Richard Skan receives 2013 Battlespace Businessman of the Year Award
Richard Skan, is Group managing director of ADS member, Oldbury UK Limited and Boughton Engineering Limited, both now co-located in Wolverhampton. Richard Skan took over the mantle of the annual award at a special reception held this week at the North London Rifle Club, co-located at the National Rifle Association shooting ground at Bisley, Surrey, UK. Richard Skan, who lives in Warwickshire, is also a member of the advisory board of NDI (Northern Defence Industries), the defence sector membership, supply chain and business development organisation and a Trustee of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Royal Warwickshire) Museum.
The Oldbury UK and Boughton Engineering businesses have a heritage of over 250 years of engineering excellence between them and both have provided a wide range of mobile platforms and specialist products for military users over many years. In 2008, Oldbury UK was voted ‘Manufacturing Business of the Year’ by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Both companies are part of Skan Group Holdings.
Receiving the award from last year’s Battlespace Businessman of the Year, Lennart Ljungfelt, President of Aimpoint AB, Richard Skan said: “I am very honoured to receive this award. Our family is passionate about the businesses it owns – a culture and ethos established by my grandfather who founded the original company in 1954. Today, Skan Group Holdings owns two highly respected engineering businesses, each with a close association with the defence industry worldwide. Three things make our business – time, money and people... and in accepting this award, I want to recognise the enormous contributions which every single person in our businesses make to our success”.
Battlespace is an international defence industry publisher.
