{"id":2732,"date":"2025-09-25T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:40:44","slug":"sterling-sinclair-removals-group-ssr-has-expanded-with-the-successful-acquisition-of-rp-hiab-transport-in-alloa-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/sterling-sinclair-removals-group-ssr-has-expanded-with-the-successful-acquisition-of-rp-hiab-transport-in-alloa-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Sinclair Removals Group (SSR) Has Expanded With The Successful Acquisition of RP HIAB Transport in Alloa [Scotland]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2733\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2733 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SSR-Scotland-660x365.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expansion: SSR Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The six-figure deal is the fifth acquisition completed by SSR founder Adam Sinclair, who set up the business in 2016 in Stirling after injury forced the former Scotland Under-20 rugby star to step away from professional rugby.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The firm has since grown into one of the top five biggest storage and removal companies in Scotland, previous acquisitions having seen Glen Transport, Britannia Edinburgh, Letford Removals and Larbert Carriers all added to the group\u2019s portfolio, which also includes Edinburgh Self Store and Stirling Self Storage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The addition of the heavy lifting company marks a strategic move for Sinclair, who has rebranded it HIAB Container Scotland and relocated it to his Stirling headquarters at Back O\u2019 Hill Road Industrial Estate in the town.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A lot of companies transport containers and a lot of companies sell them. But not a lot do both so I feel we are closing a gap in the market by becoming a one-stop shop as it were for haulage and sales,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is going to be a big advantage for the customer to have all this done in-house with no need to have it sub-contracted out \u2013 the whole client journey is going to be much more streamlined.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Through my experience in shipping containers, it\u2019s going to be a good solution for many container companies and self-storage buyers. As well as being ideally placed for the port at Grangemouth, we are also not far from the rail freight terminal at Coatbridge and I\u2019m confident there are exciting times ahead for Sterling Sinclair with the HIAB section of the company.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A member of the British Association of Movers, SSR operates UK-wide for both residential and commercial contracts, with clients including Sir Andy Murray\u2019s luxury Cromlix hotel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sinclair first hit the acquisition trail in 2019 with Larbert Carriers in Falkirk, the HIAB Transport deal coming a year after he brought Tillicoultry\u2019s Glen Transport into the group.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sinclair\u2019s rugby career as a second row saw him play for London Irish, Albi, Rotherham and USA Perpignan at club level before injury intervened.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirkherald.co.uk\/business\/ssr-group-expands-with-fifth-acquisition-5333392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-figure deal is the fifth acquisition completed by SSR founder Adam Sinclair, who set up the business in 2016 in Stirling after injury forced the former Scotland Under-20 rugby star to step away from professional rugby. The firm has since grown into one of the top five biggest storage and removal companies in Scotland, previous acquisitions having seen Glen Transport, Britannia Edinburgh, Letford Removals and Larbert Carriers all added to the group\u2019s portfolio, which also includes Edinburgh Self Store and Stirling Self Storage. The addition of the heavy lifting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,5,22],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/uk\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}