies, as measured over the past three years. To qualify companies needed to have had sales of at least £240,000 four years ago and at least £5 million in the last full year of trading.

Aspire was 11th in the chart, with annual growth of 167.3 percent annual growth over the past three years, achieving revenues of more than £14 million in the 12 months to the end of June, having more than doubled in the past year.

Based in Leigh - between Manchester and Liverpool - Aspire Platforms is owned by Vincent Rourke and Simon Dunn and was and was set up by Rourke in 2018. The young company opened a depot in Wakefield, Yorkshire the following Summer and in 2020 set up a holding company - Aspire Group - when it acquired London Tower Services (LTS) the Greater London based powered access & alloy tower rental business. Last year the LTS/Aspire operations moved into larger premises in Rainham, Essex and was rebranded as Aspire Tower Services.

Aspire now runs a fleet of more than 2,000 aerial work platforms with £12 million of assets. 99.4 percent of the fleet is now electric, or hybrid powered, serving around 6,000 active customers. Last year it purchased 520 JLG Power Tower push around work platforms.

The company has plans for further expansion in West London and the Midlands, as well as at its Leigh headquarters.