Sound Leisure acquires new business

21/07/2010

Sound Leisure - a Leeds-based firm that manufactures high-quality digital audio, video and CD jukeboxes - has acquired Dawson's Pattern Works business.
Under the new agreement, equipment employed to create prototypes for the Dambusters' famous "bouncing bomb" is shifted to Sound Leisure's Crossgates factory.
The firms did not reveal any financial details about the deal. Dawson's David Whitehead, a skilled pattern-maker, has also moved to the Leeds facility.
Dawson's was founded by Thomas William Dawson in Hunslet, in 1915. For over 30 years, Sound Leisure has been receiving parts and cabinet-making patterns from Dawson's.
Grandson of the founder John Dawson said: "We've had a long and happy trading association with Sound Leisure and couldn't have considered selling to anyone else. The deal was done on a handshake and equipment moved on that, prior to completion of the formalities."
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