Glencar’s founders on boxing clever and why warehouses can be beautiful

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Eddie McGillycuddy and Chris Gleave tell Dave Rogers how the firm they set up six years ago is branching out and why clients now want ‘sheds’ to look pretty

If anyone has driven up the M1 recently, they cannot fail to have noticed the sight of cherry pickers and steel frames popping up alongside the main route out of London to the Midlands and beyond.

For those in the know, the sheer amount of plant, steel and cladding that peppers the stretch of motorway north of Luton and before the turn-off for the M6 means only one thing: distribution warehouses.

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