GearBox opens office in the North of England

GearBox recently opened an office in the North of England to deal with the growing demand from broadcast companies, postproduction facilities and creative professionals in the area to access what London has known for quiet some time - there’s no one quite like GearBox, when it comes to ‘Attention To Detail’ in supplying professional audio/video equipment.
GearBox North will be both a hire and sales office, and promises the same level of excellent customer service and on-demand 24/7 technical support that the company offers in the South. The operation will cover the whole of the North of England, including Scotland, but will concentrate on two main broadcast production areas – Manchester and Leeds.
Richard Eastwood, GearBox’ Managing Director, commented: “We have seen a significant growth in business in the North in the last two years, and it became obvious to us that to meet this growing demand a dedicated, local office was the only way we could offer the same level of service that we do with our other outlets.
“Danny Simmonds, our Operations Manager, and I visited several of our clients in the North last year, and asked them how they would respond to us opening a local office and they were extremely open and enthusiastic to the idea, they also promised that we would be their ‘first call’ if we opened the office, which I’m pleased to say has proved to be the case”.
GearBox North is located within the VTR North Post-Production facility in Leeds; the operation is modelled on the increasingly successful GearBox Express office the company runs from Goldcrest Post Production in Soho.
Eastwood said: "We are very pleased to have been able to base our new North of England office within the VTR Group facility in Leeds, we having been doing business with the team there for quite some time. They are in our view a very friendly, dynamic, creative bunch of people, and their facility is absolutely first class. We couldn't have wished for a better home for our new operation, and we look forward to working closely with them."
GearBox North will be managed by Dave Mace, originally from Leeds. Mace was headhunted from The Hospital in Covent Garden where he specialised in installing and supporting the facility’s high-definition equipment.
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