Brian Woods marks opening for new CGE Southern office
Andy Gatenby, Operations Director, Commercial Gas Engineers Southern Ltd has opened a new office in Southsea, Portsmouth
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00:00Hello, my name is Andy Gattenby and I'm the director of CGE Southern.
00:03Today, we're at the grand opening of our new office,
00:06and it's a sort of a joint celebration at the same time.
00:10We sort of I'm a big firm believer in celebrating the small wins in life
00:14and the company's progressing really, really in the right point.
00:18You know, go back to November and it was just myself and my wife.
00:21And now we're up to seven engineers, two apprentices
00:24and a subsidiary air conditioning company as well.
00:27So it's yeah, it's very good.
00:29Good celebration for today.
00:31It's good.
00:31It's been I set goals so big that I couldn't achieve them
00:35until I grew into the person that I could that could.
00:38So initially, when the goals that we set at the start of the journey,
00:42I wasn't the person that could achieve them.
00:44So it's been a it's been an ongoing personal journey.
00:47And now I'm sort of ten times the person that I was going back to November,
00:50you know, so the goals that I set in November that were so big.
00:54Now they're sort of I'm looking at a lot bigger goals, you know.
00:56So it's I've grown as a person and the company's grown with that growth, you know.
01:03Yeah. So my name's Brian Wood and
01:07I've known Andy for for a good while now.
01:10And it's really important for me to support.
01:14You know, good people like Andy, who have got big dreams, big ambitions
01:19and he's working hard to reach his goals in the future.
01:23And it started today with this grand opening, you know, of his office.
01:27And like he said, starting from, you know, a one man band,
01:31bringing in his wife and now to have multiple operators
01:36working under him is some achievement.
01:39And it's really important that for me to support good people.
01:44And, you know, in turn, I'm hoping that he will support me
01:49when when I go on to to achieve my dreams.
01:51So, yeah, it's very important that we look after one another
01:55and and seeing what he's achieved in such short space of time
02:00is very inspirational.
02:01So, yeah, it's a real pleasure for me to be here today to cut open that ribbon
02:06and to kickstart, you know, this office space off.
02:09So, yeah, fair play to him.
02:10And I wish him all the very best.
02:13I've actually got my own business as well in sportswear and teamwear.
02:17And at the moment, it's me and my wife in the kitchen.
02:21You know, churning it out, working every hour that, you know, is available to us.
02:26And but we're we're growing.
02:28We're doing really good stuff at the moment.
02:30But today is not about me.
02:31It's it's about this man.
02:33So, yeah, he's a real credit to Portsmouth.
02:36And I'll always support him because, yeah, he's he's a good egg.
02:42Next steps after this, moving forward,
02:44the company is going to go from strength to strength.
02:46We want to create a few more subdivisions.
02:49As always, I'm always chasing trying to get to Hollywood at the same time.
02:52So one day I'm auditioning, trying to get on EastEnders.
02:54The next day we're putting quotes together.
02:56So it's always the it's always the dream to run them concurrently.
02:59So my my my ideal scenario is to run the company so that it runs without me.
03:04And that enables me to follow my sort of path as an actor
03:08and be able to sort of jump between the two as we move forward, you know.