Last year, Sunday Times Rich Lister Sukhpal Ahluwalia, who sold Euro Car Parts for £280 million in 2011, bought the country’s second biggest car parts company, GSF Car Parts. He now appears to be on a mission to grind his old firm into the dust by poaching their staff, having just nabbed about 30 ex-ECP employees as he considers opening 10 new stores in the capital over the next year.
A penchant for spice seems to be the common thread enticing ECP staff to jump ship. Last night, Ahluwalia hosted a curry-eating competition in Wembley — where new recruits eat hotter and hotter dishes. It starts with the bland and boring “ECP butter chicken”, which captures their “bland & boring culture”, one senior person at the firm says, and it’ll end with the “GSF Sizzler”.
