Then, your days were planned around who you were taking to lunch.” A typical Budd quip, perhaps, but an apposite one. “That opened the door to us supplying fasteners to the computer disc drive industry.8 million), reflecting five years of sustained growth and a 44% increase on its 2012 sales result. With the 1990s came the migration of electronics assembly from western Europe, initially to eastern Europe and then, very rapidly, to Asia.”It taught me about the products, simply by handling them.Cut Geoff Budd and each corpuscle spilled would carry a TR logo. Today he is managing director at TR Europe as well as a Trifast main board director, and possesses an extraordinary knowledge of the global fastener industry. Two or three weeks later you’d get a quote by telex and negotiate using the same machine. That success comes from people doing the right things, even when others aren’t looking –working hard, knowing what they do, and being honest. Today Trifast Plc employs more than 1,200 people across the globe, with manufacturing and distribution businesses and customers ranging across Asia, Europe and North America.Geoff Budd joined the business in 1976, aged nineteen.”
