Ashley Croft Returns to Stapletons as a Consultant

Former managing director, Ashley Croft, has returned to Stapleton’s to act as a consultant with special responsibility for working with the management to further develop Stapleton’s as one of the country’s leading tyre wholesalers and retailers. In February Croft resigned as Warehousing, Logistics and Wholesale Sales Director of Micheldever Tyre Services, having been involved in the company’s management buy out in February 2006.

At the time he told Tyres & Accessories that the decision to leave was entirely amicable, saying that his original brief was to expand Micheldever’s wholesale and distribution base to a national level and that that project has now been completed.

During first time a Stapleton’s, Croft oversaw the company’s acquisition of WSTyremasters (WST), one of its largest competitors. In October 2002 Ashley Croft left Stapleton’s after 27 years with the company, severing a 44-year family link with the company.

Ashley Croft was elected Chairman of the Tyre Wholesalers Group of the NTDA last November, and was the inaugural Chairman of the NTDA from 1999 to 2002.