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MacGregor Flooring,

by Hamish MacGregor, Chairman

After leaving school I first started work in the construction supervisor, Andy McFarlane is our chief estimator/negotiator
industry working for a Glasgow timber merchant and attending and two storemen/drivers, Campbell MacGregor and Billy
the Glasgow College of Building and Technology. Two years Doonan.
later I got the opportunity to start working in the flooring
industry with The Marley Tile Co, working with them for 14 years We have always worked as a team with most folk able to multi
and in the last four years running the flooring contract operation task. All the directors have Level 5 in Construction Management
in Scotland under the Marley Company which was called which is the highest award – it is now called Level 11 which Kyle
Florstyle UK Ltd. has been awarded with.

Site-wise at the moment we have 42 people made up of six
SMSTS supervisors, 12 SSSTS supervisors, 20 master fitters and
four apprentices.
Our company is very passionate about apprentices and we
continue to take on apprentices every year – we would take on
more apprentices if there were more places at college. Our
apprentices have won various awards over the years, with one of
the latest ones being David McGrath who won apprentice of the
year in 2020.

It has been an honour for me to represent and promote the CFA,
NSCC ,SCG, Build UK and Build Scotland throughout our
industry, especially attending meetings at government level
both at Westminster and Holyrood.

As a company we believe in the circular economy and all three
directors have been involved in guidance and training for the
last four years. We also recycle everything we can and have
MacGregor Flooring Co Ltd started as a management buyout of been involved with Recofloor for a number of years and won the
the Scottish region of Florstyle UK Ltd from Marley Floors, and overall winner in 2022 for the second time. We use the Tarkett
by October 2022 I had served 37 years as Chairman/CEO and ‘take back’ scheme, the F Ball and Co scheme and are members
previously managing director using my skills, experience and of Carpet Recycling UK.
judgement successfully running this company.
01698 457 121
We have worked from as far afield as the Shetlands to the info@macgregor-flooring.co.uk
Falkland Islands. Our main working area is Scotland though we www.macgregor-flooring.co.uk
work throughout the UK for various clients
MacGregor Flooring carry out most types of flooring and
preparation works employing between 40 and 51 people
including both tradesmen and staff with an annual turnover
ranging between £5.3 and £6.4 million.
I was the President of the Contract Flooring Association from
2004-06 and then again in 2020-22 and have served as a
director of the CFA since May 1999.
I am also a member of the CFA Scottish committee. I started
attending council meetings of the National Specialist
Contractors Council, on behalf of the CFA and then went on to
become president of the NSCC .
I was a director of the NSCC from 2006-16, honorary treasurer
of the NSCC, chair of the Scottish NSCC committee and
represented the CFA at NSCC council meetings. The NSCC and
UK Contractors Group merged to form the Build UK in
September 2015.
After this I became the vice chairman of the Scottish
Contractors Group and was appointed a director of the SCG in
November 2015 which is affiliated with Build UK .
On 10 March 2017 until present day I was appointed as chairman
of The Scottish Contractors Group taking over from Ken
Gillespie (it is now called Build Scotland).
MacGregor Flooring Company has three directors: myself, Kenny
Smith my managing director and my son Crawford who is
contracts director. His wife, Laura, is our business manager. We
have a contracts manager, Kyle Smart, Jim Hart is our contracts

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