BPX represents experience and success over five decades in the distribution of industrial electrical control and automation products.

Highlights of the evolution of BPX are listed below:

1965

Company formed by Bill Collins as BPG Electro Mechanical Supply Company. The first order is received.

1966

BPG Electro Mechanical Supply Co employs its first member of staff and opens in a tiny triangular shaped office in Marjorie Street, Leicester.

1967
BPG Electro Mechanical Supply Co. splits from joint founders BPG and becomes BPX Electro Mechanical Co. Ltd

1967
BPX becomes the UK's first Telemecanique distributor

1968
BPX adds the key distributorships of Klippon Terminals (later to become Weidmuller) and Keyswitch relays (later to become IMO and subsequently Omron)

1971
Leicester Switch & Control becomes the first subsidiary of the BPX Group manufacturing control panels and systems.

1975
BPX Nottingham becomes the first branch office.

1986
BPX passes £1M sales of Telemecanique control equipment.

1987
BPX moves to current head office in Ross Walk with 20,000 sq ft warehouse

1989
BPX signs distributorship with Mitsubishi for distribution of PLCs, Inverters, and factory automation equipment.

1990
Controls and Drives is formed and becomes the third BPX Group business specialising in the provision of automation services, support and training.

1990
BPX passes £2M sales of Telemecanique control equipment.

1991
BPX Leeds opens as the Mitsubishi Distributor in Yorkshire.

1994
BPX Stoke opens as the Mitsubishi distributor for Staffordshire.

1994
BPX Northampton opens as the appointed Telemecanique distributor for Northamptonshire.

1995
Ranger Computer systems is formed as the BPX Group's computer division distributing PC's, network products, and software to industrial customers.

1997
BPX signs historic £2M contract with Boots PLC for the design, development and installation of energy saving systems and the BPX Energy Division is born.

1998
BPX Sheffield opens to expand the BPX Mitsubishi distributorship in Yorkshire.

2001
BPX Sheffield and BPX Leeds move to new regional headquarters in Wakefield

2003
Leicester Switch and Control relocates to bigger manufacturing premises, increasing the BPX warehousing area.

2005
April 2005 saw the opening of our branch in Slough.

2007
BPX welcomed the management of Schneider Electric Ltd to BPX’s Leicester HQ to mark the company’s achievement of £3M purchases of Schneider control and automation product in 2006.

2008
BPX acquires the company Prolocon Systems Ltd. The Prolocon location complements the existing seven distribution branches and becomes the new BPX Hertfordshire branch based in Welwyn Garden City.

2010
BPX opens its ninth branch with an expansion into East Anglia and a new office at Newmarket, reinforcing the position of BPX as the UK’s largest Mitsubishi distributor.