Aurrigo celebrates 30th birthday with major recruitment drive
Summary
The brothers spent the first year managing the business from a home office, manufacturing automotive electrical products completing the paperwork and delivering them to a select, but high-profile batch of customers, before moving into a small unit where the company really started to take shape. “A lot has happened over the last three decades and we are very proud that we still call Coventry ‘home’, and we still employ some of the outstanding staff that helped us in the early days,” explained David Keene, CEO of Aurrigo International plc. “Initially, we were very much focused on automotive wiring harnesses and exploring the world of telematics, which led to our tracking technology being used in the 2012 Olympic Games in London – a sign of how we were about to have a major say on the future of transport.” He continued: “In 2015, the UK Automotive Council (on which I attended right from the inauguration 15 years ago) announced the first major investment into Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) and we saw this as the ideal opportunity to develop our first driverless vehicles in the form of two-seater pods. Its listing on AIM raised £8 million to fund strategic expansion plans that has seen the workforce increase to 75 across its HQ in the UK and international offices in Australia, Canada, the US and Singapore, with a current recruitment drive set to attract more electronic and software engineers, manufacturing specialists and business development experts. Our listing has given us a huge amount of credibility and will no doubt help us win contracts and expand internationally.” He concluded: “30 years is a tremendous achievement and one we are marking with our staff, who have, and always will be, our biggest asset.