Broking Success: Moving forward and storing up success

Greg Wildman

Greg Wildman, managing director of Basil Fry & Company, unpacks how the removals, storage and self-storage specialist broker has consistently delivered yearly double-digit organic growth in a sector that is a bellwether for the UK economy

Profile Basil Fry & Company

GWP: £23m

Specialisms: Removals, storage and self-storage

Location: Leatherhead, Surrey

Staff: 38

Why was the broker set up?

Basil Fry was managing director of an insurance broker in the City who got disillusioned. He literally came home one night and decided that he was going to set up from a table in the shed in the garden. And that’s what he did back in 1970. He had a young-ish son Chris who joined and they really did quite well through the seventies.

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