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P EOPLE
Garry Martin
The SAPCA vice chair and CEO
of Replay Maintenance speaks to SportsNation about his two roles.
Could you outline your personal
career journey to date?
I’ve been involved in construction for most of my life and entered the sports construction sector in the early 2000s when I joined Charles Lawrence Surfaces (CLS) as a contracts manager. Replay Maintenance existed at that point as a division of CLS, but for various reasons wasn’t a huge financial success.
Within two years of joining CLS, I became more involved with the work Replay did, predominantly visiting and assessing the projects the team completed and to make sure the work had been undertaken to the right quality and standards. It was then that
I identified the potential of the business and how to grow it. That led me to gradually move away from the contracts management side and by 2004 my main role had developed into being Replay’s operations manager.
Together with Sue Baker – who is still
with the business today – we worked very hard at growing the business and began winning some sizeable contracts, eventually making it a success. At the time, Replay
was a limited business wholly owned by Charles Lawrence himself, alongside some other individuals. Due to the potential
of the business, I was keen to get on the ownership ladder, so over the following years I bought myself in and eventually became the largest shareholder in the company.
Today, Replay has 25 field operatives,
23 members of staff and is arguably the largest company of its kind in the UK – and there is also a Replay Maintenance USA.
Replay offers both service agreements and one-off processes
So what does Replay Maintenance do?
As the name suggests, we’re a maintenance company and work on all types of
synthetic sports surfaces – from playing fields and pitches of all generations (2G, 3G) to athletics tracks and the like.
We work on a repeat model, so we want to see the sites we work on more than once a year. Often that means signing a service agreement and visiting a facility six times (or more) a year. We currently
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