Street Crane MD stepping down after 49 years with the business

Pimblett, who has served as a board member for 38 years and managing director for 28 years, has spent his whole career with Street Crane. He joined the company as a technical apprentice in 1969 and quickly worked his way up the ranks – becoming sales director in 1980, deputy managing director and then managing director in 1990.

He said: “When I joined Street it was a very small company which manufactured custom made cranes predominately for the Sheffield steel industry. It was always my ambition that one day we’d be able to compete with the big names in the pre-engineered volume crane and component sector, but most people told me that would never happen. To have proved them wrong is very satisfying.

“We now have a vast engineering team, including many experienced designers as well as a large number of younger graduates, all of whom are focused on designing new products. This has helped us to create one of the biggest ranges of cranes and components in the world, which we sell to more than 100 distributors globally and to end users in a vast number of sectors in the UK. I’m incredibly proud of these achievements and of all the people at Street which have been instrumental in this success.

“Being Street’s managing director is however, a very demanding job that takes you all over the world, so I feel the time is right to pass the baton.”

His successor is Gus Zona (left), who has worked for Street in the roles of both sales director and operations director.

Zona added: “It’s going to be a challenge stepping into Andrew’s shoes but I’m looking forward to taking on this new role and building on Street’s achievements. There is a huge opportunity to grow the business even further by expanding our distributor network and continuing to bring technologically-advanced products to the market.”

Pimblett will remain at Street Crane as a non-executive director advising on strategic matters and working three days per week.