A firm which was started by a Bradford man who was made redundant twice has just completed a contract worth £360,000 for an international company.

Greg Langley, 31, chairman of the AA Group, started the company in March, 1996, from his home in Idle, Bradford, after being made redundant for the second time as an air-conditioning engineer. Sales grew so that its first-year trading figure was a healthy £300,000 and will shortly be £1.5 million.

The group now employs 16 workers. And since he divided the firm into three companies, Greg Langley has never looked back.

The group now has AA Contracting which installs air-conditioning in buildings; AA Air-Conditioning Service & Maintenance - both based at Commerce Court managed work space on Cutler Heights Lane; and AA Auto Air-Conditioning which is based in Park Road, Heaton, Bradford.

AA Contracting has just finished installing air-conditioning in the new 92-bedroom Holiday Inn at Heathrow Airport. The contract is the largest the firm has ever dealt with and involved installing the biggest Variable Refrigeration Volume (VRV) specialist air conditioning system in the UK.

Mr Langley said: "This is the jewel in the crown for us because it shows what a small Bradford firm can do.

"We were competing with the big boys when we tendered for that contract."

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