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Rok Centre Courtlands Road Eastbourne East Sussex
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Building on Great Grandad's foundations
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The Llewellyn story spans more than a century and now its strength as a local building and property services provider has been given a further injection through the company's integration with the fast expanding ROK Group.
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Founder Walter Llewellyn's father picked out Eastbourne as 'the place to be' for an entrepeneur at a time when Queen Victoria was presiding over one of the most powerful and fastest expanding nations in the world. How astute! Soon after the family moved to Sussex from Wales, Walter joined the building industry and four generations later Llewellyn ROK has 800 employees, operates from five locations in Sussex and the South East and turns over £160 million, meeting a massive regional demand for new property of all kinds. So what is behind this success story? Yes, it's those abiding standards: being in the right place at the right time, providing relevant services for customers and developing new methods and technologies to help meet market needs. The period in which Llewellyn was founded was important - Eastbourne was booming and its population soaring. Before long Walter's three sons were working in the growing family business. As Eastbourne suffered considerable damage in the second world war, Llewellyn were appointed to manage all emergency repairs and then play a senior role in rebuilding the town after the war. By the sixties, the next generation was helping drive the business, exploring new technologies including timber-framed house building techniques in America and successfully bringing these methodologies to Sussex. And in the eighties, Llewellyn recognised the need to be nearer their customers outside Eastbourne, so the next generation of the family opened offices in Brighton and London with expansion maintained through to the end of the century. The family sold the business to ROK in 2002 with further locations added to the group in Crawley and Milton Keynes. And so Llewellyn's ability to break new ground is further enhanced by a new ownership with values sympathetic to those that have seen Llewellyn grow through the last century.
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