In 2014, Acme decided to make a small but significant change – we updated our company name. When Jim Hurley and Peter Hendricks founded the company in 1965, they registered it as “H&H Refrigeration Ltd”, trading as Acme Refrigeration. We had come a long way since 1965; the business had expanded way beyond just refrigeration, […]

Air Conditioning had become a core component of Acme’s offering in 2014, but the management team saw the opportunity to expand our offerings further into larger, more complex HVAC installations with the acquisition of DPL. DPL, based in Accrington, specialised in all three elements of HVAC – Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Whilst Acme carried […]

In 2012, Chris Allen joined Acme as our new Financial Director. From a background of catering and retail management, Chris came with a clear understanding of what it takes to manage a company of our size and complexity. Chris had such an effect in his first years here that, when Alan Lowe retired in 2015, […]

Acme’s Catering story started as far back as the late 1970’s when we started supplying catering equipment to the pub trade, but it started to get real traction in the 1990’s with our work as part of the ‘Casual Dining’ and ‘GastoPub’ market growth. The next milestone happened in 2008 when we expanded our Catering […]

Since 2003, Acme had occupied about 30% of Acme house for its sales team and showroom. All other business functions stayed in their original building on Whitebirk Industrial Estate, just up the road. When the opportunity arose in 2007 to buy the entire building, Acme decided to bring its teams back under one roof and […]

Due to several new contracts in the area, Acme expanded their North East presence in 2005, which later built into Scottish Mainland. This was one more step to achieving comprehensive nationwide service coverage – an ambition which was finally achieved in 2015 with the acquisition of ‘Severn Catering Services’.

Siclops automated a lot of the manual processes that were becoming ever more time consuming as the company grew. Every engineer had (what was then known as) a PDA which gave them remote access to allocated jobs and information on the equipment being worked on. Siclops served Acme until 2017, when the company moved to […]

Jim had ran Acme since he & Peter founded the company in 1965. After 40 years at the helm, he decided that the time had come to hang up his hat and play golf a bit more. Jim handed over the reins to Alan Lowe, the then Operations Director, who had worked for Acme since […]